Late last night Nintendo announced that stating this Sunday, the Wii will be $50 cheaper in North America. That means come Sept. 27 you can snag the motion-controlled console for $199.
This news really shouldn’t come as that big of a surprise. Over the last few weeks numerous leaked documents helped fueled rumors of a price drop.
Just last month, both Microsoft and Sony announced price cuts for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Many are questioning whether Nintendo had planned this price cut long ago, or is the company just trying to follow suit. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.
Read: Wii Price Drops to $199 in North America.
Today Ubisoft announced that the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 2 has been delayed to early 2010. Once slated to arrive along side the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions on Nov. 17, it will now arrive a little later due to unspecified development issues.
According to Ubisoft’s Twitter, “Assassin’s Creed 2 PC has moved to the first quarter of 2010. A bit more time for the dev team to deliver the best quality game to you.”
The first Assassin’s Creed had a similar delay on the PC, however when it arrived it was the “Director’s Cut” featuring new missions and content. Hopefully Assassin’s Creed 2 will receive similar treatment.
Today Valve announced that the “Crash Course” DLC for Left 4 Dead will arrive on Tuesday, Sept. 29 on both the Xbox 360 and PC.
PC gamers can snag the Versus mode focused add-on for free, where as Xbox 360 gamers will have to shell out 560 Microsoft Points ($7) for the content.
Valve described the DLC saying, “The primary goal of Crash Course is to deliver a complete Versus mode experience in just 30 minutes, resulting in a streamlined version of the game’s existing Versus campaigns.”
Read: Left 4 Dead ‘Crash Course’ DLC Arrives Tuesday.
In a recent interview, a representative for 2K Games stated that the PC version of Gearbox’s open-world RPG/FPS Borderlands has been pushed back to Oct. 26.
According to Charlie Sinhaseni, senior PR manager of 2K Games said, “We’re optimizing the PC version which takes a few days longer than expected.”
For those of you who don’t know, Borderlands is a sci-fi FPS with a heavy focus on RPG elements. According to Gearbox, the game was heavily influenced by the Mad Max films as well as Blizzard’s Diablo.
The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions are still slated to arrive in the States on Oct. 20. The rest of the world will have to wait until Oct. 30.
Read: Borderlands Ever So Slightly Delayed on PC.
Last month Microsoft cut the price of the Xbox 360 Elite down to $299. Today the company announced that if you buy an Xbox 360 Elite between today, Sept. 22, and Oct. 5, you will receive a $50 rebate, bringing the price down to $249. It is important to note that this rebate is only applies to purchases made in the United States.
For those of you who don’t know, the Xbox 360 Elite comes features a special black paint job, a 120 GB hard drive, a black wireless Xbox 360 control, a black Xbox 360 headset and a HDMI port.
For the official press release, hit the jump. Read more »
Yesterday developer Creative Assembly announced that Empire: Total War will be receiving a new downloadable campaign in October.
The DLC will allow gamers to control five new Native American factions including: Iroquois, Huron, Plains, Pueblo and Cherokee across a new campaign title Warpath. The new content also includes an expanded North American map, new units, agents, technologies and objectives.
The DLC will only be made available on Valve’s Steam service. Right now, you can head on over to Steampowered.com and pre-order the new Warpath Campaign for $10.
Read: Empire: Total War Getting Steam-exclusive DLC.
Today Activision announced that Bizarre Creations’ arcadey racer Blur has been pushed back to 2010. Originally slated to arrive Nov. 3, Bizarre Creations explained the delay saying that the development team needs “more time to enhance the game’s innovative and distinctive online multiplayer gameplay.”
Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith stated, “The additional time will allow the studio to fully optimize the vision they set out to create for Blur including a distinctive and groundbreaking multiplayer mode that will appeal to a broad audience.”
For those of you who don’t know, Blur is a arcade style racing game, developed for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, that features real world cars and locals along with vehicular combat. The multiplayer aspect, which is the cause of the delay, will allow for 4 player splitscreen and up to 20 players online. Bizarre Creations has made what they call “the Facebook of racing,” allowing players to create an account and share custom game modes with friends.
Hopefully this delay will give Bizarre Creations enough time to perfect the multiplayer aspect.
Read: Blur Delayed to 2010.
This week’s Release Roundup is sure to please Xbox shooter fans. This is because Halo 3: ODST hits stores this Tuesday.
Considered to be a standalone expansion for Halo 3, ODST puts gamers into the shoes of “the Rookie” an unnamed member of The UNSC’s elite special military unit, Orbital Drop Shock Troopers. The game takes place during the events of Halo 2 and Halo 3 with players exploring the besieged city of New Mombasa in Africa. Halo 3: ODST comes with Halo 3’s multiplayer contained on a separate disc and features 24 maps including the original 11 from Halo 3, the Heroic map pack, the Legendary map pack, the Cold Storage map, and the Mythic map pack as well as three new maps. There is also a new co-op mode called Firefight which functions as a survival mode with players fending off waves of increasingly difficult baddies to see how long they can last.
Enough about Halo 3: ODST, the games coming out this week are:
Xbox 360
- Halo 3: ODST
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To celebrate the release of the all-new Wolfenstein game by Activision and Raven, GGL has launched a flexible team size tournament on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC with plenty of prizes!
Form a team and win limited edition Wolfenstein medals, hoodies and game posters!
Registration and practice ladders are open now. On 10/2/09, practice ladders will reset and turn into full tournament ladders.
Registration will remain open until 11/1/09. On 11/4/09 the top 32 teams from each ladder will advance to a playoff bracket.
What are you waiting for? Hit Wolfenstein.ggl.com to join up!
The value of the PC as a modding platform is unparalleled. Just to hammer the point home, StalkerUKCG on the Eidos forums has posted a number of custom skins for Batman: Arkham Asylum on PC. See a few great examples below.
Click for bigger version. (L-R: Tim Burton's Batman, Batman Begins suit, The Dark Knight suit, Batman Beyond suit)
Intrepid fans can make their own skins, too. Just visit the Eidos forums for more downloads and instructions.
Source: Official | Batman Arkham Asylum Modded Costume thread!!
It’s unclear what you would do with 250GB of hard drive space on your Xbox 360, but if you ever saw the need to fill up on expensive DLC and MP3s, the Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle has you covered.
The console itself comes with a military paint job and $399 price tag. And in this picture, it looks like a monolith sent from Jupiter to teach humans how to play videogames.
Unfortunately for those of you looking to cop the 250GB HDD alone, you’re hosed. MajorNelson has confirmed it won’t be sold separately.
Bungie and MS today released a new doc showing off the design methods behind Halo 3: ODST. It’s called “Terra Incognita” and includes interviews with the developers–check it:
