New Sleeping Dogs DLC Released, 'Year of the Snake'

Square-Enix's latest sandbox game, Sleeping Dogs, has received it's second DLC installment which is titled "Year of the Snake."  The new add-on content brings a whole new "short story" to extend the game.

Wei Shen's story continues in Year of the Snake as he rejoins the ranks of the Hong Kong Police Department in a series of new missions set immediately after the main game. A vicious end-of-the-world cult is taking root in the back streets of Hong Kong... the Cult of the Snake. Hell-bent on cleansing the city of its evils, they cannot be negotiated with as they pursue a path to their righteous salvation. With an arsenal of weapons, including teargas guns and electroshock pistols, new outfits and abilities, Wei must enter a race against the clock to bring the cultists to justice before Judgment Day.

I enjoyed Sleeping Dogs tremendously, and completed the game in just a handful of days. The previous DLC, Nightmare in North Point, was short, but a very enjoyable extra side story. You can pick up on Year of the Snake for 560 MSPs in the Xbox Live Marketplace, or $7.00 on the Playstation Network. Also, for all you achievement hunters out there, the content add four achievements for 100 gamerscore.

Capcom's 30th Anniversary Bring Us to Our Childhoods - The Capcom Arcade Cabinet

Following along with the current trend of releasing all your older games, Capcom announced on one of the employee's blogs that they will be releasing quite a few 8-bit games as part of their 30th anniversary. While they did not release much information about what titles will be released, they did say most of them will be digital downloads for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

They will be releasing full details regarding dates, pricing, specific titles, and everything else on February 7th. We will keep you updated then.

Xbox Live Marketplace Deal of the Week - Bioshock

I am impressed with Xbox Live's Deal of the Week. You'll be able to pick up Bioshock and Bioshock 2 this week for only $9.99 each. This is a very impressive deal! If you have never played any of 2K Game's Bioshock series, you should give them a try. Bioshock has one of the most interesting stories out of any game on the Xbox 360. You will also be able to pick up any of the DLC packs for Bioshock for 400MSP each.

Check out Xbox Live's Deal of the Week

DLC Trailer for Fruit Ninja Kinect appears

Get ready Fruit Ninja fans! Halfbrick Studios' Fruit Ninja Kinect seems it will be receiving another DLC pack in the future. A trailer was released showing what looks like a Halloween themed DLC for the very popular Xbox 360 Kinect game.

Fruit Ninja Kinect was released last year in August, and has created quite a fan base since then. You will be able to purchase the "Trick or Treat Bag" DLC on Wednesday, October 24th for 160 MSP (not bad, eh?) in the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Check out the trailer below...

New Super Mario Bros 2 DLC is making it's way to your 3DS this Thursday!

Yesterday, Nintendo of America announced that New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS, will be receiving it's first DLC for the game. You will be able to download 3 new Coin Packs, which are:

• The Gold Rush Pack ($2.50)
• Coin Challenge Pack A ($2.50)
• Nerve-Wrack Pack  ($2.50) 

 Each pack contains 3 different stages to play coin rush on. Nintendo of America also announced that we can look forward to more DLC in October and late November. You can check out a video here to see how to download the content to your console.

The last DLC for Modern Warfare 3 will arrive October 10th on PS3 & PC

 

Infinity Ward, the creators of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, have announced via twitter that the final DLC, which includes five different maps, will be released on on October 10th on PS3 and PC. If you are an Xbox 360 player, this is the DLC you all received at the first of this month. The five maps are:

• Off Shore
• Gulch
• Decommission
• Parish
• Boardwalk

Call of Duty Elite subscribers will be able to pick the content up on October 9th. This will be the final DLC since Black Ops 2, the next installment in the Call of Duty series, will be released in 2 months.

Nintendo announces Mass Effect 3 for the Wii U will include both DLC

Nintendo stated in their press release today that the upcoming title for the Nintendo Wii U, Mass Effect 3, will include both add-ons, From Ashes and Extended Cut. The downloadable content contains extra costumes for your characters, the Particle Rifle weapon, and an additional member to your squad, Javik. There is no current set release date for Mass Effect 3. We will continue to keep you updated as new information unfolds.

Capcom announces upcoming DLC for 'Resident Evil 6'

Capcom announced today, that they will be releasing exclusive DLC for the Xbox 360, for the future installment in the Resident Evil series, Resident Evil 6. The DLC will include three different playable game modes called Survivor, Siege and Predator.

Survivor mode takes an interesting twist on the classic solo and team-based versus matches. When you are killed as a human, you will respawn as an enemy character. As one of the enemies, you can kill two human characters to respawn back into one of the human characters.

In siege mode, players as human will be protecting a NPC character, while the opposing enemy team attempts to kill the NPC.

Predator assigns an enemy plays as the fearsome B.O.W., Ustanak, who tries to eliminate all human players. The game ends when Ustanak has killed all the remaining humans, or the humans kill Ustanak, or make it to the end safely.

