As part of the redesign of the blog I've decided to do a weekly news roundup of all the news in gaming for the week

We've had a pretty intresting week in gaming with many DLC announcments and game launchs. Here's this week's top 5.

5. Red Dead Redemption announces 4 new DLC packs

Rockstar announced 4 new DLC packs for their blockbuster smash Red Dead Redemption. These include the Legends and Killers pack which has 8 new multiplayer maps, 8 new characters and a Tomahawk as a weapon. The Liars and Cheats pack which adds gambling games to the online formula. The Free Roam Pack which offers new multiplayer modes and the Undead Nightmare pack which has a new zombie based Single player story along with new animals to hunt and 8 more multiplayer characters.

4. Bioware's Dragon Age Orgins 2 is announced

The sequel to Bioware's popular new RPG (popular except for LOG's Kailiff Ammen) was announced on thursday and is slated for a March 2011 release date. Info will be availible in this month's Game Informer's cover story.

3. Dead Space Ignition announced for XBLA and PSN

EA announced on Thursday that the comic book style prequel to Dead Space 2 (which releases in January 2011) will be released this fall for XBLA and PSN. The game will offer 4 different endings and exclusive's for Dead Space 2 only found in Dead Space Ignition

2. Assasin's Creed series on hold 'till 2012-2013

Ubisoft Montreal announced this week that after the expansion pack Assasin's Creed:Brotherhood is released this fall that fans of the series shouldn't expect Assasin's Creed III or another title for that matter until 2012 or 2013.

1. Crackdown 2 dissapoints

The highly anticipated sequel to the Xbox 360 exclusive near-launch title bombed this week as critics (including LOG's own Kailiff Ammen) criticized it for repetitive gameplay, boring missions, bad flying controls and basically being a lesser version of the original Crackdown.

Well that's it for this week. Stay tuned every Saturday for the Weekly Update.

Written by Matthew Byrd:Gamertag:ColonelByrd95