Bioshock 2 Special Edition Announced
Here’s a (not so much) surprise. 2K today delivered the deets on the BioShock 2 Special Edition which will retail for $99 ($89 for the PC) and feature lots of goodies in addition to the game itself. Here’s the rundown of what’s included via the official website:
The Special Edition will come in 13″x13” premium packaging with special art on both the slipcase and the box cover. Inside, you will find three posters featuring vintage ads from Rapture (rolled), a vinyl 180g LP featuring the orchestral score from the original BioShock, a CD containing the BioShock 2 orchestral score, a 164 page 8″x11″ hardbound artbook chock full of developer commentary and, of course, a copy of BioShock 2.
Dude! A vinyl?!?!?! That’s a pretty freakin’ cool inclusion considering the game’s story and what not. Nice touch;)
If you’re interested in picking this up, you might wanna go ahead and pre-order. 2K has specified that this will indeed be of the “single production run” variety.
The BioShock 2 Special Edition is slated to release on February 9, 2010.
From GameTrailers.com
RE5 Gold Edition Coming Out In March
Capcom has issued a somewhat confusing press release regarding the Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition, which will be sold at retail for $49.99 and contain the game along with its add-on content beginning March 9 in the US and March 12 in Europe. The press release also delivers word on additional content packs, game modes, and forthcoming downloadable episodes. If you’re an RE5 fan, you should probably check it out, but be warned..I got three headaches trying to understand it all…
PRESS RELEASE
We are pleased to confirm today that a variety of new content for the hugely successful RESIDENT EVIL 5, will be available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 next year. We plan to release two new downloadable episodes, a host of new costumes, and a new “THE MERCENARIES REUNION” mode, featuring 8 new playable characters and weapon load outs.
For those RESIDENT EVIL fans who prefer a box copy, we are also happy to report that we will be releasing a RESIDENT EVIL 5: GOLD EDITION that will include the original game plus all additional content, making this the ultimate RESIDENT EVIL5 experience. RESIDENT EVIL 5: GOLD EDITION will be available for $49.99 as a single Blu-ray disc for the PLAYSTATION 3 or as a DVD with a token for the downloadable content for XBOX 360.
Previously only seen during cut scenes of the original RESIDENT EVIL 5, the first new episode titled “LOST IN NIGHTMARES”, finds BSAA agent, Chris Redfield, working with his partner, Jill Valentine, as they investigate Ozwell E. Spencer’s hideaway. Spencer, the evil mastermind and co-founder of Umbrella Corporation, has been hiding a new evil deep within the basement of his mansion. Chris and Jill discover this grotesque evil standing in their way as the two enter deeper into the catacombs beneath the mansion.
Simultaneous with the release of “LOST IN NIGHTMARES”, new costumes for Chris and Sheva will be made available, allowing the player to experience RESIDENT EVIL 5 with a fresh new look and feel through both game play and cut-scene playback. A new refresh of Mercenaries Mode, “ THE MERCENARIES REUNION”, gives players new playable characters and weapon load outs which provide players additional challenges as they aim to shoot down as many enemies as they can within a limited time. Each piece of downloadable content will contain two new playable characters. The GOLD EDITION will feature all eight.
More information regarding the second episode is still to come so be on the look out for more great RESIDENT EVIL info coming soon!
Please see below for a release schedule of all additional content:
Damn…my head hurts…
From GameTrailers.com
Lego Rock Band Tracklist
Release Date 27th November 2009 (UK),
On Sale (US)
All American Rejects - “Swing, Swing”
The Automatic - “Monster”
Blink-182 - “Aliens Exist”
Blur - “Song 2”
Bon Jovi - “You Give Love a Bad Name”
Boys like Girls - “Thunder”
Bryan Adams - “Summer of 69”
Carl Douglas - “Kung Fu Fighting”
The Coral - “Dreaming of You”
Counting Crows - “Accidentally in Love”
David Bowie - “Let’s Dance”
Elton John - “Crocodile Rock”
Europe - “The Final Countdown”
Everlife - “Real Wild Child”
Foo Fighters - “Breakout”
Good Charlotte - “Girls & Boys”
The Hives - “Tick Tick Boom!”
