Mixed Martial Arts fans will be happy to hear that a playable demo for UFC 2009 Undisputed has been released on both Xbox Live and the Playstation Network.
According to the press release, the demo will allow players to face off with either Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell or Mauricio “Shogun” Rua. It also includes a tutorial mode so everyone will be able to get a feel for the game before jumping into battle.
THQ’s UFC 2009 Undisputed is set to hit store shelves on May 19th for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Just like Nintendo, Sony continues to update their online service weekly. This week we will see content for Saints Row 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, Tom Clancy’s HAWX and LittleBigPlanet, just to name a few, being added to the Playstation Store.
On the PSP side of things Rachet & Clank: Size Matters was added, in its entirety, to the service for $15.99.
While originally available exclusively to those who pre-ordered the game, THQ has recently announced the demo for Red Faction: Guerrilla has hit both Xbox Live and the Playstation Network for all to have.
The demo is single-player only but will be sure to give players a glimpse of what to expect:
“The press and consumer buzz for Red Faction: Guerrilla continues to build, as gamers prepare for a new standard in open-world, destruction-based game-play,” said Kevin Kraff, vice president of worldwide marketing, THQ. “The single-player demo will give consumers an exciting taste of what the full game will offer on June 2nd.”
Red Faction: Guerrilla is currently slated for a June 9th release for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
LionHead has recently announced that the Xbox Live achievements for the upcoming Fable 2 expansion, See the Future, have hit the service.
There will be 13 achievements totalling 250 Gamer Points and other than your normal defeat this guy, score this many points achievements, there are some more colorful ones also included. My personal favorites:
The Fowl Player - 10 Gamer Points
Dress as a chicken and kick five chickens during the Colosseum battles, or see another Hero do so. The Nutcracker - 10 Gamer Points
Score 25 groin shots, or see another Hero do so.
You can head here to see the full list of achievements.
See the Future will be released for Fable 2 ”sometime in May” for 560 Microsoft Points.
Dreams of Joker fans everywhere have come true, you will in fact be able to play as The Joker in Batman: Arkham Asylum if you’re a PS3 owner, that is.
News comes to us from a seemingly released-ahead-of-time advertisement in Sony’s Playstation Home service, featured above. As you can see, you’ll be able to run through challenge maps as The Joker which are exclusive to the Playstation 3. If you don’t know, challenge maps are basically side maps which you can run through over and over in an attempt to get the fastest time.
This is all we have to go by at the moment, no release dates or pricing but, as always, we’ll keep you posted.
We’ve been hearing about the forthcoming Broken Steel DLC pack for Fallout 3 a lot lately with release dates, pricing, and screenshots galore. However, we haven’t seen some actual gameplay footage until now.
G4TV recently sat down with Bethesda’s Todd Howard to discuss the expansion’s contents. But who cares about that, right? Onto the footage!
Broken Steel will be released for Fallout 3 on May 5th, mark your calenders.
When we first learned about LEGO Rock Band’sexistenceearlier this month I’m sure the majority of you rolled your eyes at the announcement. Well guess what, you get to roll your eyes again!
Microsoft has recently listed the game giving us a whole slew of details. Other than being able to customize everything from your band and manager to a LEGO themed “rock den”, you’ll be able to “play killer riffs to destroy a giant robot, summon a storm, and demolish a skyscraper using the power of rock!”. WOOT!
Honestly though, it’s obvious that this game is being marketed towards kids considering the LEGO theme and addition of an easier difficulty setting (as if easy wasn’t easy enough?) for “budding musicians.
LEGO Rock Band is currently in development over at TT FUsion and will be released for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and Nintendo DS later this year.
You thought that World of Warcraft was addicting enough in its current state? Try this on for size — It was recently announced that PopCap, creator of popular games like Bejeweled, has released an official Peggle add-on for Blizzard’s World of Warcraft.
Yep, you heard me right; Peggle in World of Warcraft, 2 of the arguably most addicting games combined into 1 convenient package.
You’ll apparently be able to face off in Peggle against other World of Warcraft players and use the outcome to determine who can claim loot drops. Don’t worry though, the regular game is there except the stages are based on locations from World of Warcraft.
Some uplifting news to the remaining Battlefield 2 players were released earlier this week; the Battlefield 2 1.5 patch has been released in a beta version. The beta is available for everyone to download and test — it can be downloaded here.
The new update includes:
FEATURES
- Additional support for Windows Vista.
- Added Highway Tampa as a required map.
- Added a new map called Operation Blue Pearl.
GAMEPLAY TWEAKS
- Changes made to both the J10 and F35B to make them more balanced. Please note that the J10 is a superior dogfighter to the F35B and as such these two aircraft will never be equally matched.
- AA targeting tweaked to make it more effective.
- Added checks to prevent “runway grieving”.
- Various changes made to prevent cheating.
- Tweaked the hit detection, hits will be more accurate to the model.
- Added support for the Novint Falcon controller.
With Square Enix officially taking over Eidos yesterday, they released some sales numbers (and lots of other numbers too), boasting its reign in the video game business.
The publisher revealed that the Final Fantasy series has sold over 85 million games in the series’ lifetime, which began with Final Fantasy 1, released on the NES in 1987.
Square Enix also revealed that Dragon Quest lifetime sales have reached 50 million copies, the newly acquired Lara Croft series has sold 30 million in its lifetime, while the Hitman series have sales of 8 million units. Also, quite interestingly, the controversial Kane & Lynch: Dead Men game sold almost two million copies – despite all the negative press surrounding the game.
Some uplifting news to the remaining Battlefield 2 players were released earlier this week; the Battlefield 2 1.5 patch has been released in a beta version. The beta is available for everyone to download and test — it can be downloaded 