Fallout 3: Project Anchorage Screens

By Levi Thornton | January 9, 2009

From what I can tell it looks very promising for a $10 DLC. I’m surprise that they made a new area rather than new quests. Fallout 3: Project Anchorage is coming later this month on the Xbox 360.

Via Joystiq, for more screens.

Sad Chao knows that nostalgia sells

By Joe Fourhman | January 6, 2009

Why has Rock Band/Guitar Hero not figured out that fans would go crazy over rocked-up video game themes as DLC?

Do you have a gaming disappointment for Sad Chao to lament? Send it to tips@aeropause.com with the subject “Sad Chao” and your mail might make Sad Chao sad enough to post it! Can you make Sad Chao happy again? Write in comments!

Lips Review (Xbox 360)

By Joe Haygood | January 3, 2009

After sitting in the shadow of Sony and its Singstar franchise, Microsoft has finally brought their own karaoke to market in the form of Lips. While Lips provides a fun filled party atmosphere, and a savvy platform for future content, the single player will find themselves grasping for more to do with their $70 purchase.

Lips is, for lack of a better description, a karaoke game, but it adds a few wrinkles to the mix to separate it from the crowd. Upon loading the game, you are presented with the main screen where you can select songs and sing them using a conventional karaoke format, where a pitch bar is above each word, and a pitch meter follows along to let you know if you are on, above or below pitch for each segment of the song. It is a tried and true formula that has worked in Singstar, Karaoke Revolution and just about every karaoke machine in the land.

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MGS in LBP today OMG FTW

By Joe Fourhman | December 23, 2008

As mentioned on the podcast, the two Metal Gear Solid content packs for LittleBigPlanet are expected to hit today, December 23. For everyone who has whined about Sony/Media Molecule seemingly stuck in an endless release cycle of $1 and $2 costumes, this should alleviate those concerns. As some of us have said since the beginning, there is no end to the creation tools that can be jammed into LBP. The DLC potential is more than just cute window dressing, as the above trailer shows.

To recap, the costume pack gets you four MGS4-related costumes for $6… Old Snake, Meryl, Raiden, and Screaming Mantis (B&B boss with dangly puppet bits). These are also available individually for $2 each. So those of you who still hold anti-Raiden grudges can get the other three costumes for $6 total.

The $6 MGS4 level pack is where things get really slick. You get a fifth costume - the hapless Gurlukovich Soldier - plus an unbelievable 72 stickers, 12 materials, 10 decorations and 18 objects. And because everybody has been asking “Where are the new levels Where are the new levels,” this pack also includes six new pro-designed levels, all based around the Metal Gear universe!

The level pack also includes four new music tracks, an MGS sound object, the killer plasma ball, a new searchlight, and a laser sight gadget. Not to mention the Paintinator, a new piece of equipment that gives your sackpeople paint guns. And 12 Trophies! It’s insane how great this is. Did you watch that trailer yet?!?

I hope somebody starts working on an Adventures of Diarrhea Johnny level right away.

I ALMOST FORGOT: You don’t have to buy the pack to play the new levels. If you play online with somebody who does own the pack, you’ll still be able to play the levels (with the caveat that you can’t keep any MGS-specific prizes that you may collect.)

Midnight Club: LA Heads South With Its DLC

By Joe Haygood | December 13, 2008

Midnight Club: Los Angeles has just come out to good reviews, and a patch hat makes the game a tad bit easier than it was at launch. Now, Rockstar has announced that it has new DLC planned for the game, slated for next January or February.

And where will this DLC have its focus? The answer would be South Central LA. Yes, home of the Coliseum, the USC campus and even museum row, will all be here in the same amount of detail that was shown with the original game. The South Central DLC will add a chunk of real estate about 1/3 the size of the original map that came with the game. No word on what else is in the pack or what the cost will be, but one has to figure that there should end up being some new cars, and new missions.

