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The promised add-on content for Costume Quest is now up and available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, adding an entirely new adventure to this delightful downloadable RPG.
The new content is called ‘Grubbins on Ice’ and this time takes the group of friends that formed during the events of Costume Quest into the heart of the grubbin universe, Repugia.
Grubbins on Ice increases the original game’s level cap, while adding new quests, characters, enemies, costumes and Battle Stamps to the mix.
Have you played Double Fine’s latest game, the delightful Costume Quest? If you haven’t, you should read El33tonline’s review of the downloadable title to see what you’re missing (and you are missing something!), but before you go, you can find out a little bit about a newly announced pack of downloadable content (DLC) for the game.
Entitled ‘Grubbins on Ice’ (I shan’t reveal what a ‘Grubbin’ is – read the review!), this DLC includes a completely new adventure that kicks off following the events of the full game.
In a most fortunate turn of events (for us, anyway), Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners around the world have only had to wait a single year to get their hands on Double Fine Production’s next game, and while it doesn’t match up to the epic nature of the studio’s previous colossal titles, Psychonauts and Brütal Legend, this new game, Costume Quest, contains all of the hallmarks of what is becoming a ‘classic’ Double Fine experience – great characters, a wonderful story, dazzling art direction, vibrant settings, endearing charm and, of course, tons of sharp wit and humour.
Costume Quest isn’t an extraordinarily lengthy game or particularly deep in ways that matter to gamers, but you’ll get more than get your money’s worth from this downloadable title - there’s more raw entertainment packed into every five minutes of the game than a lot of other titles can manage to squeeze out in one hour… that, and the fact that it’s pretty addictive!
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Costume Quest.
There’s a fantastic collection of new downloadable Xbox LIVE Arcade games available now on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, comprising a humorous Halloween-themed RPG, a manic ‘meat-themed’ platform game, and a demented ‘dream-themed’ hidden-object game.
A great haul this week!
You can discover a lot more information about Costume Quest, Super Meat Boy and Dream Chronicles below with price points, official descriptions and launch trailers, all rounded up for your convenience:
Much like the US PlayStation Store, there won’t be any content on the European PlayStation Store this week other than Double Fine’s Costume Quest, so unless you’re looking for an awesome RPG set during Halloween night where your costumes turn into real-life versions of themselves to help you fight monsters, then don’t even bother looking for new content.
Right… so once again there’s a little bit of fibbing going on here, because of course there will be new content on the European PS Store a little later today, but you should really check out Double Fine’s Costume Quest. Like, really.
New content that will become available today includes a downloadable title called Swords and Soldiers (and Costume Quest), add-on content for Dead Rising 2, Front Mission Evolved and Split/Second (don’t forget about Costume Quest), new tracks for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and Rock Band (I heard Costume Quest has great music too!), and the usual assortment of interesting themes and videos (Costume Quest is super interesting!).
Head on down below to see the full list of content soon to become available on the European PlayStation Store:
Is there anything on the US PlayStation Store this week other than Double Fine’s Costume Quest?
No, I’m afraid not. Sorry would-be PS Store browsers, you’ve been had. You’re just going to have to use any money you would have spent on other content to buy Costume Quest.
It’ll be a fun time, for sure!
OK, so that’s not quite accurate - there is other content on the US PlayStation Store this week, but when Double Fine’s debut downloadable title hits the Store, all other content fades away.
Have a look through the full list of new content now available on the US PlayStation Store below:
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about Double Fine’s Costume Quest, an excellent, quirky-looking RPG with a very unique theme – Halloween!
In the game, you’ll play as a kid trying to trick-or-treat your way through the local neighbourhood in the hopes of picking up some awesome candy, all while fighting monsters by transforming into super-sized versions of your various Halloween costumes!
Project lead on the development of Costume Quest, Tasha Harris, recently posted on the PlayStation Blog to talk about a few of the inspirations behind the game – five of them in fact – and to also unleash a brand new batch of fantastic screenshots from the title.
Take it away, Tasha:
An official release date has been announced for Double Fine’s very first downloadable game, Costume Quest, and it’ll thankfully be releasing ahead of Halloween this year. Given the quirky game’s theme, this is a good thing for sure, my bros.
Kotaku has revealed that legendary videogame designer and humour architect, Ron Gilbert, has recently joined up with fellow laughter-machine (and equal industry luminary), Tim Schafer, by signing up for duty at Schafer’s San Francisco-based Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts, Brütal Legend).
In a post on his own site, Grumpy Gamer, Gilbert confirms the news in his own typical fashion, writing:
“According to Kotaku I’ve gone to work for Double Fine. I don’t even know where to begin with this completely unsubstantiated fact-less slanderous rumor… oh wait… my mistake… it’s totally true.”
Double Fine’s next game, Costume Quest, was looking and sounding extremely fun and original when it was first announced to be in development, with THQ on board as the publisher.
However… now that a debut trailer for Costume Quest has been released, and a couple video interviews with Double Fine’s Tim Schafer and Tasha Harris have emerged… Costume Quest is looking and sounding awesome!
During the course of the trailer, you’ll get to see some gameplay footage from Costume Quest, while the interviews reveal some of the inspirations behind the Halloween-themed adventure RPG, as well as tell us how the title came to be.
Enjoy below:
It seems like only yesterday that Double Fine’s next game was announced to be Costume Quest, a trick-or-treating Halloween-themed adventure RPG that will see players collecting items and donning their best holiday costumes before transforming into enormous versions of those fancy clothes in order to more effectively fight gigantic monsters.
Ah… Those were the days.
Wait, what? Costume Quest was only just announced yesterday? With THQ as a publisher? And it’s a downloadable title?! Man, Double Fine needs to hurry up with this game already!
I guess those of us looking forward to the studio’s next effort can look over the first batch of Costume Quest screenshots to get a good idea of the visual style and kind of see how the game will play out.
You’re more than welcome to indulge in such an activity below:
THQ and Double Fine Productions have today announced that the pair are partnering up to bring a downloadable title, Costume Quest, to the world via Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network in October.
Described as an adventure RPG, Costume Quest is the first of four titles that Double Fine is currently developing, and the first of two Double Fine games that THQ is set to publish - the second game (of which nothing is known) will arrive in early 2011.
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