Persona 4: Arena 30th Challenge Demo DLC

This weeks P4A DLC is a demonstration mode of the 30th challenge for all characters. Although it is a free download, these same demos can be unlocked through game play.

New Street Fighter X Tekken DLC Added

There are 40 new gems available, 20 for each side, and a new color palette pack. The gems for Street Fighter include a mix of anti-Pandora and vitality recoveries. While the Tekken gems help characters to Harmonize their skills. The gem packs, 10 per pack, go for $0.99 each or you can download a trial pack for free. The new color palette, the 6th of the series, adds 4 new colors for character customization and is available for free.

Persona 4: Arena Day 1 DLC Includes Color Swaps, Glasses, & Menu Navigation Voices

P4: Arena's day 1 DLC includes a whole slew of new color palettes, glasses accessories, and menu navigation voice unlocks. The color palettes and glasses can be bought in blocks (3-4 characters per block) for $1.99 or $5.99 for the set. It's also noted that any glasses purchased will match up with the new color palettes if they are also purchased. The menu navigation voice unlocks, these can also be unlocked through game play, are only for six characters at this time, Teddie, Yosuke, Mitsuru, Aigis, Fuuka, & Nanako and they go for $2.99 each. For pictures of the new color palettes, visit Blue Gartr.

New PS3 Collections Coming Soon

Three new Playstation 3 collections have been revealed by Sony. God of War, Infamous, and Ratchet & Clank will be the first of many to be released in the coming future. The GoW collection includes I through III on the disc while Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta will be download vouchers. All 5 games will be remastered in HD format, include exclusive DLC, one month of Playstation Plus all for the total cost of $40.

The Infamous collection will include 1 & 2 along with Festival of Blood and all of the DLC previously released. The price point for the Infamous collection will be $29.99.

The details for the R&C collection, which were released in early July, are that Ratchet & Clank, Going Commando, & Up Your Arsenal along with early access to the Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time demo. The games will be remastered in 1080p HD, 720p for 3D, and restored online game play for Up Your Arsenal. The collection will cost $29.99.

All three collections will be released on August 28th.

60 Min Extra Gameplay on the PS3 Version of Assassin's Creed III

The newly revealed cover of the Playstation 3 version of Assassin's Creed III shows that this version includes an extra 60 minutes of game play that will not be in the X-Box 360 version. It's expected, though, that 360 users will eventually gain access to this extra game play through a future DLC package.

Mass Effect 2 DLC "Arrival" Coming Soon

Joystiq, via BioWare Forums, is reporting that with the latest game patch, the new DLC is revealed through the updated trophies.

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One of the Trophies, "Covert Action," refers to a Dr. Amanda Kenson, who was previously mentioned in a recent Cerberus Network update:

Historians and astronomers alike are abuzz tonight over a new paper published by Dr. Amanda Kenson of the University of Arcturus ... "Only a small fraction of the mass effect relays date back 50,000 years," she writes, "The majority are far older, indicating they were created by a species predating even the Protheans." ... What civilization could have spanned the galaxy for not thousands, but millions of years? If this were the case, we should have found mountains of evidence of their passing. Where is this species now?"

Some believe that "Arrival" can refer to the arrival of the Reapers, setting up events for the upcoming Mass Effect 3. Others, however, are more fixated on figuring out how to acquire one of the more ominous Trophies for the DLC: "The Ultimate Sacrifice." Wasn't dying once sacrifice enough?

This isn't the first time that details have been revealed about a EA DLC via a trophy update. In the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Ultimate Edition, all of the trophies from the Vietnam DLC were preloaded on the disc.



To further "confirm" this new DLC, Inside Gaming's Adam Kovic (Dead Pixel) recently attended a EA event at which he & the rest of the IG staff arranged an agreement not to talk about a certain upcoming DLC until February 25th.