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Samsung planning giveaways, celeb appearances and other stuff at EG Expo
Pollyanna Woodward launching UK WCG qualifier, EA bringing a car, win a Galaxy Note.
Samsung has sent over word about some more of the things it's planning to do at our lovely Eurogamer Expo between Thursday and Sunday.
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The Last Express comes to iOS this week
Get on the trolley!
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner's adventure game epic The Last Express is coming to iOS worldwide on 27th September, according to the new release date trailer below.
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Oblique first-person puzzler Kairo dated in October
Demo available now.
Mysterious first-person puzzle game Kairo now has an official release date on 21st October on PC and Mac, developer Richard Perrin has announced.
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The Walking Dead coming to retail in early December
i.e. the season will wrap up by then.
Telltale Games' gripping episodic zombie series The Walking Dead is going to be collected in one complete retail package coming to Xbox 360 and PS3 in North America on 4th December.
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Angry Birds Trilogy achievement takes approximately 300 hours to attain
Get 100 per cent destruction on every stage with the Mighty Eagle.
Angry Birds Trilogy will have an achievement that developer Rovio expects will take players 300 hours to complete.
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Beneath a Steel Sky 2 is officially happening
Despite falling short of Broken Sword's million dollars stretch goal.
Beneath a Steel Sky developer Revolution Software has officially greenlit a sequel to the 1994 cult favourite cyberpunk point-and-click adventure.
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Review | FTL: Faster Than Light review
Friend or photon?
It's not often you can point to an indie game as the perfect illustration of a core scientific concept, but here we are. Einstein's theory of relativity lays bare the relationship between space and time. They're essentially aspects of the same thing - spacetime - and as you travel through space at the speed of light, time flows very differently than it does for the people you've left behind. At light speed, a journey that may take a few hours for you would be years for everyone else.
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Professor Layton and The Miracle Mask gets a browser demo
Untie a clown, ring a bell.
The upcoming puzzle adventure Professor Layton and The Miracle Mask now has a browser demo up on Nintendo's official UK site.
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Man hits Borderlands 2's level cap in record time
After a 43 hour play session.
If reader comments and world records have taught us anything, people always like to be the first at something. As such pro-gamer Matt "BLiTZ" Siegfried, a self-proclaimed "multi-genre/multi-console world champion, speedrunner, high score chaser, tournament player, co-op lover, and OSU [Ohio state University] student," took it upon himself to hit Borderlands 2's level cap before anyone else and record the event for all to see.
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Mark of the Ninja sneaks onto Steam in October
Go ninja, go ninja, go!
Acclaimed 2D stealth platformer Mark of the Ninja is slated for a Steam release on 16th October, developer Klei Entertainment has announced via a new trailer below.
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Sony patents biometric data identification technology
The ID-tagged future envisioned in MGS4.
Sony has filed a patent on a bizarre contraption that will allow its devices to recognise users based on their biometric data.
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Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed 3 sequels depend on reaction to new hero Connor
"We made three games with Ezio because people loved Ezio."
Ubisoft has said that further Assassin's Creed games featuring new hero Connor could be in the pipeline should gamers warm to the character.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown PC demo on Steam now now now
On consoles "soon".
There's a PC demo for XCOM: Enemy Unknown - the strategy one built by Firaxis - available on Steam right now.
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Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package release date announced
DLC-packed edition due November.
Publisher THQ has announced a DLC-packed version of Saints Row: The Third. Subtitled The Full Package, the innuendo-fuelled adventure is due to arrive in the UK on 9th November.
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Review | Torchlight 2 review
A night to re-ember.
About an hour into Torchlight 2 I'd already hit Level 8, and that was a pretty nice state of affairs. What was even better was that I'd been invited to visit Plunder Cove by a ghostly ferryman type in order to smack around some undead sailors who had done him a wrong'un.
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PopCap Dublin closed, 96 jobs lost
Decision made by "PopCap leadership team" not EA.
The evaluation period has ended and so has PopCap Dublin: 96 people will lose their jobs.
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Interview | Blizzard uses Mists of Pandaria to take Warcraft back to its Orcs versus Humans roots
"You bring the evil."
Blizzard launches Mists of Pandaria, the fourth expansion for World of Warcraft, at midnight tonight at perhaps the most crucial time in the gargantuan fantasy MMO's seven year history.
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Riot at Foxconn threatens iPhone 5 stock replenishment
As Apple announces 5 million sales during opening weekend.
Apple has pledged to restock iPhone 5 supplies following an opening weekend that topped 5 million sales.
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Ulala vs. Ryu and a thousand giant ants: the games of TGS
The best games that you may never play from this year's Tokyo Game Show.
There was a single image that summed up this year's E3 perfectly, and with a little alteration it pretty much does the trick for Tokyo Game Show 2012 too. Whereas western developers seem transfixed with Naughty Dog's semi-interactive model, in Japan there's still a rush to emulate Monster Hunter's unending success. Every game announced at Sony's conference seemed to be about tackling huge beasts in expansive environments - a theme that carried through to many parts of the show floor itself.
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Funcom promotes Joel Bylos to game director of The Secret World
He'll work with creative director Ragnar Tornquist.
Funcom's promoted Joel Bylos to the new role of game director for struggling MMO The Secret World.
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Grand Theft Auto 3 on PlayStation Network this week
The PS2 no-frills version.
The delayed PlayStation Network release of PS2 game Grand Theft Auto 3 will happen this week, the US PlayStation blog has announced.
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Nintendo UK confirms the Wii U will be region locked
Imparted: important importing news.
Nintendo UK has confirmed to Eurogamer that the Wii U will be region locked.
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UK chart: Borderlands 2 edges top spot
F1 2012, PES 2013 arrive just behind.
The brilliant Borderlands 2 has finally dethroned Sleeping Dogs to take this week's UK all-format chart number one.
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Project Eternity nears $2m: updates on souls, world tech, non-combat and Unity
Sounds better by the day.
Obsidian's old-style RPG Project Eternity is on the road to becoming one of Kickstarter's greatest fund raisers, with $1.9 million raised and 22 days to go. (The target, in case you're out of the loop, was $1.1 million.)
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Borderlands 2 character, vehicle DLC coming separately to Season Pass
First campaign DLC already "extremely far along".
Borderlands 2 developer Gearbox has hinted at several upcoming DLC packs which won't be covered by the game's Season Pass.
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The creator of Ecco the Dolphin has announced he is meeting with Sega to discuss a new title in the aquatic adventure series.
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Wii U: How are the ports shaping up?
Donlan checks out the first wave of multi-platform releases, including Mass Effect 3 and Assassin's Creed 3.
Console transitions can be awkward affairs at the very best of times. They're even weirder when the platform release dates don't overlap very cleanly - and when one of the machines comes with an inventive set of features.
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Feature | Retrospective: Project IGI
All your bases.
Sneaking into bases is just the best thing. There's the feeling of anticipation as you scan the perimeter of a hulking military installation, the satisfaction of stealth kills and security camera outages as you breach its walls and (of course) that feeling of utter terror when the alarm is triggered and identical men in red berets start sprinting in rough diagonals towards you.
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Opinion | Saturday Soapbox: Let the good times role
Is the resurgence of old-school RPGs down to more than simple nostalgia?
We humans are excellent at harking back to golden ages. The very phrase comes from the ancient Greeks, who believed that they were the bastardised remnants of human species of gold and silver. To call an era golden, then, is to imply that our time is poor in comparison. Because of this, most Golden Ages are hyperbolic fictions. Margaret Thatcher and her Victorian values, the Nazis and their pseudoarcheology, John W Campbell and the science-fiction of the 1940s, the crappy superhero comics of the 1950s...
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Digital Foundry | Tech Comparison: Dark Souls PC
Prepare to dial up the resolution.
In true Dark Souls spirit, two bells were ominously tolled before the game's much-anticipated PC release. The first came via a Famitsu interview with series director Hidetaka Miyazaki, where it was inferred that the game would not be supporting the higher resolutions available on PC, and that there was absolutely no ambition within the team to improve on the visual quality seen in the console versions. Naturally, fans hoped the point on resolution in particular to be a translation mishap - a miswording, maybe - being as unlikely as it was for a high-profile PC game to ship with a fixed resolution.
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