Capcom also announced to keep looking forward to other future DLC including new maps for the add-on game modes. Resident Evil 6 is expected to release on October 2nd, 2012.

Saints Row 3 Season Pass is 50% off today

Xbox.com announced today that the season pass for THQ's hit game, Saint's Row 3, is 50% off today. The season pass is already a discounted bundle of all the games DLC, but now you will be able to pick up the season pass for 800MSP ($10.00). Go check it out on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The four DLCs included in the season pass as listed:  

• Nyte Blade Pack
• Genki Bowl VII
• Gangstas in Space
• The Trouble with Clones

They also note to purchase the season pass through the in-game store, so you are not charged twice for your purchase. Check out our other posts about the Saint's Row series.

Batman: Arkham City GOTYE makes it's way on Steam, and it's discounted!!

Most of us by now have played the absolutely stunning game, Batman: Arkham City, but for those who haven't yet, now is your chance. Rocksteady Studios has released the Game of the Year Edition of Batman: Arkham City on Steam, which includes an add-on DLC and tons of extras. Here is the list of the DLC included with the GOTY edition:

• Harley-Quinn's Revenge (which contains over two hours of new content)
• Catwoman pack
• Robin bundle pack
• Nightwing bundle pack
• Arkham City skins pack
• Challenge map pack

The best part about this release is that Steam will have it discounted 22% off until Tuesday. You can own the Batman: Arkham City Game of the Year Edition for only $23.99.

Just a reminder, be sure not to miss our September Giveaway for your chance to win a copy of Halo 4.

Battlefield 3 expansion pack "Armored Kill" launch trailer released

EA and DICE released a trailer for their upcoming expansion pack for Battlefield 3. Check out the trailer below:

Minecraft for XBLA receives "Skin Pack 2"

The XBLA title Minecraft received another downloadable add-on content this weekend, which contains 45 unique skins for your main character. The skin pack contains skins based off other video games (Gears of War 3, Left 4 Dead 2, and Castle Crashers). You can download the skin pack on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 160MSP.

New titles added to the PSN store

There have been quite a few games released this week for the Playstation Network store.  Check out this huge list of goodies!

• All Zombies Must Die  ($9.99)
• Oddworld: Strangers Wrath HD ($14.99)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell HD ($14.99)
• Tom Clancys Spinter Cell: Chaos Theory HD ($14.99)
• Carnival Island ($39.99)
• MotorStorm Apocalypse ($59.99)

Check out more about the recent PS3 update, and more information on the games above on the Playstation Blog

Also, don't forget about the Warrior Pack DLC just released which contains four outfits to add to your wardrobe. 

Red Dead Redemption Goes on Sale on XBLM

Rockstar's hit game, Red Dead Redemption, is now on sale for only $29.99(a 25% discount) in the games on demand section on the Xbox Live Marketplace. You can also spend an extra five dollars to get the Game of the Year edition which includes all the DLC released for the game. If you have never played Red Dead Revolver or Red Dead Redemption, I suggest you pick this game up for this kind of deal.

Check it out on the marketplace HERE

Also, don't forget about the big sale going on at the Steam Market

Double XP weekend for Assassin's Creed: Revelations

Ubisoft has announced on the Assassin's Creed Facebook page that they will start a double XP weekend on December 16th at noon EST and end on Monday morning at 3 A.M.; so get your double experience while you can!

Also, be sure to check out the recent DLC, "Ancestor's Character Pack" which includes four additional characters to play with, and additional achievement for each one of them.

Gears of War 3 and Battlefield 3 DLC drops! Plus Xbox Dashboard Update

This week Microsoft launched their new dashboard update for the Xbox 360. This update brings a whole new feel to the Xbox's dashboard while making it easier to browse using the Kinect. The update brings in the App Store which should continue to grow bringing apps like YouTube, Bing, and NBA TV (plus many more..) straight to your Xbox 360. Along with the title update, two downloadable content packs for two games dropped today:

Gears of War 3 - Raam's Shadow DLC

This is the first campaign DLC ever released for a GoW game. The DLC is packed with a brand new story based on E-Day (which was right before Gears of War 1), which let's you for the first time play as the horde's General RAAM, which if you're a huge gears fan like me, you'll be extremely excited about this.
Multiplayer fans also receive six multiplayer skins, which include the members of the Zeta squad and you will also be able to play as General RAAM also. Also included is the Chocolate Weapon skin. For the achievement hunters, an additional 250 gamerscore will be added.

Battlefield 3 - Back to Karkand DLC

Purchasers of the limited edition version of Battlefield 3 will receive this map pack for free. The Back to Karkand DLC includes four new maps (Strike at Karkand, Wake Isle, Gulf of Omen, and Sharqi Peninsula), 10 new weapons, and two new vehicles.