Trendy Entertainment has released it’s latest Hero Class DLC “Summoner,” for Dungeon Defenders earlier this week. Online Tower Defense RPG says very little about one of the fastest selling downloadable games of all times. Dungeon Defenders is an original hybrid of two hot genres: Tower Defense and Online Cooperative Real Time Strategy Action-RPG!  Hero’s like Squire, Apprentice, and Monk, now take a seat while an unknown entity from the Crystalline Dimension “Summoner” bakes up his own plan to wage a war across Etheria. Summoner is for the use of the Master Strategist. With abilities such as “Phase shift” (which allows you to move unnoticeably across the realm) or “Flash Heal” (which heals all allied defenses and units within a certain radius instantly), Team up and fight on 15 unique maps, 30 challenges, and 4 difficulty settings; raiding loots, casting spells, and leveling up to build the strongest hero and highest score in the kingdom. Get your copy today via Steam PC and Mac, and start transforming those Sentient Crystals to Minions!

In a recent trailer entitled “Payback” you get a glimpse of the new Downloadable content coming to Batman: Arkham City. In the video below there isn’t much on Harley Quinn herself, but you do get to see her in some of the cut-scenes. There is of course some nice action coming from Batman and Robin, but still no no cooperatively if you were expecting any. Harley Quinn’s Revenge DLC is scheduled to release on May 29, 2012.

Bethesda has just revealed on their blog that the name of their upcoming Skyrim DLC is called “Dawnguard.”

No other details are provided, but Bethesda posted a picture of the familiar-looking Dovakiin with glowing eyes (which can be seen above). Dawnguard will be available for the Xbox 360 this “summer,” and more details are said to be revealed at E3.

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite post-ending news on the internet.

Unless you’ve been away from the internet for the last month, you’ve no doubt noticed the raging inferno known as the controversy and outcry over the ending to BioWare’s Mass Effect 3. People have been arguing all over about how the ending was bad, didn’t make sense, did make sense if you looked at it a certain way, and the awesomeness of Marauder Shields(seriously, look it up). Well looks like BioWare have come up with a strategy that should work for at least most of the arguers today: they announced an “Extended Cut” to their controversial ending.

Taken right from their blog, “An official press release went out today announcing how we are re-prioritizing the Mass Effect 3 post release content schedule to provide a more fleshed out experience for our fans. For many of you the “Extended Cut” will help answer some questions and give closure to this chapter of the Mass Effect story. Oh and it’s at no cost to you – the fan.” In short, they aren’t changing the ending but instead opting to not only try to explain it better within the context of the game but also to give fans a bit more closure. This will please both the people crying foul wanting explanations and also the people who were crying foul over artistic integrity, pretty much only ruling out the arguably smallest group who just wanted the ending trashed and completely rewritten.

The best part of all this? If you download the DLC before the end of 2014, you get it completely free. Yes EA is giving something away for free, and no the apocalypse isn’t happening right now. Here’s hoping this helps springboard the opinion of BioWare and Mass Effect back towards the “awesome” category instead of the “ruined forever” one.

The first DLC for Asura’s Wrath will become today on the Playstation 3 and tomorrow March 28, 2012 on the XBOX 360. The downloadable content comes with two fully animated episodes that reveal more of the epic tale. In addition to that there will more awesome dlc in the coming weeks with Episode 15.5: Defiance, which is schedule to release on April 3, 2012. These downloadable contents 160 Microsoft Points or $1.99 if you are using a Playstation 3.

Below you can see the full trailer of the Asura’s Wrath DLC

The awesome people behind Trine have announced that downloadable content will be making it’s way this summer to Trine 2.  According to Mikael Haveri, who told fans over GDC that puzzles in the new DLC will include water, light, magnetic and low gravity elements and in addition to that it was revealed that the DLC will bring new skills, a new story and about six new stages along with some returning favorites.

In addition to all of that awesome Trine 2 news, Haveri revealed that Frozenbyte is working on a new IP that aims to release via digital distribution, which means XBL Arcade, PSN and then of course Steam. Be sure to continue checking with us as more details come our way.

With 3.5 million Commander Shepards out there, the Reapers might have to rethink their strategy.

Mass Effect 3, the finale to the trilogy following Commander Shepard and his crew in their fight to stop the Reapers from destroying the galaxy, came out on March 6th in North America and March 9th across Europe. With the game now released to their major market, EA has released some numbers about their epic sci-fi finale. 3.5 million copies have been shipped worldwide so far(although not all have been bought yet), with 900,000 of those copies having been sold in North America on day one alone. Along with this, 40% of people who have bought the game have downloaded the DLC From Ashes despite controversy such as it being Day-1 DLC and the fact the DLC is apparently on the disc already. It just goes to show that no matter how angry people on the internet may seem, they’ll still fork out cash for a beloved series.

Along with these sales numbers, it has also been revealed that the game has received over 30 perfect scores from reviewers across the world. Currently the highest rated version is the Xbox 360 version(which also happens to be the most reviewed version) with an average score of 9.5 out of 10.

Interesting thing to note is that this doesn’t include any numbers from EA’s digital distribution service Origin, which more than likely counts for a good portion of the game’s sales on PC. It also doesn’t specify how much of the 40% who got the DLC had it come with their Collector’s Edition of the game, or if the 40% even counts for it. Either way, it shows that Mass Effect 3 is pretty popular and doing extremely well, despite what everyone whining providing feedback of the game on Metacritic will have you believe.

Epic Games, the cool people behind the Gears of War series will be releasing their fourth DLC for the popular exclusive . The Downloadable content will be named “Forces of Nature” and will have five new maps as well as three new locations and two older, but remastered settings. In an unveiling over at GameTrailers TV, Executive Producer Rod Ferguson added that:

“All the maps are themed around that notion of forces of nature — tornadoes, tsunamis, huge fog,”

In case that you were wondering this fourth DLC will be the last to come for Gears of War 3 and will bring back older maps Jacinto and Raven Down. Forces of Nature will be available sometime in March.

Already an awesome game, Tropico 4 will new dlc that should keep you busy building a Caribbean paradise. The downloadable content is available now and it adds more fun to the city building game. This dlc is probably preparing the world of Tropico 4 for their up upcoming “Modern Times” that will make the game become more futuristic. Below you can see the screenshots as well as details.

• Building: Cement Factory (accelerates all constructions on the island)
• Character Trait: Constructor (free cement factory, construction workers gain skill faster)
• Character Outfit / Vanity Item: Engineer helmet (for male and female avatars)
• Mission theme: The largest city in the Caribbean – build a huge city across the whole island while fighting all kinds of disasters
• Decorations: Tropican flagpole, Small park, Flower bed 2, Flowering tree 2, Constructor statue

In a phone interview with Wired last month, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg said that the company wants to release more downloadable content for the Call of Duty series more quickly, adding that some of the DLC might not just be multiplayer maps.

“The idea of giving people constant incremental playable content and making it so you’re never more than a few weeks away from the next new experience within the Call of Duty universe is part of what we’re experimenting with,” Hirshberg told Wired.

After noting how listening to its fans is important and how players want more DLC, Hirshberg added,  “One of the things that was most appealing when we were researching these ideas with consumers is the idea of breaking up the DLC so that it comes more often and more regularly,” said Hirshberg. “We want to provide DLC to people more often and also experiment with more of a variety in the forms of playable content.”

This experimentation could result in DLC comprising of  “missions or spec-op modes,” and not just multiplayer maps which are always cranked out for CoD games post-release.

Activision Will Enhance Call of Duty Every Few Weeks [Wired, via N4G]