Game Group Plc has been in the news everyday this week. For those not keeping track click here and here to get up to speed.

These days Game Group Plc released a press statement:

Having received support from its stakeholders and lenders, the Board now believes that GAME will meet its covenant tests for the period to 31 January 2012 when tested on 27 February 2012. The Board now expects that the loss just before tax and non recurring items will be about £18m for the year to 31 January 2012.

Financing update:

Additional to the announcement earlier nowadays, the Board of GAME is pleased to announce that it has now concluded discussions with its lending syndicate and agreed revised terms for its facilities.

Beneath the terms of the revised facilities, the Group has agreed to operate within lower limits of its current facilities than was previously readily available. These revised facilities will allow the firm to continue to trade. The Group has also agreed to give an updated strategic strategy for review, and approval in part, by the lenders. This strategy will cover all aspects of the business’s activities and strategy, such as its overseas operations.

Ian Shepherd, CEO of GAME said “We’re pleased to reach agreement with our lenders, but should be beneath no illusions about the challenges in our industry or the hard function that is necessary to deliver our strategic program.”

So the saga of Game Group Plc hasn’t ended yet, but its future is far from secure. In the brief-term for folks (like me) who have an current order with GAME for the Mass Effect 3 Collectors Edition, BioWare’s Community Coordinator Chris Priestly offers some reassurances:

Absolutely nothing is going to occur to Game prior to March.

They also now have the ME3 DLC listed on their website, so take that as a excellent sign.

Whilst it is hardly a ringing endorsement for the future of GAME, it is at least some thing.

Source: Game Group Plc, Bioware

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If you are searching to score some virtual Mass Impact three swag just before the game hits shelves you might want to head over to Facebook. Microsoft and BioWare have developed a new Facebook app to industry the title referred to as Mission Command that will also give you a shot at some in-game extras.

Mission Command will have you completing missions to unlock various rewards like “Xbox Live Avatar items, DLC and Mass Effect 3 gear.” The web site also says “Your decisions determine the rewards” and the a lot more you interact with the app the greater your odds will be at winning a custom Xbox 360 console and Kinect.

Clearly the initial mission will have you log in to the Facebook app and from their you’ll have to do issues like “recruit” your buddies, submit pick-up or lines for Liara or submit a video of yourself acting like one of Mass Impact 3′s in-game characters.

The first prize up for grabs is a Normandy prop for you Xbox Live Avatar, but according to the site if the promotion gets “enough recruits” everybody will be in a position to choose up the Normandy prop. If you want more information you can check out the official rules.

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There has been a bit of a storm on PS3 forums from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 owners who have the Elite Premium membership, but no map packs to speak of yet whilst their Xbox owning buddies get noobed on the new maps.

Well PS3 owners fret no more, as the initial MW3 DLC drop for PS3 Elite Premium members has been announced by Activision and it will commence at the finish of this month, with Liberation and Piazza maps coming from the 28th February.

Hopefully Activision will have sorted out the quite poor selection of playlists by then…

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Pinball FX2 and Zen Pinball are two of the very best pinball games you can locate on consoles and mobile devices. Because they released years ago, they have been obtaining extra pinball tables as DLC bringing pinball fans back for a speedy game. Extra DLC such as the Ms Splosion Man’ table have been released that feature some fairly unique and complicated objectives.

This subsequent piece of DLC for the game seems to take what you can do on a pinball table to the subsequent level. Coming this month at some point, the Epic Quest pinball table will be obtainable for download to play in Pinball FX2 on XBLA and PSN, also you will be in a position to play the DLC inside Zen Pinball on Android and iOS. You can expect to be taken on a.. nicely.. an epic quest of course.

An RPG themed table will involve you grabbing extra armor, getting loot, rescuing the princess and defeating evil monsters. I am not an avid virtual pinball player, but I believe it’s fairly impressive that all this can be placed onto a pinball table. Check out the full description of the DLC below and keep your eye out for the DLC at some point this month.

Zen Studios, the definitive leader in videogame pinball, nowadays announced Epic Quest, a brand new, original pinball encounter for Pinball FX2 on Xbox LIVE® Arcade and Zen Pinballon PlayStation®Network, Android Marketplace™ and the Apple App®Store. The table will be available for download in February 2012.

It is the sworn duty of every knight to seek out evil, defeat it, and take its stuff. 1 such knight is Max, whose enthusiasm for combat is surpassed only by his love of rare and useful loot. Join Max as he battles hordes of evil (or just evil-searching) monsters, rescues a wealthy princess, and accumulates the loot and XP that make excellent worth doing.   If Max suffers a defeat, in no way worry! He will return in the subsequent game with all of his challenging-won loot and expertise levels intact.

