Black Ops First Strike Preview By Inside Xbox

With less then 3 days until the First Strike DLC is released for Black Ops, Inside Xbox talked with some Treyarch dudes (using fancy kinect video chat) about the new maps with gameplay garnished inbetween. Me personally, my favourite maps will have to be Discovery or Kowloon, due to the interactive enviroments.The First Strike DLC for Black Ops will launch on Xbox Live on February 1st for 1200 Microsoft points.

Bulletstorm Achievements Unlocked

More achievements, this time from 360joypad's baby (it's an adopted child which we didn't make but love it soooo much...) Bulletstorm. x360a got the list, which doesn't have any secret achievements, a few collectibles but does have some cool skillshot completion achievements for Gamerscore whore in all of us...

Now go and play with a small portion of our adopted child, in a non-sexual way. *cough* awkward.*cough*

Here's the link.

Bulletstorm kills with skill on February 22nd for the US & February 25th for Europe.

Black ops Patch 1.06. 11mb update

Just a quickie, i thought i'd address my loyal fans ( if any ) about the recent 11mb update on Black ops.
This update did quite a bit including something that angers me but makes so many others ecstatic!
The update did:
Supports the First Strike Maps.
New Contracts.
Better Connection, host selection and more efficient host migration.
Fixed a number of glitches including the counter-spy-plane is negated by a jammer. ( That i didnt know about until it was patched -_- )
Second chance - You will now, if you did not before, get the full points for the kill when the second chance victim dies.
Adjustment to the PSG1.
Silenced sniper rifle adjustments,
RC-XD adjustments.
Removed hit markers when shooting friendly equipment.
And lastly and THE MOST IN-FURIATING. LESS DAMAGE AND OTHER DEGRADING ADJUSTMENTS TO THE AK-74U :@.
( 45 minutes of screaming later )
*ahem*, now you already know about the zombies achievements so i shan't post them.
Its nice to know that treyarch care about and listen to the community.
Off topic slightly, if you are bothered about Activision being in legal topic follow this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pam1-IDWAE. I think, as blogger wont let me paste, if not just search youtube for NGT (Next Gen Tactics ) Black ops under legal fire.
I highly recommend Next Gen Tactics if your a " serious gamer ".
But, I digress. So stay posted, watch this space etc. for any more updates.
( P.S, after see-ing my co-blogger post the zombie achievements I now rate the DLC at 7/7!!. Insta-BUY! : ) :D )

Black Ops First Strike DLC Achievements Released

Despite breaking records, Treyarch/Activision want more money in the pot, which this DLC will definitely bring. Treyarch have shown the achievements on CallOfDuty.com, all of which are exclusively to the new zombies map, Ascension. With 150 Gamerscore, the achievements are certainly...big. In terms of Gamerscore points and difficulty, but they do offer variety, whilst awarding you for using the maps features. And here they are...
The Eagle has Landers (35G)
In Ascension, escape on all three lunar landers.
They are going THROUGH! (35G)
In Ascension, kill 5 zombies with 1 Gersch device.
Space Race (45G)
In Ascension, pack-a-punch a weapon before round 8.
Chimp on the Barbie (35G)
In Ascension, kill a space monkey with a fire trap.

The First Strike map pack will launch on February 1st.

Avalanche To Announce New XBLA Game 'in a month or so'

Avalanche studios, developer of Just Cause 2, told EuroGamer that they will announce a new title next month with 2 other projects in production but not ready to announce. Christofer Sandberg, Boss of Avalanche said "Our XBLA/PSN [Grrr...] project will be announced in a month or so, but the other 2 projects will not be announced in the near future."On Wikipedia, on Avalanche's page it has a cancelled game called AionGuard, originally set in world war 1, but soon changed to a sci-fi theme. But it also got scrapped for a fantasy setting, due to another game set in a sci-fi era. Avalanche Studios is most famous for the Just Cause series, with Just Cause 2 released last March.

First Strike Preview - Black Ops

Despite the actual DLC ( Downloadable Content ) being released in a mere week, I thought i was due for a post.

Anyway my knowledge is rather limited so excuse my , you know , limited knowledge. And yes, I will be using my verdict including the 7 day-a-week system.

Yesterday during Microsoft's Head of xbox live programming major nelson's weekly podcast Treyarch's Dan Bunting announced Call of Duty Black ops' first map pack " first strike " for $15, near enough £10 or 1200 microsoft points for the xbox first ( :D ) also as a part of microsoft's deal to land all Call Of Duty Map Packs First!

Including:

Kowloon: Tied in with the Campaign level, Treyarch said that we the community said we like interactive features thus including a zip-wire.

Berlin Wall: Set at " Checkpoint Charlie ",this map has M-G's, two sides and no-mans-land. Behind-enemy-lines type players such as myself will prosper.

Discovery: I dont know much else than it is set in an artic german research station * abandoned*

Stadium: In a , erm, stadium. A football stadium.

Ascension(Zombies) :Right, my time to shine, Asencion is set in a soviet launch facility showing off the old classics : Nikolai,Richtofen,Dempsey and Takeo. New weapons include the Gersch Device ( Black hole Gun ) and *Unprnounceable Russian* Dolls. PPSH-41, *Thundergun AND winters howl.

New perks, Stamin-up ( Marathon ) PhD Flopper (Tatical Mask)

Easter Eggs: Nikolai's vodka is hidden, Find it for power-ups :O

Replacing Hell-Hounds and the pentagon thief is the Cosmic Silverback who works in a familar way to the Pentagon Thief except he steals Perks.

I would give the Game it-self a 4/7 but the DLC a 6/7.