Iggy Pop - “The Passenger”
Incubus - “Dig”
Jackson 5 - “I Want You Back”
Jimi Hendrix - “Fire”
Kaiser Chiefs - “Ruby”
Katrina & The Waves - “Walking on Sunshine”
The Kooks - “Naïve”
KoRn - “Word Up!”
KT Tunstall - “Suddenly I See”
Lostprophets - “Rooftops”
P!NK - “So What”
The Police - “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
The Primitives - “Crash”
Queen - “We Are The Champions”
Queen - “We Will Rock You”
Rascal Flatts - “Life is a Highway”
Ray Parker Jr. - “Ghostbusters”
Razorlight - “Stumble and Fall”
Spin Doctors - “Two Princes”
Spinal Tap - “Short & Sweet”
Steve Harly - “Make Me Smile”
Sum 41 - “In Too Deep”
Supergrass - “Grace”
Tom Petty - “Free Fallin”
T-Rex - “Ride a White Swan”
Vampire Weekend - “A-Punk”
We the Kings - “Check Yes Juliet”
The Zutons - “Valerie”
Modern Warfare 2
Forget Roger Rabbit, back off Beatles, take a seat Titanic…you all have been PWND! That’s right, There’s a heaping helping of congratulatory cake over at Infinity Ward and Activision this morning and the blood-colored icing reads “Congrats on the Biggest Launch in Entertainment History”. While the numbers are fluctuating slightly, it appears that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has SOLD (as opposed to just SHIPPED) approximately 4.7 million copies of the controversial airport carnage simulator across the 360, PS3, and PC within the first 24 hours of availability throughout North America and the United Kingdom alone. Like math? Well, so does Activision, and at the risk of breaking Bobby Kotick’s personal calculator, the publisher determined that the number of game sales translates to about $310 million bones.
Dude….That’s a lotta coin for one 24-hour period and we can only imagine how much the game will accumulate in sales once it is released everywhere and has a few months in the holiday spotlight. I’m calling yet another sequel right now! Oh wait…
Halo Reach Screenshots???
Reach Perks (Left Bumper [Dual Wield GONE?]): Sprinting, Camo: Invisible to radar, and Hologram: create a Hologram of yourself?
Halo: CE None Regen Health system back?
Weapons: Carbine (Cross Between Carbine and Needler, 3 Shot Kill), BR (12 Round Clip, 1 shot with Scope), AR, Spartan Laser
Drop in, Drop Out Co-Op?
Reach Activies on Menu?
This first mission was just like Halo 1's 2nd mission where you had to find the marines that crash landed throughout the map, but in halo reach you are finding spartans. It's a pretty big map, and the worthog was very useful for getting places. The worthog can carry as many as 5 people (the driver, the front passenger, the gunner, and two seats below the gunner that face left and right, not forward)
The second mission was pretty action packed. You start out getting dropped off, and the action immediately begins. You are with squadmates. Throughout this mission you have to cover your spartan friend (whos a girl) and give her coverage so that she can hack into the computer. There are 3 big guns on the map that she has to hack into. Hacking into them gains control of the gun, and I guess it gives them control of the air (you see banshees and hornets flying throughout the entire level)
The third stage is very similar to Truth and Reconciliation (the 3rd stage on Halo 1). You and another spartan have snipers. You have to get into the enemy base from the cliffs (you start out on the cliffs). While you go in the base, your spartan friend covers you from the cliffs above. At the end of this level, you save a bunch of scientists or marines (not really sure who they are actually). They are humans who refused to leave their site even though they ordered everyone to get out. At the end of the level you save them and get picked up by a pelican.
Those were the first 3 stages. As for gameplay, everyone on those forums are talking about the perks. I guess I kinda used the wrong word. It's not really a perk, but rather a device that you can pick up. You can only carry one at a time. I found 3 different devices in the first 3 missions-Halogram, cloak, and sprint. So it's not really a perk, like you would think from call of duty. They are just devices you pick up and that have cooldowns.
