Since its release at the end of January, the ridiculously fantastic Mass Effect 2 has been pretty well supported by add-on DLC – much more in these first few months than the first game ever was. Extra missions, characters, armour and weapons have all been added through the Cerberus network – and to date it’s all been free.

"Kasumi’s Stolen Memory," available on PC and Xbox 360 from April 6th will not be free. What it will be though, is awesome.

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You’d expect that with unceremonious, but scandalous ousting of Jason West and Vince Zampella, staff at Modern Warfare developers Infinity Ward would be leaving en masse. They’re not though.

The reasons for this – while hardly surprising, considering this is Activision – are still shocking. Hit the jump to read more.

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Just a quick reminder to let you know that today is the last day to enter the EA Games, Battlefield Bad Company 2 PS3 competition.

To stand in line to win a copy of Battlefield Bad Company 2 on PS3 all you need to do is email me (comps@lazygamer.co.za) a list of all the vehicles you can control in Battlefield Bad Company 2, you will get 1 entry into the draw for every correct answer and please do feel free to put all your answers in a single email.

Or if you want a better chance at winning simply tweet a link to this story with the #Lazygamers hashtag in the post, entries close at midnight tonight and I will draw the winner over the weekend.

I’d like to take a moment now to thank EA Games for sponsoring the prize and supporting the local community, as always it’s hugely appreciated.

Upcoming hackey slashey epic God of War III is, by all accounts, an incredible looking game – and a graphical showcase of the horsepower behind the Playstation 3.

It may surprise you to know then, that it could have looked even better. Sig Asmussen, the game’s director says there’s room for improvement, and that the engine is capable of so much more.

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American stat-trackers NPD have released their fabulous February findings – and for only the 2nd time since the Wii’s launch in 2006, the Xbox 360 was the top-selling home console in the region.

While the folks in Redmond are obviously doing a happy dance, there’s probably a good reason for their victory. US supplies of both the PS3 and the Wii are constrained. Still it IS a victory – Both the 360 (up 90 000 units from Jan) and the PS3 ( up 83 200 units) actually saw an increase in sales over January, with the Wii being the only one that saw a significant sales drop. Compared to last year’s February figures, the Wii is in sharp decline – 397,900 units, down from 793,000 in 2009.

I’d still like to have seen the figures if the Wii and PS3 were in regular supply though. Figures after the jump.

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Hey folks! It’s time for our Friday debate – and today you can leave your console allegiances at the door. We’re here today to discuss the two multiplayer shooter heavyweights – Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield Bad Company 2.

Superficially, they’re quite similar games – Dramatic, explosive single player campaigns and frantic team-based multiplayer with experience and levelling-up systems. They’re both about to receive some post-release DLC to keep things fresh and both seem to be keeping the people on my friends lists pretty occupied.

Now that you’ve had ample time to play both – which one offers you a better experience? Which has lobbies filled with morons? Gloves are off, let us know which you prefer – and why.

The headline pretty much says it all… but since it’s my rule that there needs to be a decent amount of text I guess I could also tell you that the music is awesome and the fact that there is a huge videogame based on a South African event is fantastic.

For those that are interested the song is called Wavin’ Flags by K’naan.

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The PlayStation Move has only officially been around for just over a day now and already the Internet is buzzing with how awesome it is but at the same time there is quite a lot of noise being made around it’s possible failings.

I have tried to collate the most common and reasonable complaints being levelled against the Move as well as some unexpected commentary about it’s ability to sense motion.

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Earlier this week Infinity Ward went on a marketing campaign to let everyone know that there first DLC will be arriving on the 30th of March so all those suffering from Mapathy will be saved.

DICE have responded in a direct attack on MW2 by also announcing it has a cure for Mapathy and their cure is free and will also land on the 30th of March.

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Joystiq has gotten their grubby paws on the PlayStation Move at GDC and has taken pictures from every angle possible.

Most of them are pretty standard stuff but this one really has me baffled.

We can see the standard USB port for charging and what looks like clip holes for possibly adding something onto the bottom and then a weird little port labelled “EXT”.

Does anyone have any idea what that will be used for? Surely for any controller add-ons they could just use the USB port?

[Thanks again to Scot for the tip]

OnLive, the *cough* revolutionary cloud-based gaming service will see its North American release this June for PC and MAC – coinciding with this year’s E3 Expo. It promises instant streaming of games from the industry’s top publishers – like EA, Ubisoft, 2K Games and more.

Early adopters – the first 25000 idiots people to sign up will get three months of access to the service for free – a regular cost of $14.99 US per month. Something about their terms though has me thinking this is a worse idea than I’d ever imagined.

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Today’s news is all about Sony’s motion-controller, now called Move. This post isn’t going to change that. Zipper Interactive’s recently announced Socom 4 for the PS3 will have full Move support – but it raises the question of whether motion control is a suitable input method for what’s a pretty core online shooter.

The announced Move sub-controller – a much less catchy name than Nunchuk – will control the players movement, with the Love Move Wand controlling the player’s reticule. Thankfully for fans of controls of a more traditional input method can still use the good ol’ DS3 – and hands-on previews report that that’s probably the preferred method.

I’m glad Sony are actually trying to appease the “core” market – everything we’ve seen from Microsoft’s Natal so far smacks of “casual,” but I don;t think Socom 4 is the core game to get me waggling though. Footage from GDC after the jump. Let us know what you think.

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Thanks to the delightful folk over at EA, we have not one, not two – but three copies of the quite awesome 2nd entry in to the Battlefield Bad Company series. In case you don’t know, it features some of the best class-based multiplayer action available today, as well as 15 vehicles you can use to obliterate the game’s destructible terrain.

It’s a game that no fan of shooters should miss – and if you’re a PS3 owner who’s woefully stuck without a copy, hit the jump to see how you can enter the Battlefield.

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Over the past few months EA have appeared to be leaning more and more towards the PS3 and away from the Xbox 360.

They are using it more and more as their initial development platform and are then migrating over the 360 while at the same time releasing demo’s and beta’s on the PSN before the XBLA.

However when it comes to the motion controller stakes it appears that EA is completely freezing Microsoft out.

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I spotted a new trailer out yesterday for GT5 that promoted the new NASCAR game mode but to be honest I just ignored it as I’m not a NASCAR fan or much of a racing fan.

But since it was brought up in the comments and we are short staffed this week I thought it would be a nice easy one to post up anyway, and yet I have to admit that the video really has me hooked.

I am tempted to get the game just to relive my Days of Thunder fantasy’s.

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