According to the game’s official website, Just Cause 2 will be getting its second DLC pack on May 29th entitled Black Market Boom Pack. This DLC pack will include things such as a Quad Rockey Launcher, Air Propulsion Gun,  and a Cluster Bomb Launcher.

That’s about it when it comes to content but you’ll still be asked to slap down $1.99 for the PSN version or 160 Microsoft Points for the Xbox 360 version.

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On May 3rd, the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta will be released which is huge news for Halo fans everywhere. Bungie is feeling pretty good about the beta, saying that it will reach at least 3 million people when it drops.

Bungie’s community manager Brian Jarrad has said “My expectation is it could be upwards of 3 million people,” then going on to say that it is “a fairly conservative estimate.” This means we’ll probably be seeing a lot more than 3 million people playing the beta.

Will you guys be playing Halo: Reach come May 3rd? Let us know in the comments. Perhaps we’ll have some sort of Halo: Reach DigitalBattle meet up. What do you guys think?

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Yesterday we showed you the Super Street Fighter IV Avatar clothing that Capcom would be releasing to the marketplace and today we have another set of clothing to show you, this time from Gears of War 3.

Unlike the SSFIV content, the Gears 3 Avatar clothing is available now on the marketplace. This content will icnlude things like COG Armor, a hoffman hat, ticket pets, a Crimson Omen Tee and a COG Lancer tee.

Unfortunately, the items will run you between $1-$4. Does anyone actually pay to dress up their Avatars? If so, why? Let us know in the comments.

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Lost Planet 2‘s May 11th release date is quickly approaching and of course Capcom is teaming up with mega-retailer GameStop to offer some incentives. Those incentives (pre-order, to be exact) will include 2 free maps that those who don’t pre-order the game will be forced to pay $1 for.

The maps in the free DLC pack include Helix which is an underwater research facility highlithing th games new swimming mechanics and Back to the Island which is an updated version of Island 902 from the original Lost Planet.

Again, Lost Planet 2 will be out for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC on May 11th.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be getting a free DLC pack entitled the Kit Upgrade free of charge thanks to Dr. Pepper. While the pack won’t feature any new maps it will feature some brand new outfits and camouflaged weapons in addition to new achievements and awards. But honestly, what more can you ask for out of a free pack?

Xbox 360 owners will be greeted with the Kit Upgrade tomorrow while PS3 and PC owners will have to wait until an unannounced date.

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Super Street Fighter IV‘s April 27th release date is just about a week away and to start the hype train, Capcom is teaming with Microsoft to bring some Street Fighter IV Avatar clothing to the marketplace. As you can see from the above image, fan favorites like Ryu, Akuma and pretty much everyone else from Super Street Figher IV is included.

Unfortunately, there’s no word on when Microsoft plans to release these but something tells us it will be very soon.

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As if you couldn’t guess yourself, EA‘s latest Skate title, appropriately named Skate 3, will be getting downloadable content in the future. Now, the game has yet to hit store shelves with a launch date of May 11th, 2010 so no official announcements regarding the DLC’s content was announced. However, considering Skate 2 recieved various new parks and other places to skate I think it’s safe to assume that Skate 3 will have the same.

If you want you can download the Skate 3 demo now for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

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I continue to be amazed at the sheer number of World War II based shooters that can be put onto the market and still perform well. There have been countless digital reenactments of almost every important battle in the entire conflict yet it seems that gamers aren’t sick of them yet. Despite being jaded about the genre, I admit to being somewhat interested in Call of Duty: World of War.

Everyone else is too it seems because Treyarch announced that in the first weekend the second map pack was downloaded over a million times. The $9.99 content pack contains four maps, including Shi No Numa. Yes, that’s right, it’s another zombie level. That’s got a lot to do with the appeal of this game for many I’m guessing. If you’re unfamiliar with the mode, it’s an online co-op mode similar to the Gears of War horde mode where players face wave after wave of enemies, only this time they’re a combination of two popular video game enemies: Nazis and zombies.

Despite legions of Halo haters, the sci-fi series continues to perform well with thousands of people shooting, blasting and meleeing each other on Xbox Live every day. The newest installment, Halo 3: ODST will be releasing fairly soon, meaning that the marketing blitz begins. Players who pre-order the game will get a bonus character for use in the multiplayer mode.

If you’ve played through any of the single player campaigns you’ll have no trouble recognizing Seargant Avery Junior Johnson, the tough-as-nails cigar chomping soldier who despite being a bit of a cliche still made the series a little more enjoyable. You can use him in the game’s ‘firefight’ mode, an online co-op setting where players battle against waves of increasingly difficult opponents, similar to Gears of War’s ‘Horde’ mode, which seems to be the new trend in multiplayer gaming, a sort of synthesis between the standard team based deathmatches and single player campaigns, allowing for maximum carnage with none of that pesky story to get in the way. If that wasn’t enough, everyone who purchases the game, preorder or no will get access to the Halo: Reach multiplayer beta.

While many developers and studio executives issue simple ‘no comment’ statements when probed or prodded about any aspect of what they’ve got brewing, others like Will Wright and Peter Molyneux are always more than happy to discuss their games, even if only in vague promises of great potential.

IGN sat down with Molyneux at the Game Developers Conference and got his tongue wagging regarding Fable II. Since the game’s release Lionhead has released a single downloadable content pack, which was heavy on new items and short on actual gameplay time. Some of that Molyneux attributes to the fact that work was started on it immediately after the game’s release which meant that they were splitting their focus between Knothole Glade and patching any issues with the game itself.

Now that whatever the biggest issues are with Fable II have been ironed out and Lionhead is free to pursue other projects. Rumors have been circulating that Fable III is already in production and while Molyenux said nothing to confirm that, many things he said confirmed that they’re planning on it. The end of Fable II leaves plenty of loose threads and some of these will be wrapped up in the new premium content pack that will be released this spring.

It’s titled See The Future and it will give some hints at the future of the Fable story. This isn’t an official announcement but Molyneux says they’re not done with Fable II yet and to expect more content. This pack set to add more to the game and not only more clothes or weapons. It’s said to add entirely new gameplay features, new things to do and ‘new challenges’.