EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: reddeadredemption
It’s once again that time of the week when we take a virtual tour of all the new content on the US PlayStation Store. While the latest update doesn’t compare to what we’ve seen in recent weeks, there’s still plenty of shiny new stuff to keep you entertained.
Thanks to a bit of enormous news yesterday, we got to thinking about the fun and addictive nature of sandbox and open-world games, which lead us to this Question of the Day:
What about Grand Theft Auto, and open-world games, do you find most appealing?
Rockstar Games has announced that the Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition will be available this October.
The GOTY edition will include the original Red Dead Redemption game with a new hardcore singleplayer mode. It will also include all free and paid downloadable content packs released to date, including the single and multiplayer modes for Undead Nightmare, and downloadable content originally released as pre-order content.
Rockstar Games has revealed that the new free downloadable content for Red Dead Redemption, Myths and Mavericks, will be available this September.
The latest edition of the Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week has shambled onto Xbox LIVE Marketplace to provide Xbox LIVE Gold members with special price offers on a collection of zombie-themed games, as well as add-on content for undead games (i.e. older games that are kept alive thanks to fantastic on-going support from their developers… with brains).
Available until July 18th, exclusively to Xbox LIVE Gold members, here is that list of price reductions:
The weekend’s come early here at El33tonline, with today being a public holiday in South Africa most of the El33t team have taken Friday off to enjoy some extra gaming time.
It’s an interesting mix of games on the menu this weekend (isn’t it always), ranging from new releases like Alice: Madness Returns, Duke Nukem: Forever and inFamous 2 to older titles that are still worthy of our attention like Red Dead Redemption and Dead Nation.
Following on from the Independent Games Festival Awards on Wednesday evening last week, the ceremony rolled right into the prestigious Game Developers Choice Awards, an event that aims to recognise the very best accomplishments in the world of videogames.
The games chosen to receive an award at the Game Developers Choice Awards (and development teams behind these titles) this year included Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar, Minecraft from Mojang (continuing its winning ways from the IGF Awards), Mass Effect 2 and Limbo – but only one game could be crowned ‘Game of the Year’…
The full list of winners at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards is as follows:
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the full list of nominations for this year’s videogame portion of the academy’s awards ceremony.
With Red Dead Redemption not being considered for a BAFTA game award this year (Rockstar declined the opportunity to be nominated), victory opportunities have been opened up for other worthy games including Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Bioshock 2, God of War III and Call of Duty: Black Ops in the ‘Action’ category.
Fifteen other categories will also feature on the night to honour numerous great games from 2010.
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:
Last week, Xbox frontman Major Nelson alluded to a big special price sale that would be happening over on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace soon, giving us all an opportunity to save precious MS Points on tons of content for new and old games from Rockstar and 2K Games.
The full list of add-on content, full games and Xbox Avatar accessories that will be receiving price reductions on Xbox LIVE Marketplace from today until January 31st follows below:
Now that 2010 has been capped with the release of December NPD sales data, and following difficult calculations like addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, and the storing of this data in a time machine for future calculations, we can have a look at the top-selling games of 2010.
If you follow these numbers on a monthly basis, then there won’t be any surprises… save for one. Possibly. Have a look at the top-ten best-selling games of 2010 in the US below:
Tons of fantastic titles were released this year, so the task of choosing the very best of the best was extremely difficult! How do you squeeze over thirty amazing games into the space of just ten slots? Impossible, but as is tradition, necessary.
So to compile a final Top Ten list of the ultimate games of 2010, we called on El33tonline’s readers to vote for your favourite title, and thanks to your input, we’ve finally got that list!
We’ve tallied the votes, so without further ado, here are El33tonline’s Game of the Year winners, as voted on by you:
Three incredible games are getting multiplayer experience boosts this weekend to celebrate Halloween, which means that if you play the respective games, you’ll be able to earn much more in-game XP than you would usually be able to do.
Let’s first take a look at Activision Blizzard and Bizarre Creation’s excellent Blur weekend event, which will offer double XP from now until the end of Sunday.
Are you a PlayStation Plus subscriber? Do you reside in what the PlayStation Family would count as a ‘European region’?
Well then we’ve got some good news for you this fine day!
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