The new BR is the 12 round, 1 shot with the scope. I think it's more powerfull than the burst fire BR from halo 3.
The sniper rifle has a longer delay between shots (I was upset with this).
The gameplay seem VERY similar to the other halos. It still has that "slow" feeling. The enemies also fight the exact same way, even the hunters.
The new needler carbine gun is cool. It takes three shots to make the needles explode on someone. However, if that person has a shield, you have to take out the shield before the needles can stick. So this gun can be effective if you shoot grunts and jackals, that way they explode and do more damage. You can't just shoot an elite three times, you have to bring his shield down first, then when you shoot him 3 times when he doesnt have a shield, the needles explode.
When you cloak, your radar is jammed, so you see red dots everywhere. Also, you can't hear anything going on. It's like trying to hear someone say something when you are underwater.
There is a new worthog that shoots volley missles. It seemed very overpowered, but fun. It would shoot about 4-6 shots and they explode upon contact. Then there is about a 5 second wait. Then you can shoot again (basically a 5 second cooldown for every time you can fire).
I found something really extraordinary. In the middle of mission 3, you encounter a bunch of covenant fighting this big ass monster (it had tusks, it seemed like some sort of prehistoric animal)
When you see the covenant fighting the monster, you are told not to engage combat, but to just go by unnoticed. You stand and watch the covenant fighting the monster, only to see the covenant get owned.
You must understand that this game is still LOOONG from being done. People on the forums are making too early judgments, like saying the graphics were horrible. Well I played the game and the graphics were pretty bad. That's because they havn't finished it yet... In fact, they didn't even have human voice overs when someone would talk in the game.
Overall gameplay was about the same as the other Halos.
Enemies battles are similar too.
I don't know if you can dual wield.
They made me play through the first 3 missions.
The first mission was on a pretty big map, and I had to find other spartans on the map (similar to Halo 1's second stage where you have to find the crash landed marines).
Second stage was pretty action packed, main goal was to take control of several huge missile guns throughout the map, and provide coverage to a spartan that would hack into the guns and control them.
Third stage was very similar to Halo 1's 3rd stage, Truth and Reconciliation. You start with a sniper and cloaking perk, you sneak into an enemy base at night, and you shoot from cliffs.
This game WILL be on the circuit I KNOW IT FOR A FACT, I am an mlg 50 and was a level 40 in h2 hardcore and know what competitive IS!
From http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=378966
Project Natal Details
MCV is laying claim to delivering the first details regarding the launch of Microsoft’s Project Natal. Citing a behind-closed-doors Microsoft tour of UK publishers, the report states that the controller-free Natal will release worldwide in November 2010, be accompanied by 14 games, and retail for below £50 when sold alone, making it FAR CHEAPER than most would have suspected (and by “most”, I mean “us”.)
The most interesting quote in the piece is that Microsoft is “trying to get as close as possible to ‘impulse buy’” territory and of course the low price tag would accommodate that.
Of course, none of these details are confirmed, but you can expect Msoft to respond in some way as we draw near to the eventual launch of Natal on the Xbox 360. We’ll keep you posted as we learn more. Until then, start dancing around your living room and flailing your arms to practice up…
From http://www.gametrailers.com/news/natal-launch-details-leaked/1548
James Cameron's Avatar Cost $500,000,000
Remember how everyone freaked out when James Cameron spent $200 million making Titanic, which was then by far the most expensive movie in the world? And nowadays most of the big summer movies cost around $200 mil? Well, Cameron must have hated being out of the record books, because the New York Times is reporting that Avatar -- which is, as we all know, Captain Planet with cats -- cost $500 million dollars. Half a fucking billion. For this:
Somehow, the NYT figures that Avatar will make a profit if it makes $250 mil in ticket sales (not sure how that works, but apparently it's something to do with the investing of the movie), which both Star Trek and The Hangover did. So it's not impossible, but since we nerds thinks the movie looks goofy as all hell, I can't imagine that normal folks think any different. The 3-D better be pretty fucking outstanding, because most people are going to buy tickets in spite of the blue furries, not because of them.
