This is what greeted me this morning on the gamesas blog (http://www.bethblog.com/)

Great news to wake up to


Finish Dishonored, already? Completed a non-lethal playthrough, too? Congrats on being a true supernatural assassin! We recommend you continue honing your skills in preparation for the game’s upcoming game add-on content, Dunwall City Trials.

Dunwall City Trials will arrive simultaneously on PlayStation 3, PC, and Xbox 360. Details on this add-on, as well as future plans, are outlined below:

Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials, being released in December for $4.99 (or 400 Microsoft Points), will include 10 challenge maps that will test and track your combat, stealth and mobility skills. Ten distinct trials await challengers – including an arena battle against waves of enemy AI, a gravity-defying run of drop assassinations, and a race against the clock. Dunwall City Trials also features a whole new set of achievements and trophies as well as a global online leaderboard that will establish the greatest assassins for each challenge.

The second and third add-ons for Dishonored will be coming in 2013 and will each feature story-driven campaigns. Pricing on these two packs will be revealed closer to launch.

Daud, the leader of a group of supernatural assassins known as ‘The Whalers’, will be the focus of the second add-on pack, scheduled for release in early Spring 2013. Make your way through new Dunwall locales and discover Daud’s own set of weapons, powers and gadgets in this story-driven campaign. How you play and the choices you make will impact the final outcome…

Additional story details on the third add-on pack will be revealed closer to its launch next year.

Stay tuned for more details.

Sweet! I can't wait!

Very cool

Guess I will play the first DLC a lot to become the very best on the online leaderboard

Look forward to the second and third DLC more though, meaty single player missions are great

Cool - but I think I didn′t buy them, because I′m not a big friend of challenges like this. I prefer a story driven campaign with new missions, not just challenges.
As they said in the blog this will come with the next two expansions.

Yes.... I'd be more looking forward to the story-driven single player campaign with new powers and weapons, but hey, it's
good too know it's coming

I may get the first dlc just to play around with, but I'm more interested in the 2nd and 3rd story driven dlcs

I am a little sceptical about the whole Daud-thing. Playing him seems to give off a "wrong vibe" in my ears,
because of his role in Dishonored all in all.
I have my faith in Arkane still, and I hope they'll prove me somewhat wrong though!

Great great new! Thanks Arkane! It would still be great if we could create our own Challenges and share with the steam workshop or something like that. Just imagine! the game would have endless replayability! just giving suggestions here. I also really like the Idea of controlling Daud, great initiative.

Oh, it's on!

Pffttt, I'll take BOTH of you on!

Sounds cool, I'm more interested in additional story-driven content than challenges and arenas, but it's good to know Arkane and Bethesda have solid plans on additional content releases.

OMG YES! Can't wait for this one!

I like the sound of them all.
Looks like we are going to get some high quality content in the near future and that is awesome!

spoilers related to Daud, not really any major spoilers, most of it is stuff you might not even notice after having played through, but this is the spoiler free section so spoiler tags.

10 maps with a different challenge on each?

More achievements?

Sign me up.

It's going to svck waiting until Spring for the second DLC.

Great news.
Daud was my favorite characters.

I'm not so sure we'll be playing Daud as much as we'll become more involved in his story through our own play.

What's wrong with more content? I'm pretty sure a lot of people wanted more content when they played those games and others. I know I did, and back then only to get more was with sequels (or modders). Now we can get official expansions and DLC. And why wouldn't we have to pay for it? They are doing their job and making a game, adding more content still requires them to work, if you can't (or don't want to) pay an extra $5 then don't noone is forcing you to pay for anything.

Also this isn't an assumption this thread is announcing that there will be DLC.

Reading comprehension FTW.

While I am excited about this DLC all I could think when I read this was yeah yeah now announce the next Skyrim Expansion.

Regarding DLC arguments, it helps to remember that DLC is just a neutral medium. It's not inherently good or bad, right or wrong; it's a matter of how a given developer or publisher handles their DLC, not whether or not they release any. Yes, back in the day when we ran games from five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks, we didn't have DLC because we had no Internet or other framework for delivering content remotely. That didn't make that model inherently better, just older. With the advent of (gasp!) hard drives and the move to high-tech three-and-a-half-inch diskettes (and then CD-ROMs, then DVD-ROMs), we had additional paid content add-ons, but they were called "expansions." Same principle at work. Expansions weren't inherently good or bad, but some expansions added tons of fantastic content, polished the base game, and came with a great pricetag. Other expansions didn't do much and cost more, so those were bad expansions. The same holds true for DLC today.

I really hope the arena is not just barren land. I hope for more of a crowded like warehouse with the waves of enemies. So there will hopefully be things to climb, slide under, run around, break, throw, etc. Not just brutal melee combat in a field.

The Daud one looks good.