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Dark Souls 2 director aims to make sequel more "straightforward" and "understandable"
My heart is breaking...
Dark Souls 2's new director Tomohiro Shibuya has said he would like to make From Software's sequel "more straightforward and more understandable" than its predecessors.
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Microsoft looking into Halo 4 Crimson Map Pack issue for season pass holders
UPDATE: Halo Waypoint telling users to reboot their consoles and try again.
Update: The Halo Waypoint Twitter feed updated, informing season pass owners that they should "Reboot your console, load Halo 4, press Start, and select Xbox LIVE Marketplace to see if it's available for you."
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Warhammer 40K board game Space Hulk is being adapted for PC, Mac and iOS
Features cross-platform multiplayer and a level editor.
The 1989 Warhammer 40,000 board game spin-off Space Hulk is being adapted into a video game for PC, Mac, and iOS. It's due sometime next year.
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BioShock Infinite box art intended to entice "uninformed" frat guy types
Levine says there will be alternate box covers to download.
The BioShock Infinite box art was picked to appeal to the "uninformed", the mainstream - the people who don't closely follow games but walk into a shop with money in their pocket and let box art do the talking.
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen to feature Japanese VO option
Venture to the not so sunny Bitterblack Isle, fight death.
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen - the "major expansion" to Capcom's open-world fantasy action game - will allow the option to play with Japanese voice-overs, due to fan request.
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Nintendo's Pokédex iOS app costs £17.45 to complete
Will Pokémon encyclopaedia's pricing lead to Tepig sales?
Nintendo's Pokédex app for iOS devices is now available in the UK - but users will have to pay a total of £18.49 to list every Pokémon breed.
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Denki Word Quest allows you to kill with literacy
Quarrel maker's latest word game is out now and runs in a browser.
Denki, the studio behind the brilliant iOS and Xbox Live Arcade puzzler Quarrel, is back with a new word game that you can try out for free right here in your browser. It's called Denki Word Quest, which at least boasts the virtue of transparency, and it blends anagrams with very light RPG trappings to create something that feels a little like Bookworm Adventures.
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Lovefilm launches on Wii today, Wii U arrival "soon"
UPDATE: Wii U app launches today.
UPDATE 2: Lovefilm has launched on Wii U.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 trailer shows impressive in-game graphics
"Everything you saw was captured direct from the game."
Konami has released the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 trailer that premiered during the Spike Video Game Awards over the weekend.
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Glu snips GameSpy from several old PC games
A sticky situation.
Used to be GameSpy was a common sight playing a PC game online. The service picked out the best matches available for you. It was a popular middleware solution.
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Konami quiet on Metal Gear Solid 5 talk as The Phantom Pain trailer and screenshots are released
"All footage is shown running in real-time on hardware equivalent to current generation consoles."
Moby Dick Studio, the mystery developer supposedly behind The Phantom Pain, has released the trailer that premiered during the Spike Video Game Awards over the weekend and screenshots.
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European version of Retro City Rampage to benefit from additional polish, no plans for a sequel
In certification with Xbox Live Arcade and WiiWare.
European PlayStation owners have had to wait for Retro City Rampage, but according to its creator it'll be worth it.
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Street Fighter X Tekken Ver. 2013 trailer previews sweeping patch
Capcom to speed up matches with key gameplay changes.
Capcom has released a trailer for the Street Fighter x Tekken Ver. 2013 patch.
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Hackers get Wii Homebrew Channel working on Wii U
In Wii mode only - for now.
The hackers behind the Wii Homebrew Channel have got it working on Wii U.
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The Sportsfriends featuring Johann Sebastian Joust Kickstarter has reached its funding target with nine hours to spare.
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UK chart: fa-la-la-la-laa la Black Ops 2
Paper Mario Sticker Star scrapes in.
It's December and the charts are frozen solid; it's still Black Ops 2 on top, Far Cry 3 second and FIFA third.
