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  1. David Cameron spends "a crazy, scary amount of time playing Fruit Ninja"

    David Cameron spends "a crazy, scary amount of time playing Fruit Ninja"

    Good practice for UK PM's public spending strategy?

    It seems that UK PM David Cameron has got himself hooked on ubiquitous touchscreen time-waster Fruit Ninja.

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  2. Why Magic The Gathering has become an annual gaming franchise

    Why Magic The Gathering has become an annual gaming franchise

    Amid the trials of Microsoft's submission process, Duels of the Planeswalkers dev lays its cards on the table.

    Stainless Games' digital version of cult card game Magic the Gathering is one of the most popular titles on Xbox Live. This summer will see the developer pump out the series third incarnation, Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013.

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    Get the most popular stories of the day or week straight to your inbox.

    Hey you! Do you like Eurogamer? Do you like emails? Then I have some exciting news for you regarding the aforementioned things that you like.

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  4. Diablo 3: number of players who have reported an account hack "extremely small", insists Blizzard

    Diablo 3: number of players who have reported an account hack "extremely small", insists Blizzard

    "We want to make it clear that the Battle.net and Diablo 3 servers have not been compromised."

    The number of players who have reported a Diablo 3 account hack is "extremely small", Blizzard has insisted.

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  5. Gearbox: Aliens: Colonial Marines a "massive" project, hundreds working on it

    Gearbox: Aliens: Colonial Marines a "massive" project, hundreds working on it

    Section 8 dev helping out. Gearbox admits early announcement was a mistake.

    Aliens: Colonial Marines is a "massive" project and hundreds are working on it, developer Gearbox has said.

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  6. Fake Angry Birds developer fined £50,000

    Fake Angry Birds developer fined £50,000

    Scammed gamers with premium SMS messages.

    A developer who created fake versions of Angry Birds, Assassin's Creed and Cut The Rope mobile games has been fined £50,000.

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  7. Screenshots of Amalur dev's Copernicus MMO leak

    Screenshots of what appears to be Project Copernicus, the MMO being made by troubled Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios, have leaked online.

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  8. Double Fine reveals Ron Gilbert project The Cave

    Double Fine reveals Ron Gilbert project The Cave

    Sega picks up downloadable adventure for 2013.

    Brütal Legend and Costume Quest developer Double Fine has unveiled The Cave, a new adventure game from Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert.

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  9. The Cave Preview: Double Fine's New Game for Sega

    "I think caves are just interesting," says Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert.

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  10. Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Vita release date

    Metal Gear Solid HD Collection Vita release date

    Take your PS3 save on the go, like a handbag.

    The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection will be released for PlayStation Vita on 29th June, Konami has announced.

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  11. App of the Day: Hiragana Pixel Party

    Games are excellent teaching tools. After all, what are they if not mechanisms that teach us how to use themselves through interaction? By playing, we learn how to play. It's something of a no-brainer that those same loops of feedback and reinforcement can be used for more than training us to be really good at headshots.

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  12. Mass Effect Infiltrator launches on Android

    Mobile shooter Mass Effect Infiltrator is now available to download on Android devices, BioWare has announced.

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  13. Ubisoft Rocksmith Tour bus doing global festival crawl

    Ubisoft Rocksmith Tour bus doing global festival crawl

    Attending Isle of Wight, Reading and Bestival festivals.

    Ubisoft will park a double-decker Rocksmith Tour bus at most of the world's major music festivals this summer.

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  14. Eurogamer.net Podcast #113: Diablo 3

    Eurogamer.net Podcast #113: Diablo 3

    Oli, Donlan and Champ talk skills, auctions, internets and Anna the Ukrainian.

    Seems like, in 2012, the bigger the game launch, the more furious the message-board outcry that surrounds it. We've had the uprising over the Mass Effect 3 ending, and now it's all about Diablo 3 and Error 37gate. Meanwhile, Rockstar, previously the champions of popular outrage, barely raised a heckle with Max Payne 3; gratuitous violence is so nineties.

