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Burnout Paradise ‘Party’ DLC, Ultimate Box Revealed
Continuing the trend of regularly scheduled downloadable content releases for Burnout Paradise, developer Criterion Games has just revealed details on the first additions for the new year, dubbed “Party.”
The premium DLC will add a hotseat multiplayer mode to the game, allowing for group gameplay with a single controller. The pack also includes an altered aesthetic for this special mode.
There is no word on whether any of the current multiplayer modes will be incorporated into this Party mode, but as most of them require more than one person’s car competing against another, I can’t imagine how that would work.
The Party pack is scheduled for release on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network in February 2009. Criterion has yet to reveal how much this round of DLC will cost.
Additionally, Criterion revealed the impending release of the Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box.
This updated retail release of the game will contain all the content of the original boxed copy, alongside all downloadable content released up until that point.
No price has yet been established for the Ultimate Box, but it will hit retail shelves roughly around the same time that the Party DLC reaches your online-enabled consoles.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The Dow rallied as much as 906 points during Tuesday’s session, as investors dove back into stocks near the end of one of the worst months in Wall Street history.
According to early tallies, the Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) added 888 points after having risen as much as 906 points earlier. It was the Dow’s second-biggest one-day point gain ever, following a 936-point rally two weeks ago. The advance of 10.9% was the sixth-biggest ever.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 (SPX) index gained 10.8% and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) added 9.5%.
The broad advance occurred as the two-day Federal Reserve meeting got underway, with a decision on interest rates expected Wednesday afternoon. Policymakers are widely expected to cut a key short-term interest download dvd rate.
Stocks ended Monday’s session at the worst levels in more than five years, with the major gauges off over 25% in October alone. Global markets have fallen too, as investors worldwide have sought to pull money out of stocks amid the credit crisis and weak economy.
After such a selloff, U.S. and global markets bounced back Tuesday. Wall Street briefly retreated in the midmorning after a report showed consumer confidence is at an all-time low, but investors recharged later in the session.
The rally was across-the-board with all 30 Dow components gaining, as investors decided the selling had gotten to be too much. Last week, the CBOE Volatility (VIX) index, or the VIX, hit an all-time high just below 90. And record amounts of cash remain in money-market funds.
"When you look at this in terms of valuation, volatility and investor sentiment, everything portends that a bottom has been reached or is near," said Matt King, chief investment officer at Bell Investment Advisors. "However, before anything more substantial can happen, we need to see that volatility washed out."
He said that many institutional investors want to get back into the market, but don’t want to risk being hit with another big down day. So they are still waiting.
Market breadth was positive. On the New York Stock Exchange, winners topped losers three to one on volume of 1.1 billion shares. On the Nasdaq, advancers beat decliners nine to five on volume of 2.13 billion shares.
Banks and credit: A drop in lending rates helped drive the advance Tuesday, with investors continuing to welcome signs that government efforts to loosen up the credit market is starting to work.
The Federal Reserve started buying commercial paper Monday, short-term debt that businesses rely on for funding daily operations. Also Monday, the Treasury said it will start handing out $125 billion to nine banks this week to get credit moving again. The initiatives were all part of the $700 billion bank bailout plan to get banks lending to each other again.
The disruption in credit markets and lack of available lending over the last few weeks has exacerbated fears about a bigger economic slowdown. The lack of lending has made it harder for businesses and individuals to get critical loans.
The credit market had initially responded to some of the government’s efforts, but lost momentum in the last few sessions as recession fears grew. On Tuesday, lending loosened up again, with Libor, the overnight bank-to-bank-lending rate, falling to 1.24% from 1.26% Monday. (Full story)
Economic news: A key measure of consumer mood fell to an all-time low, a reflection of the dismal market performance and tough economic conditions. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence index plunged to 38 in October from a revised 61.4 in September. Economists thought the survey would fall to 52, according to Briefing.com forecasts. (Full story)
Another report showed home prices in August fell for the 25th month in a row. Meanwhile, prices in 10 major markets tumbled a record 17.7% versus a year ago.
Treasury prices slumped, raising the yield on the 10-year note to 3.77% from 3.68% late Monday. Treasury prices and yields move in opposite directions. (Full story)
Company news: Boeing and its biggest union have reached a tentative
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as maya rudolph fan clubs ill another couple hours of suspense before her indemnity to saturday gloaming burning, tmz is reporting that amy poehler just had a baby house-servant and will miss tonight’s jon hamm-hosted spectacular. hold your breath that she went with the name we suggested: winston jammer poehler. i know, upper? in some cultures (don’t be insensitive) the nativity of a child is overcome marked by four amy poehler sketches to regulation them all. and if pattern week was your swan tale at snl, you earned it, amy.
Who can forget Amy’s magnificent satire of her own coming unborn! It’s just good to know Steve Holt will have a brother.
And think of Will Arnett! When he was on the set of Let’s Go To Prison, could he have imagined he’d be able to afford to see this day?
It was so real when all the ladies were in the show’s open that time. Dratch and Rudolph and Wiig and Poehler! Who could ask for anything more?
Lastly, who can forget Amy’s poignant run in the legendary sketch troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. This sketch changed the way I view life in general, and Amy ’s performance as Charna McMadison is what holds it together. Her acting here in multiple roles is Gilda Radner-worthy.
Then there’s Amy’s classic Dakota Fanning series. How confusing are these vignettes going to be for young Winston Jammer to absorb?
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