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First Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC Arrives on January 24 for Xbox 360

Activision has just confirmed that its blockbuster Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 shooter will be getting its first piece of downloadable content on January 24, 2012, in the form of a map pack that will be deployed onto the Xbox 360 platform and will be available for download by Call of Duty Elite premium subscribers...

22 December 2011
06:51 GMT

First Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC Details Already Leaked

Barely has Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 been on sale and already a batch of supposed details about its first downloadable map pack has been leaked on the web.According to Kotaku, the report includes the names of the five maps that will be part of this DLC, which are called Morning Wood, Concrete, Park, Italy, ...

28 November 2011
14:21 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Fourth DLC Map Pack Is Possible

Call of Duty: Black Ops may be getting a fourth downloadable map pack later this year, as its development studio, Treyarch, mentioned that fans should keep their eyes peeled for more news.Call of Duty: Black Ops is one of the best-selling games of all time, managing to topple sales records left and right since its re...

29 June 2011
18:31 GMT

Killzone 3 From the Ashes DLC Out This Week

Killzone 3, the newest first person shooter from Guerrilla Games exclusive to the PlayStation 3 is set to receive its third downloadable content pack later this week, entitled From the Ashes. Killzone 3 impressed many gamers at the beginning of the year, thanks to its sharp graphics, refined gameplay and lots of v...

20 June 2011
14:21 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation Map Pack Announced Officially

Call of Duty: Black Ops is set to receive a brand new downloadable map pack, in the form of the Annihilation DLC, which has been announced officially by Treyarch, the game's developer, and Activision, its publisher. Call of Duty: Black Ops set new world records in terms of sales, becoming one of the best-sell...

16 June 2011
09:45 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation DLC Coming on June 28, Leaked Poster Says

Another day, another leaked photo with the upcoming downloadable content for Call of Duty: Black Ops, as after yesterday's leak, we now get more details, including the name of the new map pack, Annihilation, and a release date, most likely for the Xbox 360 console, of June 28.Call of Duty: Black Ops is one of th...

16 June 2011
05:55 GMT

Third Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC Map Pack Leaked

The third piece of downloadable content for the recent Call of Duty: Black Ops first-person shooter may have been leaked onto the web, as a new blurry photo of a flyer presents the five new maps that will be added to the game.Call of Duty: Black Ops is currently one of the best-selling games of all time and one of th...

15 June 2011
08:40 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack Confirmed, Coming May 3

Activision and Treyarch have officially confirmed the second downloadable map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, the Escalation DLC, which was leaked last week and will be arriving at the beginning of May. Call of Duty: Black Ops has been selling a huge amount of copies all over the world, and the first map pack re...

12 April 2011
04:25 GMT

Next Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC, Escalation, Leaked Before May Launch

The next downloadable map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops, presumably called Escalation, has just been leaked onto the web alongside its release date at the beginning of May. Call of Duty: Black Ops, the massively popular and record breaking first-person shooter launched by Activision and Treyarch, is set to cont...

6 April 2011
04:30 GMT

Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack Get Release Date and Screenshots

The Defiant Map Pack for Halo: Reach has just received a concrete release date from Microsoft as well as a new batch of screenshots ahead of its launch next month. Microsoft has been hyping up its hardcore offers and, besides the Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta, which received new details earlier today, has now su...

25 February 2011
17:21 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike DLC Hits PS3 and PC Soon

The First Strike downloadable map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops has finally received some details about the PlayStation 3 and PC versions, including likely release dates. Call of Duty: Black Ops has been one of the biggest first-person shooters of the last year, earning a huge amount of money through regular sa...

11 February 2011
03:30 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike DLC Out Now, Problems Reported

Call of Duty: Black Ops has just received its first piece of downloadable content, in the form of the First Strike Map Pack, but issues are already popping up, according to reports from Ubisoft. Call of Duty: Black Ops has broken sales records since it was released last November, and is aiming to increase its prof...

1 February 2011
09:00 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Reaches 1 Billion in Sales

Publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that their first-person shooter blockbuster Call of Duty: Black Ops has managed to sell enough copies to register 1 billion United States dollars in sales and is on track to break other records set by its predecessor Modern Warfare 2. The previous release in the Call of ...

27 December 2010
03:33 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike DLC Detailed

After a pretty surprising announcement at the beginning of the week, the first downloadable content for Call of Duty: Black Ops, entitled First Strike, has now been detailed by Treyarch, the studio behind the game, and Activision, its publisher. As it was revealed on Monday, First Strike will be deployed as a time...

