Electronic Arts and Sony have teamed up to bring Mass Effect 2 to the PlayStation Store January 18th. This upcoming Tuesday, look for the game to appear in the PlayStation Store’s weekly update. You may want to clear some room on the hard drive, as the game if going to be a sizable download of over 10GB if it’s any indication of the size of the current releases.
Half the country may be frozen under a blizzard, but that doesn’t stop new Xbox Live releases from…also being frozen.
The biggest news this week comes from the Games on Demand section, where Super Street Fighter IV and Need for Speed SHIFT are both available this week for those who are snowed in at their homes, or simply don’t feel like driving to the store. The shoot-em-up Zeit 2 is the sole
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, has said that Microsoft might roll out PC support for Kinect at “the right time.”
A Microsoft spokesperson that spoke with CVG said differently, “It’s easy to imagine the many ways Kinect could be used for different applications and Microsoft is uniquely positioned to offer that. Right now our focus with Kinect is transforming games and entertainment on Xbox 360.”
Although 2011 has yet to offer PC gamers a really great weekend sale, there are still a few nice little price breaks going around the net this weekend. ImpulseDriven.com has their usual Weekend Impulse Buys. This week’s selection is 50-70% off for Dawn of War Collection ($24.99),Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box ($14.99), Armada 2526 ($14.99), Star Ruler ($14.99) and big discounts on Star Wolves 3- Civil War ($8.99) and Avencast Rise of the Mage ($5.09) Impulse driven also has a sale on everything in the Need For Speed franchise. You can get any of them for half off.
Bioware and Electronic Arts have been tantalizing gamers with vague offers of special bonuses if players pre-order Dragon Age II. First was a new quest and companion if you ordered by January 11. But, if you missed that cut off date, you can still get some free stuff if you order the game between now and its release date of March 8th.
Another week brings with it another PSN update. Although, there is surprisingly little to get excited about with only two PS3 store releases (DC Universe Online and Venetica) and just one new game on PSN (Faery: Tales of Avalon).
Starcraft II is improved yet again with the latest patch from Blizzard. Protoss players will be quite happy with Starcraft II Version 1.2, as many of the Protoss balancing has been changed in their favor. Specifically, the Observer costs less, and the build times for Phoenixes and Hallucinations are shorter. Protoss aren’t the only ones to miss out, though, as Blizzard has finally included player created chat channels, bringing Starcraft II in line with it’s 1998 predecessor. Besides that, there are the standard bug fixes of course, but there are also two new leagues; the Master and Grand Master League. The Master league has the top players from every region, while the Grand Master league has the top 200 players in the world. Kudos to you if you can make it in there. Here’s the exact list of changes if that’s your thing:
