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Warner Bros is offering LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham buyers the option of buying a Season Pass. It’s the first Season Pass to be offered in a LEGO game, Eurogamer reports. The 12.79 Pass entitles buyers to six content releases, which are also available separately for 2.55 a piece. These …
Read More »EA Sports Season Passes to end next year
As EA prepares to launch its Access subscription model, it seems time is up for the EA Sports Season Ticket. The Season Ticket, for a 20 one-off fee, allows sports gamers to get early access to certain titles and discounts for Ultimate Team packs and DLC discounts. It launch back …
Read More »No Dark Souls 2 season pass on Xbox 360
Confusion has surrounded yesterday’s release of the Dark Souls 2 Crown Trilogy DLC. The first part of the trio, The Crown of the Sunken King, was released on PC and Xbox 360 yesterday with a PS3 release due to follow today. However, while a 19.99 season pass is available on …
Read More »Over 70% of Ubisoft’s Season Passes are sold at retail
GameStop has claimed that over 70 per cent of the Season passes Ubisoft sells for its games are sold on the High Street. Furthermore, 14 per cent of those who have bought Watch Dogs have also paid for a Season Pass whereas the attach rate amongst GameStop customers is 30 …
Read More »‘DLC is pretty much accepted’, says Ubisoft
Modern games consumers are comfortable with the amount of additional digital content and extras that accompany modern games. That’s according to Ubisoft’s VP of digital publishing Chris Early, who told Games Industry that there was no resistance” to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s ‘Time Saver’ DLC that allowed players to …
Read More »VIDEO: Dark Souls II to receive Lost Crowns Trilogy DLC and season pass
Bandai Namco has announced a trio of DLCs for Dark Souls II called The Lost Crowns Trilogy. The content will be released for all three platforms – PS3, Xbox 360 and PC – and offers entirely original areas” with new bosses and loot. Crown of the Sunken King will be …
Read More »Ubisoft details Watch Dogs season pass content
Ubisoft has revealed the innards of the DLC season pass offering for its upcoming multi-platform release Watch Dogs. The pass will cost $19.99 and includes a variety of downloadable add-ons – including is a new single-player campaign centered around character T-Bone, along with three other single-player mission content drops. Conspiracy …
Read More »Nintendo announces its first season pass
3DS title Mario Gold: World Tour will be the first Nintendo game to offer a season pass. Three individual DLC packs will be released at 5.39 a piece, but gamers will also be given the chance to pay 10.79 for a season pass including all three packs, as well as …
Read More »Watch Dogs season pass includes new playable character
Retailer GameStop has outed a still unannounced season pass for upcoming title Watch Dogs. As reported by AllGamesBeta, the $19.99 pass includes access to a unique single player campaign featuring a new playable character plus more missions, weapons, and exclusive content”. All of which is pretty similar to the Freedom …
Read More »Titanfall Season Pass detailed
EA has outlined exactly what gamers will be getting if they shell out for Titanfall’s Season Pass. It costs 19.99 in the UK (that’s via Origin on PC – presumably it will be the same on consoles), although premium versions of the game including the Pass will also be available. …
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