Dishonored Dunwall City Trials DLC gameplay trailer

Bethesda just released a trailer for the upcoming DLC for Dishonored called "Dunwall City Trials". The DLC will include 10 challenge maps that challenges your skill in the game's combat, stealth, and overall creativity.  Online leaderboards will also be included as well as more trophies/achievements to collect.

This won't be the only DLC releasing for Dishonored. Two more DLC's are in the works and is planned to be released next year. The second DLC will contain a new story mission that revolves around a group of stealth assassin's called The Whalers. Bethesda and Arkane has yet to reveal details for the third content.

Dishonored's 'Dunwall City Trials' DLC will be available on December 11 on Xbox Live, PSN and PC for 400 MS Points or £3.99 / $4.99.

Dishonored DLC packs announced

Finished with Dishonored? Well hold on to your copy as long as you can because three DLC packs are planned for Bethesda's First-person assassin game, and the first one is planned for a December release. Details below.

The first one to be released is called ""Dunwall City Trials.". It will be released sometime in December and will cost you $4.99/400 MS Points. The DLC will include 10 challenge maps that will test your assassin skills. Challenges will include an arena battle against waves of enemy AI, a gravity-defying run of drop assassinations, and a race against the clock. Dunwall City Trials will have their own set of new achievements and leaderboard for bragging rights.

Dunwall City Trails will be released simultaneously on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

The second and third DLC will be story-driven content, but is planned for a early 2013 release. The leader of a group of supernatural assassins known as ‘The Whalers’, will be the focus of the second add-on pack. For the third DLC, no details yet.

[Source: Official Bethesda Blog]

Datablitz offering free DLC's for each purchase of Dishonored, even to those that have already purchased

Got Dishonored this week? Awesome. Was it through Datablitz? Well then, maybe this will interest you. Datablitz just announced that you can get free DLC's when you get a copy of Dishonored on any platform. In addition, customers that have already bought a copy of Dishonored can head back to the same Datablitz branch and claim your free DLC, as long as you still have your receipt that is.

The news was delivered via Datablitz's official Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Once you purchase your copy of Dishonored, or went back to claim your DLC's, you get to choose one of the two DLC pack combinations:

Shadow Rat Pack & Acrobatics Pack

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Arcane Assassin Pack & Backstreet Butcher Pack

Together with the news, Datablitz apologizes for the delay on the arrival of the free DLC. So If you didn't receive any free DLC for your copy of Dishonored, do yourself a favor, don't forget to visit the same branch you got the game and ask for your free DLC's. Free content is always a good thing.

Dishonored reviews compilation

Dishonored reviews are now live. Out of the shadows, Bethesda's new IP dishes out impressive game scores from various game sites. For the curious, here's a round-up of all the reviews of the game so far.

Destructoid - 9/10

Gamespot - 9/10

1UP - A+

GameInformer - 8.75/10

G4TV - 4.5/5

Joystiq - 4.5/5

Kotaku - YES

Giantbomb - 4/5

IGN - 9.2/10

EuroGamer - 8/10

The Escapist - 5/5

CVG - 9.5/10

PC Gamer - 92/100

GamesRadar - 4.5/5

4PlayerPodcast - 95/100

New titles are quite rare. Each time I see one with so much potential, I wish it good luck as it gets unleashed to a world filled with sequels with added multiplayer and titles released on a yearly basis. Seeing Dishonored get high praise placed a huge smile on my face, especially since this title is coming from a fairly new developer. Now, the only thing I now hope for is Dishonored finding the same success in sales. No matter what, that's an important factor in a new title's success.

If there are any other reviews missing in the list, hit the comments for the rest of us to see.

Dishonored comes out on October 9 for NA, October 12 for EU on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.

Dishonored's interactive trailer lets you choose what to do

Bethesda released another interactive video for their new IP Dishonored. If you remember the last interactive video that lets you choose which powers to use for the given situation, this one is similar but lets you choose a lot more.

Bethesda really knows how to promote their games. I'm a huge fan of these interactive videos that are now showing up in Youtube. It's a great way to show case games with a lot of emphasis on player choice. You can actually fail in this interactive video. This is an actual mission in the game so it's a minor spoiler, fair warning.

You play as a supernatural assassin that's driven by revenge. You are given a set of abilities like possession, blinking, and summoning rats, which gives you a lot of choices on how to tackle this game. Its one of those games that you can actually finish with just stealth. If you're not into stealth, you can just go guns blazing.

Dishonored comes out on October 9 for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.