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If you happened to guess which full games and downloadable content were the top sales performers on the PlayStation Network last year, what titles would have come to mind?
This week’s US PlayStation Store update is crammed with discounted content, an assortment of add-ons for your favourite games as well as a couple of compelling new titles.
If you’ve been waiting for a significant price reduction on Borderlands before snapping it up, now is the perfect time to part with your cash and acquire this great co-op first-person shooter for $15. If you’re a PlayStation Plus subscriber the deal is even sweeter as you’ll get all four DLC packs for free when you purchase the main game.
Following the exciting news that Limbo is officially heading to the PlayStation 3 and PC, indie developer Playdead recently announced release dates for the studio’s excellent 2D (and creepily atmospheric) puzzle adventure game across both platforms.
The last day or two has been awash in exciting morsels of news, so much so that it’s been a little troublesome trying to keep up with it all!
That’s why we’ve rounded up a few of the more interesting announcements and reveals all together in one handy collection so you can find out a little bit more about Respawn Entertainment’s first game, how Modern Warfare 3’s Killstreaks are going to be revamped, how Age of Conan has gone free-to-play, and more!
It’s been a number of weeks since a new Xbox LIVE Activity chart has been released, but Xbox frontman Major Nelson has done due diligence and compiled an exhaustive list of the most played and best selling games on Xbox LIVE for the seven day period ending April 11th.
And wouldn’t you know it? Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 are still sitting at the top of the ranking!
If you haven’t yet tried out great Xbox LIVE Arcade titles such as Trials HD, LIMBO and Splosion Man, then this Triple Pack is definitely the deal for you.
The winners of the 14th annual Interactive Achievement Awards were announced at a ceremony last night, after an extensive list of nominees was announced in late January by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS).
As has become the trend at award ceremonies for games released in 2010, Red Dead Redemption cleaned up and took no less than five awards in categories such as ‘Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction’ and ‘Outstanding Character Performance,’ while Heavy Rain, Mass Effect 2 and Limbo also received multiple awards.
But which title won ‘Game of the Year’?
The full list of awards winners in 24 categories follows below:
Xbox frontman Major Nelson has provided us with some very interesting data this day in the form of a new Xbox LIVE Activity chart… but this is no ordinary activity chart, no-sir!
This compiled listing looks at the launch week activity (the first seven days) of various titles on Xbox LIVE over the course of 2010. Only games release last year were included in the chart, and only the top games in each category made their respective lists.
Based on unique users worldwide in 2010, you can see the top most played games on Xbox LIVE, the best-selling Xbox LIVE Arcade games, and the best-selling Xbox LIVE Indie games, all within the first seven days of their respective availability:
A little boy wakes up in a forest. Who is he? Why is he here? How did he get here? What should he do here? LIMBO asks all these questions without providing an answer.
Alongside Braid, LIMBO is the poster-child in the modern “Are games art?” debate. Presenting a surreal world in a minimalistic black and white art style, it leaves everything open to interpretation. The game flows from one area to the next seamlessly with no tempo breaking loading screens or actual indication of your progress. You will find yourself playing this late into the night as you push on discovering the world of LIMBO without realizing it.
Continue reading our review of LIMBO.
It’s time to kick the habit. I’ve been patient with you. I’ve been kind and I’ve offered professional help. But now it has to stop. This addiction to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is out of control.
Don’t tell me that ‘millions of people play it on Xbox LIVE every week’ and that you’re ‘no different.’ If ‘millions of people’ bought those $15 map packs, would you do the same?
Oh…
You’re in too deep. You’re tearing our dorm room apart! We want to play Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War!
Elsewhere, on Xbox LIVE:
The tragic story of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is relatively unknown, but is heartbreaking nonetheless.
Known as ‘Modern Warfare 2’ to its friends, the game grew up happy and extremely popular in its younger days, but as it got older, and people began to turn on it due to inevitable backlash, its heart grew cold and black and it started to lash out at its old friends.
Even though its popularity never waned, Modern Warfare 2’s lust for attention grew and grew, and it was never satisfied with the friends that it had – it started to steal friends from other games, like Halo 3 and its brother, Call of Duty: World at War, by handing out expensive gifts, and coveted its newfound companions like precious jewels, jealously guarding them against the temptation of others.
And so we find ourselves in the current situation – Modern Warfare 2 is still the most popular game on Xbox LIVE, surrounded by a sea of ‘friends’ who would sooner turn on it when the next best thing comes along than stay and keep it company.
Elsewhere on Xbox LIVE…
Today on Xbox LIVE Arcade you’ll be able to purchase and download what looks to be an awesome, intensely moody adventure platform game by the name of Limbo, which follows the journey of a boy entering a mysterious, perilous world in search of his sister.
Limbo will cost you 1200 MS Points, but as usual a demo is available for you to try out, so be sure to have a closer look at this game! It looks fantastic!
Incidentally, the release of Limbo also marks the beginning of XBLA’s ‘Summer of Arcade’ celebration which will include the launch of a number of games over the next few weeks, such as Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Monday Night Combat and Hydro Thunder Hurricane.
Continue on down below to see a selection of excellent gameplay videos from Limbo:
Xbox front man Major Nelson has updated everyone with the latest release schedule for Xbox LIVE Marketplace, just so that we know about all of the upcoming content set to hit the service in the next two weeks.
This schedule includes special price offers on all kinds of game add-ons, a heads-up on downloadable content for Alan Wake, Skate 3 and Super Street Fighter IV, as well as new Games on Demand games, while reminding us about the start of the Xbox LIVE Arcade ‘Summer of Arcade’ promotion, which kicks off tomorrow with the atmospheric adventure platform game, Limbo.
Check out the full list of new content set to hit Xbox LIVE Marketplace over the next two weeks, hereunder:
The third annual Xbox LIVE Summer of Arcade will kick off this month, on July 21st, with the release of Playdead’s eerie and intriguing adventure platform game, Limbo, while four subsequent Xbox LIVE Arcade releases following in consecutive weeks will round out this event celebrating the joys Summer… indoors, playing on your Xbox 360.
Other titles included in this year’s Summer of Arcade are Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and Monday Night Combat.
Check out the full release schedule below:
Microsoft has revealed a line-up of no less than five titles that will be included in this year’s Xbox LIVE ‘Summer of Arcade’ – the third such annual celebration of ‘Summer’ and ‘Arcade’ that the Xbox team has held.
Games included in the festivities will be Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Limbo, Lara Croft and the Guardian of the Light, and Monday Night Combat.
When the promotion starts this July, each game will release consecutively for a total of five weeks.
You can see all of the games in action in a great gameplay montage video below, as well as check out some official descriptions:
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