Midnight Club: Los Angeles

Rockstar Games writes: Lead-footed competitors from all around the world jumped on to Xbox LIVE last Friday night to unite with us on the streets of Los Angeles - showing off their flashy customized rides and racing for glory in our first Midnight Club Los Angeles event in the official Rockstar Social Club Multiplayer Events Series. Altogether, we raced with hundreds of players around pretty much every square inch of the city for more than three hours on Xbox LIVE. Winners were crowned. Losers were jeered. And lots of nitrous was in the air...

RockstarNetwork.net reports: Rockstar has just posted a nice list of events that they will be hosting for the next 3 months! They haven't forgotten about you Midnight Club: L.A. fans, they will even be having an event for you on Feb. 26th!

Joystiq: After last week's Rockstar spouse letter, we got in contact with a couple of trusted sources at Rockstar San Diego to find out more information about exactly what's happening inside the studio. Though our sources asked to be kept anonymous, each independently brought up the poor state of the Midnight Club franchise -- a series traditionally handled by the Rockstar San Diego team. Jay Panek and Mark Garone, people who were at the company for over 10 years, were fired in 2009 after the completion of Midnight Club: LA ... other major people quit, as they lost hope in the company after the handling of MC:LA and didn't want to work on Red Dead Redemption, one source told us.

New games have been added to the growing list of full downloadable games on Xbox Live. Check out the new additions after the jump!

Gi.biz: Microsoft has announced that it is dropping the recommended retail price of its Xbox 360 Classics range of games to £14.99. The budget range features re-releases of high-selling 360 games, and today adds Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles, as well as Take-Two's BioShock to the portfolio. Ubisoft has also added four titles to the series – Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Naruto: Rise of the Ninja, Splinter Cell Double Agent and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2.

Months after the announcement, Rockstar launched their Message Wall and Friend System at The Rockstar Social Club. The message wall will let you communicate with your friends and just speak your mind about anything. You can customize it to your own likings with fonts, images, colors and more.

Xbox Evolved writes: Speaking to Xbox Evolved, Rockstar let us know about any possibilities for a third vehicle pack for the LA street racer.

Rockstar's action racing title Midnight Club: LA has received new DLC in the form of the South Central Ultimate Content Pack, now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Split-screen.com: Rockstar Games, developers of the notorious Manhunt and Grand Theft Auto series, are also known for their experience in realistic racing games. Especially those that were ripping up the open world environment, street racing and import scene before EA ever got around to the concept of NFS: Underground, Pro-street and what have you. Midnight Club, developed by the Rockstar San Diego division, has sold more than 12 million copies since the first game released. If the LinkedIn profile of 3D Vehicle Artist for Rockstar San Diego David Finlay is to be believed, the company is working on an 'unannounced racing game' due for release on the Xbox 360 and PS3. The latest title, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, was released on the same platforms late last year.

Ve3tro writes: The second South Central Vehicle Pack for Midnight Club: Los Angeles is now available on Xbox Live and PSN for 240 MS points/$2.99. South Central Vehicle Pack 2 brings power and status, featuring the 2008 Cadillac XLR V, the 2008 Lancer Evolution X, the 2007 Aston Martin DB9 and the bonus 2008 Ducati 1098 R. In celebration of its release, Rockstar have included an all-new gameplay clip featuring the cars and bikes of vehicle pack 2.