For those of you who have that Borderlands addiction like so many others, the next available downloadable content Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot is waiting for your hard earned MS Points. 800 of them to be exact. Read more…
Jonathan Blow, the creator of the wonderfully imaginative platform game Braid, has announced the appearance of a teaser site for his new project The Witness.
Microsoft announced that Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost And Damned will be their next Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week for the week begining August 24th. That’s some pretty good news for those who have yet to pick up this highly acclaimed add-on for Rockstar’s award winning franchise. The price will drop from 1600 MS Points ($20 US) to 1200 MS Points ($15 US) and will be well worth it; but there is something to consider for those who have been blessed with the skill of patience.
Grand Theft Auto IV has its second downloadable episode, The Ballad of Gay Tony, hitting the retail spotlight on October 29th along with the simultaneous release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City which will be a retail pack that will include both expansions on a single disc at the cost of $39.99. Not only will this pack save you some precious hard drive space, but it will also not require the original GTA IV disc to play.
So now it’s up to you. Do you save a few bucks and purchase GTA IV: TLAD as the Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week? Or do you wait a bit longer and get both episodic content in one fell swoop and save the hard drive space? You may want to ask yourself what is better in the long run. But like I said, this is only to be considered for those who have the patience.
Major Nelson had a bit of news for everyone yesterday afternoon when he announced that those who live in the US can now use their PayPal accounts to buy Microsoft Points through Xbox.com. Currently it’s only available to users located in the states, but hopefully we can assume that it will be available to everyone else at a later date.
In the meantime, those who are hesitant about linking their credit cards to their Xbox Live accounts can feel somewhat relieved with this new service. All you need to do in order to link your PayPal account is to sign in via Xbox.com and head over to your Account Summary page. From there, it’s just a hop, skip, and jump away to “Manage Payment Options” and “Add PayPal Account”.
Just remember, you can only purchase MS Points using PayPal through Xbox.com and NOT via your console. But who knows, maybe that’ll change eventually too.
Available right now on Xbox Live is the newly released demo for Batman: Arkham Asylum and so far, it looks to be something you’re not going to want to pass up when it hits the shelves on August 25th.
The demo is a pretty sizable one, coming in at a hefty 2GB, but is well worth the wait. So don’t waste any more time, go see it for yourself!
A part of the new Dashboard update coming to Xbox Live on August 11th is going to be a new feature called “Games on Demand” which will act much like the Xbox Originals feature did in the NXE update. This new component to Xbox Live will contain a library of already released Xbox 360 titles available for digital download whenever you so desire.
There are currently 21 games on the launch roster thus far, and according to Joystiq, they will be priced from anywhere between 1600-2400 MS Points ($20-$30 US) and will have the option of a credit card purchase rather than the good ol’ “rape-you-in-the-butt-with-a-stick-and-break-it-off” method of buying far more MS points than you actually needed.
And that list is as follows:
So now comes the bad part…
You can find most of these games for much cheaper in any used bin at your local Gamestop/EB Games, eBay, or Amazon. Not to mention that each game will be a 4-6 GB download; leaving those without a hard drive out completely. And for those of you with a hard drive? You may have room to purchase around 10-20 games assuming that you have a brand new 60GB or 120GB hard drive with nothing on it; but if you’re like me, just looking at another save file might just make it explode. So this whole thing just sounds a bit ridiculous, right?
Can you really see yourself taking advantage of this new feature? Leave a comment below and let me know what you think.
Major Nelson has confirmed the release of the newest Call of Duty: WaW add-on today. Map Pack 3 is available right now on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 MS Points and includes 4 all new muliplayer maps; “Battery”, “Revolution”, “Breach”, and “Der Riese” and also adds an additional 10 achievements with a total of 250 points for your gaming pleasure.
So in case you haven’t heard, Microsoft has announced a new project in the works for the Halo Franchise at this years Comic-Con. The new project entitled “Halo Legends” is to be a series of seven anime short films to expand the ever growing story within the Halo universe. The animation of these films will be conducted by five of the biggest names in the anime industry; Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation along with the production being governed by Creative Director, Shinji Aramaki, best known for his work as director of “Appleseed” and “Appleseed Ex Machina”.
Six of these stories will be fully inducted into the official Halo doctrine, while the episode created by Toei will be directed at a more child-like audience and will not be included in the official mythology.
But even more suprising is the fact that of all these promo posters, the one created by Production I.G., WILL be included in the official Halo canon, which is a bit strange considering the fact that it reveals a Spartan in a field of brightly colored flowers and a teddy bear. Yeah, I know, don’t get me started. But you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, right?
But regardless of that fact, some of these short animated pieces are looking to be a bit promising and a preview will be available on Halo Waypoint, which will be a new focal point in the next Xbox Live Dashboard update coming this Fall. You can also expect a full retail release from Warner Bros. on DVD, Blu-Ray, & digitally in early 2010. But for now, you can catch a glimpse of these six promotional posters below. Enjoy! Read more…
If you’re one of the many Fallout 3 fans out there who’s looking for even more to add to the experience (as if there isn’t enough already…) you can go download the Operation: Anchorage expansion (800 MS points aka $9.99), available now wherever your local DLC is sold!
This campaign is set in a virtual reality simulation of the battle that takes place in Anchorage, Alaska to liberate itself from Chinese Communist invaders during the years 2066-2067. The content itself Read more…
In an interview with IGN.com’s Hilary Goldstein, Ubisoft has announced an upcoming expansion for the stunningly visual masterpiece that is Prince of Persia. Associate Producer for the new content, Jamal Rguigui, has said that “the DLC will develop the relationship between the Prince and Elika following the end of the game and will give additional narrative elements” as well as reveal a brand new location entitled the “Underground Palace” and a new level of difficulty to the game.
But this new addition does not stop there. The new expansion will also add a brand new “Energize” power to Elika’s repertoire as well as grant the beloved Prince an intense new “Sprinting Clash” attack to stun his foes and help defeat a brand new boss, The Shapeshifter. Read more…
