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Read More »PES’s Euro 2016 DLC lacks some licensed teams
Konami’s upcoming Euro 2016 DLC for PES 2016 will not feature a full licensed roster of teams. 24 teams feature in the tournament, but only 15 of them will be officially licensed in the expansion. Missing out are Ireland, Russia, Switzerland, Romania, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Belgium and Hungary. The licensed …
Read More »22Cans makes Godus Wars DLC free after micro-transaction backlash
£10.99 title originally included additional $4.99 charge for extra continent
Read More »Homefront: The Revolution to have free DLC, but also microtransactions
A year’s worth of free DLC is the reward for Homefront: The Revolution buyers. The price? An upfront fee for the game and multiplayer microtransactions. As a result, there will be no Season Pass for the shooter and all post-release content will be made available to all players. But those …
Read More »Death Star and Cloud City maps heading to Star Wars Battlefront
EA has detailed four expansions on the way to Star Wars Battlefront for Season Pass holders. The first, called Outer Rim, will arrive in March and sees players fighting among the locations Tatooine and Sullest. That will feature Jabba’s Palace of Return of the Jedi fame. In the summer Bespin …
Read More »No DLC for Rare Replay
No more games will be added to the Rare Replay collection, the studio has said. UK developer Rare hinted that more games could be added to its package of 30 titles, when engineer James Thomas said on a live Twitch stream that ‘there could be space for more’. But lead …
Read More »Ant-Man and Captain America DLC free as PlayStation exclusive in LEGO Marvel’s Avengers
Warner has announced that free DLC based on both Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War will be released for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. However, the content will be exclusive to PS4 and PS3. The additions mean that the game will now span the events of eight Marvel films, along with classic …
Read More »Overwatch post-launch content to be free of charge
Blizzard says that heroes and maps coming to its team shooter Overwatch after the game is out will be entirely free. In a video on the Overwatch YouTube channel (below), game director Jeff Kaplan addressed questions from the title’s community, specifically how the developer would be approaching post-release content. Kaplan …
Read More »Super Mario Maker is getting a promotional Mercedes-Benz level
Mercedes Benz is to release a promotional piece of free level DLC for Super Mario Maker. It’s not the first time the pair have teamed up – there was also some Mercedes content released for Mario Kart 8. The Mario maker course, called Jump’n’Drive, is due to be released today, …
Read More »Blizzard to offer Overwatch content for free ‘to alleviate player concerns’
Full-priced game will be supported with post-launch heroes and maps
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