This week we cover downloadable content. We go into detail on good and bad DLC, the types of DLC and the cost. Please take part in the discussion by commenting below. Let us know the best DLC you’ve ever paid for, and the worst!

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Mass Effect’s Associate Producer Mike Gamble has in a recent interview said that it might be a good idea for players to keep their ME3 saves around. While Bioware has irrefutable stated that the story of Commander Shepard will end after ME3 the universe will live on. Whether through “moar” DLC  or possible spin-offs. The thought of the choices you make having furhter, possibly dire, repercussions In another game (and seen from another angle) seems mindboggling awesome.

A similar  of this could possibly be found in another interview of Mike Gamble last week, wherein he talks of putting some of Mass Effect’s stories to rest:

 [The ending of Mass Effect 3] going to make some people extremely happy; it’s going to make some people angry,” he said. “But that’s part of it, right? To invoke the emotion putting some of these stories to bed will naturally bring up.

Peculiar innit?

Source: The Escapist

Bioware is rolling out the newest patch on the public test realms. The patch contains a plethora of tweaks and balances of the various classes with a main focus on the Jedi Counsular and the Sith counterpart, the Sith Inquisitor. The release of said patch is not set in stone yet but it’s expected to arrive during the weekly maintenance on Tuesday.

Check the link below for the patch notes in their entirety.

Source: Them patch notes

Remedy has, finally, pulled themselves together and announced the release date for the PC version of Alan Wake. The game will hit Steam and Origin on 12 February and a boxed retail version will be arriving soon. Currently the game is slated for a Steam price of 30$ (incl all the DLC) and  35$ for the Limited Eiditon.

The downside of Alan Wake is that he’s late to the party. And by late I mean really really late. Alan Wake was released on the Xbox 21 months ago! Now on one hand this smells a tad of a lazy lazy port to the PC platform. However, Remedy have been sporting quite the array of features added for the new version. So time will tell whether or not it has been worth the wait.

Those key PC version enhancements in full:

• Experience Alan Wake’s Pacific Northwest in higher resolutions and higher fidelity than ever before.
• Refined and fully configurable mouse and keyboard support (or if you prefer to play with the Microsoft gamepad connected to your PC, you can do that too!) .
• A wide selection of customizable graphics settings and support for 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios.
• Multithreaded engine that takes advantage of quad core CPUs.
• Additional options our fans have sought after, such as field of view adjustment as well as “hide HUD”.
• Works with AMD Eyefinity 3D 3-screen mode.
• Works with NVIDIA NVISION2 Stereoscopic 3D.

So if you never got the chance to experience this David Lynch /win Peak-esque game, now might be the time to give it a go.

From: The Black Lodge

We now have a gameplay trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines! Hooray! Despite the horror show that was the last Alien based game (I shall not name it, for it was fucking terrible), I’m actually quite looking forward to this one. It looks quite good, and it’s high time we had another decent Aliens game. Take a glance, and dare to get a tiny bit excited.

Well, season five is almost at an end for Starcraft 2, and as such the leaderboards will be locked on 14th February, which is a Tuesday. According to a statement on Battle.net, season 6 will begin on 20th February:

During the Season 5 lock, you can no longer be promoted or demoted out of your current league or division, and your bonus pool will stop growing. The hidden ratings used to determine promotions and demotions will continue to update during the Season 5 lock and be used for matchmaking purposes. This means that if you play significantly better or worse than your assigned league at the time of the lock, your league may change when Season 6 begins.

That might well provide a good time for you to get that sneaky promotion you’ve been looking for, so get practicing!

And lo, the clouds parted and a voice was heard from the heavens, and it did decree thusly: “Max Payne 3 shall be forthcoming on the 1st of the month of June”, and there was much rejoicing among the peoples of the world. To celebrate this day, they all watched the trailer embedded above, to sate their appetites and slake their thirst. The voice also spake that  those peoples of the North Americas will receive this gift on the 29th of May. Which is bullshit and meaningless as the Internet does not have timezones, but there you go.

Like the dedicated and generous chap I am, I’ve taken on the new bots that have hit the Fields of Justice, risking life and limb to report back on them for your benefit. I don’t want any man to die because he didn’t know what threats to expect on a mission, and it’s with that in mind that I present my memoirs today. Give them a good read, and take it all in, because one day sometime soon, you’ll be facing these monster and you’ll need all the help you can get to overcome the greatest threat new players to League of Legends have ever faced.

My first game was with Wukong. As a character I’ve played extensively, I felt I know enough about him to be able to do what I usually do in bot games. That is, go in like a mental and kill everything in sight. This simple goal in mind, I went into lane and started farming. Straight away, you notice a difference. The bots no longer single mindedly chase you all the way back to the turret the second they see you. They push you out of lane, use abilities, and try and keep you away, but the suicidal dashes of yester year are behind them. This by itself is a good thing, as it’s rare you’ll see two real players rushing towards you the minute you step foot in the lane. As the game progressed, I found my usual tactic of chasing down the bots for cheeky kills simply didn’t work. Every time I tried to get that last hit, another bot would appear from the jungle or the river and take me out. There wasn’t co-ordination as such, but the bots went roaming a lot earlier, and took our team by surprise a few times because of it.

The best thing about the new bots is not the lack of suicidal tendencies, nor the roaming though. No, the best thing is the way in which they use their abilities. Lux is a bot to be feared. She will trap, slow, and then laser you, and she will do it quickly. Her aim is good as well, she doesn’t miss. Malphite will slow you and debuff you, and his ultimate does not get wasted.  So these new bots roam the map, move the through the jungle, ambush you, and can use their abilities. Is there any hope for the new player?

Well yes, there is. The new bots are good, there’s no doubt about it, but they’re not experienced player good. They can do the damage, they can chain the abilities, but they lack player reactions and decision making. They are now excellent training, and should give new players a bigger number of champions to learn about, but they won’t be stamping player teams into the floor.

The balance is just right, as far as I’m concerned. They’re good enough to train against for the newer players, and they provide enough of a challenge, but they’re not a replacement for an actual PVP match. Hopefully, newer players will get to PVP with more experience and a better feel for the game than they did with the old bots, and hopefully more veteran players will be able to more accurately gauge new builds and champions by playing against them too.

Commanding his crew of mercs, Stylosa goes off to fight the good fight. To win the war. Sort of. This is Jagged Alliance Back In Action, the modern take on the 1994 Sir-tech Software classic, Jagged Alliance.

Jagged Alliance Back in Action is a contemporary remake of the latest title in the much-loved Jagged Alliance series of turn-based mercenary-themed strategy games. Designed from the ground up to offer a modern gaming experience.

On the 7th February, Ubisoft are moving their servers. This would be of no consequence to anyone if it were not for the fact that these servers are required to play legitimately bought Ubisoft games such as HAWX, 2, Might and Magic: Heroes 6 and all other games carrying the disgusting and stupid Ubisoft DRM. Unfortunately, due to this horror show DRM, if you happen to want to play your Ubisoft games on the 7th, you can’t. You can’t play them multiplayer, singleplayer, on a boat, on a plane, on your PC, on a calculator, nowhere. You simply cannot play your games, because Ubisoft are fucking stupid and want to give an accurate simulation of what it will be like if they go arse over face, i.e. their servers go offline and anyone who has parted with cash to play Ubisoft’s games get shafted.

Obviously, if you’ve pirated any of the games that use this DRM, you won’t be affected in the slightest, and won’t even notice. Well done once again Ubisoft, you bunch of incompetents.