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DLC Digest: Latest on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Nintendo shops
| Date Posted | Author |
|---|---|
| 16th May 2010 | Matt Bailey |
Welcome back to DLC Digest. In this edition we're looking at the highlights on Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, and the Nintendo Shops over the past week.
We lead this week with the Wii Shop Channel where there's a few exciting WiiWare releases. First up is BIT.TRIP RUNNER, which is the latest in the excellent BIT.TRIP series on the platform. Moving away from small blobs, but keeping the rhythm focus, RUNNER is a side-scrolling action-platformer where you run, jump and slide your way to the exit. It looks quite exciting, and can be bought for 800 Wii Points, or £5.60. Meanwhile Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney gets some DLC - for 100 Wii Points (70p) you can get the fifth episode for the game, which is the one that was added to the original game in the series when it transferred from the GBA to the DS. Now owners of the WiiWare edition can enjoy a particularly good case. LucasArt's SNES classic Ghoul Patrol is the Virtual Console entry for the week, also costing 800 Wii Points. The highlights on Nintendo's other Shop - the DSiShop - are AiRace (an aircraft racing game) for 500 DSi Points (£4.50), and Chronos Twins, which is a complicated two-screen platformer that was previously released as a full DS title. It's now on DSiWare for just 500 DSi Points.
Focus Interactive's toy-based arcade racer Things on Wheels is certainly an Xbox Live highlight. The Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) game looks like fun, and costs only 800 Microsoft Points (£6.80). It's joined on XBLA by Konami's remake of Rocket Knight which costs 1200 Microsoft Points (£10.20). Xbox Live also sees the Exotic Car Park for Forza 3 for 400 Microsoft Points (£3.40), as well as the Rapture Metro multiplayer map pack for BioShock 2 costing 800 Microsoft Points. All Xbox 360 owners of BioShock 2 can pick up the new Kill 'em Kindly multiplayer mode for free. In fact, these same components are also available on the PlayStation Store for PS3 owners of the game for £6.29 and free respectively.
Joining it on the PS3 are Catan for £3.99 and the aforementioned Rocket Knight (£9.99), which is available in trial-and-unlock format. That is, you can get a demo version and pay to unlock the full game, as you do on the Xbox Live Arcade. Alongside this are new pieces of downloadable content (DLC) for LittleBigPlanet, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and the recently released Skate 3. For PSP owners things are very thin on the ground this week, with only some LittleBigPlanet DLC to consider.
And that's it for another week.