From http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/11/james_camerons_avatar_cost_500_mil.php
Playstation 3 Gets Cash Cards, FINALLY NO NEED TO REGISTER CREDIT CARDS WOOOOOOO!!! £20 and £50 Cards
Rock Band iPod Touch/iPhone Review
Cost: £5.99/$9.99 Now £3.99/$6.99
Pro's:
ITS ROCK BAND FOR THE IPOD TOUCH AND IPHONE
Song List has 20 Songs and 12 for download
In Game:
30 Seconds To Mars - "Attack"
AFI - "Girls Not Grey"
All American Rejects - "Move Along"
Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
Blink-182 - "All The Small Things"
Blondie - "Hanging on the Telephone"
Foo Fighters - "Learn To Fly"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
George Thorogood & the Destroyers - "Bad to The Bone"
Jethro Tull - "Hymn 43"
Joan Jett - "Hymn 43"
Lynard Skynard - "Simple Man"
Motorhead - "Ace of Spades '08"
Pixies - "Debaser"
Presidents of The United States of America - "Ladybug"
Rise Against - "Give It All"
Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Cherub Rock"
Steve Miller Band - "Take The Money and Run"
The Go Go's - "We Got The Beat"
Download (Come in sets of 2 - £0.59/$0.99)
Freezepop - "Science Genius"
Freezepop - "Super-Sprode"
Social Distortion - "I Was Wrong"
DEVO - "Girl U Want"
James Gang - "Funk 49"
Lenny Krevitz - "Let Love Rule"
30 Seconds to Mars - "The Kill"
Ok Go - "Here We Go Again"
Foo Fighters - "This Is A Call"
Angels and Airwaves - "It Hurts"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Today"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero"
Multiplayer via Bluetooth
Graphics are ok but are repeat if think I only saw 2 variations but as you spend most of your time looking at the notes its not too bad,
ACHIEVEMENTS!!!!!!!
Facebook Login for Leaderboard Scores,
Hammer-ons can be used by sliding your finger over the buttons,
Con's:
No Character Customization,
Buttons are sometimes hard to hit on time,
Music is out of sync some of the time,
Starpower is activated by shaking the iPod/iPhone and when on hard mode its kinda hard to keep the note streak going while shaking the iPod/iPhone,
Vocals are buttons not actually singing,
No Mode Higher Than Hard (Easy, Medium, Hard).
Overall Score: 4/5
First review Any comments? Things I did well, Things I Should or Shouldn't do next time? Email Me
TV/Movie Announcements:
CSI: Las Vegas - New Season Starts September 24th 2009:
Season 10 Episode 1 - A rising young star is killed in a wreck and her determined stalker claims credit, but the team finds out there's more to this tragedy than meets the eye.
CSI: New York - New Season Starts September 23rd 2009:
Season 6 Episode 1 - Epilogue - Danny and Mac have yet to get any leads on a cop killing when Danny gets an impromptu call from a young woman who claims she's got information about the case.
CSI: Miami - New Season Starts 2010 - More Info Soon...
'CSI' Laurence Fishburne to Crossover to 'Miami' and 'NY'
Announced via CBS' Twitter is a major crossover between "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and its spin offs. Laurence Fishburne's Dr. Raymond Langston will be the character from the original series who will make a visit to "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: NY". No word on other characters.
The crossover is scheduled to take over within 1 week this Fall, but it is still unknown in which week it will take place. "Miami" will be the first to premiere, entering the eighth season on Monday, September 21. It is followed by the sixth season premiere of "NY" on Wednesday, September 23 and the tenth season of "CSI" on Thursday, September 24.
Langston is the character brought in to the Las Vegas version to anticipate the loss of William Petersen's Gil Grissom. The transition was not so much a success but the network is making some changes that hopefully will be better appreciated. Jorja Fox is invited back to the show to reprise her role as Sara Sidle.
