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Warhammer Online: Night Of Murder Announced (Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning)
Mythic Entertainment has announced an upcoming in-game event, Night of Murder, for its MMO Warhammer Online.
Players can take part in quests and daily tome tasks in order to obtain special rewards. These include a well-mounted skull, which places a pike next to a fallen foe with their head atop it.
Spike TV Making A God of War 3 Reality TV Competition (God of War III)
So it seems like the God of War 3 marketing is starting to kick in now. Spike TV is now casting God of War fans into a competition where they will bring Kratos physical power, knack for solving puzzles, and awesome finishing moves and bring it to real-life.
Final Fantasy XIII holds 10 hours of cutscenes (Final Fantasy XIII)
Square Enix Holdings Co. this week said Final Fantasy XIII for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 holds 10 hours of cutscenes in the final product.
Dark Void DLC & Original Soundtrack Launching This Week (Dark Void)
Capcom Entertainment has announced that the first batch of downloadable Content (DLC) for the recently released Dark Void will be available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this week. The Survivor Missions DLC adds an all-new gameplay mode to Airtight Games' Science-Fiction Action videogame, offering a score-attack variant to the campaign levels.
LittleBigPlanet: This Week in DLC (LittleBigPlanet)
Mark Valledor on Playstation Blog writes:
"Hey guys,
As mentioned in our last post, we're trying something new to keep you up to date on all things LittleBigPlanet DLC. So on Mondays we'll be here filling you in on the latest DLC coming to the PlayStation Store. In time, we hope to fill out this post with more DLC-related news, announcements, highlights, etc. But for now, this week's post"
UFC Undisputed 2010 Features New Modes and Co-op (UFC Undisputed 2010)
GamingUnion.net writes, "THQ has revealed some new features of it's new title from the hit fighting franchise UFC Undisputed 2010. This includes features such as an upgrade to the fighting mechanics and an online cooperative mode."
European FF13 box says no to Downloadable Content (Final Fantasy XIII)
Last week reports overran the web that the back of the US Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 box had been posted online and had a box stating the game would support "Content Downloads" - but now the European box is in disagreement.
The European box makes no mention of the Downloadable Content and has a nice little blank space where the box appeared on the US box.
New Vegas 'wittier' than Fallout 3 (Fallout 3)
In an exclusive first look at Fallout New Vegas, CVG sister mag PSM3 reveals that developer Obsidian has taken dialogue and scripting up a notch in the sequel to Fallout 3.
CrimeCraft Under 10,000 Users? (CrimeCraft)
MMOCrunch reports: "I was browsing around CrimeCraft's website and noticed they had a leaderboard setup for individual players and gangs. So I decided to add up the numbers to see if I could guesstimate how many active players CrimeCraft currently has."
Fairytale Fights Free DLC Coming This Week (Fairytale Fights)
Following the release of a very successful demo version of Fairytale Fights on PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Marketplace back in December, Playlogic Entertainment, Inc. has today announced the release of the first downloadable content (DLC) pack on PlayStation Network. Set to be available from 11th February 2010, the free Treasure Pack 1 DLC will bring four new playable characters and three new multiplayer arenas to Fairytale Fights.
Eugen: Console RTS key "not about hardcore micro controls" (RUSE)
VG247: R.U.S.E. senior producer Mathieu Girard has told VG247 that understanding RTS is "not about hardcore micro controls" is the key to cracking the genre on consoles.
Square Enix sees profits up 48.2 percent, FFXIII reaches 1.8 million units (Dragon Quest IX)
Thanks in part to strong sales of Final Fantasy XIII, which has shipped 1.8 million units to date in Japan, publisher Square Enix saw its profits rise 48.2 percent in the nine months ended December 31, 2009.
The company is especially pleased with the market penetration of Final Fantasy XIII since it launched on December 17 against Japan's PS3 install base of 4 million, Wada notes. The game sold 1.5 million units in its first week alone.
EA hides Dante's Inferno ads in source code of popular sites (Dante's Inferno)
ARS: The PR campaign for Dante's Inferno has been quite the adventure. Booth babes were listed as prizes, game writers were sent $200 checks, and EA paid for "Christian" picketers to protest the game at E3. True, these things may have been controversial, but they were successful in their intent to get everyone talking about the game. The latest stunt is eerie, and gets bonus points for both creativity and giving the fans some fun bonuses.
If you looked at the source code of certain social networking sites, as well as gaming locations, you may have found a surprise in the past few days: ASCII artwork from Dante's Inferno and a password to be put into a mysterious site. The site shows six slots for the passwords, meaning there were six hidden images scattered around the Internet.
Borderlands developer comfirms Multiple PSN account sign-in in upcoming patch for PS3 (Borderlands)
Over on the official Gearbox forums a Borderlands developer has confirmed that Multiple PSN account sign-in will be added in an upcoming patch.
Evony Scam "World of Lordcraft" (World of Warcraft)
Just as it seemed the internet had been rid of Evony, and their hapless tactics, it seems as though they're back at it! This time, they are getting even deeper into the copyright infringement territory, and are "stealing" from one of the most successful games on the market today.
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