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]

If you are a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Elite subscriber you will probably be interested to know that the first downloadable content pack will become available on January 24, 2012. This DLC will first come out on XBL as usual and then eventually to the Playstation 3 via PSN. This news comes from Infinity Ward’s Creative strategist Robert Bowling, who said the following

“full season of content for Modern Warfare 3 kicks off for Elite subscribers January 24th on Xbox Live.”

It will be interesting to see what Infinity Ward is bringing to the table and let’s hope for the best, but it would be nice if Activision would make this dlc available on both xbl and psn at the same time.

At the start of next year, Xbox 360 users will no longer be able to purchase guns for their virtual Xbox avatars.

Epic Games’ community manager “raczilla” revealed this over at Epic’s forums saying that a new policy will take place on Jan. 1, 2012 that will prohibit the sale of “gun-like avatar items” on Xbox Live’s Marketplace. So guns like the Lancer and Hammerburst from the Gears of War series will unfortunately be gone in five days.

The good news, though, is that you can keep any gun that’s been purchased before Jan. 1, so there’s still time for your avatar to get their virtual hands on a firearm. As for me, I think I’ll just contentedly stick with my dual lightsabers (sword > gun).

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Lancer and Hammerburst avatar items no longer available on Marketplace on 1/1/2012 [Epic Games Community Forum, via G4TV]

The Nintendo 3DS will be getting its first paid downloadable content with the release of the next Fire Emblem game, reports Siliconera, citing Nikkei. The DLC in question is reportedly an “extra game item” that will be sold in March.

Fire Emblem was announced earlier this year during a Nintendo press conference, and according to the game’s Japanese trailer at the time (as seen above), it will be released sometime next year.

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