Free DLC is always such a great good will gesture on behalf of developers towards their legions of fans, and it often helps push gamers into eventually buying the inevitable paid DLC.
Such is the case with Max Payne 3, as Rockstar has released the “Gorilla Warfare Pack” on PSN, and XBL for free. The pack contains 3 multiplayer items:
Gorilla Mask: Gives you a boost of extra adrenaline for melee kills from behind.
Lucky Coin: Gives you extra cash when looting bodies.
Booby Trap: Makes your corpse explode if another player tries to loot it.
The Gorilla Warfare pack is available now, for the Ps3, Xbox 360, and will be made available upon arrival of Max Payne’s PC release on May 29th
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The Call Of Duty franchise has long been accused of being stale, and trying nothing new with each annual release. But imagine if the series put you in the shoes of police, or robbers during bank heists, and other crime fighting situations.
This fan made faux Call Of Duty game pitch is extremely exciting, it looks like the gun toting offspring of Modern Warfare 3, and the exceptional PAYDAY: The Heist.
So let’s all hope Activision’s as excited about this pitch as a lot of us are, and this criminally clever concept could become a reality.
Saints Row The Third has long prided itself on being completely over the top stupid fun. Expansive DLC is in many cases the more ‘exciting’ or marketable aspect of a title being built upon. But what happens when you’re trying to out-do a game as fucked up as Saints Row The Third? Enter Genki Bowl VII:
“Sail through the skies with Sad Panda Skyblazing. Fight through dark, shark-infested jungles in Angry Tiger’s Apocalypse Genki. And crush your way to victory in Sexy Kitten Yarngasm. But don’t forget to help Professor Genki maintain his excitement before any public appearances in Super Ethical PR Opportunity.”
I have no clue what the hell is going on in either the video above, or even the description I just quoted. All I know is I want it. And we wont have to wait long either, Genkibowl VII will be available Tuesday January 27th for $7 (or 560 MS Points) on the Ps3, and Xbox 360.
A Sledge Hammer & Heavy Metal, Now That’s A Drinking Game
On December 6th 2011, Insomniac Games, released the Brutality Pack for Resistance 3. I love Resistance 3, the campaign was awesome but too short. The multiplayer is fun, but is definitely lacking in online players. When I saw this DLC I thought, “What A nice rip off of Horde Mode from Gears Of War, or Firefight from Halo ODST.” But for $3.99 I just couldn’t resist.
After installing the DLC and booting it up you will surely see this is a poor version of other Horde modes. Games like Gears Of War and Halo have both done this before and much better. The Brutality Pack pits you and a partner against waves of creatures from Resistance 3. While first playing with my friend we both looked at each other and said “What The Fuck Is This Crap?” and laughed. Then a couple of beers later we had an idea. An awful idea. We had a wonderful awful idea, Resistance 3 Brutality Pack Drinking Games. Continue Reading To Find Out More……..
Team Meat’s bloody platform RPG ever “Super Meat Boy” has sold more than 1 Million copies since launching on October 2010. Throw back platform games are boring, but not when they are bloody as hell.
Via Twitter today, Team Meat, had this to say “Fun Fact: Super Meat Boy passed the million sales mark last month! PLATINUM BABY.”
New Playlists: Drop Zone, Hardcore HQ Riccohet, Hardcore Riccohet
Modern Warefare 3 has released new playlists that have gone live. These playlists add new game modes and additonal modes to old playlists. Below is the offical playlists straight from the MW3 forums.
The biggest change you’lll notice is the addition of Community Playlists, this is where they’ll add popular or unique private match modes to the public playlists, so you can start ranking up on them!
Continue reading for the first playlist changes for Modern Warfare 3′s multiplayer
So Tuesday December 13 Epic released the largest Gears Of War DLC ever, “RAAM’s Shadow.” The DLC offers over 3 hours of new gameplay for a cost of 1,200 Microsoft points. Raam’s Shadow includes missions for both the Cogs and the Locust and that’s not all. Raam’s Shadow takes place post Emergence Day Sera and casts you as, Zeta Squad, a new team of Gears soldiers. The backdrop is to safeguard the citizens as you evacuate the city, while being attacked by a Locust Kryll storm. And taking on General RAAM himself, from the first Gears Of War.
Keep reading to find out more details on RAAMS Shadow and find out why this is a must purchase
Back at E3 EA announced that Ps3 copies of Battlefield 3 would be shipping with a copy of the downloadable title Battlefield 1943. Without warning Battlefield 3 shipped recently without Battlefield 1943. “The fuck?!” the world asked, EA shrewdly responded via its Twitter account “u get map pakz a week early, no 1943 for u” (may have been worded slightly differently)
So what happens? unfiltered furious gamer outrage! Which is refreshing because usually gamers are pissing themselves off over nothing, so it’s healthy to occasionally have something legitimate to raise a shit storm over.
And as you’d expect anger led to a lawsuit, and now EA is chocking the whole ordeal up as a ‘misunderstanding’:
“there have been some misunderstandings around Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield 3, to address this we are making Battlefield 1943 available free of charge to owners of Battlefield 3 on the PS3 beginning this month”
How sweepingly generous of them to keep their original promise, luckily they’re helping us all through our silly little misunderstanding by giving us a free game totally out of nowhere….pricks.
Keep reading to find out how to get your free copy of Battlefield 1943
These days games aren’t happy just being enjoyable experiences, they also want to be ‘art’ as well. I’m not opposed to this, I love certain artistic games like Heavy Rain. But sometimes it appears as if a title is attempting to make itself out to be a new artistic kind of game, when it would be more appropriate as a shitty artistic video, this is the case with ‘The Graveyard’
In ‘The Graveyard’ you control an old lady, walking her down a Graveyard, until you get to a bench, where she sits, and dies, that is the game. It attempts to be thought provoking, and sad by showing a young man for instance packing up what’s presumably the old lady’s room, but it misses the mark. Honestly the concept isn’t totally terrible, and the graveyard visuals are definitely unique and had it been simply a free short video trying to make a fast sad statement it would of been more respectable, but no this is a game that gains absolutely no significance or worth through being a game.
“a pretentious, ineffective waste of the interactive medium” -Destructoid
Well sure if you want to dumb down my past 2 paragraph into a coherent properly articulated sentence fine.
Watch the video above to see the the old lady die (video shows the whole game, which wont take too much of your time) or download the trial version (in which the old lady can’t die) but if you’re completely set on seeing the old lady die in the palms of your hands (totally understandable) you can buy the full version here.
Resistance 3 is being patched to version 1.05 today, and with it comes 2 free maps: ‘The Creek’ a 16 player map, and ‘The Granery’ a 4 player map. That’s not the only thing being patched though, here’s a couple key highlights for ya:
- Several performance updates to fix network lag
- Improved team balancing
- All equipment and abilities are now purchasable at level 60
- Leaper Corpse will now spawn fewer leapers
- Improved the Move’s aim mechanic
As I mentioned in my Resistance 3 Sharp Shooter review, the Move support now works quite well (after finally being patched from a near broken state) but it’s aesthetically sorta sloppy, that could be what’s being addressed.
Free DLC is always such a great good will gesture on behalf of developers towards their legions of fans, and it often helps push gamers into eventually buying the inevitable paid DLC.
