If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Gears of War fans should be sprinting to their Xbox, MS points in hand, because a new batch of DLC has been released for the game. Raam’s Shadow is, in fact, the biggest add-on ever to be released in [...]
Bethesda has announced that the fourth add-on pack for Fallout: New Vegas will be available next month, followed shortly by two additional pieces of downloadable content. Lonesome Road involves a courier mission that leads you into the depths of the hurricane-swept and earthquake-marked canyons of the Divide, from whence no one ever returns. But you’ll [...]
Activision has announced its next zombie-themed content pack for the massive selling shooter Black Ops. Rezurrection will launch exclusively on Xbox Live come August 23rd, taking players to the moon for their fix of zombie splattering action. Expect low-gravity shenanigans aplenty, and bloodthirsty undead astronauts who need to be taken down with a range of [...]
EA has announced that a new downloadable add-on module will be made available for Dragon Age II on July 26th. This is a whole new slab of story, and apparently Bioware has made an effort to ensure it has a different feel to the standard game, not just slapping some textures and a few new [...]
Bethesda has revealed that three add-on packs for Fallout: New Vegas are due to be released one after the other in the next three months. The downloadable content packs are known as Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road, and all will be released simultaneously on Xbox, PS3 and PC. Though the first pack, [...]
If you’ve not encountered Enslaved yet, it’s a polished modern video game retelling of the classic tale of Monkey. Yes, the outlandish TV series with the mad Monkey and his cloud (which in itself was based on a classic Chinese novel). One of the best characters was Pigsy, a lecherous fool who was always getting [...]
The first expansion DLC is now available for Fable III on the Xbox Live Marketplace, costing 400MS points. The expansion introduces a mysterious new town called Understone, a place which is hidden away underneath the streets of Bowerstone. It features a main quest which links up with Fable II and Montague Hummes, with the task [...]
A new episode of downloadable content is out for Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, on both PC and Mac (well the sequel on the latter, as the original still isn’t ready), and also the Xbox 360 (later this evening). The Sacrifice DLC is the prequel to The Passing, and takes place from [...]
The undead are everywhere. Not in real life, of course – not yet anyway – but they’re crawling into every nook and cranny of fiction, film and gaming these days. Even in the wild west, they had zombies, or they will have soon when Rockstar releases the Undead Nightmare downloadable content pack for its Red [...]
2K Games has announced the release of Protector Trials, a downloadable add-on for its sci-fi shooter hit Bioshock 2. It’s a single player focused episode which casts the player as Big Daddy (not the wrestler) defending Little Sister (not the Queens of the Stone Age song) against swarms of genetically modified Splicers (not Dolly the [...]
EA has announced that it will mark the run up to the launch of space sci-fi epic Dead Space 2 by releasing a downloadable prequel. Dead Space Ignition will be available to download in the autumn on Xbox Live and PSN, ahead of Dead Space 2′s launch in January 2011. Ignition is described as a [...]
Have you been Bioshocked lately? It’s a bit like being Tango’ed, but much greener, and more likely to kill you. At any rate, hardcore players of the shooter will doubtless be delighted to hear that 2K Games has rolled out a second instalment of DLC (downloadable content) for Bioshock 2. The Rapture Metro Pack enhances [...]
EA and BioWare’s deep and visually impressive RPG is all set for a new downloadable content pack: Darkspawn Chronicles. As the name suggests, it gives you the chance to become the darkspawn, and fight for the side of evil against the Grey Wardens. Cue nefarious laugh, rubbing of hands, and stroking of white cats if [...]
Tomorrow, Valve will release the first add-on for its zombie massacring sequel, Left 4 Dead 2. Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing brings a whole slew of new brain-blasting content to the popular survival-horror franchise on the Xbox 360 and PC. It features the cast from L4D2, who head down south to rural Georgia, where [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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