After several teases and small drips of information, we finally got our first look at the upcoming “The Lost and the Damned” downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto 4 at tonight’s Spike TV Video Game Awards. Check out the “Brothers” trailer above, debuting several of the new characters and showing off some of Rockstar’s famed cinema sequences, and let us know what you think.
As promised, tonight’s Spike Video Game Awards showed off the debut trailer for God of War 3. Though the trailer gives us very little game footage to look at (only about 20 seconds), it should give us an idea of what to expect. Check out the trailer above, and let us know if you shout expletives like David Jaffe, and check out the reaction blog from our resident Kratos superfan Matt Leone to see his own theories on where this game is taking the series.
Actress Kim Kardashian helpfully introduced the game by informing viewers that it is “based on a book.” The trailer itself provided a bit more info:
“In 1300, Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy. Part one, called Dante’s Inferno described Hell in nine circles.
Adding to its ever-expanding pile of songs and albums, Pearl Jam’s debut album Ten will be coming to Rock Band 2 in March of 2009. The reveal comes from a casual exchange between Geoff Keighley and Stacy Keibler during tonight’s Spike TV Video Game Awards. The full album includes the following tracks, and chances are you recognize at least a few:
A trailer shown at tonight’s Spike Video Game Awards revealed that the “Combustible” map pack for Gears of War 2 will be coming to Xbox Live tonight at midnight, Pacific time. The map pack includes three maps: “Flood” with rising immulsion levels, branching paths in “Gold Rush,” and the explosive “Fuel Station.” Soon after, Gears 2 (unsurprisingly) won Best Shooter and Best Xbox 360 Game. We didn’t hear a price mentioned for the map pack, but we’ll all know how much it will cost soon enough. We’ll update with the trailer soon, so you can see it for yourself in case you missed it.
“Soulja Boy video game is coming for Xbox 360 in 2009,” Soulja Boy said to Complex (via Xbox360Fanboy). He went on to recount the harrowing tale of how his game came to be. What you are about to see is true and accurate, and we promise we didn’t make any of this up.
“After I put the Xbox 360 challenge up on the Internet, it was over all these video game sites,” Soulja Boy said.
The remake is being developed by Spellbound Studios, where Armin Gessert, the game’s original programmer, now resides. It’ll feature updated graphics and remixes of the game’s original music, which will no doubt be wasted on the majority of players who never got to try the original game out in the first place.
As explained on the official SOCOM: Confrontation blog (via Joystiq), the two new systems are interlocked. You’ll be able to select Quick Match from the main menu, which will then take you to the party screen, where you can invite your friends. Once your party is set, you can then find other parties to quickly join in three game types: 16×16 Ranked, 16×16 Unranked, and 16×16 Respawn.
The announcement doesn’t seem to directly affect the two studios EA already has in Vancouver — Black Box and EA Canada — although it was intended to provide extra space to accommodate their Vancouver staff. Planning for the studio began last year, but EA has stated they’ve already leased the space the studio was to be built in to a new tenant.
“These are challenging times, they’re uncertain times for our industry and across the board,” EA spokesman Colin Macrae said.
The offer hasn’t actually gone live yet, as right now there’s only a message stating to “come back soon to redeem your five free songs.” A few questions, then, remain unanswered.