Another plan is to change the wardrobe of Langston. If previously he was seen in suits with his glasses on, the character will lose it all in future episodes. "I think what you're looking for is wardrobe that reflected him being more comfortable in his environment," CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said. "I mean, he came as an outsider coming in, so his clothes - you know, he was in suits, he was a little stiff, he wore his glasses."
CSI: Miami: Is Delko Going Recurring? (Or, Don't Tell Me He'll Be A Ghost...)
"I think my romance is in jeopardy. I think we were in some poor contract negotiations."
Emily Procter there, talking to E! News about the prospects of her CSI: Miami co-star and on-screen boyfriend Adam Rodriguez. If she's to be believed, it looks like Delko's getting a downgrade, from a regular cast member to a recurring cast member--but, to be honest, I'm not really surprised.
To be fair, though, this isn't confirmed yet. CBS hasn't spoken up on Rodriguez's status on the show, which begins its eighth season on September 21. Sources, however, tell E! Online that he'll be back for "a limited engagement" and they're not sure "in what form Delko will appear."
Hrmmm. I will drop the spoiler that I've been dropping so frequently that it doesn't seem like a spoiler anymore: Delko got shot, I think in the head, and is in a coma. That's why we're kicking off the new season with a flashback, complete with a Tripp full of hair and a returning Alexx.
I initially thought we'll spend part of the season looking for Delko--that's how the last season's finale seemed to point at anyway--so it was a given, at least to my blood-stained mind, that he won't be returning full-time for the show. But we'll have it easy: they'll find him quickly and get him to a hospital in time.
The question is the "what form" bit we've just heard. Don't tell me he'll be doing what Speedle did to him before--and actually be an apparition to Calleigh? Well, given what CSI: Miami can do, it won't be much of a surprise.
Will they actually kill Delko off? Will they keep him in a coma and make him appear in flashbacks, or worse (depends), those apparitions? Questions, questions. But it does suck a bit seeing the Delko-Calleigh story not get the push that we want... at least not as much as we imagined would happen.
And then there's the question of who actually shot Delko in the head.
Halo Movie May Be Finally Gaining Momentum
The Halo movie just hasn’t been able to get a break as of late, till now that is as news has it that none other then Steven Spielberg of Jurassic Park, Jaws and Indiana Jones fame is very interesting in getting the project of the ground. IESB is reporting that the director is blown away by the script by Stuart Beattie which is floating around the Hollywood scene at the moment.
While Spielberg is more then capable of handling this project from looking at his other epics (think the scale of Jurassic Park but the intensity of Indiana Jones). It has also been reported that he’s a gaming fan as well; and in particular Bio-Shock.
If this actually goes anywhere however is yet to be seen but it’s reassuring knowing that the same man who made Jurassic Park is now behind the project.
"Microsoft Lower Games on Demand Prices" (Sign the Petition)
we the undersigned petition ...
Microsoft lower Games on Demand prices!
The Games on Demand prices in the new Xbox Live update dated for August 11, 2009 are way too expensive. Sure we get a full Xbox 360 game but for the same price we might as well get it at the store. The fact that it's a digital download and we aren't even getting any physical product, and that we are subscribed to Xbox Live as well, should at least entitle some discount to the price of the game found in retail stores to us. The below hereby agree that the price of the Games on Demand should be decreased. Please and thank you Microsoft.
Sign The Petition
Rumour: Red Storm Working on GRAW 3 for Xbox 360
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter made several in-roads in an industry littered with tactical shooter sims and WWII clones. More importantly, it helped improve the Xbox 360’s foothold in it’s first year, before Gears of War and Halo 3 made their respective debuts later. Despite the series being multi-platform, coming to the Playstation 3 and PC, GRAW has always arrived on Microsoft’s consoles first.
Brutal Legend Soundtrack
I don't know if the soundtrack for a game has every truly been "hotly anticipated," but if one had to choose the most "hotly anticipated" soundtrack to a game ever it might just be Brütal Legend's as the entire game is about rock and/or roll and features a plethora of heavy metal music stars who would make the soundtrack truly epic. Now that we've established that the soundtrack is indeed "hotly anticipated" the news that EA Denmark seems to have leaked the songs present in the game should get you pretty excited. The Denmark branch of EA posted the song tracks on their site, revealing that the game will feature over 100 songs from legends of metal.
