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Prototype 2 pips Kinect Star Wars to top April US chart
Xbox 360 was best-selling console in slow month at retail.
UPDATE: A snippet of extra data for you - NPD told Eurogamer that Kid Icarus: Uprising sold 83,000 copies during April.
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Promotion: Win Fighter Jet Trip With The Proxy
Watch series, follow clues, fly plane.
Have you ever flown a plane? I've flown a plane. It was a little Cessna thing. Four-seater. Lots of fun. Here's a picture of me flying a plane. Thanks to my years of training in advanced flight sims (Jedi Starfighter and Starwing), I was a complete natural. Very impressive, right? Who wants to touch me?
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Beyond Good & Evil 2 in-engine footage leaks
Get your Peepers on this.
More footage from Ubisoft's Beyond Good & Evil 2 has leaked, this time courtesy of Unseen64.
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Final Fantasy has had a troubled relationship with recent Nintendo platforms. The slightly lacklustre Crystal Chronicles subseries was always a sideshow to the franchises' main offerings, never available on Nintendo consoles. No wonder then that the barely-pronounceable reveal of Theatrhythm, a rhythm-based Final Fantasy spin-off, did nothing to reassure fans that Square Enix saw the 3DS as anything more than another proving ground for more derivative experiments.
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Capcom: Steel Battalion the most accurate Kinect game yet
After "massive aid" from Microsoft.
Capcom reckons Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is the most accurate Kinect game yet.
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Sony shares topple to 31-year low after record losses
Investors punish Sony after dismal financial results.
Sony's share price has fallen to a 31-year low following the announcement of the company's record 456.7 billion yen (£3.5bn) annual loss.
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Guild Wars 2 has sold "hundreds of thousands" of copies already
ArenaNet comments on pre-purchase numbers.
"Hundreds of thousands" of people have already paid in full for - pre-purchased - Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet has revealed.
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Review | App of the Day: Ski Solitaire
Cold cut.
Solitaire has been pre-installed on home computers since the early '90s, so why everyone's decided to remake it all of a sudden is a bit of a mystery. If the timing seems unusual, however, it's easier to see why it's ripe for a makeover: it's a game that everyone's familiar with, that barely requires any instructions to play, and it has that all-important element of luck that adds just enough frustration to keep you wriggling away on the end of its hook.
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New US retailer promises to share used game revenue with publishers
EKG believes it'll help developers take risks on innovative games.
A new US online retailer has made the bold move of offering to share revenue from its used game sales with publishers.
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Konami enjoys social gaming success, eyes Zynga partnership
PES, and home video game sales, fall.
Konami's yearly accounts are out, whoopee, and the big success story is games for social networking services (SNS).
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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Arctic Strike DLC revealed
Ubisoft Russian to reveal post-launch plans.
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier won't be released until 25th May in the UK, but Ubisoft has already started laying out DLC plans.
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Rovio details first post-Angry Birds release
Buys rights to Casey's Contraptions, plans Summer re-launch.
Angry Birds developer Rovio has announced plans for its first non-avian related release since Angry Birds made it very, very rich a few years back.
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Resident Evil 6 to ship 7 million, Capcom hopes
Devil May Cry 2 million, 1.5 million for Dragon's Dogbiscuits.
There's an awful lot riding on Resident Evil 6 - Capcom expects the upcoming survival horror to ship a whopping 7 million copies.
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Valve reveals The International Dota 2 Championships 2012 details
Moves from Cologne, Germany to Seattle, USA.
Goodbye Kölsch and hello coffee - Valve's moving The International Dota 2 Championships from Cologne, Germany to Seattle, USA.
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Fans make thousands of new Portal 2 maps in days
Valve having a weekend Steam sale to celebrate.
In a couple of days, more than 35,000 maps have been made by fans for Portal 2, Valve's discovered.
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Nintendo to cease 3DS Aqua Blue production
Launch colour red marching orders.
What's your favourite 3DS colour? If it's Aqua Blue, you'll need to pop to the shops and buy one, fast.
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 Preview: Dumb, Loud and Proud
City Interactive's follow-up shoots for triple-A status, but instead it looks like the perfect B-game.
Games, so the argument's been going recently, are predominantly dumb, trapped in an eternal adolescence and forever fixated with smut and gore. Some games are dumber than others, and some don't seem to care too much about their lack of smarts at all.
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UK government gets tough on video game age ratings
Non-compliant retailers threatened with prison terms.
The system for giving video games age ratings in the UK has been revamped, with the government promising that non-compliance will be more thoroughly policed.
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US student makes working Portal turret replica
Penn State whiz substitutes bullets for nerf darts.
A mechatronics student from Penn State University in the US has created a fully-operational Portal gun turret for his final class project.
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Kinect-controlled web browser coming to Xbox 360 - report
Modified version of Internet Explorer 9 in testing.
A Kinect-friendly web browser is currently in the works for the Xbox 360, according to sources close to Microsoft.
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Minecraft breaks day-one XBLA sales record
But Fez studio upset at Microsoft's special treatment for Mojang.
Minecraft has smashed the record for the most day-one Xbox Live Arcade sales, Microsoft has announced.
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EA: Gamers still afraid to buy online following PSN hack
Peter Moore defends the role of high street retailers.
A significant number of gamers are still reluctant to give out their credit card details online following last year's PlayStation Network hack, according to EA exec Peter Moore.
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Rockstar giving away Midnight Club 2 on Steam
Five days left to claim free copy.
Rockstar is handing out its 2003 racer Midnight Club 2 for free on Steam.
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Review | VVVVVV Review
Cavanagh cutesy.
Editor's note: This review originally appeared in January, when VVVVVV was made available on the North American 3DS eShop. We present it today to mark the game's release on the eShop in Europe.
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing announced for PC, XBLA
Action RPG from King Arthur dev stakes out late 2012 release.
New action RPG The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing sinks its teeth into willing PC and Xbox Live Arcade patrons in late 2012, developer Neocore Games has announced.
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HMV: "absolutely criminal" not to take advantage of GAME closures
Shop rethinks gaming strategy.
It would be "absolutely criminal" for HMV not to take advantage of GAME Group's plight, CEO Simon Fox has said.
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DSi gets a price cut in the US
Was $149, now $99, but no plans to do the same in Europe.
Nintendo slashes the price of the DSi in the USA from $149 to $99 as of 20th May.
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New Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer mode announced
Face-Off coming in second DLC collection later this month.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's second DLC collection, due out later this month, includes a new multiplayer mode called Face-Off, developer Infinity Ward has announced.
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UK northerners play Xbox 360, and southerners play PS3
It's infographic time!
In the UK, northerners prefer Xbox 360 and southerners prefer PlayStation 3.
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Avengers: Battle for Earth announced
For Kinect and Wii U.
Ubisoft has announced Avengers: Battle for Earth.
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