For those of you who have pre-ordered Fable 3, you’ll be happy to know that you’ll be getting some nice DLC. Everyone who buys the game new will be receiving a potion for summoning monsters, a “Slow Time” potion, a
unisex Scot outfit, a Highlander Tattoo Set, and a Red Setter dog skin.
The third DLC pack released for Mafia 2, titled “Joe’s Adventures” will hit Xbox Live, PSN, and PC on November 23rd. The price will be, you guessed it, $10.
The new DLC focuses on Joe Barbaro who is the best friend of our protagonist Vito Scaletta. The DLC reportedly takes place while Vito is in prison and focuses almost exclusively on Joe. The only downside is that you have to wait until November to get your paws on this Mafia goodness. Maybe the next DLC will take a cue from Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption and give us some zombie mobsters. One can only hope.
It’s easy to forget that Bungie ever made games that were not Halo. Working on the same series for over a decade will do that to you, but first-person shooters were not always the core of Bungie’s creative output. Now that they’re starting anew with Activision, it’s a good opportunity to take a look back at some of their previous work.
Though the company first hit it big with the Marathon series of shooters for the Macintosh, they also created the well-regarded strategy series Myth for Mac and PC. It may surprise long-time Halo fans to learn that the company’s first foray into the console market was actually a Playstation 2 game, the brawler Oni.
What’s the best way to stop pirates? “Ask nicely,” according to Activision.
According to a story on Venture Beat, the video game publishing giant has been tracking down pirated copies of their highly-anticipated title Call of Duty: Black Ops. Instead of throwing the culprits in the clink, though, Activision has been simply asking the pirates to stop. These methods stand in contrast to the arrest last year of Christian Del Amo, an 18-year old caught raising money to buy and duplicate a pirated copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Every once in a while you get a game that redefines a genre and manages to shed the preconceived notions of what a game should be. Gothic 4 is not that game. In fact, I would venture to say that this game is one of the low points of the Xbox 360 library. It all begins very predictably: you propose to a girl, leave town temporary, and upon your return find that the entire village has been set aflame and your new fiancé has been slain. Our nameless hero, with his emo mop top, swears revenge upon the king who ordered the town’s destruction and sets off to kill him.
A Brazilian Court is calling for Rockstar Games’ popular title Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City to be pulled from shelves and for all sales to be halted. The Associated Press reports that the Expansion pack which includes The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony is under fire for using a song in the game without the consent of the composer.
Inspiration is a funny thing. Most things start as some form of creative spark—It’s crucial to the creative process. Truly inspiring games often rise to greatness while a lack of inspiration just leaves you with nothing more than a steaming pile of horse dookie. Unfortunately, Quantum Theory leans a lot toward the latter.