You can check out the list below the jump, but there is a strange lack of Iron Maiden in the game for some reason. There's plenty of Ozzy, Riot, Ratt and Judas Priest though, so I think it's safe to say we're all going to have some pretty cramped necks from headbanging non-stop. Can't wait until Rocktober.
(Update: Looks like it has all been confirmed and with a sexy quote from Tim Schafer: "This soundtrack took years to put together as we wanted to represent every genre of Metal, and also have the perfect music for every epic moment in the game. It's designed to be loved by Metal fans, and for those who are not, it will either convert them or make their heads explode ... or both.")
3 Inches of Blood - Deadly Sinners
3 Inches of Blood - Destroy The Orcs
Accept - Fast As A Shark
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Anthrax - Metal Thrashing Mad
Anvil - March of the Crabs
Anvil - Tag Team
Apostasy - Sulphur Injection
Bishop of Hexen - A Serpentine Grave
Bishop of Hexen - The Somber Grounds of Truth
Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
Brocas Helm - Cry of the Banshee
Brocas Helm - Drink the Blood of the Priest
Budgie - Breadfan
Budgie - Zoom Club
Candlemass - Witches
Carcass - No Love Lost
Cloven Hoof Nightstalker
Children of Bodom - Angels Don't Kill
Coroner - Skeleton on your Shoulder
Cradle of Filth - Her Ghost in the Fog
Crimson Glory - Queen of the Masquerade
Dark Fortress - Insomnia
Dark Tranquility - Cathode Ray Sunshine
Deathstars - Blitzkrieg
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
Dethklok - Mermaider
Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
Dimmu Borgir - Progenies of the Great Apocalypse
Dokken - Mr. Scary
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames
Emperor - Thus Spake The Nightspirit
Enslaved - Frost
Enslaved - Loke
Firehouse - Overnight Sensation
Girlschool - Bomber
Iced Earth - When the Night Falls
Iced Earth - Pure Evil
In Flames - Goliaths Disarm Their Davids
Judas Priest - Battle Hymn
Judas Priest - The Hellion/Electric Eye
Judas Priest - Leather Rebel
Judas Priest - One Shot At Glory
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Kabbage Boy - Girlfriend
KMFDM - Free Your Hate
KMFDM - Rip The System
King Diamond - Cremation
King Diamond - Welcome Home
Kiss - God of Thunder
Lita Ford - Betrayal
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Manowar - Die For Metal
Manowar - The Dawn Of Battle
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Mastodon - Oblivion Instrumental
Megadeath - High Speed Dirt
Megadeath - Tornado of Souls
Metal Church - Metal Church
Michael Schenker - Group Assault Attack
Ministry - Stigmata
Ministry - Thieves
Mirrorthrone - So Frail
Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Motley Crue - Live Wire
Motorhead - Back at the Funny Farm
Motorhead - In the Black
Motorhead - Marching Off to War
Motorhead - We Are the Road Crew
Nitro - Machine Gun Eddie
Omen - The Axeman
Ostrogoth - Queen of Desire
Overkill - World of Hurt
Ozzy Osbourne - Believer
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Prong - Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
Quiet Riot - The Wild and the Young
Racer X - Technical Difficulties
Racer X - Y.R.O.
Ratt - Lay It Down
Riot - Road Racin
Riot - Narita
Riot - Swords and Tequila
Rob Zombie - Superbeast
Rotting Christ - Ad Notics
Running Wild - Riding the Storm
Sanctuary - Battle Angels
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Saxon - Wheels of Steel
Scorpions - Blackout
Scorpions - Holiday
Skeletonwitch - Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
Slayer - Metal Storm/Face The Slayer
Slough Feg - Warriors Dawn
Static-X - Love Dump
Tenacious D - Master Exploder
Tenacious D - The Metal
Testament - For The Glory Of
Testament - More Than Meets The Eye
Tvangeste - Birth of the Hero
UFO - Rock Bottom
Whitesnake - Still of the Night
Wrath of Killenstein - Ignisis Dance
Only 2 Tenacious D Songs! Why!?