Free Santa LBP DLC nonsensically split into two parts

By Joe Fourhman | December 11, 2008

I’ll happily take any free LittleBigPlanet DLC on offer, but the next two weeks look like a bummer. For some crazy reason, they’re taking two weeks to produce a Santa Claus costume. Starting 12/11, you can grab the shirt and pants… then mark your calendar for 12/18 when you can get the hat, moustache and beard. As with all the previous holiday-themed costumes, SCEA is threatening that they will only be available for a limited time.

I guess this weirdness is to balance out the unrestrained awesomeness of the Street Fighter LBP costume package. Some very nice LittleBigCosplay of Chun Li, Guile, Ryu and Zangief can also be yours starting 12/11, for the price of $2 each or $6 for the set of four.

Oh, and if you were thinking of getting into Sackbook, the fan-created LittleBigPlanet community that used official artwork and had a crazy group PSN login scheme, don’t bother. As expected, Sony smooshed it. I don’t know why people think they can get away with making things like that.

Mirror’s Edge DLC Announced, PC Date Set

By Joe Haygood | December 4, 2008

DICE has announced their DLC plans for their recent release, Mirror’s Edge. Expanding on the time trial concept, Mirror’s Edge will release the Pure Time Trial maps, which takes the city out of the equation and has Faith working through a rather abstract obstacle course of shapes and colors that float in mid-air. It sounds strange, but watching the trailer, the concept is growing on me, and it might find a place on my newly purchased 120GB hard drive for my 360.

Also, DICE finally put the release date for the PC version to bed, and has announced that Mirror’s Edge will drop on the PC January 13th. Not sure if it will include the Pure Time Trials DLC, but one can only hope.

Fallout 3 Creation Tools, DLC Coming Soon

By Joe Haygood | November 25, 2008

For those few people that have run out of things to do in Fallout 3, Bethesda has the cure for your ills, and it is called the G.E.C.K. Creation Tools set. Yes, the slightly delayed editor tools will soon be available for those that own the PC version of Fallout 3. The tools will allow for user created levels, and mods for Fallout 3, similar to editor tools that have been available for other Bethesda products.

Also announced was that three new DLC mission packs will be available over the months of January, February and March of 2009. The missions will be called Operation Anchorage, The Pitt and Broken Steel. The DLC will be available for both the Xbox 360 version, as well as the soon to be launched Games for Windows Live Marketplace. Bethesda did not release any info on length or cost of the DLC. The level editor tools should be available as a free download.

Click the jump for a full press release. Picture of G.E.C.K. via wikipedia.org

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Toy Car Pack Coming To Burnout

By Levi Thornton | November 15, 2008

More love for Burnout fans is coming.

Last week we gave you the first sneak-peek of what’s coming in our Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars Pack, with the amazing, hovering 88 Special…

This week, well, we think the screenshot speaks for itself – the Burnout Paradise Toy Cars Pack….. These Special Edition Burnout Collectibles will be coming in 2009.

This makes me believe that Criterion is using their DLC Burnout model a way to create a series of low risk experiments to get ideas for their next game. They can keep putting out random content and see how the community responds to it and see what sticks. Are we ready for a Burnout cartoon version? That seems like a good fit to me.

via Playstation Blog

The Hoff’s Faces of Pain

By Joe Fourhman | November 15, 2008

We warned you he was coming, and now David Hasselhoff has arrived as part of this week’s PlayStation Store update… ready to join the cast of Sony’s ragdoll physics abuse simulator, Pain. For $2 - which is twice the already ludicrous price of a non-Hoff Pain character - you get your own li’l Michael Knight to launch through plate glass windows. As promised, he comes with a ton of genuine David Hasselhoff voiceovers and three costumes (two of which you have to unlock by performing stunts centered around the number 69, chortle chortle.)

So celebrate The Coming of The Hoff with this quickie photo gallery of Pain in action!

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Fallout 3: Project Anchorage Screens

Sad Chao knows that nostalgia sells

Lips Review (Xbox 360)

MGS in LBP today OMG FTW

Midnight Club: LA Heads South With Its DLC

Free Santa LBP DLC nonsensically split into two parts

Mirror’s Edge DLC Announced, PC Date Set

Fallout 3 Creation Tools, DLC Coming Soon

Toy Car Pack Coming To Burnout

The Hoff’s Faces of Pain