New DLC I Want…Coming Soon

New content for a multitude of games available on the Xbox 360 will be seeing the light of day through Xbox LIVE in the next coming weeks. This Saturday, Gears of War 2 will receive a new map pack that features 4 all-new maps: Grindyard, Under Hill, Courtyard, and a frozen version of Fuel Depot (a multiplayer favorite from the original Gears of War). About a week after the GoW2 map pack hits, Halo 3 will have its next map pack hit the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

The Mythic Map Pack, which was free for those who bought Halo Wars: Limited Edition, will finally be available on April 9th and will feature 3 new maps. First off, you have Assembly which is a symmetrical, mid-sized map based in a Covenant scarab factory that can only be compared to the Halo 2 maps Midship and Warlock. Next, you have Orbital, Halo 3‘s first map that is set in outer space. Finally, there’s Sandbox which Bungie states will be “the ultimate Forge map” that is a mixture of the two maps Sandtrap and Foundry . Both map packs will run 800 Microsoft points each.

Coming to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace this week is the second expansion for Fallout 3 simply known as The Pitt. This expansion thrusts your character into the Raider controlled city of Pittsburgh, where your character will assume the role of a slave, find work, and attempt to gain audience with the Raider boss in order to develop the story. This expansion also will run you 800 Microsoft points and is a must have for me.

Now if I can just make the time to spend playing my games, then I’d be good.

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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