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PES 2013 has 150 licensed teams, including all the teams in Spanish and Italian top divisions
Extends exclusive license for Champions League.
Konami has announced a raft of licensed teams for upcoming football game PES 2013 - 150 to be exact.
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Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono offering advice on Remember Me melee combat
Speaks with producer regularly and has travelled to Paris developer.
Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono is offering his advice to Dontnod Entertainment as it builds eye-catching cyberpunk action adventure Remember Me.
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Review | Ghost Recon Online Review
Soldier of misfortune.
Somehow, Ubisoft has managed to make a free game feel expensive. At the centre of Ghost Recon Online, which now enters an open beta phase that's tantamount to a full launch, is a competent military team shooter which cleverly subverts its stolid cover tactics with overpowering bursts of exotic, futuristic powers. It's light on content, rough in places, and imperfectly balanced - but the ebb and flow of its action is unusually thoughtful and occasionally thrilling.
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UK chart: Sleeping Dogs hounds London 2012 Olympics from top spot
New Super Mario Bros. 2 counted in second.
Open-world crime drama Sleeping Dogs has bounded to the top of the UK all-format charts, toppling Sega's London 2012 Olympics tie-in.
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Dragon Age 3 survey leaks Inquisitor-hero story, and art
But is it real or fake?
An unverified Dragon Age 3 survey has spilled new information on the unannounced game. Chief among it, word that you'll play as leader of a new establishment called The Inquisition.
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As OnLive struggles, Sony reveals it's working with Gaikai to resolve issues around cloud gaming
"Games become something in the future, like when you watch YouTube."
In the battle of the cloud gaming companies Gaikai, headed up by Earthworm Jim designer Dave Perry, is the clear winner.
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Nintendo responds to Mario sequelitis criticism
Iwata: "We only create a New Super Mario Bros. title once per platform."
Nintendo has responded to recent criticism that it has begun churning out Mario games at too frequent a pace.
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OnLive vows service will continue as new company owner revealed
What next for cloud gaming?
OnLive has told its customers its service will continue uninterrupted as the company transitions to a new owner.
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New Splinter Cell: Blacklist video shows off controversial torture scene, moral choices
Gears of War: Judgment writer calls it "disgusting bulls***."
A new Gamescom trailer - below - has been released for Ubisoft's upcoming multi-platform stealth/action title Splinter Cell: Blacklist, due early next year.
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Review | Outernauts Review
Pay or delay?
I had to crack eventually, I suppose. I can hardly deny the significance of browser-based social gaming as an industry-changing trend, nor do I begrudge the tens of millions their fun as they mainline anything Zynga and its scheming ilk deal out on a daily basis. I've just never had the slightest interest in actually, properly playing any of these titles until now.
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Digital Foundry | In Theory: Where Next For iPhone?
Evolution or revolution? Digital Foundry on the choices facing the makers of the world's most popular smartphone.
If our well-informed mobile sources are to be believed, within the next 12 months mobile graphics technology will finally catch up with the capabilities of the current-gen consoles. The 28nm era is fast approaching, and coupled with the advances being made in power-efficient engineering, we should finally see a mobile GPU that - on paper at least - matches the raw power of the Xenos graphics core at the heart of the Xbox 360.
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Feature | Retrospective: Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Does a bear drive in the woods?
The roots of my appreciation for Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts began long before Rare had created either bear or bird in an inauspicious-yet-somehow-none-too-surprising fashion that outwardly has nothing to do with video games.
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Wii U exclusive characters detailed.
UPDATE: We've updated the headline of this article to better reflect the content of the story. Sega was referring to the visuals of Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed on Wii U compared to the visuals of the other versions, not the graphics capabilities of the Wii U itself. Sorry for the confusion this has caused.
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Opinion | Saturday Soapbox: How do you solve a problem like Mario?
Does New Super Mario Bros. 2 represent a creative cul-de-sac? And if so, does it even matter?
Currently sitting on a Metacritic average of just 78 per cent, New Super Mario Bros. 2 is comfortably the lowest-scoring mainline Mario game to date. That tally may be acceptable by many standards, but for one of gaming's most consistent performers, the numbers aren't good.
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OnLive lays off most of its staff, files for alternative to bankruptcy
UPDATE: Buyout confirmed. S*** just got real!
Update: OnLive has issued the following statement (via The Verge), confirming the buyout:
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Castlevania: Mirror of Fate lurks in development until "early 2013"
Dracula needs his beauty rest, apparently.