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Nintendo confirms German law to blame for Europe-wide Wii U eShop 18+ content restrictions
"We always aim to provide a safe gaming experience for fans of all ages."
Nintendo has explained the restrictions on Wii U eShop 18+ content.
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Imagine what a medieval RPG for PC and next-generation consoles could look like - how much better than Skyrim can it get?
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Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer, broadcaster and Games Master, dies
"He WAS the Gamesmaster. RIP Sir Patrick Moore, a true original."
Sir Patrick Moore, the astronomer, broadcaster and Games Master, died over the weekend aged 89.
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The Last of Us multiplayer mode teased by Naughty Dog
Pre-order for bonus XP!
The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog has confirmed the game will include a multiplayer mode.
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Newell: living room-friendly PC Steam packages to compete with next-gen consoles
"We'll do it but we also think other people will as well."
Amid the rumours that Valve plans to enter the hardware market with a Steam Box, Gabe Newell has said gamers will be able to buy a living room-friendly PC package from the Half-Life maker in 2013.
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Capcom announces free PC download Street Fighter x Mega Man
"We know it's been a hard year for Mega Man fans..."
Capcom has announced Street Fighter x Mega Man, a free PC download due out on 17th December 2012.
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Ace of Spades preview: Driller Killer
Blocks meet bullets in Jagex's team-based first-person shooter.
'Minecraft with guns' is the elevator pitch for Ace of Spades, and the elevator pitch is a bit weird, really. Surely a major reason for Minecraft's sweeping success with so many different sorts of players is that it didn't come with guns in the first place?
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Skyrim, sniping and psychopathy.
Hello again, Eurogamer readers. We're back already for another weekly update and we hope you're as alarmed as us by how quickly those advent calendar doors are opening. Still, there's a special treat behind door number nine. No, it's not an oversized chocolate that, owing to a manufacturing error, has escaped the sides of its plastic mould to encroach on the chocolate behind the door next to it. It's us. Outside Xbox. We have some videos you might be interested in watching?
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Feature | Neverwinter Nights retrospective
Fitful.
Ten years later, I'm still torn. I can't tell you if I enjoyed Neverwinter Nights. I don't know whether to say that it was my first great gaming disappointment, or tell stories about how its expansions, mods and custom content eventually formed something of a splint for a broken promise.
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Dark Souls 2 officially announced
UPDATE: Coming to PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Update: According to publisher Namco Bandai's Czech announcement (translated into English via Google), Dark Souls 2 is coming to PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. (Thanks, Eurogamer.cz!)
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The Last of Us release date set for May
Features horseback riding, probably.
A new trailer for The Last of Us has premiered during the VGAs revealing the release date as 7th May.
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Could The Phantom Pain be the new Metal Gear Solid?
UPDATE: Secret MGS5 logo? Moby Dick Studio schmoozing with Konami? Okay, this is getting out of control.
Update 2: As has been pointed out by user Gouda Jouji on the MGSForums, the brief spaces in the title screen combined with the awkward lines emanating from the logo can be combined to spell "Metal Gear Solid V". It's a bit of a stretch, but it does fit.
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New BioShock Infinite gameplay footage emerges
Meet Elizabeth, fight the Handyman.
New footage of the highly anticipated steampunk shooter BioShock Infinite premiered during the VGAs last night.
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Digital Foundry | Face-Off: Assassin's Creed 3 on Wii U
The launch game stacked up against Xbox 360, PS3 and the new PC version too.
For our original Assassin's Creed 3 Face Off, we were pleased to find the game's visuals on both 360 and PS3 were very closely aligned indeed, and welcomed the addition of v-sync to a series with a long-standing reputation for intrusive screen-tearing. Frame-rate issues were a factor around the busy Boston and New York areas, but it still stood as a respectable release for developer Ubisoft Montreal, marking the fifth game in the series for the two trusty home consoles.
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