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Bethesda has at long last set the date for the long-awaited arrival of Fallout 3’s numerous DLC releases on PS3, with the first offering – Broken Steel – set to arrive on PSN on September 26th. Its release will be followed on October 1st by both Operation: Anchorage and The …
Read More »Kotick turns $50 into $500
With increasing development costs putting upwards pressure on new releases to maximise their sales potential, Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has explained that modern releases can now make ten time the revenue that they used to. In the last cycle of videogames you spent $50 on a game, played it …
Read More »Media Molecule talks DLC
Siobhan Reddy on downloadable content and divisions of labour
Read More »Houser doubts mass-market appeal of digital games
As Take-Two projects one fifth of Q4 turnover coming from DLC
Read More »Bethesda ends work on Fallout 3 DLC
The Zenimax-owned developer will now focus staff on a new project
Read More »Guerrilla steps back from Killzone 2
On the same day that a brand new map pack (entitled Napal & Cordite) is due for release, Dutch games developer Guerrilla Games has stated that it is to step away from Killzone 2. Speaking on the EU PlayStation Blog, the developer’s Seb Downie stated: Right now we’re going to …
Read More »Industry must address horse armour ‘joke’
Right now, when you mention downloadable content, someone will mention a horse armour joke, and we need to get around that,” says Tom Armitage, a writer for creative design consultancy group Schulze and Webb. Armitage, speaking to a packed-out room at the Develop conference in Brighton, was referring to the …
Read More »Fallout 3 DLC delayed on PS3
Having already missed its initial June release window, publisher Bethesda has confirmed that its DLC for popular post-nuclear RPG Fallout 3 has been delayed until later in the year. Last month PS3 owners were supposed to get the Operation: Anchorage add-on pack, but now Bethesda says that it – as …
Read More »MK vs DC suffers digital content snub
Ed Boon, the lead developer of Midway’s Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe has confirmed that the DLC that had been previously touted for the game will not now be released. The news is not surprising considering Midway’s ongoing struggles and the recently completed buyout at the hands of Warner Interactive. …
Read More »Burnout Paradise model â??brave but unprovenâ??, says Blur dev
Bizarre explains why Blur will take a different approach to Criterion's ongoing downloadable updates
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