Starting October 30th Westwood will begin the first of many downloadables extras into their new massively multiplayer online game Earth and Beyond. They will continue to be updating as often as they can, including bonuses for holidays. Those will begin the next day on the 31st for a special Halloween event. As for the first package, it includes:
  • New missions for all character archetypes.
    New unique items that are dropped when players kill high-level monsters.
    A speed increase to all ships while planet side.
    Improved item drops for mid- to high-level monsters.
    Additional information on trade good items.
    Graphical enhancements to combat.
    Enhancements to the embedded browser.

For more information you can check out my preview and the Earth and Beyond official website at http://www.earthandbeyond.ea.com/.