Weekly Update 8/23/10 "Dog Days and Playboys" edition

Posted by Byrdie On Friday, August 27, 2010 0 comments


5. First Bioshock 2 single player DLC detailed/dated



The first single player DLC for 2K's Bioshock 2 was detailed and dated earlier this week. Minerva's Den has the player control a new Big Daddy who works alongside Dr. Tenenbaum to defeat Rapture's evil computing system in Minerva's Den. The DLC will feature new weapons, plasmids and a new Big Daddy type. The DLC will release on August 31st for PSN and XBLA for $1o on PSN and 800 Microsoft Points on XBLA




4. DeathSpank sequel announced


Merely a month after the first DeathSpank was released, the sequel was announced by developer Hothead studios. DeathSpank II: The Thongs of Virtue will include new co-op characters, bosses and weapons with a more modern/sci-fi campaign then the first one. DeathSpank II releases next month for PSN and XBLA.


3. More Red Dead DLC details


The fouth out of five known Red Dead Redemption DLC packs, the Liars and Cheats pack was detailed earlier this week by Rockstar. The pack will offer online Poker, Liars Dice and Horse racing games. It will also include a new rifle, the Explosive rifle, 7 new gang hideouts, 4 new hunting grounds and a tower defense-likemultiplayer mode. The pack will be bundled with the Free Roam pack for free. The pack releases on September 21st costs 800 microsoft points and costs 9.99 on PSN. The fifth DLC pack, Undead Nightmare was also detailed. It will be a single player DLC with John Marston fighting zombie animals and humans. No release date or price point were announced.


2. More Realtime Worlds drama


The bankrupt developer behind APB and Crackdown has even more drama surrounding it. According to Game Informer and G4, sources inside the company are saying that Realtime Worlds heads lied to APB publisher EA on things like game costs and development problems. On top of that ex-employees are apparently not recieving any form of royalties that were guaranteed in their contracts if they were fired. We will bring you more Realtime coverage as it unfolds.



1. Playboy launches game label.


Notorious men's magazine Playboy has announced that they will launch a game label which creates and distributes game through Playboy's website. Their first game is Poisonville, an action-MMO in the style of APB which apparently dosen't suck. The name of the label is shocker... Playboy games.



Written by Matthew Byrd: Gamertag: ColonelByrd95










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