Ubisoft just announced a Far Cry 2 DLC pack - The Fortunes Pack - that will include the following "before the end of November":
Single-Player Mode
Three brand-new weapons:
Silenced shotgun
Sawed-off shotgun
Crossbow
Two new vehicles:
Unimog
Quad
Multiplayer Mode
Four...
Tabula Rasa (PC)Richard Garriott's action-oriented sci-fi MMO will become free-to-play in January and close down for good in February of 2009.
There's quite a thread going at the AVForums in which several 360 owners are saying that the New Xbox Experience has caused their Xbox 360 consoles to lose all sound. The problem seems to be isolated to those who use HDMI to connect the console to their television sets, although one user has com...
World of Warcraft players certainly don't mind that 7-Eleven has been dabbling in the field of selling videogames. Thanks to the apparent disregard for street dates, WoW players were able to secure early copies (albeit not early access) of Wrath of the Lich King. The retail chain has ann...
Besieged publisher threatened with stock exchange removal after failing to meet minimum $1 per share average for 30 consecutive trading days.
More machinima mayhem from Liberty City.
Rockstar's chucked us two more videos made entirely using the GTA IV PC video editor, entitled Burgatory and Comrades.Click here to read the full article
Valve has announced that their online software distribution platform, Steam, is now offering gamers the ability to pre-purchase Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC. When pre-purchased, gamers will also receive a free copy of GTA: Vice City.
Photojournalist Robbie Cooper — whom you may remember from his book Alter Ego: Avatars and their Creators, in which flesh and blood gamers were photographed and paired with their virtual world counterparts — has another fascinating, if brief, visual project focused on gamers. Dubbed "...
Being a nerd is fantastic.No, correction: being a nerd that works for Destructoid is fantastic.See that above picture? That’s Justine Joli. And if you haven’t noticed, SHE HAS HER TOP OFF! How did that happen, you ask? Well, last night a large group of DtoidLA peop...
If you've booted up your Xbox 360 in the last couple of days, you may have noticed a little something that has been waiting for you. After much hype and anticipation, the New Xbox Experience (NXE) is here. This is a significant update over the "Blades" style menu interface
Ubisoft has announced that it will be releasing a new DLC pack for Far Cry 2 before the end of the month. The pack has been dubbed "The Fortune's Pack," and will be available on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for $10. The new weapons include a silenced shotgun, the significantly less qu...
Let's clear this up - the creatures in Left 4 Dead are NOT after you brains. They aren't zombies, they are the infected. Valve Software though? They totally want to have a root around inside your gray cells. In piece written for Edge magazine, Valve's Gabe Newell spoke about how Left 4 Dead's AI ...
While Richard Garriott was floating around in the cosmos, his game, Tabula Rasa was struggling to stay afloat. Today, a little over a year after launching, NCSoft announced that Tabula Rasa will be shutting down in February 2009. This might explain Garriott’s recent departure from NCSoft or mayb...
Criterion’s unveiled yet more Burnout Paradise DLC on the US PS Blog, this time in the form of the Carson Extreme Hotrod, “a stripped down, ultra low, overpowered straight line monster.”
Apparently, this is “the first of a pack of two cars designed to re-imagine Burnout Boost. Which explains the...
Following the recent tradition of revealing new Burnout Paradise news every Friday, Criterion have announced their latest addition to the car roster - the Carson Extreme Hotrod.
Details are skant at present, since the car is due for release in 2009, but we do know a few things about it already. ...
More bad news for the games industry as Media Create reports hardware sales from the 10th to the 16th of November. Gaming platforms experience drops in sales from the previous week, with the usual exception of the Wii, which managed a slight climb in sales.Though it sold the most units last we...
It's a scary world for game companies, as the vast majority of titles simply won't be successful, according to research from EEDAR.
Research from Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has found that Wii games are discounted at a faster rate than Xbox 360 or PS3 titles because many perform below expectation and retailers want to clear out their inventory of the game. \"Over 7.5% of Xbox 360 and 9.09% PS3 third-...
Tabula Rasa (PC), the MMO designed by industry pioneer Richard Garriott, will shut down on February 28, 2009.
"Unfortunately, the fact is that the game hasn't performed as expected. The development team has worked hard to improve the game since launch, but the game never achieved the player popu...
Fallout 3 has been a title that skyrocketed in the charts all across the three platforms it released on; however, it has also left quite a good lot of people with radiation sickness from that jet-fueled success. See, the game is riddled with some not so friendly game-freezing glitches to go with...
This story first broke last Wednesday when a UK journalist wrote on his twitter account that Eidos British PR firm Barrington Harvey sought to prevent any review lower than 8.0/10 for Tomb Raider: Underworld (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PC, PS2) from getting published until three days aft...
The DSi continues to outsell all other gaming platforms in Japan, according to the latest weekly sales data.
We're hungry for more Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) and they know it. Instead of releasing gameplay vids and trailers here and there, Famitsu publisher Enterbrain decided to just capitalize on the demand and sell a magazine-and-DVD bundle of the stuff that everyone else release...
This week's Rock Band DLC brings the Killers track pack we reported on last Friday. Yngwie Malmsteen also gets a track pack, while Soundgarden gets two singles and Lamb of God is left with one song. Take a long:The Killers 3 Pack
"Mr. Brightside"
"Smile Like You Mean It"
"Spaceman"
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Get points by purchasing various Coca-Cola products, and then redeem those points at the MyCokeRewards.com website for a chance to win an Xbox 360 and a hit game title.
Even though we'll be receiving some free Avatar apparel in the weeks to come, we've always been keen to Microsoft's plan to monetize Avatars. Now, thanks to a lil' ninja game by the name of Ninja Blade, we finally have our first set of paid Avatar duds.
Purchasable for 250 Microsoft points, the...
