Long time gamers might remember the critically acclaimed 1991 Amiga game Alien Breed. This week, Alien Breed Evolution Episode 1 hits the XBLA bringing with it updated graphics, online co-op, and leaderboard support. The game puts you up against hordes of aliens as you fight your way through five levels of a rather large space station. Alien Breed Evolution Episode 1 seems like a decent action game, worthy of the 800 Mircosoft Point price tag.

This week’s other release is Puzzlegeddon, a unique puzzler first released for the PC back in 2008. Like most puzzle games, you have to clear blocks of the same color. Unlike most puzzle games, clearing blocks earns you points toward special abilities that can be used to defeat your opponents. You can attack, defend, disable your opponent, or boost your own abilities. With solid gameplay, awesome abilities, and six player online multiplayer, puzzle game fans should definitely take a look at Puzzlegeddon. Clocking in at 800 Microsoft Points, this game will provide hours of entertainment for puzzle game fans.

Salem and Rios will be blasting their way on to the Playstation Network, and the Xbox Live Marketplace this Thursday, December 17th. The demo will give gamers a crack at most of the first level of the game, which puts everyone’s favorite two man private military team in the line of fire as Shanghai comes under attack. It’s also a safe bet that the demo will include some of the goofy dialogue, and top notch acting that helped make the first game such a hit. Check it out on your platform of choice this Thursday!

We’re usually hesitant to spend real-life money on virtual clothing, but you can bet we’ll spring at the chance to purchase the recently revealed Sonic the Hedgehog costume pack for LittleBigPlanet. See, if we dress ourselves up like the series’ speedy, cerulean protagonist, then play one of the many, many Green Hill Zone stages crafted by the LBP community, we can pretend that we’re playing a decent, current-gen Sonic platformer.

We’ve contacted Media Molecule to try and find out the North American release date and price for this costume pack. We shouldn’t let the developer hear us say this, but we’d pay anything for that beautiful illusion.

[Via Siliconera]

LittleBigPlanet getting bluer, blurrier with Sonic costume pack originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Team Racing mode brings two teams of six racers battling it out head to head online.  Individual driving tactics are no longer enough, as teams will need to work together to take that top spot on the podium.

Four classic American muscle cars and one ricer are also part of this DLC.  The carbureted goodness includes:

• 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 427
• 1967 Shelby GT-500
• 1969 Dodge Charger R/T
• 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T
• 1998 Toyota Supra Mark IV

The DLC will be available for the 360 world wide on December 1, 2009.  PS3 fans have to wait, yet again, until December 10, 2009 in the US and December 3, 2009 in Europe.  This DLC is slated at the hefty price of FREE.

A live version of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” is available next week within the band’s Rock Band DLC six-pack. The song may not be everyone’s cup of formaldehyde, but it’s certainly memorable for conjuring up one of the creepiest music videos of all time. We have no idea what the song is actually about, but it will always be the story of Tom Petty stealing Kim Basinger’s corpse from the morgue, dressing her up, and then at the end …. AHHhhHhHHHH!

Check out the full update after the break, no new Rock Band Unplugged DLC next week.

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Rock Band Weekly: Tom Petty, Go-Go’s, Kelly Clarkson, Pink originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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RE5: Lost in Nightmares teaser goes back to the mansion originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Paul Helquist, Design Director for Gearbox, is the man you can thank for the information, saying:

“We think of it about the same size as one of the smaller zones in the main game. It’s probably four to six hours of new gameplay with a lot of new regions, new monsters, that kind of thing. It’s probably about the size of the Arid Badlands [the starting zone] and one or two of the doglegs.”

You can access the content from any of the fast travel stations throughout the game, even if you have not unlocked teleportation yet in the story. The Island also scales the enemies you encounter to your level, allowing anyone to access the content at any time, with the area rescaling if you happen to return. However, the minimum level the enemies can be is level 10, so jumping into the DLC with a fresh level 1 character wouldn’t be your best bet.

Helquist’s official words regarding the scaling of the DLC are as follows:

“As soon as you enter the download content, it detects what level you are and sets the area to about the same level of what you’re at. So whenever you buy the DLC, wherever your character happens to be, you can go into Jakobs Cove and you should be good to go.”

Also expect to be fighting many more enemies at once than in the original areas of the game. With many new enemies, and variations on old enemies, feeling overwhelmed by a zombie horde shouldn’t be a problem in this DLC.

“Zombie Island Of Doctor Ned” releases November 24th, 2009 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

Gearbox Dishes on ‘Borderlands’ DLC [MTV Multiplayer]

Return to Ostagar will be $3.99 on the PSN, 400 BioWare points on the PC, and 400 Microsoft points on the 360.  I’d recommend getting a Flux Capacitor for that DeLorean, as this game is looking to consume all the free time!

It looks like Capcom USA was tired of us making fun of the proposed name for the upcoming Resident Evil 5 expansion, “Alternative Edition.” The division has chosen a bling-ier title for its stateside release: Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition. Gold Edition will be released as a retail box copy on March 9 for $49.99 as a single Blu-ray disc, including the original game and add-on content, on PS3 and as a DVD with download voucher for Xbox 360.

If you already have Resident Evil 5, you’ll be able to pick up the first DLC chapter earlier. “Lost in Nightmares” and a custom pack will be available for download on February 17 for Xbox 360 and February 18 for PS3, while the second unnamed DLC episode will be released March 3 (Xbox 360) and 4th (PS3) alongside a second costume pack.

Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition hits retail in March, DLC in February originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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