Burnout Paradise’s Codename: Cagney Update is Live
By Chris on Thursday, July 10th, 2008 at 6:26 PM PST In Electronic Arts, Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Games, Microsoft, Sony
If you chose the PlayStation 3 version of Burnout Paradise over its Xbox 360 counterpart, Codename: Cagney is now available to you, free of charge. Cagney includes a ton of new content, with everything from new game modes to new challenges to new vehicles. Criterion had to delay the release of the update of Cagney by four days. All of the content will be available to 360 owners on July 14.
Paradise’s new Live Page (seen above) is being touted as a cool new feature. Criterion posted the following on PlayStation.Blog:
The Live Page does two cool things:
First, it serves up news about the game – so that’s news about updates and the kind of stuff you’d expect on criteriongames.com, but it’s also news about what’s happening in the game – so, expect to find news about what you’ve done in Paradise City as well as about what’s happening online, like when we hit the 100 millionth crash, for example.
Secondly (and this is the really, really cool bit), it’s where we can, using the Game Calendar, create what we’re calling ‘Live Broadcast Gameplay’. This is how it works:
If you check out the Game Calendar, you’ll see certain dates on it are ringed. These represent ‘Live Events’ that will occur on that day. In the news panel on the Live Page there’ll be a corresponding story telling you about what’s happening on those days.
Major props to Criterion for providing such significant post-release support to the game. Other developers should take note — this is how you treat your customers. Also, coupons for free caramel iced lattes would be nice.
