Have you finished every level of echochrome on the PSP? Getting bored with the puzzle creator? Later today, an expansion pack is coming to the PlayStation Store to that will bring 40 more levels to the MC Escher style puzzle game.
Personally, I’ve moved on from echochrome. It was a lot of fun for a while, but I’m not sure I’d want to pay another $4.99 for more levels.
It is good to see PSN and PSP getting nice attention for quality games, though. Will you be picking this one up?
I don’t know if anyone out there is still playing Metal Gear Online, but if they are, a new expansion pack is coming. MGO has been broken for much of the past few months and I really can’t see anyone buying this right now, but word is that it is not free. It seems like a great expansion, I just can’t rationale sinking more money into a game with this many issues. Here is what will be coming along with the MEME expansion.
- 3 New Maps
- Silo Sunset – One of the most popular stages in the handheld Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops has been renewed for the world of Metal Gear Online.
- Forest Firefight – Taken from Metal Gear Solid 3, this dense jungle gives players a new tense atmosphere with plenty of camouflage options.
- Winter Warehouse – An original stage created for Metal Gear Online, players will have to search for suitable cover, in and around, this dilapidated factory blanketed in snow.
- 2 New Special Characters
- Liquid Ocelot and Mei Ling
- Additional Rules and Settings – These can be selected without purchasing the second expansion pack
- Avatar Parts – Players can adorn their avatar with new accessories.
Wal-Mart is going to have some exclusive AC/DC content for Rock Band soon with a standalone disc of one of their concerts, the Castle Donington Show in 1991. It’ll run you $39.99 for the 18 tracks. It’s completely standalone, so you can play through the Tour mode, although there will be no Score Duel, Tug of War, or any online components. The good news is that you can export the tracks (only one time per disc is allowed) to your Xbox 360 or PS3 to play them in the normal version of Rock Band and Rock Band 2. Sorry, Wii and PS2 owners, no exporting for you.
Since the product is standalone, it will include unique Achievements and Trophies. Some of them will be song specific, the others we just don’t know about yet. Stay tuned on this one as a bunch of people will be spending the money to get the extra whoring points, you can bet on it.
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GameStop and Amazon both briefly listed an expansion pack for Spore on their systems, before removing them from the online stores. Supposedly shipping November 18th, the Spore Cute & Creepy Parts Pack looks to retail for $19.99.
No word on exactly what cool parts will be available and requests to EA were not returned by press time. You can check out Google Cache of GameStop and Amazon to see what they showed before things got taken down.
Being this close to the game’s release, are you prepared to pay another $20 for Spore content? I’m not.
I’ve enjoyed PAIN since it was first released on the PlayStation Network almost a year ago. The hilarious ways you could inflict pain and destruction made a very fun gameplay experience. But the amount of content that shipped with the game wasn’t huge. Only one environment, Downtown, was available. Now, Sony and Idol Minds have released a new level, the Amusement Park.
Incognito has continued to give amazing support to Warhawk on the PS3, adding to the gameplay experiences in many ways. Free patches with gameplay tweaks and additions, Trophy support, and now a third expansion pack, Operation: Fallen Star. For the cool price of $7.99, you get a new map, Tau Crater, as well as the new Icarus Mk.1 Rocket pack.
It seems that everything for the PS3 is getting delayed these days. The SOCOM beta, the Resistance 2 beta, and now the PAIN Amusement Park expansion and the Trophy patch. Apparently, the Trophies were too damn hard.
While we were testing it became apparent to quite a few people that although the trophies were achievable they began to resemble the tedious level grinds in MMOs and not the spoils for being good (or experienced) at PAIN.
It’s good to see the developers of PAIN listening to the community. The expansion and patch will still be available in September, just not this week as planned. Sit back and relax, because it might be a bumpy ride.
Sony hasn’t made any official announcements yet, but the promo video for the upcoming Warhawk expansion pack, Operation: Fallen Star, was posted up at Joystiq. The new pack, dated for next week (8/28 to be exact), will contain a new map with 10 new layouts as well as a new personal flight device. That’s complicated words for “you get a fucking jetpack”. Hell yeah. I’m all over this one, just like every other Warhawk expansion. Everything Incognito has brought to the game has been terrific, and this looks no different. Watch out for our review of Operation: Fallen Star shortly after it drops.
Some more reason for you to play Battlefield: Bad Company online. Coming August 7th, Conquest mode is finally making it’s debut.
Made famous by Battlefield 1942™, Conquest mode pits players against each other in a fast paced battle to eliminate the opposing team’s tickets. Players deplete their opponent’s tickets by one point per kill and can cause their opponent’s tickets to spiral downwards by capturing control points. Four maps that are currently available for online play in Gold Rush mode will be available to conquer with Conquest mode.
Considering only four maps are available, I’d venture a guess that more are coming. Whether or not they cost money, I couldn’t say. I bet you can guess, though.
Ninja Gaiden 2 is getting it’s first expansion this week with the addition of Mission Mode for 800 MS Points. The pack contains 25 stand-alone stages not found in the story to test your skills.
There are two types of missions for the new stages. Karma Attack is there to see how high you can raise your score. Survival gives you one weapon and throws endless enemies at you until you die. Both are cool additions for $10.
To go along with the Mission Mode pack, there are now 30 videos on the Xbox Live Marketplace that show off the locations of all the crystal skulls. Don’t worry, these videos are free.
If Ninja Gaiden is your thing and the camera didn’t make you almost puke like me, grab the pack and let us know your thoughts.
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