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Kinect infringes patents, company claims
Impulse demands permanent injunction.
A US company has sued Microsoft because it believes motion-sensing add-on Kinect infringes its patents.
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Mafia creator founds new studio
Warhorse working on RPG.
High profile members of Mafia developer 2K Czech and original Operation Flashpoint studio Bohemia Interactive have split to form a new outfit.
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Brink dev bellows Portal praises
"Greatest" design "we're ever likely to see."
Few people will praise Portal higher than lead Brink writer Ed Stern.
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Review | Cars 2
Oil be back.
Pixar's Cars is a godsend to the weary games developer, tired of crowbarring kids movies into wheezing platform-game shapes, picking out the key action scenes and working out how best to stretch them into something that will work on a console.
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Sony responds to 3D glasses complaints
Glasses-free has "inherent limitations".
Glasses-free stereoscopic 3D has "inherent limitations", Sony has said.
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F1 2010 iPhone edition announced
Time trial modes for micro machines.
Well recieved racer F1 2010 is being ported to iOS devices, Jump Games has announced.
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Review | Download Games Roundup
Fotonica! Tobe's! Strange! Monstar! Spelunker!
It's always the way. The minute you dare to write something off in the download world, up pop a bunch of quality titles to make you look like a babbling buffoon.
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Sony gamers' huge earthquake donation
Over £1m raised.
PlayStation players have donated more than 129.7 million yen (over £1.01m) to Sony's Japanese earthquake appeal.
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PSN: Sony US faces 55 class-action suits
Not the tailored, pin-striped kind.
Sony faces 55 class-action lawsuits in the US as a result of April's PlayStation Network breach.
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EA: Kinect won't "screw" with FIFA
"Potentially some cool stuff we can do."
Kinect will not encroach upon the core FIFA football-match gameplay, EA Sports vice president Andrew Wilson has told Eurogamer
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Steam EA games activate on Origin
Keep your enemies closer.
EA's digital PC store Origin can activate Steam codes for some EA games.
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SW:TOR: EA commits to 2011 launch
Beta test weekends start in September.
EA has promised that massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: The Old Republic will launch this year.
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Catherine coming to Europe this year
Deep Silver doing the honours.
Eye-catching Japanese mental 'em up Catherine is coming to Europe.
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Complete Diablo lore book coming
Get me-phist-to the shop.
A real tome of Diablo lore will be released alongside Diablo III, Blizzard has announced.
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Tim Langdell refutes "trademark troll" tag
Controversial Edge Games man has his say.
Edge Games man Tim Langdell has hit back at allegations that he's a "trademark troll", speaking publicly for the first time since losing a legal tussle with EA over the Mirror's Edge title.
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Keiji Inafune's first post-Capcom game
Mega Man creator goes cute on iOS and Android.
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune is working on a cute social game.
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Poison, Yoshimitsu in SF x Tekken
Dhalsim and Steve, too.
Capcom has announced four additions to the Street Fighter x Tekken roster.
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Kotick: "We give people freedom to fail"
Activision boss on how he rewards staff.
Oft-demonised Activision boss Bobby Kotick has outlined a few of the ways in which the publisher attempts to encourage and reward innovation within its ranks.
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Freddy Krueger DLC for Mortal Kombat
Horror icon joins the fray next month.
Nightmare on Elm Street boogeyman Freddy Krueger makes an unexpected cameo in Mortal Kombat from 9th August, Warner Bros Interactive has announced.
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Interview | Robert Bowling talks Modern Warfare 3
Plus COD Elite, Battlefield 3 and Black Ops.
It may have been nearly two years since the last Modern Warfare game, but Infinity Ward can't seem to get out of the headlines. First there was the infamous sacking of studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampella, then earlier this year Kotaku released a huge stack of leaked campaign materials for Modern Warfare 3, and more recently some wag started redirecting modernwarfare3.com to the website of EA's competing Battlefield 3. It must be something of a relief for Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling that he gets to talk about the game nowadays rather than hijinx.
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Microsoft game division revenue up 45%
13.7 million consoles sold last fiscal year.
Microsoft's entertainment division has seen a 45 per cent year-on-year revenue increase, fueled in part by booming Xbox 360 sales.
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Limited Star Wars Xbox 360 revealed
UPDATE: Europe release confirmed.
UPDATE: Xbox marketing man Graeme Boyd has confirmed via his Twitter feed that the Star Wars bundle will be available in Europe, though didn't volunteer a price.
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Clash of Heroes HD announced for PC
Might & Magic spin-off due later this year.
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes HD, one of the finest downloads to grace PSN and XBLA this year, is launching an attack on PC users' wallets soon, Ubisoft has announced.
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Blur was "like bacon with cornflakes"
Bizarre dev reveals why racer flopped.
Bizarre Creations' ambitious racer Blur failed to find an audience because the basic 'cars with weapons' concept scared off gamers, so says former design manager Gareth Wilson.
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Super Meat Boy PC special edition dated
Find out what's inside the Ultra Rare set.
The boxed PC special edition of acclaimed 2010 indie platformer Super Meat Boy lands on UK shelves on 26th August, courtesy of publisher Lace Mamba Global.
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PopCap releases Allied Star Police
Make-A-Wish project on App Store now.
Allied Star Police, an RTS game for iOS devices devised by 10-year-old leukemia patient Owain Weinert, is now available for free on the App Store, PopCap Games has announced.
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Codies: UK games industry in dire straits
In danger of being "iPhone devs" only.
The UK games industry is in danger of becoming an iPhone dev-only scene, according to a top Codemasters developer.
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Bondi cut LA Noire desks to fit Blu-ray
"There might have been a better arc."
Controversial Team Bondi co-founder Brendan McNamara has blamed Blu-ray's disc size for L.A. Noire shipping without its planned Bunko and Burglary cases.
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"We forget the value of £40" – Sumo dev
"We're competing with sex with your gf."
The game industry often forgets how important £40 is to gamers, the developer behind racing game series Project Gotham Racing and Blur has said.
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Industry foresees free-to-play future
Free-to-play Call of Duty could change industry.
Gaming is heading towards a free-to-play future, with leading industry lights predicting the business model will take hold within the next few years.
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