Today Microsoft announced that the up coming racing title Forza Motorsport 3 will have a demo that will arrive Sept. 24.
The single-player demo will allow gamers to get behind the wheel of five different cars on the Camino Viejo track. The demo will also feature an online leaderboard so you can compare your best times with the rest of the world.
Microsoft also mentioned that Forza 3, which features “more than 400 cars on over 100 tracks,” has gone gold and will be arriving on the scheduled release date of Oct. 23.
For the list of cars in the demo, hit the jump. Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote up a post about the new characters included in the Transformers DLC. Today Activision release a whole slew of details about the DLC.
The content will hit XBLM and the PSN on Aug. 27. In order to get your hands on the eight new character, all with tweaked weapons, the new skins for existing characters, three multiplayer maps, a more challenging difficulty mode, and the addition of Aerialbot to the single-player campaign, you are going to need to pony up 800 Microsoft Points ($10).
For the complete breakdown of all the new content, hit the jump. Read more »
Two days ago I wrote about the new Gears of War 2 DLC. Today Epic Games announced that they will be holding a special “First to Play” event in Seattle, Washington, where gamers will get a chance to try out the new maps.
The event will be held May 15, at the Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. The first 800 people to arrive will be admitted inside where there are 20 kiosks showcasing the new DLC.
The event will also feature a panel with Michael Capps, president of Epic Games, and Joshua Ortega, writer of Gears of War 2.
The new Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection DLC is slated to arrive July 28 and will cost you $20.
Read: Xbox Live Holding Gears 2 Map Pack Preview Event in Seattle.
Today Epic Games announced that it will be releasing a retail disk that has all the current Gears of War 2 DLC as well as the upcoming Dark Corners DLC.
Dubbed Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection, the $20 add-on includes the Flashback, Combustible and Snowblind Map packs, as well as a poster, Xbox 360 theme, strategy guide, and the Dark Corners DLC.
The Dark Corners DLC, which will also be available on Xbox Live Marketplace for 1600 Microsoft Points ($20), comes with 7 new multiplayer maps, plus a deleted campaign chapter where Marcus and Dom go back to the Locust Hollow.
The Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection and Dark Corners DLC hit retail on July 28.
Read: Gears of War 2 Retail DLC Collection and New Map Pack Announced as Sales R Ceach 5 Million.
Today DICE announced that Battlefield 1943 will hit Xbox 360 and PS3 this June. The 24-player WWII shooter remake is going to cost $15. DICE also announced that the PC version, which is also $15, will arrive this Sept.
Battlefield 1943 comes with three classic maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima; all of which have been redesigned to highlight the newly destructible environments.
Producer Gordon Van Dyke stated, “We want to offer gamers the most accessible online shooter experience and the best value found in any premium download title.”
Read: Battlefield 1943 Priced, Hitting Consoles First.
This morning publisher D3 announced that Puzzle Quest: Galactrix will arrive on Xbox Live Marketplace on Wednesday, April 8 and will cost you 1600 Microsoft Points ($20).
Developed by Infinite Interactive, Puzzle Quest: Galactrix takes the classic Bejeweled gameplay and gives it a sci-fi twist. Instead of battling trolls and towers, players will have to deal with space pirates and warp gates. Tiles are now hexagons, which mean they can me swapped in six direction. Gravity also plays a factor in the game. When you move a tile, the new tiles will fall in the same direction. This adds a new level of strategy to the franchise.
I have Puzzle Quest: Galactrix on the PC and must say it’s pretty fun. The hexagon tile and gravity change the gameplay up quite a bit. It is an absolute lie to say that Galactrix is just Puzzle Quest in space.
Read: Puzzle Quest: Galactrix Hits Xbox 360 Next Week.
There is no doubt about it, DLC is big money. Don’t believe me? Well, according to Michael Patcher, analyst for Wedbush Morgan, GTAIV’s The Lost and Damned will be downloaded over two million times this year. At $20 a pop, that’s some pretty good money.