22 December 2010
04:00 GMT

First Call of Duty: Black Ops Map Pack Revealed

The first piece of downloadable content for Call of Duty: Black Ops will be released in February, as a timed exclusive for the Xbox 360, and pack four new maps and a new scenario for the zombie mode.Call of Duty: Black Ops crushed its opposition and broke records in terms of sales back in November, when it was releas...

20 December 2010
04:20 GMT

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Gets Free VIP Map Pack 7 DLC

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 players will be in for a major treat in the following weeks as not only will the game receive a new patch on the PC, but also a brand new downloadable map pack, in the form of the VIP Map Pack 7.Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is being supported by its developer DICE, many months after its initi...

9 November 2010
18:01 GMT

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 DLC Map Packs Are Now Cheaper

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was without a doubt the biggest game to hit last year, blowing away its competition and selling a huge amount of copies all around the world, as well as a lot of its downloadable map packs that were launched this year.Now, just before Call of Duty: Black Ops will arrive on the market, a...

5 October 2010
17:21 GMT

Support for Halo: Reach Will Focus on Multiplayer Maps

Halo: Reach is one of the most important video game launches of the fall and the developers at Bungie are saying that they plan on a long period of offering support and additional content for the game with the focus being on delivering more maps for the multiplayer modes that the title will introduce.In a statement a...

30 August 2010
15:01 GMT

Call of Duty Map Packs Sold 20 Million Units

Activision, the publisher of the very successful Call of Duty series, has announced that the map packs it has developed for the titles in the series have managed to sell more than 20 million units worldwide. The concept of downloadable content that is paid for by the player has been introduced with Call of Duty 3, a ...

3 August 2010
05:19 GMT

Call of Duty Map Packs Will First Come to the Xbox 360 until 2012

Activision Publishing, one of the biggest videogame publishers in the industry, and Microsoft, the manufacturer of the Xbox 360 home console, have announced they have entered a new deal, which will see all incoming map packs and add ons for the Call of Duty franchise arriving first on the Microsoft made platform.The ...

15 June 2010
07:44 GMT

Resurgence Map Pack for Modern Warfare 2 Arrives on June 3

Activision, as the publisher, and Infinity Ward, as the developer, have announced that the second map pack for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is set to arrive on June 3 exclusively on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. The map pack is called Resurgence and will be made up of five new maps tailored to widen the range of mul...

14 May 2010
05:22 GMT

DICE Pledges to Never Charge for Bad Company 2 Maps

Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the first person shooter DICE put together and Electronic Arts published, is arguably better than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 from Infinity Ward and Activision despite lower sales. And it seems that the culture behind the two titles is also very different, one of the developers saying t...

6 April 2010
04:07 GMT

New Maps Announced for Battlefield Bad Company 2 for March 30

DICE, the developer of the long running Battlefield series, has announced that two more maps for Bad Company 2 are set to be released on March 30 on all the consoles on which the game is available and on the PC. The good news is that the two fresh combat fields will be offered for free to all those who have bought a ...

15 March 2010
10:03 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack Coming on March 30

The Twitter feed of Robert Bowling, the creative strategist at developer Infinity Ward, seems to be suggesting that the first Map Pack for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 should arrive on the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft on March 30, with versions for the PC and the PlayStation 3 from Sony set to be del...

10 March 2010
05:23 GMT

First Modern Warfare 2 Map Pack Comes in Spring 2010

Modern Warfare 2, the first person shooter from Infinity Ward and Activision, is set to be released on November 10, 2009 and will probably attract millions of gamers. Some of them will buy the videogame for the single player campaign, which will probably be as tight and explosive as that from the first title in the s...

1 October 2009
07:19 GMT

Killzone 2 Napalm and Cordite DLC Pack Arrives This Week, Video Included

The PlayStation 3 hasn't really experienced a lot of blockbuster exclusives this year, but it certainly started 2009 with a bang when the team at Guerrilla Games finally released their eagerly anticipated Killzone 2 first person shooter. The title went on to become quite successful, and its multiplayer mode is ...

21 July 2009
02:48 GMT

Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1 Reaches 2 Million Downloads

The Call of Duty franchise continues to be one of Activision's flagship products, as almost anything remotely related to it seems to achieve big sales left and right. Such is the case with the first pack of downloadable content for the latest iteration in the series, Call of Duty: World at War, which has broken ...

7 May 2009
02:45 GMT

Killzone 2 Steel and Titanium Dated for the End of April

Killzone 2 was one of the most anticipated games for the PlayStation 3 coming out at the beginning of this year, as it was the sequel to a very popular PlayStation 2 title. It sold very well and, at least according to some Sony officials, it has made a lot of Xbox 360 users switch sides to experience this shooter. A...

