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Bastion gets Stranger’s Dream DLC next week
With five nominations, Bastion is in line for a very big night at this weekend’s Spike TV Video Game Awards. But whether or not it wins any of the awards it’s up for, developer Supergiant Games plans to expand the popular action RPG next week.
The Stranger’s Dream will be available to download from Steam (for free) and the Xbox Live Arcade (for $1) on December 14. The DLC will add a new, fully narrated Who Knows Where sequence to the game along with a Score Attack Mode (which unlocks all Spirits and Idols) and a No-Sweat Mode for those who want to enjoy Bastion’s story and the dulcet tones of narrator Logan Cunningham.
Players who want to tackle The Stranger’s Dream and Score Attack Mode will have to have completed the main game, but they’ll be rewarded for their efforts with a new monster arena that delves deeper into Rucks’ backstory as well as the history of Caelondia. And what does the voice of Rucks have to say about that?
“Exciting Bastion-times are afoot.” Indeed they are.
Battlefield 3 “Wake Island” gameplay trailer makes waves
Battlefield 3 Back to Karkand is now available for PlayStation 3 owners. Xbox 360 and PC players will just have to watch that trailer and drool over the incredibly ridiculous things DICE has accomplished here… at least until December 13th. Then you can pick it up for $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points and play on the “Wake Island” map yourself.
Can you say Modern Whatfare?
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Activision unveiling Amazing Spider-Man trailer at Spike TV VGAs
Activision released the first gameplay trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man during the New York Comic-Con (check it out above). Today, they’ve announced that a “WORLD PREMIERE EXCLUSIVE TRAILER” (emphasis theirs) for the game will make its debut during this Saturday’s Spike TV Video Game Awards.
Sadly, it’ll probably end up being the same trailer as a teaser at the game’s official website features footage identical to the Comic-Con trailer.
But we’ve also learned that screenwriter Seamus Kevin Fahey will be crafting the story of the Beenox-developed game, which will take place after the events of the new movie. His previous credits include episodes of “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena” and “Battlestar Galactica.”
Gamers will be able to websling all around an open world Manhattan next Summer, when The Amazing Spider-Man comes to the 3DS, DS, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360.
XBLA Today: Apples To Apples
With the Xbox 360 Dashboard update finally sorted out, the popular board game Apples To Apples makes it way to the Xbox Live Arcade today:
Party-style fun is ripe for the picking as Apples To Apples the video game comes to Xbox Live Arcade! This game of hilarious comparisons is as simple as comparing “apples to apples” – just select the red card you think is most like the green card played by the judge. If the judge picks your card, you win the round. And everyone gets a chance to be the judge! Play online with up to 5 friends in Classic Mode or two variant modes – Baked Apples and Crab Apples! Choose from 26 hilarious Apple Avatars, enjoy environments like Space Apples and Carnival Apples, and collect Golden Apple Cards that mix up the game! Bursting with over 1000 red and green cards, Apples To Apples the video game provides endless hours of unpredictable, over-the-top fun!
Apples To Apples is available to download for 800 Microsoft Points ($10).
Xbox 360 Dashboard update is live
After a day-long delay, Major Nelson has given the word, today’s Dashboard update for the Xbox 360 is now live:
Sorry for the dash launch delay. Good news: first set of customers will be getting the Xbox LIVE update within the next few hours.
Happy downloading folks!
2012 IGF Awards add XBLA Prize
The organizers of the Independent Games Festival have announced that they’ve partnered with Microsoft to create the XBLA Prize.
The prize is open to any entrant in the Main Competition or the Student Showcase. And the IGF entrant who wins the XBLA Prize will receive a “guaranteed first-party publishing deal to release the selected title on Microsoft’s Live-enabled platforms, including the Xbox Live Arcade, Windows Phone, and Windows.” Funding to complete the title will also be offered to the winning development team.
Microsoft’s Ted Woolsey, Head of First Party Publishing for XBLA, said, “Playing a role in empowering creative, independent developers, and then delivering the fruits of their labor to a wide fan base on Xbox 360, Windows Phone and soon Windows 8 is an amazingly rewarding job for me and the publishing teams at Microsoft Studios. We can’t wait to see what will come next!”
The 2012 IGF Awards will be handed out during next year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 7th, 2012. The complete list of entrants for next year’s IGF Awards can be found here.
Xbox 360 Dashboard update is MIA
Somebody alert Chuck Norris! The Fall 2011 Dashboard update for the Xbox 360 is missing in action. The update, which should have been available this morning, has been “slightly delayed” by a mysterious problem.
Thankfully, Microsoft’s Major Nelson has been documenting the process on his Twitter feed, though it doesn’t look like we’re any closer to figuring it out:
FYI: The timing for Xbox 360 dashboard update has been slightly delayed. I’ll have a status update later today
Thanks again for your patience. I won’t have additional details until later today. The moment I have new information, I’ll share it w/ you
I’ll share additional details when I have more to share. Until then, thanks for you patience.
We are still working to get the release out. Stay tuned, we’ll have an update this afternoon (PT) on when it will begin rolling out.
No new information to report yet. My earlier update is still the most current
Saving Benny: The Bromance of Fallout: New Vegas
Howdy Folks! This article includes spoilers for Fallout: New Vegas. There is also some swearing, partly because the game is rated Mature, and partly because the writer is Scottish. You have been warned. Have a good ‘un.
“You sick, vindictive fuck!”
These were Benny’s last words to me when I finally gave up trying to save him, opting instead to crucify him and pushed forward through the rest of Fallout: New Vegas, a brilliant yet bug-ridden game that entertained as much as it frustrated. By the bitter end, after numerous screen freezes and load errors, stuttering frame rates and other exasperating glitches, I stumbled through to the final fight, killing Legate Lanius and handing General Lee Oliver the conditions for the New California Republic’s withdrawal from New Vegas as dictated by Mr. House. All this while wearing a spacesuit helmet. I watched the epilogue narrated by the various characters I had met, but through it all, someone was missing. (more…)