Game Downloads

The New Xbox Experience is due to launch in a little over a month, and you're going to need a a hard drive and 128 megabytes of memory to be able to appreciate it. But if you happen to own an Xbox 360 sans hard drive, Microsoft may be able to help.

While everyone anticipated another glimpse of StarCraft 2 at last week's BlizzCon, we didn't expect to learn we'd only been witnessing a third of the game up until now. StarCraft 2's campaign is a totally different beast than its predecessor -- as we reported earlier , it'll be broken up into three separate games. However, each campaign will span about as many levels as the entire original game.

This past Friday, an innocent question from a fan at one of Blizzcon's Diablo 3 panels asking if Battle.net would remain free led to an unexpected -- or, at least, unwanted -- answer from the game's lead designer, Jay Wilson: "We are looking to monetize Battle.net so that we get to keep making these games and updating features."

That certainly didn't take long. Less than 24 hours after it was announced that Fallout 3 had gone gold, a number of torrent sites apparently started showing copies of the game for download. Of course, this is the Xbox 360 version of the game, meaning a modded console would be needed to play it; but that hasn't deterred thousands of people from already downloading their illegal copy. Gamasutra theorizes that the leak might have come from the manufacturing plant, while comments on the story say it's listed as a review copy and could have come from elsewhere.

Prepare to hand over your Wii Points -- er, Nintendo Points -- to Nintendo, because today's update to the Virtual Console and WiiWare is a great one. WiiWare adds Art Style: Cubello (600 points), a puzzle game, and indie game World of Goo (1500 points), which you may have heard of after it showed extremely well at this year's Independent Games Festival.