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Talking Point Do DLC Deals Influence Your Purchasing Habits?
Early access and bonus maps
With third-party exclusives slipstreaming the saola on the rotten road to extinction, platform holders are putting a much greater emphasis on exclusive DLC deals. Typically, these arrangements ensure that content remains restricted to a particular system for a set period of time (sometimes indefinitely), with financial...
News Yakuza's Kazuma Kiryu Is Teeing Off in Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational
Gangster's paradise
Kazuma Kiryu’s proficiency with the martial arts may have made him a better fit for mascot mash-up PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – but the Yakuza protagonist is no stranger to the golf course either. As such, we suppose it makes perfect sense for the former Tojo Clan chairman to join the roster of Hot Shots Golf: World...
News The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC Done, Bethesda Switching to 'Next Adventure'
Fus ro dah
With hundreds of hours already on offer, Bethesda has ruled out the possibility of any further The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim content. Writing on its official blog, the company revealed that it's leaving behind the snowy peaks of Hrothgar in favour of its (hopefully warmer) next big adventure. "Skyrim has been a labour of love for us since...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's 'Uprising' DLC Adds Volcanoes, Hollywood Stars
Staging a rock concert, too
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is set to host a global uprising later this year, with the first-person shooter’s second major expansion pack. The add-on – dubbed Uprising, in case you missed it – features four new maps and a fresh “zombie adventure”. Treyarch is describing the package as the most “fan-centric” it...
News Borderlands 2 Plundering Your Bank Account with Psychotic Character Class
Born to be wild
Borderlands 2 is expanding once again in May, courtesy of Krieg, the sixth vault hunter to pillage Pandora in pursuit of loot. Originally teased at SXSW earlier in the year, the character class was officially unveiled during a PAX East panel yesterday. The post-release protagonist will set you back $9.99, and won’t be available as...
News BioShock Infinite Looks Way Better in Burlap
Sackboy flexes his cross-marketing muscle
In order to celebrate the impending release of BioShock Infinite, platform holder Sony is launching a custom collection of LittleBigPlanet costumes based on the characters from the game. Outfits include heroine Elizabeth, protagonist Booker DeWitt, and weird mechanical flying thing, Songbird. The add-on will...
News Don't Expect to Raid Any More Tombs in Tomb Raider
Developer focusing on multiplayer DLC
Those of you hoping for more single-player DLC in Crystal Dynamics’ excellent Tomb Raider reboot may be disappointed to learn that the studio is focusing all of its attention on multiplayer add-ons from now on. Speaking on Reddit overnight, global brand director Karl Stewart confirmed that the developer has...
News PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Patch Prepares for DLC
Update 1.10 rolls out the red carpet for Zeus and Isaac Clarke
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale’s latest patch has passed the weigh-in and is fit to fight. If you boot up either the PlayStation 3 or Vita version of the mascot mash-up right now, you’ll be prompted to download the meaty update ahead of the title’s impending DLC deployment. As...
News Feast Your Eagle Eyes on This Assassin's Creed III DLC Trailer
Second episode available next week
The next instalment in Assassin’s Creed III’s alternate history ‘Tyranny of King Washington’ DLC will allow you to transform into an eagle. Much like the previous add-on's invisibility cloak, the next chapter will give you the option you to select surfaces and fly towards them without being spotted. Someone...
News Dishonored's 'The Knife of Dunwall' DLC Draws Blood in April
New content unsheathed for stealth title
Bethesda’s brilliant stealth sandbox Dishonored will make a comeback in April, as the title explores the narrative of antagonist assassin Daud in a new expansion named ‘The Knife of Dunwall’. The add-on – which is apparently the first of two story-based expansions – will launch on 16th April in...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Expanding Its Arsenal with Microtransactions
Pork packs
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 may have managed to stave off the dreaded online pass – but the lure of microtransactions has proved too much for the title to resist. Activision has confirmed that the first-person shooter will be upgraded with a slew of small items in the coming weeks, which will allow you to further customise your game. For...
News Sound Shapes DLC Honks Its Horn to the Beat
Baby, you can drive our car
Sound Shapes is aiming to pump up the volume this week with a couple of downloadable expansion packs. The first – memorably dubbed the Car Mini-Album and Creator Pack – will augment the rhythmic platformer with a couple of pimped out rides, in addition to a number of new campaign levels, a full sound pack, a slew of...
News Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Wins the Award for Most Overdue DLC Ever
Online multiplayer add-on out this week
The oft-delayed expansion for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will finally fight its way onto the PlayStation Store this week. The add-on pack – which was announced all the way back in August – will incorporate online multiplayer and a new playable character named Wallace Wells into the digital download. The...
First Impressions Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC Is One Party That You Shouldn't Skip
Cheery bye
Commander Shepard has walked a long and dangerous road – and with Mass Effect 3’s final DLC offering, Citadel, that road comes to a heartfelt and engaging end. What starts off as an opportunity to unwind and relax at the galaxy’s centre of operations takes us on a rather wild ride absolutely packed with cameos and in-jokes. The...
News Dead Space 3 Pulls Horror Out of Hiding with Awakened DLC
The scares are no longer in stasis
Visceral Games will deploy Dead Space 3’s darkest chapter yet next week, when its ‘Awakened’ DLC pack spooks the PlayStation Store from 12th March. The expansion – which will set you back $9.99 – promises to depict the events after the conclusion of the main campaign, and is said to feature some of the...
News It's Party Time with Mass Effect 3's Citadel DLC
Friends for life
BioWare has unsurprisingly released the trailer for Mass Effect 3: Citadel, the trilogy’s final slice of DLC. It’s looking to be the biggest add-on that the series has ever received, and the trailer is suitably packed full of teasers. It would seem that BioWare weren’t exaggerating when they said that protagonist Commander...
News Skyrim Version 1.9 Enters Beta, Venturing to PS3 This Month
Keep on slayin’
You have to give Bethesda credit for continuing to support The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for more than a year – and it seems like they have no intention of stopping just yet. The company has announced a brand new update for the open world epic, and it adds a couple of surprising new features. Firstly, a new ‘Legendary’...
News PlayStation All-Stars DLC Free with God of War: Ascension
Crossover game prompts crossover marketing
Super popular PlayStation characters, er, Zeus and Isaac Clarke are set to enter the ring later this month – and you’ll be able to scoop both of them up for free if you purchase the upcoming God of War: Ascension. Writing on the
First Impressions Taking Sides with Skyrim’s Dawnguard DLC
Bloody good
Consider Dawnguard’s arrival on PlayStation 3 a late Hallowe’en present from Bethesda. The latest The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim expansion is full of vampires, creepy rituals, spooky old castles, and a lot of violence. There’s also a lot of epic questing thrown in for good measure, too. Just like Dragonborn, there’s an awful lot...
News PlayStation All-Stars DLC To Bring Isaac Clarke, Zeus and an Unfinished Swan-Inspired Stage
Colour us interested
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has had some trials and tribulations since launch, with early price cuts reflecting low sales and Sony dropping developer SuperBot entertainment. We loved it in our review, but time will tell whether a sequel ever sees the light of day. On the plus side, the fun isn't over for
News Sony Forfeiting Free Post Release Soul Sacrifice DLC
David and Goliath
Soul Sacrifice will be augmented with a round of extra content following its launch in Japan next month. Siliconera reports that the Monster Hunter-esque demon slaying game will be augmented with ten bonus boss battles in the weeks following release, all of which will be available to download for free from the PlayStation Store...
News Leaked Dishonored DLC Explores the Other Side of the Coin
There are two sides to every story
Dishonored will get a second helping of post-release content named ‘The Other Side of the Coin’ shortly, if a new batch of leaked Trophies are to be believed. The digital trinkets – which popped up on PS3Trophies.org earlier today – point to the addition of new story content, evidenced by the reward...
News BioWare Blasts Final Mass Effect 3 DLC Details into Orbit
The final frontier
Believe it or not, we’re close to the one year anniversary of Mass Effect 3. It’s been a long rollercoaster ride, but all things must come to pass – and with that, BioWare has revealed the final DLC packs for the space shooter's single player and multiplayer offerings. The multiplayer DLC, named Reckoning, hits next week...
First Impressions Make a House a Home with Skyrim's Hearthfire DLC
Sitting beside the furnace
Hearthfire isn’t quite what you’d expect from a piece of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC. This doesn't offer an epic journey into the heart of an unknown land – it’s about expanding your experience through lovey-dovey stuff like making you and your spouse a new residence from scratch, or adopting children. In...
First Impressions Exploring The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC
Back to the brink
After more than a year without DLC, the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim finally gets some love from Bethesda. In this case, the latest Skyrim DLC to release on other platforms is the first on PS3 – and it’s arguably the best of the bunch. In an attempt to make up for the delay, Bethesda and Sony saw fit to...
