NEWS - Thursday, April 26, 2007
Microsoft Charges Again for Gears Content
Disgruntled gamers who feel the downloads represent a cheap shot purely generated to rake in cash from players eager to boost their achievements and gamerscore points are making their feelings clear over on Xbox Live director of programming Major Nelsons blog. As reported earlier this month, Epic Games vice president Mark Rein said that the company had reached loggerheads with Microsoft over plans to charge for downloadable GoW content, with Epic defeated in their bid to release additional content for free. While the latest GoW videos, available to gamers for 500 marketplace points or $6.25 in total, are produced by Brady Games, a number of consumers are likely to associate the downloads with Epic.Source: http://www.next-gen.biz/