This week on Arcade - 24th Feb

Greed Corp

Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Why share when you can have it all? Greed Corp is an online multiplayer strategy game in which you battle for dominance over a world once rich in resources. In order to prevail, you must exhaust all remaining resources to build an army, and use the depleted collapsing terrain to your advantage. An extensive campaign mode and multiple unlockables prepare you to take the battle online.

Fret Nice

Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
FRET NICE™ is a 2D platformer that’ll rock your world. Control your character through funky-fresh stages to explore hidden areas, collect items, and clash note-for-note with outrageous, heavy metal bosses! Rock out by blasting enemies with riff combos and creating your own sounds with each “strum” of a chord!

Lazy Raiders

Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Dr. Diggabone's getting too old for archaeological digs, or so he says. But truth be told, he’s just plain lazy… Unlock the Full Game and send the Doctor or your Xbox LIVE Avatar on a gravity-defying quest through 75 mazes by spinning and flipping the world. Beware those thieves, minions and traps, though. Without any challenge, you'd just grow lazy… and we wouldn’t want that, now would we?

F1 2010 to be revealed next month

Codemasters has said that F1 2010 will be revealed to the public for the first time in March.

Speaking to Sim Racing World, the company said the game for 360, PS3 and PC would be shown for the first time on March 17.

Its the first next gen F1 game since Codemasters picked up the rights to the F1 franchise from Sony in 2008, - and a long awaited one at that.

The 2010 season starts on March 14 in Bahrain.

Army of Two: The 40th Day DLC announced, coming in April

EA has today announced DLC for Army of Two: The 40th Day, titled Chapters of Deceit. 


Continuing the recent trend of launching content that probably should have been in the full game, Chapters of Deceit has you and buddy continue the action over two more levels where you stumble across information that could lead to the end of the invasion by Jonah and the 40th Day Initiative army. Guess the few people that actually play this game may be mildly excited ...

The DLC will launch on April 1st for 800 Microsoft points.

More Halo from Bungie?

While talking to CVG Bungie said that seeing Halo: Reach as their final involvement in the Halo franchise may be 'premature'.

Although Bungie is treating it as their last game in the franchise, they won't say it definately is their final piece.

Brian Jarrard, the community boss at Bungie said: "You know, it might be premature to say we'll never ever, ever make a Halo game again. We sort of have a little special place for Halo in our hearts. But for the foreseeable future, this is it."


"There is a degree of pressure there but I also think that inspires our team. If we don't ever come back to Halo again, we better damn well make sure that our last game is the best one ever. Let's set that bar really high and at least leave our fans something really special."


This is good news to all the hardcore Halo fans, and lets face it, there is a lot of them out there. 

Wossy says October for Natal, Microsoft say nay nay!

TV host Jonathan Ross last night tweeted that Project Natal will hit shelves in October.
This comes after the host, a fan of video games, and of spoilers apparently, got to try out the upcoming product last night.

He tweeted:

OK. Before bed. Natal on X Box impressive. Not quite there yet i think but tye have til october and if they get it right...skys the limit.


October eh? Well Microsoft don't think so.

VG247 were told :


"There have been no further announcements on the release date of Project Natal. It remains scheduled for Christmas 2010"


Sounds to us like an overly mouthy Microsoft rep let it slip, or Wossy got it wrong totally.
Either way, we still don't know, but what we do know is we can watch the man himself playing Natal below! Enjoy.

Gordon Brown praises the UK Games Industry

The PM has said that the UK is home to the most important games industry in all of Europe, and who is to say he's wrong? Some of the major developers here in the UK include Rocksteady (Arkham Asylum), Lionhead (Fable) and of course Rockstar (GTA).

His comments have come from this podcast about the Global Investment Conference (GIC).

In the podcast he states that UK developers are "by far the biggest producer of computer games in Europe" and promised that there will be new commitments of investment in this area.

Listen to the podcast, and tell us if you think this could be the start of an even brighter future for the UK games industry.

Bioshock 2 DLC Detailed

2K Games announced today that Bioshock 2 will be receiving some very welcome DLC. They have stated that both mulitplayer and singleplayer experiences will be catered for. However the first pack called "Sinclair Solutions Test Pack" will be multiplayer content only and will bring with it; Rank cap increased to 50, 2 new playable characters, a third upgrade for each weapon, 5 additional masks and 20 new trials. The DLC is set to be released in March with a price of 400MSP. The other DLC will be released over the course of the year.