Daily Gaming Tidbits 11/09/09

• In case you’ve been media-challenged for the last 6 months, as of this writing, Modern Warfare 2, arguably the most anticipated game ever, is now available in the eastern United States…

• Social network games creator Playfish has been gobbled up by EA for $275 million…

• Speaking of EA, they also announced a rather large scale lay-off across at least four different divisions (Tiburon, Redwood Shores, Black Box, and Mythic). They haven’t confirmed exactly how many, but 80 people were laid off from Mythic alone. Unconfirmed numbers place the range in the hundreds once it’s all said & done. My thoughts are with all of you who are affected by the lay-off…

• The content from the Japan-only Resident Evil 5: The Alternative Edition will be made available in the US & EU territories as DLC this spring on both the Playstation 3 & the Xbox 360…

• I’m really loving this trend for developers to drop their first DLC packs the month following the launch. Borderlands is the latest game to do this with their first pack set to arrive on November 24th for 800 MP or $9.99 depending on which platform you have. Called The Zombie Island of Dr Ned, 2K Games describes it as “You’ll be fighting brain-eating zombies, carnivorous Were-Skags and more as you continue your quest for the latest and greatest loot.”…

• 1 vs 100 Season 2 will begin on November 19th in the US & Canada….

• Medal of Honor, the WWII FPS king before it was dethroned by the Call of Duty franchise, is looking like it’s going to get a much needed reboot from EA. Look for more info “in the coming months”…

• A book based on the upcoming Ubisoft game Assassin’s Creed II will be available on November 26th. Subtitled Renaissance, look for it to touch on the early years of the hero Ezio along with the Lineage short films…

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