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    Review | Download Games Roundup

    Galaga! Dimensions! Fury! Mass! Vertex!

    Now that we're wedged firmly in summer's grip, that usually means only one thing: an appalling absence of decent boxed releases to see us through till September.

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    MM "stepping away" from LittleBigPlanet

    "To focus on some new ideas."

    The next big game made by Media Molecule probably won't be LittleBigPlanet 3, because the studio wants to do something new.

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    Rage playable at Eurogamer Expo!

    id Software shooter on show floor.

    Another day, another game announcement for this year's Eurogamer Expo! Today we're thrilled to reveal that Rage will be fully playable on the Expo show floor.

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    Digital Foundry | Face-Off: Dungeon Siege III

    Donkey bunch.

    Kudos to Obsidian: in developing its own Onyx engine technology, the studio has managed to create a new action RPG that has its own highly distinctive visual look, rich on incidental detail, atmospheric effects and heavy on dynamic light and shadow. In what is essentially an HD reworking of classics like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance on PlayStation 2 (albeit without the super-smooth frame-rate), Dungeon Siege III offers plenty of RPG-fuelled enjoyment, but essential elements of the game mechanics are lightweight in nature, and the kind of depth we've come to expect from magic and combat dynamics in this genre feels somewhat lacking.

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    Gearbox discarded Blade Runner IP

    "Would have been the end of us."

    Borderlands maker Gearbox owned the Blade Runner IP but passed up the opportunity to make a game with it.

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    Home users "the most hardcore" on PS3

    Some "literally spend their lives inside."

    The populace of PlayStation Home are "the most hardcore gamers on PS3", reckons service director Jack Buser.

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    3DS Tales of the Abyss release date

    PS2 RPG gets bells and whistles.

    3DS role-playing game Tales of the Abyss will be released on 10th November in Europe, Namco Bandai has announced.

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    Steam's 2011 Summer Sale begins

    Dumpy discounts daily.

    Steam's celebrated summer sale has begun, offering dramatic daily discounts for top-notch titles.

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    Review | Backbreaker Vengeance

    Zone of end-zoners.

    If you’ve always liked the drama of American Football but have been put off by unimportant details like, you know, the rules and the bizarre Feynman diagram world of the playbook, you might like Backbreaker Vengeance. NaturalMotion’s first console outing tried to capture the whole scope of the sport and struggled somewhat. This time, the team is just going for the violence.

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    Dead Rising 2: OTR out 14th October?

    Capcom announces date, then pulls it.

    Dead Rising 2: Off The Record launches on 14th October, according to a hastily retracted Capcom announcement.

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    Puzzle Agent 2 on PC and iOS today

    Telltale's sleuthing sequel checks in.

    The sequel to Puzzle Agent, Telltale's quirky 2010 head-scratcher, is available for purchase on iPad, iPhone, Mac and PC from today.

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    Lionhead has "super secret second project"

    Plus, Fable Kinect uses Milo & Kate tech.

    Fable developer Lionhead has a "super secret second project" in development alongside recently announced Kinect title Fable: The Journey, studio boss Peter Molyneux has disclosed.

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    Total War dev explains mod tools delay

    Offers users complete XML, XSD files.

    Total War: Shogun 2 won't be getting mod tools anytime soon, developer Creative Assembly has announced, though it's not for want of trying.

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    Limbo confirmed for PSN, Steam

    Bleak-but-brilliant adventure out soon.

    Limbo developer Playdead has confirmed that its acclaimed Xbox Live Arcade adventure is coming to both PlayStation Network and Steam alter this year.

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    Cancelled Square Enix shooter leaks

    Project Dropship footage shows co-op play.

    Gameplay footage from a cancelled Square Enix top-down co-op shooter called Project Dropship has found its way onto the web.

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    THQ publishing Witcher 2 on Xbox 360

    What happened to Namco Bandai?

    THQ has been announced as the publisher of The Witcher 2 on Xbox 360.

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    Latest Minecraft patch goes live

    Full adventure update also incoming.

    A new update for the Minecraft beta has gone live, adding a few minor features to the PC world-building sensation.

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    Nintendo disappoints US fan campaign

    No plans to release Last Story, Xenoblade.

    Nintendo has finally responded to the widespread fan movement campaigning to get Japan-only titles The Last Story, Xenoblade Chronicles and Pandora's Tower localised for the US market, and the news isn't good.

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    From Dust

    Another world.

    Game designers are gods, conceiving new realities before coding them into being. They set their dimensions and boundaries, the rules that bind them together and the shapes and colours that eventually fill them.

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    Level-5 working on Professor Layton 6

    Won't say whether it's for 3DS or DS.

    Level-5 has already started work on a sixth Professor Layton game, CEO Akihiro Hino has revealed.

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    Professor Layton ships over 11 million

    Level-5 puzzler a global phenomenon.

    Over 11 million Professor Layton games have been shipped across the world, creator Level-5 has announced.

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    Professor Layton film coming in 2010

    Level-5's adventure proves popular.

    Level-5 chief Akihiro Hino has said an animated Professor Layton film will arrive in Japan on the very first day of 2010.

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    Rise of Nightmares release date

    A mature Kinect game at last.

    Sega's mature Kinect survival horror Rise of Nightmares will be released in September, the publisher has announced.

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    More Red Dead: Redemption DLC coming

    Rockstar readies return to the West.

    New downloadable content is coming for last year's Western epic Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar has announced.

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    What Bungie Aerospace is

    An indie publishing platform.

    Bungie Aerospace is a platform to help small teams get social and mobile games published and noticed. It's not a new Halo game.

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    League of Legends carves Europe in half

    Territory now EU West and EU Nordic & East.

    The European territories of free-to-play competitive online game League of Legends are to be split in two.

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    Resident Evil's in danger of spreading itself a little thin. In between this year's double-header of The Mercenaries 3D and Operation Raccoon City, it's easy to pine for a true, dyed-in-the-wool Resident Evil game – one that acknowledges that the shooting was once a sideshow, and that returns to the series' survival horror roots.

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    Splinter Cell Trilogy HD release date

    Rayman Origins nailed down, too.

    The Splinter Cell Trilogy HD will be released exclusively for PS3 on 23rd September, Ubisoft has announced.

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    Need for Speed The Run

    Running scared?

    How's this for a turn of events? It's 2011, and there's every reason to look forward to this year's Need for Speed game.

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    Board game blocks Trenched EU release

    "Trench" trademark already taken.

    Double Fine XBLA game Trenched cannot be released in certain parts of Europe because of an old trademark held by abstract board game Trench, Eurogamer has discovered.

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