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  15. Dirt Showdown Review

    Review | Dirt Showdown Review

    Muddy funster.

    "Is it a downloadable game?" If I had a pound for every time I'd been asked that while playing Dirt Showdown then I would have, well, £3. Still, that's three times that the first instinct of one of the people walking past our games room was to inquire about this new racing game's origins, which suggests not everyone has gotten their head around Codemasters' latest brand extension, or that it raises some doubt at first sight.

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  16. Kingdoms of Amalur studio execs jump ship

    Kingdoms of Amalur studio execs jump ship

    Developer fails to find new funding, staff health insurance runs out.

    Struggling Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios has been faced with further setbacks, including the departure of several execs.

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  17. Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event 2 held back

    Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event 2 held back

    ArenaNet installing new server hardware.

    The second Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event is being held back until ArenaNet deploys "a lot of additional hardware in our datacenters".

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  18. Sony developing Shadow of the Colossus movie

    Sony developing Shadow of the Colossus movie

    Chronicle director Josh Trank is in charge.

    A movie based on Team Ico's beloved PlayStation 2 adventure Shadow of the Colossus is currently in the works at Sony Pictures, according to a Deadline report.

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  19. Capcom plans to speed up development times on top franchises

    Capcom is aiming to shorten development times for major titles from between three and four years to just two and a half years in an effort to stay competitive and maximise revenue from its key IPs, according to company CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto.

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  20. Inside Xbox team set up on their own

    Inside Xbox team set up on their own

    Former Microsoft man Dan Maher resurfaces.

    Key members of the team behind Inside Xbox - the on-console video service recently scrapped by Microsoft - have set up their own production company.

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  21. Japan chart: My Little Sister Can't Possibly Be This Cute takes top spot

    Something called My Little Sister Can't Possibly Be This Cute Portable Can't Possibly Continue is currently the best selling game in Japan.

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  22. Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector's Set announced

    Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector's Set announced

    Lavish package includes 15 discs, statue, book, Ryu's belt.

    Capcom has just announced details of a lavish box set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Street Fighter series.

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    KickBeat announced for Vita

    Music combat game from Zen Pinball developer.

    KickBeat, a "music combat game" from Zen Studios, launches on Vita this Summer.

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    PSN downtime scheduled for Thursday evening

    Log-in before then and you might be able to stay online.

    PlayStation Network will be offline from 4.00pm BST on Thursday until 8.00am on Friday for maintenance, Sony has announced.

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  25. First official Total War modding tool TEd released

    First official Total War modding tool TEd released

    Make your own multiplayer and VS AI maps.

    The first ever official Total War modding tool, The Editor, has been released for Shogun 2 and standalone expansion Fall of the Samurai.

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  26. Going Hardcore in Diablo 3

    Feature | Going Hardcore in Diablo 3

    Just how much fun is permadeath, exactly?

    Stop!

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  27. Wii U Darksiders 2 graphics "at least as good" as PS3, Xbox 360 versions'

    Wii U Darksiders 2 graphics "at least as good" as PS3, Xbox 360 versions'

    Having inventory, map on the controller "will change people's perceptions".

    The graphics of the Wii U version of Darksiders 2 are "at least as good" as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions', developer Vigil has said.

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  28. Skyrim-inspired short film The Thief needs your coin

    Skyrim-inspired short film The Thief needs your coin

    Atmospheric video teaser a glimpse of what may be.

    Will you help fund The Thief, a short film inspired by The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim?

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  29. Diablo 3 fastest-selling PC game ever, biggest PC game launch in history

    Diablo 3 is the fastest-selling PC game ever, and enjoyed the biggest PC game launch in history, Blizzard has announced.

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  30. From YouTube: Street Fighter 2 playing with Portals

    From YouTube: Street Fighter 2 playing with Portals

    Fei Long, Guile and Chun-Li in Capcom/Valve mash-up.

    Ever wondered what would happen if Capcom and Valve got together to do a fantasy Street Fighter x Portal crossover fighting game?

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