Microsoft has started shipping a new Xbox 360 Elite Spring Bundle, the company’s announced. For the normal $299 price of the 120GB HDD Elite SKU, the bundle comes packed with the chance to catch up with two of the system’s big 2009 exclusives; Turn 10 racer Forza Motorsport 3 and Bungie’s sci-fi shooter Halo 3: ODST.
The bundle’s available until supplies last, they say.
Microsoft is holding a free Modern Warfare 2 weekend this week, allowing Xbox Live’s Silver members to get their feet wet and try out the shooter’s online offerings without spending a dime on that pesky Gold account.
The free weekend begins on Friday, March 12, at 9am PT/Noon ET and ends on Sunday, March 15, at 9am PT/Noon ET.
As announced just yesterday, the first DLC for the game will be arriving later this month as well, on March 30.
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s end-game content will mix the traditional MMO system with “something brand new,” BioWare has revealed.
So-called ’end-game’ content is what incentivises players to continue playing once they’ve hit the maximum level.
The Old Republic’s creative director James Olhen told PC Gamer (via CVG), “We’re looking at classic [endgame] systems, but we’re also doing something brand new that hasn’t been done in an MMO before. So we’re going to mix those two together.”
According to the report, The Old Republic’s product manager stopped Olhen from giving any further specific details. However, he did say, ”We want to make sure the endgame isn’t completely different to what you have been doing. So there will be a natural progression… We want to make sure that when people play ToR they feel like they never run out of content… that it’s an epic story.”
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s end-game content will mix the traditional MMO system with “something brand new,” BioWare has revealed.
So-called ’end-game’ content is what incentivises players to continue playing once they’ve hit the maximum level.
The Old Republic’s creative director James Olhen told PC Gamer (via CVG), “We’re looking at classic [endgame] systems, but we’re also doing something brand new that hasn’t been done in an MMO before. So we’re going to mix those two together.”
According to the report, The Old Republic’s product manager stopped Olhen from giving any further specific details. However, he did say, ”We want to make sure the endgame isn’t completely different to what you have been doing. So there will be a natural progression… We want to make sure that when people play ToR they feel like they never run out of content… that it’s an epic story.”
As hinted by MTV Games’ Senior VP Paul DeGooyer earlier in the year, Rock Band 3 is real. And it’s coming this holiday, Harmonix has announced. And, it’s going to “innovate and revolutionize the music genre once again,” the studio’s Facebook presence promises, “just as Harmonix did with the original Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band.”
Any actual details are lacking and promised later on however; the only thing known for the time being is that EA will be handling the publishing duties once more.
In what’s certainly a unique approach to announcing downloadable content, Infinity Ward has revealed that the first new multiplayer maps for Modern Warfare 2 will arrive later this month, on March 30.
“Mapathy (n.) [map-uh-thee] (often expressed as, “How the hell did you know I was there?!) is a state of indifference to the game old maps one has been playing for the last several months,” a website set up for the announcement reads. “The Mapathetic individual no longer derives pleasure from blowing up people hiding in the cockpit or on top of the crane. More than 20 million people may be at risk for Mapathy.”
“The cure is coming to Xbox Live March 30, 2010.”
As clarified by Microsoft back in January, the content is exclusive to the Xbox 360 for 30 days.
March 18 will mark the release of the first downloadable content for Aliens vs Predator, Sega has announced.
Consisting of four multiplayer/survivor maps — Docks, Machine, Outpost, Hive — previously only available to those who picked up the one of the game’s Special Editions, the Swarm Map Pack will arrive on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and Steam with price tags of $6.99/€5.99/£4.79/560 Microsoft Points.
See below for the official word on each of the maps.
Two new multiplayer maps are for six different modes (Deathmatch, Predator Hunt, Infestation, Species Deathmatch, Mixed Species Deathmatch and Domination) :
Two new Survivor maps in which up to four Marines battle to stay alive against increasing swarms of Aliens:
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