2.5D 3DS exclusive Castlevania: Mirror of Fate has been pushed back into "early 2013," Konami has announced.
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Tower offense sequel Anomaly Korea announced
PS3 version of Warzone Earth dated this month.
Tower offense game Anomaly Warzone Earth is getting a sequel, Anomaly Korea, for iOS and Android, developer 11 Bit Studios has announced.
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Bohemia feared the reaction to a standalone DayZ game
"They might feel it was not fair because they had to pay money for something that was initially free if they owned Arma 2."
Developer Bohemia Interactive dallied on signing Dean Hall - creator of wildly popular ArmA 2 zombie mod DayZ - on board to make a standalone game because it "feared how they [players] may react."
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Steam's Big Picture mode to launch beta in early September
Optimised for your TV, but no console plans in the works.
Steam's Big Picture mode that rejigs Valve's software distribution service for use on TVs will launch a beta in early September, Valve has announced.
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Nintendo's timeline-plotting Legend of Zelda artbook to get UK release
Hyrule Historia translation due next year.
Hyrule Historia, Nintendo's weighty Legend of Zelda artbook, is to be translated for release outside of Japan next year.
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Wonderfully made video showing what Halo 4 took to make
Will it live up to Bungie's legacy?
Behold, a beautifully produced look behind the scenes at 343 Industries, maker of Halo 4, and all it took to make the new game.
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Latter-half of Tomb Raider to be less bleak, set up franchise future
"Nothing whatsoever" altered after E3 controversy.
Later, as-yet-unseen stages in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot will be less bleak than the game's opening section, developer Crystal Dynamics has promised.
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Regaining fans' trust in Final Fantasy will take a "long time", FF14 producer says
"We can't - we just can't - let this game end in failure."
Rebuilding fans' trust in the Final Fantasy brand will take "a long time", following the damage done by the original and "failed" version of Final Fantasy 14, Square Enix has admitted.
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Crytek's Ryse "is moving forward really well"
But is it now a next gen game?
Crytek's Ryse, the long absent Roman warrior game that is built around the Kinect motion controller, is still in development - though a question mark remains on whether it's coming to the Xbox 360 or whether it's a next generation game.
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Nintendo finishes rock bottom of "conflict minerals" company rankings
Has made "no known effort to trace or audit its supply chain".
Family-friendly gaming company Nintendo has finished bottom of a "conflict minerals" ranking table.
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Warface western release date narrowed down, Crytek reveals console hopes
"We have been talking to console manufacturers," says Yerli.
Warface, the online shooter from Crytek that heralds the beginning of the developer's free-to-play future, has had its western release date narrowed down to this coming winter.
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Seven-minute Beyond: Two Souls gameplay video
Presented by David Cage.
An enterprising AllGamesBeta journalist filmed a Beyond: Two Souls presentation at Gamescom. The result is seven minutes of gameplay footage (posted below) from Quantic Dream's exclusive new PlayStation 3 game, and the bonus tones of the game's French project lead, David Cage, speaking over the top.
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Assassin's Creed exec: Japan devs' stories criticised less because of journalists' "subtle racism"
"I'll take Gears of War over Bayonetta any time."
"Subtle racism" within the games industry means Japanese developers aren't criticised as much for storytelling in video games as their Western competitors are.
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Digital Foundry | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti Review
Digital Foundry's take on the brand-new £250 Kepler.
One of the most anticipated graphics card releases of the year, the GTX 660 Ti is NVIDIA's first entry in the mid-range price bracket to feature their powerful Kepler architecture. The promise is a grand one; even early leaks of its specifications revealed it would be offering the very same core and memory clock speeds seen in the pricier GTX 670 model. The confirmed starting retail price of the card is set at £249 - though we're already seeing drops lower in places. It's a cut of roughly £40-£50, but at what cost to the card's raw performance?
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Review | Dust: An Elysian Tail Review
Ultraviolence for all the family.
Furries. In Dust: An Elysian Tail, you can't escape them. Nearly every location has one or two of the goggle-eyed creatures lolloping about, and the towns are crammed to the rafters with them. It's like Saturday morning telly. Dust is a gorgeous and fun 2D slash-'em-up with an RPG-lite layer - so why, you sometimes catch yourself wondering, do the characters look like Bambi's B-list?
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