Intro!

Hi, welcome to Love Game Patches, a blog about extended content for videogames. As games become more complex and the internet more ubiquitous, more and more games get significant free content additions after release. The company builds a committed player base for its games as well as consumer goodwill. The players get a (hopefully) improved game at no additional cost. Other game review sites focus on the glitz and glamour of previews and initial releases, but I don’t know of any major site that cares specifically about a game six months after its release, so I decided to create a blog about it. Just to be clear though, pure bug fixes and expansions that cost money won’t be discussed here. This blog is for free content added to a game after release. I also won’t be discussing free content releases for World of Warcraft because there are plenty of web pages that do that (www.wowinsider.com is really good at this).

In discussing the games, I’ll either be discussing my experiences with the games or summarizing player sentiment from various forums if I haven’t played them. This way, you can get a feel for the impact of the patches from a player point of view. The first games up will be Hellgate:London, SimCity Societies, and Forza 2.
So without further adieu, the first post starts now!