by June - 07.22.08
Puzzle Quest: Revenge of the Plague Lord, expansion to Infinite Interactive’s acclaimed RPG-puzzler, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, hits the Xbox LIVE Arcade tomorrow for 700 Microsoft Points. This new chapter will add four new professions (Bard, Rogue, Ranger, and Warlock), a new southern map, three extra Achievements, more quests, spells, artifacts, and ways to ensure you won’t see the light of day. It even features the ability to play using your existing hero, and better yet, battles against little girls with crazy lightning powers.
If you’re among the folks who still haven’t played Puzzle Quest, maybe these articles can convince you to try. 
4cr: Puzzle Quest Review
Toronto Thumbs: Puzzle Quest Review
Kotaku: Puzzle Quest Impressions
Hit the jump for the full press release!
Puzzle Quest Expansion Pack hits Xbox LIVE® Arcade on July 23rd
D3Publisher of Europe Ltd (D3PE), a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, has announced that expansion pack Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords™ - Revenge of the Plague Lord, its latest Xbox LIVE® Arcade for Xbox 360™ offering, will launch on Xbox LIVE Marketplace on July 23, 2008.
The expansion pack will be available for play as an addition to fan favorite game Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords for Xbox LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and includes four new hero professions, scores of new spells to cast and items to collect, challenging new quests, monsters and bosses, and the introduction of a new archenemy. Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Revenge of the Plague Lord will be available on Xbox LIVE marketplace for 700 Microsoft Points.
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Revenge of the Plague Lord will offer fans hours of additional gameplay with four brand new Hero Professions: Bard, Rogue, Ranger and Warlock. Players will adventure with new or existing Heroes to explore an expansive new area on the Southern Map containing more than 25 challenging quests, cast more than 50 new spells and collect more than 40 new magical items as they’re immersed into the compelling story of Antharg, the Lord of Plague and brother to the infamous Lord Bane. New monsters, bosses and more will challenge veteran and casual fans alike for hours of compelling entertainment. The expansion pack further increases the full Puzzle Quest experience by adding three new Achievements and raising the character Level Cap to 60. Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Revenge of the Plague Lord was initially code-named “Puzzle Quest: 1.5” to reflect its tremendous amount of content.
For more information about the story and features of Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords - Revenge of the Plague Lord and other Puzzle Quest properties, please visit www.puzzle-quest.com.
700 points? What’s that, like $8.50 plus tax? Seems kind of expensive for a few minor updates. Like, why raise the level cap to just 60 and not 100? So they can charge for another expansion that bumps it up to 70 later and throws in some more minor challenges?
thesimplicity - 07.22.08 7:04 pm
I don’t know that 4 new classes, 25 new quests, a new area and 40 new items is much of a minor update for a game like this. Particularly one that was only $15 on XLBA to begin with… It’s even better for new people now since they’ve lowered it to $10 recently.
With all of that stuff it’s still less than the retail versions ever were.
Personally I think it’s pretty reasonable.
Tony - 07.22.08 8:03 pm
Truthfully, I just wish they had opted to round up or down. 700 in MS Points is kind of awkward, IMO.
Blue_Falcon - 07.23.08 2:23 am
Any chance of this (that is, the update) being released for the PC instead of just XBLA?
Belgand - 07.28.08 2:02 am