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Tag: DLC

The State of Play: 2009

Here we are again, the start of another year and another decade, and so it’s time to look back at the year that’s passed. As with 2008 I’ve decided to do a proper look back at my gaming for the past twelve months: so all the games of 2009 whether they were started, finished or [...]

Bought our game? Buy it again, please.

So the new trend for a lot of big titles seems to be to re-release the game about a few months to a year after the game’s original release. A few examples of this include Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – Ultimate Sith Edition and LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition. Both of these games [...]

XNA: Groov is a diamond in a VERY rough rough.

Back when the XNA Community Games section was announced, the general reaction that I saw was one of cautious optimism.  The idea of independent developers getting a low-cost entry into the downloadable games field and actually have the chance to earn money doing it sounded like a noble endeavor, but the niggling doubt in the [...]

Pay for completion: because time is money

For anyone looking for a quick way to add another ‘beaten’ title to their Backloggery listing, it seems Skate 2 is the game for you. Looking on the PS Store last night I spotted that, in EA’s infinite wisdom, they’ve released some day-one DLC that will unlock everything in the game (named the “Time is [...]

Exclusive games, yes; exclusive content, no

So it turns out that EA and Sony have struck up a deal so that Mirror’s Edge, a title I’m really quite excited about, will be getting exclusive downloadable content on the PS3. This sort of thing isn’t new, as platform holders struggle to claim some element of exclusivity, and isn’t too dissimilar to the [...]