Tons of new features are now yours for the taking in the new Burnout Paradise (PS3) update: new online game modes, new vehicles, a stack of enhancements and fixes, and a new Live Page. Best of all? It's free!

To acquire the updates, just pop the Burnout disk into your PS3, launch it, and it'll download the required files automatically.

[The] game’s new Live Page [is] the thing we’re really excited about and want to let you know about this week.

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.

chautemoc via blog.us.playstation.com »