News God of War: Ascension Allies with the History Channel
Thor for your money
Just in case you needed any more convincing about the commercial clout of God of War: Ascension, Sony has announced that it is teaming up with the History channel to bring an exclusive new weapon to the ancient adventure based on the upcoming TV show, Vikings. That’s right, for the first time ever, Greek and Norse mythologies...
News Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Starts a Revolution on 28th February
Something about being televised
Those of you with tickly trigger fingers will finally be able to sate your Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 cravings on 28th February, when the first-person shooter’s hotly anticipated ‘Revolution’ add-on unloads on the PlayStation Network. The content – already available on the Xbox 360 – will cost you $14.99, or...
News This Is What Happens When Vikings Relax
Hairy holiday
Vikings don’t head to the seaside and sip on piña coladas when they want to relax. Instead, they do much the same as they would on a normal day – attack each other. The twist is that they embark on this antagonistic pastime in brand new locations, such as on golf courses, cruise ships, and, er, giant chess boards. Of course,...
News Dead Space 3 Resource Farming Glitch Won't Be Patched
Dry paint
Dead Space 3 allows you to spend real money to upgrade your weapons – but you don’t necessarily need to engage in the shady practice to unlock the ultimate Plasma Cutter. An exploit discovered by the fine folks at GameFront allows you to farm as many resources as you like – and it’s unlikely to get patched, according to publisher...
News Aliens: Colonial Marines Goes on a Bug Hunt in March
Squelch
Aliens: Colonial Marines will allow you to relive your youth next month. However, this time you won’t be burning ants with a magnifying glass – you’ll be pumping giant insects full of lead. SEGA has revealed that the first of Gearbox’s imminent extraterrestrial eviscerator’s expansion packs, ‘Bug Hunt’, will deploy in March,...
News Assassin's Creed III Ends King Washington's Reign in April
Maniacal monarch
King Washington’s tyrannically reign will come to a climatic conclusion in time for summer, publisher Ubisoft has confirmed. The final episode in the tantalising trilogy of Assassin’s Creed III add-on packs will arrive on 23rd April, with the second entry launching on 19th March. As previously confirmed, the debut pack will...
News Dead Space 3 Awakens with Post-Release DLC
One eye open
Dead Space 3 has barely had time to spook the store shelves it's sitting on, but that’s not stopped publisher EA Games from announcing that there’s more content lurking on the horizon. Following on from last week’s tease, the company has confirmed that the ‘Awakened’ DLC pack will haunt the PlayStation Store next month...
News Konami Augmenting Metal Gear Rising with Exclusive DLC
Virtual reality
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance may be steering Konami’s classic stealth series in a more action oriented direction, but it refuses to overlook the mainstays from the legendary franchise. As such, the publisher has confirmed that, like its predecessors, the title will boast a slew of VR missions – and many of these will be...
News Zen Pinball 2 Finds the Force, Loses It Again
Into the garbage chute
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, developer Zen Studios revealed that it was working on a new batch of Star Wars themed tables for its free PlayStation 3 and Vita application Zen Pinball 2 – but the announcement was yanked faster than the Millennium Falcon in hyperspace. Still, there’s nothing stopping us from...
News The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Expands from 12th February
Fashionably late
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s long-overdue DLC will finally stumble onto the PlayStation 3 in North America this month. The first pack, Dragonborn, will arrive on 12th February, and will be followed by Hearthfire on 19th February and Dawnguard on 26th February. There’s no word on a European release just yet, but publisher...
News Killzone: Mercenary Pre-orders Unlock Blackjack's Briefcase
Elite enhancements
If you’re eager to earn an early advantage on the battlefield, then you might want to consider pre-ordering your copy of Killzone: Mercenary. Online retailer Amazon.com has revealed that by registering your interest in the upcoming first-person shooter, you'll unlock Blackjack’s Briefcase, which boasts some beefy bonuses...
News Sleeping Dogs Celebrates in Style with Year of the Snake DLC
Slithering in soon
Sleeping Dogs won’t be taking a nap prior to the impending Chinese New Year celebrations, because it’s got a brand new slice of post-release content in the pipeline. The festive ‘Year of the Snake’ add-on – as spotted by our partners in crime, Eurogamer.net – promises a wealth of cosmetic tweaks, many of which are...
News Additional Content Disturbing Dead Space 3 Soon
Hold onto your disc
It looks like Dead Space 3’s jump scares will not conclude once you reach the solace of the title’s credits, because developer Visceral Games is currently working on a slice of post-release content for the survival horror shooter. Steve Papoutsis, the game’s producer, revealed the news in an official EA blog post. “The...
