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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle A USA Today report is the setting for the announcement of Grand Theft Auto IV’s long-awaited piece of downloadable content. Titled “Lost and Damned”, the DLC will be available on February 19, and will leave Niko’s story behind (though he will make a few cameo appearances) to follow the exploits of Johnny Klebitz, a member of the Lost biker gang that the game’s radio channels liked to talk about so much. Rockstar’s Dan Houser:
A moment’s silence for the deceased PSP/4GB bundle. It was taken before its time. While Sony saw fit to publicise one bundle’s demise, however, a new bundle has arrived on the scene completely unannounced. Looking a lot like the PSP/Ratchet & Clank deal from a few months back (because it essentially still is the same deal), this new offer includes a black PSP-3000, instead of a silver one, and includes a voucher for Everyday Shooter instead of a voucher for Echocrome. Everything else – National Treasure, Ratchet & Clank, $US199 – remains the same.
While the NXE’s ability to let you install 360 games to your HDD is mostly a good thing (no more disc read errors at my house), it’s been revealed that there’s a few hiccups. You’d think that copying a game to your 360′s hard drive would speed things up. Faster load times, that kind of thing. But in some cases it doesn’t. Especially when it comes to Halo 3. Tests have already shown the game runs faster on disc than it does on HDD, and today Bungie have come out and confirmed this. Confirmed it, and explained it.
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Midway probably won’t be happy at the lost rental revenues (why else would you pick the game up?), but whatever. Here’s a clip showing every single fatality that can be performed in Mortal Kombat vs DC. Even the Joker’s move that was cut from the US version. Some of them are pretty neat, but for a game involving comic book superheroes, we were hoping for a little showmanship.
[via MTV]
You may as well settle in. Just like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, it looks like LittleBigPlanet will be bringing us enough DLC to justify multiple posts a week on the subject. Today’s comes courtesy of Sony Japan, who – bless them – love to announce their DLC ahead of time. Next week, two new LBP costumes will be made available in Japan; a turkey head, and a Resistance 2 outfit. Given the timing, we’ll assume that the turkey head is to symbolise thanksgiving, and given the particularly American nature of that holiday, we’ll assume it’ll be available in the US next week too. Can’t see why it wouldn’t bring the Chimera head along with it.
LittleBigPlanet [SCEJ, via Siliconera]
Changes are afoot at PlayStation.com next week. The official site is making single sign-on across all things PlayStation that much closer to reality, bringing improved gamer profile features. Starting sometime next week, you’ll be able to log in to the site with your PlayStation Network ID. No Trophy integration just yet, but you’ll be able to keep an eye on your friends list via the official site and rate and review your games. We’re getting there, I guess.
Considering the scale of the operation, the roll-out of the New Xbox Experience went pretty damn well. Didn’t, however, go perfectly. There were a few glitches here and there. Netflix took a while to get going (though that problem was likely to have been on Netflix’s end of things), but more pressingly, the XBL Marketplace has been patchy ever since launch. For a lot of people, either you can access it and it’s really, really slow, or you can’t access it at all. If it’s any comfort, Microsoft know it’s broken, Larry Hryb writing on his blog:
When Google launched Lively, its web-based Second Life-esque virtual chat space, we said we’d “check back in with it soon” and “dig deeper to see what Google has in store.” That was a lie. We never had any intention of firing up Lively on our Windows XP box ever again after hitting Save on the post. Fortunately, we’ll never be tempted to make right on that fib, as Lively will never make it past beta, nor will it survive into 2009. Google announced it was shutting down Lively at the end of the year today.
