A bad movie based game?

Here’s a shocker for you. Are you Ready? Good. Sales of movie based games are down. Well at least according to new data from the NPD group. So far some of the biggest movie based games of this have sold very few copies. Games like Wanted: Weapons of Fate, and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena have not been up to par.

It’s rare to find a good video game based on a movie. There have been a few, but only a few. So this may not be a bad thing. Maybe some gamers are starting to wise up, and to them I say good for you. Took you a while, but good for you.

Fallout 3 will never leave us

Hey PS3 users do you feel a little left out by not getting any Fallout 3 DLC? Well now you feelings of left outness can go away because, Bethesda Studios has announced the fist bit of DLC for you guys. That’s right any PS3 only person will be able to enjoy Operation: Anchorage this June. There is no set release date for The Pitt and Broken Steel, but they should follow roughly four weeks apart.

And that’s not for Fallout 3 Xbox 360 owners and PC users will be aple to get two more thingys of DLC in July. Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta will set you back about 800 caps. I mean Microsoft points.

I can’t see the forest for the DLC

So, it seems you can’t drive a city bus with a bomb on it that needs to stay above fifty, or it will explode with out running into some down loadable content (DLC.) And what a year it has been for DLC. Huge games like Grand Theft Auto, Fallout 3 and Prince of Persia, have or have planed some DLC. You don’t need to be a year seven Hogwarts student to see how fast DLC has resin. There is even a strategy guide and T.V. commercial for the Lost and Dammed. So, What does this mean for up coming sequels? Are we going to have to wait longer? The makers of Dragon Age announced they plan to support the game with two years worth of down loadable content. In two years you could have a full sequel ready to go. Just look a Gears of War.

Now DLC has many and I mean many good advantages. The first one being it can add life to a semi new game. Like new missions and map packs for games that will make you take the game off the self and back into your concel. DLC is also a must for the music based games like Rock Band an Guitar Hero. With new track packs being added every five seconds or so.

So, why would a company make a new game when they can get some cash on a few extra levels? And we all ready know it can take a while for a sequel to come out. Just look at Resident Evil 5 and Metal Gear Sold 4. I’m willing to bet a pile of space candy Capcom and Konami are planning some DLC for those games right now. So, I would not hold my breath for any sequels right now.

Awards out the Wazoo and Wazoo out the awards.

So, I’m sure no one was surprised to see Fallout 3 taking home the game of the year award at this years Game Developers Choice Awards. In the words of Threedog I say "nice job 101" For anyone who is not aware the Game Developers Choice Awards is where game developers give awards to other game developers for developing games. And it always takes place at the Game Developers Conference.

GDC is kind of like the the plan salad you get it first eat some of it, but really you’re waiting for the stake coved with cup cakes filled with money, or E3 as everyone else calls it. But, I am getting of topic. Let’s focus on the Game Developers Choice Awards. Some other notable winners include: LittleBigPlanet for best game design, Fallout 3 for best writing, Prince of Persia for best art visual God of War: Chains of Olympus for best handheld game. And I think that is all that’s worth talking about

Oh, except for the Lifetime Achievement Award. And this year it went to the highly deserving Hideo Kojima. The mastermind of the Metal Gear Sold games.