Deals apply till 20th May.
Battlefield 3's various DLC packs comprise this week's Deal of the Week. Did you forget? Don't worry, that's what we're here for.
Cityscapes and Spacedomes and Panzerhunds, oh my.
Bethesda has just unleashed a fresh batch of assets for Wolfenstein: The New Order, a first person shooter scheduled for release this year on current and next-gen consoles. Set in Europe in the 1960s, the game stars American war hero B.J. Blazkowicz (no sniggering back there) as he goes up against oversized Nazi robots, hulking Super Soldiers and elite shock troops.
800 MP for three new tech trees. Bliss?.
Gearbox has released the Borderlands 2 Psycho DLC on Xbox Live, thereby extending the game's psychopathic spectrum by an unhealthy margin. The pack adds Krieg, a melee-skewed nutjob who talks to himself, and costs 800 MP. Queue up your download here.
"We're treating this as a massive, massive triple-A title.".
Namco played it safe with the original Dark Souls marketing budget, and with good reason - this, after all, is the game that takes pride in being inaccessible. According to PR director Lee Kirton, however, the publisher has no qualms about blowing the bank on Dark Souls 2.
Rockstar and 2K focusing their marketing and PR in a series of summer events instead.
Those of us hoping for a few more tasty morsels of info on GTAV are going to go hungry come E3, as Take Two have confirmed that none of their upcoming games will be allotted floor space at the show next month.
US Vice President wants to see a study done on the effects of violent media.
As part of a recent gun legislation meeting with around 20 religious leaders and representatives, the Vice President of the United States has admitted that there is no legal reason why violent media couldn't be subject to taxation.
All well and good. But where's our gameplay footage, Bungie?.
Bungie's Destiny continues to be the source of some mighty fine concept artworks and renders, with no less than 23 new wallpaper-sized shots arriving care of the game's subreddit. I'm starting to get antsy about the absence of actual screenshots, though. Concept artwork in general tends to look gorgeous, after all, and is relatively inexpensive to produce.
Trion Worlds details mixture of free and paid content.
Trion Worlds' MMO shooter Defiance continues to be a Thing, despite significant bugs and mixed reviews. Taking to the Defiance community site, executive producer Nathan Richardsson has addressed the game's on-going technical issues, thanked fans for their support, and outlined plans for future DLC.
2K Marin takes a swing at both BioWare and the Sixties.
Have you read Aoife's The Bureau: XCOM Declassified hands-on? Because you should. It contains heartening verbal constructions, such as "insta-death", along with less heartening verbal constructions, such as "the cover system is too sticky".
Combat revamped.
In case you missed it, sprawling brawler sequel Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 is issue 99's cover game. Log went to see the game at MercurySteam's HQ in Madrid, and found the combat systems to be a mix of old and new.
DLC itself to follow on 14th May.
Gearbox has released a launch trailer for Borderlands 2's Psycho DLC pack, thus implying that it's out now. As opposed to 14th May, for instance. Don't do this to me, Gearbox. It's too early in the morning for your parlour games.
343 to throw Xbox Live playdate on 3rd June.
Halo 4's next matchmaking update will introduce a new playlist dedicated to user-customised Forge Island maps, 343 has announced. Expect it on 20th May, with further details to arrive this week.
High end PC simulates the majesty of new consoles, supposedly.
Ubisoft has released (or at least, neglected to prevent the release of) six whole minutes of Watch Dogs gameplay footage, running on a high end PC that's said to be representative of the power of next generation consoles. Don't be fooled - that may be an Xbox 360 controller the player's using, but the day your current gen console outputs this level of fidelity is the day Atlantis resurfaces, takes flight and conquers the Moon.
"There's so much that could be told in the Mass Effect universe.".
BioWare may be done with Commander Shepard, but there are plenty of other candidates for the role of Mass Effect lead. Speaking to OXM in our new issue, on sale now, the developer's Casey Hudson, Mac Walters, Dusty Everman, Mike Gamble and Preston Watamaniuk have discussed a few of the spin-off games that might yet be.
"People shouldn't anticipate any compromise on what Watch Dogs is at its soul for current gen.".
Speaking to OXM at a Watch Dogs event this week, Ubisoft has discussed how exactly next generation versions of the game will differ from their homely last gen brethren. Long story short, it's the same game on Xbox 360, but the environmental trappings will be vastly more impressive on new hardware.
Ubisoft's cyber-chiller does nasty things to shiny bodywork.
Brand new screenshots of Ubisoft's Watch Dogs have appeared online, care of NeoGAF. They show main character Aidan Pearce engaged in various forms of cyber-criminality, such as hacking traffic lights to cause accidents and lowering garage doors on top of police cars. What a scalliwag.
The Oddworld FPS they could still make.
In case you missed it, we've just published a rather fun feature about Oddworld - the franchise time forgot, that's back with a bang this year. It is my great personal pleasure to present 12 artworks for unreleased Oddworld Inhabitants project the Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot, including some exclusive new images.
Meet the Warlock, Titan and Hunter.
After month upon month of fey, fickle viral marketing, Bungie's abruptly let rip with a bunch of new Destiny details, shedding a lot more light on the always-online shooter's character classes, areas and perfidious inhuman foes. We've rounded the lot up below, with subheadings. You know it's genuine new info, when there are subheadings.
Five soldiers revealed via Twitter.
Characters from the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts have been leaked via a Twitter user. It's possible that the five soldiers featured could be main characters from the game's single player campaign.
Staff sent home after company files for bankruptcy.
The troubles of TimeGate Studios continue this week, as Kotaku sources suggest that the company has laid off its entire staff. The news comes hot on the heels of reports that TimeGate filed a petition for chapter 11 bankruptcy last week.