Patcher stated: “Take-Two released the first installment of DLC for GTA in mid-February, and we estimate that the game has been downloaded over 1 million times to date. By year-end, we think that this figure will likely double, giving us greater confidence that Take-Two can achieve its full-year earnings guidance.”
Although this news is interesting, I don’t find it surprising. I know that once I get a job, my first purchase is going to be The Lost and Damned, and I’m sure there are plenty of jobless college students like me out there.
Read: Analyst: The Lost and Damned to Top 2 Million Downloads This Year.
Today Bethesda sent word that Fallout 3’s next DLC pack, “The Pitt” will hit Xbox Live Marketplace and Games For Windows Live Marketplace on March 24.
For those of you who don’t know, “The Pitt” takes gamers out of the nation’s capital and puts them knee deep in raider controlled Pittsburgh. While exploring Pittsburgh gamers will face a decision, do some good by helping the slaves break free or be a bad guy and help out the raiders. Although there has been no announcements regarding new weapons or abilities, I can tell you from the screen shot above that there will be a ridiculously cool looking rotary saw.
In order to get access to all this content, you are going to have to cough up 800 Microsoft Points ($10). If I can get my character that rotary saw, this DLC is totally worth the price.
Read: Fallout 3’s ‘The Pitt’ DLC Coming March 24.
Yesterday Bethesda revealed three screenshots and some details about Fallout 3’s upcoming downloadable expansion titled ‘The Pitt’.
‘The Pitt’ will take post-apocalyptic adventurers out of the DC area and put them in ruined Pittsburgh, which is now run by raiders. According to Bethesda, “The Pitt opens with a desperate radio message, and a meeting with its sender, an escaped slave named Wernher. Wernher claims that the leader of “The Pitt” has created a cure for mutations… and he needs you to go in and retrieve it. From there, the player can proceed in a number of ways, in true Fallout 3 style. Do you fight your way in, or disguise yourself as a slave? Ally with the slaves, or join their Raider overlords? The Pitt is very morally ambiguous - there’s no real right or wrong, just choices to be made, sides to be chosen, and a mystery that could send shockwaves throughout the entire Wasteland.”
The Pitt will hit Xbox Live Marketplace and Games for Windows Marketplace this March. Although no official price has been announced, I feel safe in assuming that it will cost as much as the previous DLC, ‘Operation Anchorage’, which was $10. It is also important to note that ‘The Pitt’ will also raise the level cap past 20.
Personally I love the idea behind this DLC. Actually I just like the idea that I can go to Pittsburgh and kill Steelers fans (Go Browns!). As soon as more details surface, I’ll post them here on the Wire.
Today Capcom decided to get coy with gamers. It announced that it will unveil its next Xbox 360 title on Monday, Feb. 23.
On Monday, Capcom will release a trailer for the unnamed game on Xbox Live Marketplace.
As of right now there are no clues as to what the game might be. Capcom has not specified if the unknown game will be an Xbox 360 exclusive release or not. Personally I’m hoping for a new Powerstone. I guess I’ll have to wait until Monday to see. Once it is unveiled, you can be sure there will be a post here on the Wire.
This is just a reminder that the Halo Wars demo is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace.
The demo comes with two tutorial levels, the first two missions from the campaign mode, and a skirmish map that lets you test your skills against the computer AI. Both the Covenant and UNSC are playable.
What are you waiting for? Go download the demo and let us know what you think by leaving a comment below. The full version of the Xbox 360 exclusive RTS is due out March 3.
Halo fan boys rejoice. Ensemble Studios and parent company Microsoft announced today that Halo Wars has now gone gold. The Xbox 360 exclusive RTS set in the Halo universe is set to hit stores in the States on Mar. 3.
Microsoft also announced that a demo will be available starting Feb. 5. The demo comes with two tutorials, the first two missions of the game, and a multiplayer map for AI battles. Gamers will have access to both the UNSC and Covenant forces when playing multiplayer.
Read: Halo Wars Goes Gold, Demo Detailed.
