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This Sunday Xbox Live’s Major Nelson released his weekly podcast. One of his guests this week was Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling. In the interview Bowling addressed Modern Warfare 2’s recent achievement of 25 million unique users claiming that the "the majority of these users are from Xbox Live". This could give some insight as to why the Xbox 360 players might get access to the upcoming downloadable content ahead of gamers on other platforms.

In recent news Media Molecule, the once independent studio and developer of LittleBigPlanet, was acquired by Sony for an undisclosed amount. Many hailed the move as a great one by Sony, because now the only Platforms we’ll ever play said title and the others the studio will undoubtedly forge will be Sony’s.

At a GDC 2010 event, LucasArts announced that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is headed to a plethora of new platforms and services. First and foremost, it’s been ported for both the PlayStation Network and Mac OS. Furthermore, the game is also making the jump to the Telltale games store as well as InstantAction.com. There are currently no details as to when the game will hit the services mentioned above, but rest assured we’re following up with LucasArts right now.

Speaking to IncGamers in an exclusive interview, CEO of Splash Damage, Paul Wedgwood, said that the developer had "set out from the very beginning wanting to design the game that worked well for all three platforms."

EA Sports will launch a new version of their popular fitness game this holiday for Wii, PlayStation 3, and iPhone and iPod touch platforms. The company is currently dubbing it EA Sports Active 2.0, though they point out that name is still just a working title for the game.

This new fitness game will feature an "innovative wireless control system" that includes new body motion sensors for your arms and legs, as well as a heart rate monitor. EA Sports Active 2.0 will also take advantage of a new online hub that will track and share your data.

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Downloadable content is becoming about as prevalent in gaming as violated alter boys in the the Catholic church. Hardly a title sees release nowadays without falling victim to the cold, unwelcome and unrelenting grip of cut content, quietly sneaking its way in through the backdoor of a game. Much to the chagrin of gamers on all platforms, this rapid adoption of a post-release content infusion has also led to the bloating costs of said content.

Lucky for all of us, the team behind DICE’s upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company 2 have heard our cries and decided to take a page from the history of their previous Battlefield titles on the PC, releasing multiple pieces of FREE DLC, long after the game has hit store shelves.

DICE, today announced that two massive, all-new multiplayer maps for Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2 will be unlocked on March 2^nd when the game launches in North America. This map pack features the Laguna Alta map playable in Conquest mode and Nelson Bay map playable in Rush mode, bringing the total number of multiplayer maps up to 10. Later in March, DICE will release yet another map pack at no extra charge, giving players a chance to experience the Arica Harbor map in Conquest mode and Laguna Presa map in Rush mode. — via EA.com

It should also be mentioned that if you were to purchase a copy of the game secondhand, you will still have the chance to get your grubby little mitts on this content, but will will cost you an additional fifteen bones or whatever the equivalent is in “Microsoft Spacebucks.”

I think that extended support of a game like this can go a long way towards both curbing the returns of a game to secondhand redistribution and also encourages people to buy new copies.  Let’s just hope that nothing was pulled out of the original game, to facilitate the need for DLC.

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Eurogamer writes: "Released a year after the Xbox 360 version, shorn of some of its visual magnificence, afflicted with an ugly blur and featuring exclusive DLC you actually had to pay for despite the long wait, it’s fair to say that PlayStation 3 owners didn’t fare too well at the hands of 2K Games when it came to the belated release of the original BioShock.

All the game content was there, and enough of the raw BioShock DNA was there to make it a worthwhile experience in its own right, but compared to the original Xbox 360 version of the game it was a disappointment. This time 2K has made efforts to get it right. There’s no year-long delay between versions, and on first impressions it seems the development team has done well in replicating the look of the game across both platforms."

Telltale Games already has a great game available on the Mac.  That game is Tales of Monkey Island.  This will not due for Telltale though.  They have decided it is time to show that Mac cult some love and release even more games for Steve Jobs baby.

What does this have to do with those of you with a Mac?  Well, you get to decide what game is next to hit the Mac.  That’s right!  Just go here and vote for what Telltale game you would like to see next. Polls are open until February 21, and the winning game will be announced the following week.  Even better, the winning game will then get released in March.

That is not all though.  If you had bought the game on the Windows side of the coin, you get the Mac version for free.  Hell yeah!  All new Telltale games will come out cross-platform as well.  Now this is a developer that knows how to please their customers.

Supporting the Mac, giving existing customers access to both platforms for free, and supporting both platforms from here on out.  This is a win win.  Thank you Telltale for rocking so hard on the gaming front!  Now, all of you get out there and vote!

Sharing: It’s Win/Win

IncGamers’ Tim McDonald explains why having things exclusive to one console is something we should be happy to see, and guarantees himself a full-body cavity search in the process.

From the article: "Although the quote ignores things that only came to prominence after the movie was filmed – like LSD and Velcro – the meaning hasn’t become any less true: strife breeds creativity, and competition is good for the market on the whole. In their attempts to outdo the others, console manufacturers are doing their level best to make top titles exclusive to their platforms and to have their own creations utterly outshine everything on the others."