16 April 2009
15:01 GMT

Bungie Will Create More Halo 3 Content

Bungie is in quite a strange situation at the moment. It has created one of the most successful and profitable franchises in the history of videogames with Halo and its iconic symbol, Master Chief and had a very lucrative working relation with Microsoft. The developer separated itself from the mothership and is repor...

27 March 2009
05:27 GMT

Gears of War 2 Gets New Experience System and DLC Map Pack

Gears of War 2 was one of the biggest games to hit the stores at the end of last year, as it was the successor to one of the most popular ones ever made for the Xbox 360 console. With the hype campaign having reached critical levels just as the game was launched, players welcomed it with open arms, which led to some ...

16 March 2009
04:24 GMT

Call of Duty: World At War DLC Map Pack Dated and Detailed

The Call of Duty franchise has been one of the most talked about in the last few weeks, as more and more rumors appeared about the next iteration in the series, Infinity Ward's CoD: Modern Warfare 2 title. But all of these speculations almost made us forget about the announcement that the Treyarch studio made re...

13 March 2009
15:11 GMT

Mirror's Edge Time Trial Map Pack Arrives Today

Mirror's Edge was one of the most innovative titles to appear last year, having stunned a lot of gamers with its gorgeous graphics, lifelike gameplay and intricate puzzles that the main character of the game, Faith, needed to run through.  While the single player was pretty entertaining, the shortness of t...

20 February 2009
02:18 GMT

CoD: World at War DLC Gets Detailed and Dated

We reported yesterday that one of the community managers from Treyarch, the creator of the extremely popular Call of Duty: World at War title, has made it clear that a DLC (Downloadable Content) pack filled with new maps for the multiplayer and the ever so popular Nazy Zombie co-op mode that is unlocked at the end of...

11 February 2009
16:51 GMT

Battlefield Multiplayer Maps Free on Xbox Live

DICE is announcing having released the long named Battlefield: Bad Company Community Choice Pack on Xbox Live. The pack is free to download and is basically made up of four single player maps that have been adapted by the company to be playable in multiplayer.Two of the maps themselves were picked through a vote of t...

11 November 2008
15:31 GMT

Variety Map Pack for Call of Duty 4 Also Coming to the PC

The people at Infinity Ward are busy these days with their Variety Map Pack release for the Xbox 360 game console, but they also have the time to announce how things will progress on the map front for the PlayStation 3 and for the PC owners.There were some initial issues with the map pack, mainly the fact that it spe...

8 April 2008
18:06 GMT

Call of Duty Map Pack Due Soon

Call of Duty 4 was, by most accounts, the biggest game of last year. Sure, Portal had much more innovation packed into its 2-hour campaign. Crysis might have had more freedom of action and a more tight gameplay. But Call of Duty 4 provided something that other games didn't: a cinematic experience complete with e...

2 April 2008
18:06 GMT

Heroic Maps for Halo 3 Are Free

Officially released in January with a price of 800 Microsoft Xbox points the map pack is now free downloadable content for the Xbox console. The main reason for this rather surprising move is that a new map pack, dubbed the Legendary Map Pack, will make its way to the Xbox 360 on April 15. The price will remain the s...

26 March 2008
17:06 GMT

Sudden Strike 3 Arms For Victory New Map Pack

If you're into the RTS genre and a fan of Fireglow Games' Sudden Strike 3 Arms For Victory, this here piece of news should interest you quite a bit as the publisher has recently confirmed a downloadable map pack for the game, also containing a patch with numerous improvements and bug fixes.The maps within t...

4 January 2008
04:15 GMT

Crysis Tournament Map Pack. Download Here!

Crysis hasn't even been out for two months now and Crytek is already offering free maps. The first official map pack for one of the best looking FPSs out there today is available right HERE for instant download. Maps have been "tested over several weeks and are optimized for competitive gamelay," according to Cr...

3 January 2008
13:21 GMT

Halo 3 Heroes, Go Get Your Heroic Map Pack Now!

Here's a question for you: what are you doing reading this piece when you should be downloading the Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack? It's already up for grabs via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. You can download the whole pack or just one map at a time. Each map goes for 800 Microsoft Points. The three maps are: Standoff...

12 December 2007
02:57 GMT

Gears of War Hidden Fronts Map Pack Becomes a FREE Download!

Stats say that with around 500,000 downloads to date, Hidden Fronts, the Gears of War map pack, has become the #1 piece of premium downloadable content on Xbox LIVE. Who cares, right? Well, what if I told you that Hidden Fronts is FREE for download starting September 3rd? Yup, now I've got your attention. No act...

1 September 2007
10:23 GMT


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