PSP Video Store Open in Japan
Good news Japanese PSN account holders! You can now browse and download from the PSN Store’s video section on your PlayStation Portable.
It’s rather slim pickings over in that store right now, though. There are around 100 titles to choose from, though obviously Sony plans to expand your choices exponentially soon. You can rent titles as well, which once purchased are valid for 72 hours. The service has been available in the US since E3, and apparently has yet to launch in the UK.
LittleBigPlanet gets ‘Big’ Game of the Year Edition Plus a ‘Little’ DLC
Last year the game Little Big Planet was released for the PlayStation 3 and took the world by storm. The game quickly became one of the most beloved titles this generation, and received outstanding reviews. Earlier today Amazon.com posted a re-release of the game titled Little Big Planet: Game of the Year Edition. The Amazon page also showed off the new boxart for the title.
Here is the new box art:
Interestingly, the cover also states that the game “includes Bonus Content valued at over $30″. Little Big Planet has housed lots of DLC content including map packs, sticker packs, and costumes as well. What the $30 of DLC will include is anyone’s guess, but judging by the released date of the game last year, we should expect to see this new version of the game sometime in October or November.
Xbox 360 Preview Update
An update was released yesterday for xbox live previewers
The Update Included:
New Avatar Items (Props and Clothing),
Games On Demand (COD2, Mass Effect, Viva Pinata, NFS Carbon, Assassins Creed, Oblivion and LEGO Star Wars),
Halo 3 ODST News
Halo ODST is nearing release and looks to be packed full of content. These are the rumored sets of single player campaign and multiplayer arenas that players might be able to plough through coming September.
The single player campaign consists of eight areas and the multiplayer firefight mode comes packed with eight locations where your buddy can plough through tons of enemies.
Campaign Arenas
Tayari Plaza
Uplift Reserve
Kizingo Boulevard
ONI Alpha Site
NMPD HQ (New Mombasa Police Department HQ)
Kikiwani Station
Data Hive
Coastal Highway
Firefight Locations
Crater
Lost Platoon
Rally Point
Security Zone
Alpha Site
Windward
Chasm Ten
Last Exit
Compared to this Halo 3's single player mode had nine single player campaign modes for players to push through.
Xbox 360 Avatar Golf
This sequel to Easy Golf featuring Xbox LIVE Avatars has been submitted to Dream Build Play but I have the feeling this could end up going to XBLA.
Playstation 3 Price Drop Coming To UK (After I Brought Mine!)
A very reliable source at a major UK retail chain has told Play that the PS3 price-drop is definitely happening soon. Our source didn’t yet know exactly when the price was due or exactly what it would be or whether it would coincide with the announcement or launch of the rumoured slim PS3, but promised more details if and when they become available.
This is the latest in a whole string of rumours regarding the PS3 price-drop and, to be honest, we’d pretty much heard enough already to be persuaded it was happening imminently. Now though, given how trusted our own source is, we’re in no doubt whatsoever.
50 Cent Has Played Modern Warfare 2 (And Gets A Voice Role?)
Jeez, Infinity Ward's bringing in all kinds of celebrity-types to play Modern Warfare 2. 50 Cent's official news site updated with shots of the skull enthusiast playing games at Infinity Ward alongside the guys from Good Charlotte. The post states that 50 is doing a voice the game, as well, specifically "The Multi-Player Voice."
I have to imagine that means he's just doing some random soldier voices in multiplayer, but what if they meant he was the announcer? Can't you just hear 50 screaming "headquarters located, motherfucker" now?
Also, maybe it's just me, but between Good Charlotte, 50, and Dane Cook, doesn't it seem like IW is going out of its way to connect its game with questionable celebs? Are Spencer Pratt, Chris Brown, and the guy from Jon Gosselin coming in next week, or what? The only celebrity types that've played it (and been noted publically) that I can think of that don't seem like awful people are Will Arnett and Jon Glaser. Oh, and Ice-T, who recently saw the game in New York.
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