Hi there! Its great that Criterion Games has made it to the PlayStation.Blog, so with this first post its best that we bring everyone up-to-date with whats been happening since Burnout Paradise was released at the end of January.
The truth is we simply havent stopped.
Hunter Olympus
Were into our Year of Paradise 12 months where the Burnout Team keeps on developing exciting new stuff to expand and change Burnout Paradise (and in the process, we aim to radically change what everyone expects of downloadable content).
Weve so far released our 1.1 update, and our second update, codenamed: Bogart, packed with fixes and game-enhancing features.
Now, were expecting our third FREE update codenamed: Cagney thats coming on 10th July (yes, thats FREE just put your Burnout Paradise disk into your PLAYSTATION 3 and itll download automatically), and were really excited about it as we count down to its release.
Were talking:
3 new Online Game Modes
* Online Stunt Run you and up to 7 others compete for the highest stunt score
* Online Road Rage where you team up and try to stop the other team from reaching their destination
* Online Marked Man someone gets called out and everyone else tries to hunt them down
70 new Online Timed Challenges
* Everyone teams up to pull off stunts and other feats in the world, against the clock
New Vehicles (including the Hunter Olympus)
Major improvements to our Ranked Racing system
Plus heaps more, including:
* 1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with almost HD sets
* Improved Standard Definition rendering for PlayStation 3
* Support for Custom Soundtracks on PlayStation 3
Hunter Olympus
Outside of the game, our website,
www.criteriongames.com is changing too were posting up to 4 stories daily direct from the team and we now have an audio and video podcast from the team that goes out on a weekly basis. This weeks podcast released on Friday, were talking in detail about what to expect in Cagney and the other game-changing updates beyond that.
The pace of change here at Criterion is breathtaking, so were going to be posting here on the PlayStation.Blog at least once a week to let you know more about whats happening and whats coming to Paradise City.