Take-Two has announced a DLC for Mafia 2, called Mafia 2 Joe’s Adventures. The DLC, which will center around a new character called “Joe”, will be released later this year on PCs and consoles. No additional details were revealed, which begs the question: why announce the game or DLC in the first place if all we get is a simple title?

EA has revealed a bunch of details on the upcoming Bad Company 2 expansion, called Bad Company 2 Vietnam. The expansion will be released as a DLC only, and will include 4 new maps, 15 new weapons, 6 new vehicles and an all new 1960s soundtrack. For more details, head over to Bad Company 2 Blog.

After the success of Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, the souped-up demo and the prologue to Dead Rising 2 which sold 500,000, Capcom has announced Dead Rising 2: Case West, which is the epilogue of Dead Rising 2, where an episode plays out with the new hero, Chuck Greene, meets the hero of Dead Rising 1, Frank West.

After the financial (but not critical) success of Resident Evil Afterlife, actress Mila Jovovich has said that another Resident Evil movie is “definitely coming”. She said in an interview with New York Magazine, “”This new Resident Evil is the first one to ever open at No. 1 worldwide. It’s the biggest movie in the franchise. So we’re definitely going to make another one”.

Capcom has announced that it has acquired the young developer of Dead Rising 2, Blue Castle Games. Capcom announced at TGS that they’ve acquired the Canadian developer, which will from now on be called Capcom Game Studios Vancouver. The developer has previously worked with 2K Sports on some of its baseball titles.

One of the first new games to be announced at the Tokyo Games Show, which just started, is Ninja Gaiden 3. Developer Tecmo Koei and Team Ninja revealed the game behind closed doors, but the game was so early in development that the developers only showed concept art of the game. Don’t expect any official reveal for at least another year.

It’s finally here, after months of PR buildup in true Microsoft style, Halo Reach has been released and looks to be the big exit for developers Bungie, who have now worked on Halo for 10 years and whose Reach is the last Halo game they’ll do. Does Halo Reach live up to its predecessors? Yep! Does it offer anything new? Not much. Is it still a huge load of fun? You bet.

Halo has always had a heavy focus on a clear cut, cinematic campaign, ever since the first one, up until Halo 3. And now Reach takes it to a new level. While the campaign is pretty much told in the same variety as previous Halo games, with lots of cut scenes and huge set pieces, it generally takes everything to a new level, including characters, story, plot and even the set pieces. It’s the best campaign in the Halo franchise, and is actually a prequel to all the games in the franchise. We won’t dive too much into the story, only that it centers around the human world Reach, which is under attack by aliens. You’ll have to check out the game for the rest, but rest assured, you’re in for a ride.

Gameplay wise, it’s the same Halo we’ve known for years, and actually, is a bit too much like previous Halo games. Granted, that’s a great thing — the gameplay in the previous games was wonderful, however, we kinda expected some new gameplay mechanics for Reach, especially considering this is Bungie’s last Halo game. That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything new, there are new vehicles and even a space battle as well. Halo reach also offers lots of customization features, where you can unlock and customize your character for both the campaign and the multiplayer, and it’s all presented in a wonderful and intuitive menu system. One of the setbacks, as it was with previous games, is the friendly AI, which isn’t the smartest. The enemy AI on the other hand, is quite good.

Multiplayer wise, it’s one of the best multiplayer games out there, with a stunning variety of games and customizations, ranks, unlocks, and an extensive level editor. It’s Halo multiplayer at its best. It also sports the Firefight feature from Halo 3 ODST, and the general refinements from years of Halo games. However, there is a limited amount of maps and some of those remakes from previous maps. In all, Halo Reach is the best game on the Xbox 360 of 2010, it has a wonderful campaign, lots of content, lots of customizations, and some of the best multiplayer on Earth, Halo Reach belongs to any Xbox 360 player’s game collection.

The Good:
Awesome and polished gameplay
Lots of content and customization
Great campaign
Deep multiplayer

The Bad:
The story has some cliches
Large set pieces bring down the frame rate
Limited amount of multiplayer maps
Friendly AI often gets stuck

Overall score: 9/10

Sony and developer Quantic Dream have finally set a date for the release of the Heavy Rain PlayStation Move patch: September 22. The free patch will add Move support, where players can use Sony’s new motion controller to play the game. Sony will release an updated version of the game later this year, called Heavy Rain Move, which will incorporate the motion controls and is rumored to include some extra content.

In case you don’t know it, Tekken has already been made into a film and has been released in Japan. But because video game movies suck, and probably because Tekken does as well, there were no plans of releasing it in the US. Until now, it seems. Production company Crystal Sky Pictures, makers of Tekken, has announced a deal with Anchor Bay films — Michael bay’s production company — to bring Tekken to the States next year. The film has grossed half a million at the Japanese box office so far.

Trials HD has proven a huge success on Xbox Live Arcade, becoming one of the best selling games over the past year. Now developer RedLynx has announced that the game has sold 1 million copies after being released on XBLA just over a year ago. RedLynx plans to release a DLC later this year which will include a whopping 40 new maps.