News Assassin's Creed III Crowns King Washington Next Month
Behold the Lord High Executioner
Assassin’s Creed III’s intriguing alternate history add-on pack The Tyranny of King Washington will receive its first instalment on 19th February in North America and 20th February in Europe, publisher Ubisoft has announced. The debut episode – dubbed ‘The Infamy’ – will depict the events directly after...
Talking Point What's the Big Deal with Microtransactions?
Spend a penny
Dead Space 3 will allow you to enhance your arsenal in a more efficient manner by spending real money. As reported earlier today, if you lack the sufficient salvage for a specific upgrade, the game will direct you to the PlayStation Store where you’ll be able to purchase more for an undisclosed fee. Apparently, there will be a range...
News DmC: Devil May Cry Grows Its Hair Back from 29th January
Keep your wig on
Those of you furious with Dante’s taste in fashion will be able to augment your copy of DmC: Devil May Cry with some classic threads next week. Capcom has announced that the demon slayer’s previously revealed costume pack will terrorise the PlayStation Store from 29th January in North America and 30th January in E
News Dead Space 3 Will Let You Buy Better Weapons with Real Money
Nickel and dime
No one can hear you scream in space – unless you’ve got a big enough bank balance, of course. Reporting from a recent hands-on session, Eurogamer.net has revealed that Dead Space 3 will allow you to upgrade your weapons via voluntary microtransactions. You'll be given the option to pay your way out of trouble when you don't have...
News No Prizes for Guessing What DmC's First Expansion Features
In a lather
It was inevitable, wasn’t it? Capcom has revealed DmC: Devil May Cry’s first costume pack on its Japanese website, and it includes a skin that brings back protagonist Dante’s less controversial looks. For the grand sum of ¥400, you’ll be able to reunite the potty-mouthed hero with his signature red jacket and silky silver locks...
News The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim DLC Travels to PS3 in February
Sound the trumpets
It’s been a long, laborious journey, but The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s DLC will finally arrive on PlayStation 3 in February. Bethesda confirmed the glad tidings in a PlayStation Blog post, noting that Dragonborn, Hearthfire, and Dawnguard will all launch within the window, and will be accompanied by a 50 per cent discount to...
News Kat and Emmett Pick a Fight with PlayStation All-Stars Next Month
New challengers
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale’s latest combatants will enter the ring on 12th February in North America and 13th February in Europe, developer SuperBot Entertainment has announced. As previously revealed, both Kat and Emmett Graves will be available for free for a limited period of two weeks, after which th
News Max Payne 3 Swallows Its Final Dose of DLC Next Week
Deathmatch made in heaven
The final jolt of Max Payne 3 content will be injected into the North American PlayStation Network next week, publisher Rockstar Games has announced. European players will need to go cold turkey until 30th January, when the expansion is due to arrive overseas. It will set you back £7.99/$9.99, or will be free if you own a...
News Your Bikinis Will Be Compatible with Dead or Alive 5 Plus
Fill your boots
If you’ve already acquired a healthy wardrobe of skimpy Dead or Alive 5 costumes, then you may be delighted to learn that they’ll all be compatible with the fighter’s upcoming PlayStation Vita port, Dead or Alive 5 Plus. That brand new first-person mode may have a purpose after all. In addition, according to
News Zombies Infiltrate Nuketown in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
They're looking for brains
All of that radiation has clearly played havoc with the once neighbourly population of Nuketown. Activision has announced that from 17th January, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 season pass holders will be able to embark in a spot of undead shenanigans on the popular map. If you’re planning on joining the fun, we seriously...
News Test Drive the 2014 Corvette Stingray in Gran Turismo 5
Free content coming tomorrow
Gran Turismo 5 players will be amongst the first to get behind the wheel of the newly announced 2014 Corvette Stingray this week, when the vehicle is added to the simulation racer for free. Just one day after its debut at the North American International Auto Show, the luxury supercar will be added to the PlayStation...
News The Tide Is High in Exclusive Far Cry 3 DLC Next Week
Is it going to be your number one?
As promised, the PlayStation 3 exclusive ‘High Tides’ add-on for Far Cry 3 will wash up on the PlayStation Network next week. The expansion will add two new chapters to the tropical shooter, which conclude the narrative of the title’s enjoyable co-op campaign. It’s been produced by multiplayer focused...
