Infinity Ward has finally put out official word on the incoming DLC pack for Modern Warfare 2, entitled the "Stimulus Package." The pack will launch worldwide on March 30 for Xbox Live. It will later be coming to PC and PSN down the line of course.
There's no word on what maps will be included in the package, but rumors suggest it will include five maps, which may include some familiar locales.
Ready for OnLive? After their GDC Keynote, OnLive has been officially announced to release on June 17, 2010, and that the first 25,000 registered users will get their first 3 months of OnLive, normally $14.99 per month, free.
So what are you waiting for? Sign up!
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In case you haven't noticed by now, I've been trying to figure out just what InstantAction has secretly been working on these past few months for a while now. Thankfully they've started to reveal what they have in store for the future of InstantAction.com, and it's quite big. But first, a quick recap to bring everyone up to speed:
InstantAction is a website created by GarageGames that features games playable within the browser. However, instead of being merely yet another Flash-based gaming site with countless Asteroids clones, the games on InstantAction boast the one thing most browser games lack: great graphics. Take a look at Fallen Empire: Legions to see what I mean.
In July of 2009, Louis Castle, of Command and Conquer fame, hopped on board as the new CEO of GarageGames and InstantAction. Shortly thereafter the company went silent, and the InstantAction studio was split in two. One in Portland, OR., the other in Las Vegas. All we were told is that whatever Castle was working on, it was big. If things go as planned, I believe they're right... (more...)
Well, technically not so much "new maps" as "now widely available" maps. The four bonus maps included with the special edition version of the game will be available for all as DLC March 18th. Price of entry is $7.
Regarding the maps themselves, two are designed for the games competitive multiplayer modes and two are designed for cooperative modes. The competitive maps are called "Docks" and "Machine". The cooperative maps are called "Outpost" and "Hive". The latter two take place in an overrun human colony and Alien breeding ground and are designed for human versus alien gameplay.
I haven't played the game yet, but the latter coop. maps sound right up my alley.
No wonder game review scores are broken. 100/100 isn't perfect. Thanks Metacritic!
Back in December, we had an editorial discussing InstantAction.com and Louis Castle's "secret project." Since then, things haven't changed one bit. The company has been completely silent on all fronts, save for a short video tour of their new office(which features arcade machines and pop-corn makers). Fortunately, it appears as though things might start to get interesting.
InstantAction recently sent out a newsletter informing subscribers that the site will be down for "longer than usual, at least for a couple of days." InstantAction will at times be taken down for scheduled maintenance, which usually only takes an hour or so, if that. If they're taking it down for days at a time, it's probably more than just 'maitenance.' The downtime is scheduled for March 10th, which is this Wednesday. The newsletter continues:
"So what's the big deal? Well, we've got some really exciting announcements coming up. With GDC this week and PAX at the end of the month you know it will probably be huge.
Be sure to keep your eyes on the InstantAction Blog and the InstantAction Forums. Big, exciting changes are coming and you, loyal Actionaut, are a part of it!"
A new InstantAction logo has also appeared, possibly suggesting a site-makeover. Could the silent treatment finally come to an end at GDC? We can only hope...
Update: The downtime has been rescheduled to today, 4:00pm PST.
Just released from Klei Entertainment is a brand, spankin' new video of Shank, featuring all gameplay footage. Check it out and enjoy!
Title says it all. For a limited time you can get your mits on Mass Effect 2 at Amazon for a good thirty to fourty percent off depending on which platform you go for. You can get the Xbox 360 version for $39.99 (over $59.99 retail) or the PC version for $29.99 (over $49.99 retail).
No word how long the deal lasts so don't hesitate if you are interested. Its a pretty good game after all.
Ever wanted to be in a videogame? Visceral Games, developers of Dead Space and Dante's Inferno, is making it easy. Just kill Dead Space and Dead Space 2 protagonist Isaac Clarke and record it, either on video, on paper, or in text. Then sit back and watch the magic happen...or, more likely, look at other submissions and rework yours.
The contest, completely on Facebook (which means you'll need an account, on the off-chance you don't), is simple: upload your video/picture/text, and wait to see if you're a winner. All submissions are open to the public to see, and the ten best ideas go online to be voted on. Should you be the proud winner, you'll be featured in Dead Space 2.
Hopefully as some poor engineer who gets speared in the throat.
Ubisoft's draconian DRM, which requires legitimate PC gamers to have an internet connection at all times to play their games, has successfully displayed its ineptness by locking legitimate customers out of their games when the authentication servers went down over the weekend.
There is currently a twelve page long thread at the Ubisoft forums full of gamers detailing their inability to play their games. As a result, gamers who took their chance with the DRM have had a rough time being able to log in and play the games packaged with the DRM, Assassin's Creed II and Silent Hunter V. According to community managers from Ubisoft, the reason for the outage is a result of the over whelming demand the servers are currently facing. At this time it appears the servers are still experiencing issues.
In other news, piraters don't need to deal with this dilema because they already cracked the DRM measures the day after the games came out, rendering Ubisoft's whole point of shipping games with the DRM utterly pointless.
BNG Crew