“It is our quest to deliver the most entertaining and original pinball tables, and Epic Quest delivers on each fronts,” mentioned Mel Kirk, Zen Studios Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations. “With a wink and a nudge towards classic RPG tropes, Epic Quest blends frantic pinball action, obsessive character creating, and liberally applied tongue-in-cheek humor.”

As players full missions and table objectives, Max earns loot, which is vital for defeating monsters and impressing n00bs.  Put together a set of “epic” gear and turn into the envy of all your frenemies! Supposedly, it assists you fight much better, too.  And if a game ends, experience and loot carry over to the subsequent game.

Epic Quest will seamlessly integrate into Zen Pinball on PlayStation®Network, the Apple App®Store and Android Marketplace™, and the Pinball FX2 platform on Xbox LIVE® Arcade. Epic Quest will function new Achievements and Trophies.

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Namco Bandai has addressed a point raised by gamers that DLC offers are basically saying ‘buy the parts we decided to leave out.’ Namco say it is “essential to show” post-launch assistance.

The character creation tool will give fans “genuinely distinctive types entering battle.” Assessment scores are “in line” with expectations. Majority are “entirely fair” to the game.

A debate amongst gamers started over at Eurogamer, where 1 user stated DLC is “otherwise known as ‘maybe you need to wait for the total edition to come out when it’ll be less costly.’”

Some valid points had been raised about the nature of DLC. “Is not announcing your DLC content just before the release of the game terrible business?” asked one more gamer. “You’re essentially saying “Appear, our game is completed, we just decided to leave some parts out. You will pay complete value for the game and then extra for the parts we left out!”

Namco director of advertising and PR responded: “No-one ever genuinely knows what goes on in improvement and I feel it is crucial to show that we are supporting the game and will be post-launch.”

“I can tell you that the game is no way restricted in content and the character creation tool will certainly allow for some really distinctive designs entering battle.” The Xbox 360 version of Soul Calibur V sits about a high 70 on Metacritic, with PS3 a low 80. These are typically what Namco Bandai was expecting from critics, they stated.

“The scores are in line with what I believed they would be,” Kirton stated. “I am happy we’ve received some nines and also some eights, such as Edge,” they continued. “I think the majority of the evaluations are totally fair and I assume it will do nicely overall.” It will “do well over a longer period,” even though pre-orders had been “fairly great” for them.

“The franchise is crucial to us, nevertheless at present we are not searching at it ‘not achieving’,” said Namco.

“We have worked difficult to be clever in the planet of PR, we’ve worked hard with the communities and we’ve got fantastic reviews to sit alongside the marketing. We have no confirmation on a new Soul title nevertheless, but you never know what the future holds.” Are you enjoying Soul Calibur V, video gamer?

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Each and every week Microsoft adds new games, demos, DLC and Avatar items to the Xbox Reside Marketplace and we put it all together proper right here so you can stay up to date. This week Rhythm Party dances its way into the arcade, Syndicate gets a a lot talked about demo and our avatars have some new Darkness II gear to try on. Head past the break for a list of all the downloadables hitting Xbox Reside this week.

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Xbox Reside Arcade
Rhythm Party - 800 MP
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Game Add-ons
UFC Individual Trainer Cain Velasquez Workout Pack – 800 MP
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Deal of the Week
Bastion – 600 MP
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Games on Demand
Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures
Section 8
Very first Templar
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Syndicate
1st Templar
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Avatar Items
Deluxe Collection
The Darkness II Update

Pickings are a little slim this week, as far as new games go, but Microsoft will be throwing a complete new batch of downloadable goodies in the Marketplace next week so come on back for another update!

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Far more Forza DLC? I’m struggling to keep up. If you own the Season Pass for Forza 4 like me, all these DLC pack announcements and releases are excellent news. I am absolutely generating great use of my obtain.

Some of the DLC packs have great vehicles, some of them I need to admit don’t have automobiles that I am impressed by. Each car pack that Turn 10 have released so far has had some actually special cars to add to your garage and this months Le Mans Series DLC Vehicle Pack is no various with 10 new automobiles being added to the game.  My favourite auto this month is the 2010 Dodge Quinton”Rampage” Jackson Challenger SRT8 pictured above.

As with the other vehicle packs released for Forza four more than the final couple of months, it will price 560 Microsoft Points (or totally free for season pass owners) and will be accessible for download on February 7th.

Check out the automobile list, vehicle screenshots and the trailer for the Le Mans Series Automobile Pack below.

