Guerrilla
Games has already announced a second map pack for the newly-released
hit Killzone 3. This new DLC dubbed “Steel Rain” will
feature two new maps, Junkyard and Stahl Arms, which have been
converted and rebuilt from the game’s campaign. Junkyard will of
course be crafted from the “Scrapyard Shortcut” chapter and will
be catered to the Guerrilla Warfare game style—supporting 16
players.
There hasn’t been a game this immature since Conker’s Bad Fur Day on the Nintendo 64. Bulletstorm is a balls to the wall first-person shooter that’s a mixture of Duke Nukem 3D and Gears of War.
It doesn’t shoot for a story that you’re going to golf clap afterwards,
and it doesn’t try to revolutionize the genre. What it does bring to
the shooter genre is something the genre long forgot this generation:
how to just have fun.
Most of us single guys out there (and
maybe even some of us with significant others) saw only one significance with
February 14th this year: Pitchers and Catchers are officially
reported. And with the crack of the bat and the smell of fresh cut grass soon to
be once again bombarding our senses, we know that baseball season is right
around the corner.
Something else that’s right around the
corner that also comes as a harbinger of the upcoming glorious baseball season
is Sony adding another chapter to their premiere baseball series MLB The Show.
Most of the digital distributors announced their weekend sales yesterday, but a few new ones have popped up today. Let’s take a look. Gog.com has what they call “Assorted Classics” on sale. This is six games with no real theme and they include both Postal games, two installments of Stronghold, Arx Fatalis and The Incredible Machine Mega Pack. They’re all 40% off which puts them between $3.59 and $5.99 each.
Remember back when Dead Space 2 launched, there were three downloadable weapon packs that you could buy, right on launch day? Well it should come as a surprise to nobody that the “DLC” was actually already on your game disk, and if you bought them, you were essentially paying to get an an unlock code for something you already owned. Some intrepid hackers discovered proof of this and, surprisingly, Electronic Arts is being very cool about it!
With Dragon Age 2 just around the corner, it’s important to review what we know about its predecessor, Dragon Age: Origins, itself a critically-acclaimed dark fantasy epic that followed the growth of the player’s character to save the land of Ferelden from an impending evil that threatened to overwhelm all life. Since its release, Dragon Age has seen a succession of downloadable content that added side-plots to the existing quest, as well as a full-fledged expansion that takes place after the invading darkspawn army had been broken and scattered. While it uses darkspawn as a generic evil force that has yet to be fully explained or described, the races that inhabit Ferelden and the surrounding lands have unique and lush lore that is often different from the more common tropes surrounding fantasy settings.
Normally, we don’t mention Console games on these weekly sales features, but today Amazon is doing a right fine deal on the special editions of Halo Reach. If you still haven’t grabbed Halo Reach yet, or were holding off on the special editions for just such a sale, head over to Amazon to grab the Limited Edition of the game for forty dollars, or the Legendary Edition for sixty. In terms of PC games, let’s take a look at our usual suspects.
