Aliens: Colonial Marines Bug Hunt DLC is cominʼ outta the walls in March

Think Gears’ Horde mode, but with Xenomorphs

Confirmation of upcoming DLC for Aliens: Colonial Marines has been spotted in Walmarts in North America. The post on Gearbox Forums shows an advert for Bug Hunt, which indicates it will be a co-op survival slice of action where you fend of waves of enemies in arenas from the movies.

It will cost $14.99 for the Season Pass – which will also include a further three DLC packs released later – and roughly translates to about 1200MS or around £17.99 on PSN and Wii U.

Here’s the extended trailer to coincide with the game’s release tomorrow…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Revolution DLC Review

Treyarch’s new maps and modes deliver the good times

Skate or die!

When you’re in charge of the biggest entertainment release of all time, and a large chunk of your audience have already paid for four DLC packs with a heftily-priced season pass, there’s an enormous level of expectations about what you’ll deliver next.

The answer for Treyarch and Black Ops 2 is Revolution. The trailer claims you have a responsibility to ‘kick ass’ – and we can honestly say that this statement aptly describes the DLC – it does kick ass.

Revolution features four new multiplayer maps, a zombie map, a new ‘Turned’ mode and a, first for the series, a new gun. More on these later. There’s a lot of variety for your money, let us break it down for you…

Grind

The first new map is an American skatepark. It’s a medium sized arena, which feels like Stadium from the original Black Ops, but plays with more …

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Assassin’s Creed 3 DLC finally comes to Wii U

Hidden Secrets and Battle Hardened first up for Nintendo owners

Wii U owners can now download the first two pieces of DLC for Assassin’s Creed 3. Multiplayer focused Battle Hardened (£6.24) and the single-player extending Hidden Secrets (£3.12) have been out on 360 and PS3 for a while, so this news is bound to please Nintendo fans. Better late than never, eh?

Battle Hardened serves up three new characters for online face-stabbin’, Coyote Man, Governor and Highlander. It also gives you three new maps to stalk around with Charlestown, Fort St-Mathieu and Saint Pierre.

If you’re not into multiplayer then you can carry on the good fight with the Hidden Secrets DLC. Three fresh missions add to the story – The Lost Mayan Ruins, The Ghost of War and A Dangerous Secret. As well as bolstering your game time you’ll also unlock two new outfits for offline and online play and a selection of new tools for killing including the …

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