• 2011 #two Audi Sport North America R18 TDI
• 2011 Panoz #050 Panoz Racing Abruzzi
• 2010 Dodge Quinton “Rampage” Jackson Challenger SRT8
• 1991 Mazda #55 Team Mazdaspeed 787B
• 2011 Bentley Platinum Motorsports Continental GT
• 1986 #2 Audi Sport quattro S1
• 1992 Alfa Romeo 155 Q4
• 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra R
• 2011 Holden HSV GTS
• 2011 Volkswagen Polo GTI

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Everquest will be turning the big a single-3 soon, and with its thirteenth anniversary Everquest will be joining numerous other MMO’s with a Cost-free-2-Play business model.  Numerous new payment alternatives will be available, such as game unlocks exactly where you can acquire content material a le carte, Silver access for $ 5/mo, and Gold access for $ 15/mo.  You can check out the full attributes of every single payment tier on the Station website. To be honest, it feels far more like try before you acquire rather of Free of charge-2-Play.  The totally free and Silver tiers are extremely limited with only four races and classes readily available.  Also, spell tiers are locked at Rank 1.

Everquest II went F2P last year and Sony reported a 300% boost in new player registrations.  I think they are hoping to have similar luck right here, but I have my doubts.  Even though I do think there will be a bump in new players out of sheer curiosity, with the game getting so old and the totally free tier being so limited I do not see a lot of new players forsaking their WoWs, DCUs, Aions, and so on. for a severely restricted Everquest.

When DC Universe Online went Totally free-two-Play it saw a 700% increase in daily income.  The difference among Everquest’s model and DCU’s is that DCU’s model is almost unlimited in the free of charge tier.  You have to purchase access to DLC, cool armor items, and are limited in characters slots and cash but all classes, powers, and base content is available to you.  This gives the player a genuine chance to encounter the game and will maintain them coming back.  Players get a likelihood to get pleasure from DCU and will at some point commence to obtain those extras as they get much more invested in the game.

I thought this 1 would be a no-brainer for SoE considering that they saw such economic accomplishment with DCU, but then once more, I don’t get paid to squeeze blood from stones.

Source: SoE

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Even though North American and European gamers are only just obtaining their hands on Final Fantasy FFXIII-two this week, we are already acquiring our first DLC pack. The game has been out in Japan for a while now and this DLC pack does not appear like too big of an addition to the game content. I’m sure you wouldn’t notice it inside the hours and hours of gameplay included on the disc.

Lightning and Master Sergeant Amodar are included in this upcoming DLC pack releasing on February 7th for Xbox 360 and PS3. In the DLC, to play as Lightning you will need to fight her and Lt. Amoda. As soon as defeated, Lightning will join your party bringing her personal distinctive butt-kicking style to your team. No pricing has been given at the moment for how a lot it will expense to download this DLC but you can be positive that as this is a side mission within the game, I wouldn’t expect it to price any a lot more than $ ten.

Stay tuned to Platform Nation for much more info on the North American release of FFXIII-2 this week!

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It has grow to be the norm for retailers to supply pre-order incentives and in some situations exclusive ones. That is the case for UFC Undisputed 3 which presents buyers with a really tough choice in between the greatest worth, the strongest content, and the greatest savings. Picking 1 means giving up some thing else and that tends to make for a frustrating circumstance. Right here is a summary of what is on the table for those considering a acquire of UFC 3.

•Amazon – Finest Initial Worth
A $ 10 promotional credit towards a future buy at the on the web retailer is the principal pull – whilst the deal also includes the “Ultimate Knockout Artist Increase Pack” to support develop up a designed fighter more rapidly. Amazon doesn’t charge tax in most states, and release day shipping is cost-free for Prime members or just $ 1 for non-members, so essentially up to about $ 16 could be saved when factoring those items in along with the promo credit. (360 – PS3)

•Gamestop – Strongest Base Content material
The offering produced here is for 4 exclusive fighters (Nick Diaz, Phil Davis, ‘Mayhem’ Miller, and Brian Stann). They won’t be obtainable any other way until 3 months have passed when they’ll be supplied as paid DLC. The downside is getting to purchase from the worst retailer of the bunch and spend complete price tag and tax. If those fighters are important though then it may possibly be worth it.

•THQ Shop – Largest General Savings
For those who strategy to acquire a great deal/all of the downloadable content material the THQ retailer will present the best savings over the long run. Pre-orders there get the “season pass” for free (which will most likely finish up getting worth $ 12-15). Although the retailer provides free of charge shipping there is no delivery guarantee and a lot of buyers were stuck waiting for weeks lately on orders of WWE 12 to arrive. So finding all the DLC (minus the 4 exclusive fighters) is appealing but possibly only for those who will not be stressed if the game does not arrive on or immediately following release day.

•Others: Walmart ($ 10 eGift card and “Knockout Pack”). Best Purchase: Exclusive “Early Access Pack” for unlockables. Kmart: Nevertheless unknown.

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