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StreetPass at HMV for 10% discount
Collect Mii characters for money off.
If you pop into your local HMV with your Nintendo 3DS and use its StreetPass feature to collect a "HMV store Mii", the nice people behind the tills will give you 10 per cent off a Nintendo 3DS game.
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Blizzard interested in iOS devices
"If we could make the right game changes."
Blizzard's Greg Street - aka Ghostcrawler on the World of Warcraft forums - has spoken to Eurogamer about the appeal of iOS devices within Blizzard and the potential for mobile MMO gaming.
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Sony PS3 price drop in August – report
£200 price point suggested.
Sony will announce a price drop for the PlayStation 3 at gamescom in August, according to a report.
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Infinity Ward "lifers" working on MW3
Activision calms fears after mass exodus.
Many of the developers who made Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 are working on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – despite the mass exodus following the sacking of Vince Zampella and Jason West.
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Flower dev announces Journey beta
Spaces "very limited".
Journey, the next game from Flower developer thatgamecompany, will enter a limited-entry beta next week.
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Eve Online dev responds to player furore
"An overdue apology and request for parley."
After a day of player discontent, CCP has responded to player concerns surrounding the launch of the Incarna expansion, the high price of vanity items and the future of micro-transactions in EVE Online.
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Review | Wii Play Motion
All yesterday’s parties.
Wii Play may go down in history as one of the best-selling console games of all time, but it feels a bit like the video game equivalent of a drugs cheat. The millions who snapped it up probably weren’t exclusively drawn to it by the prospect of some middling mini-games, after all: the bundle was also a smart means of grabbing an extra controller for that quirky new console that had its whole life ahead of it.
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PS3 Child of Eden: why you have to wait
"No money hats!" says Q Entertainment.
Q Entertainment has explained why the PlayStation 3 version of Tetsuya Mizuguchi's enchanting Child of Eden is yet to release.
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Xenoblade dev making Wii U game
Monolith Soft hiring.
Xenoblade developer Monolith Soft is making a Wii U game.
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Sony in fresh PSN hack lawsuit
Allegedly prioritised company secrets over data.
Sony sacked security staff just before the April PlayStation Network hack, a new lawsuit claims.
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Team Fortress 2 now free-to-play
Über Update unleashed.
Valve has made its cartoon online shooter Team Fortress 2 free-to-play for PC and Mac.
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BioWare's "regret" over forum hack
EA promises to bolster security.
BioWare Edmonton studio GM Aaryn Flynn has expressed his regret over last week's "highly sophisticated and unlawful cyber attack" suffered by BioWare's server system supporting the Neverwinter Nights forums.
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I Am Alive dev announces Black Death
Darkworks readies survival horror FPS.
French developer Darkworks has gone public with Black Death, a horror FPS for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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Sledgehammer's COD spin-off sidelined
"Franchise extension" could still happen.
An action adventure title set in the Call of Duty universe that Sledgehammer Games was working on before it was drafted in to help out on Modern Warfare 3 could still see release, Activision has revealed.
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Split/Second dev plans free-to-play title
New direction for beleaguered Black Rock?
The “promising”, “risky” new project underway at recently down-sized Split/Second studio Black Rock could be a free-to-play game, judging by a recent recruitment call.
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Sony announces Uncharted Collection
Plus Resistance, Ratchet & Clank sets.
The first two Uncharted games are being taped together and put on store shelves from 22nd July, Sony has announced.
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Levine: devs should "firewall" motion play
Don't force it on the player, he argues.
Motion control features should be optional and kept separate from a title's core gameplay, according to BioShock creator Ken Levine.
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Saint Seiya gets Euro PS3 release
Namco confirms Sanctuary Battle for 2012.
Anime action tie-in Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle is heading to Europe some time next year as a PlayStation 3 exclusive, publisher Namco Bandai has announced.
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Crytek: Crysis 2 "backfired a bit"
Studio boss laments PC gamer backlash.
Crytek's decision to make Crysis 2 more accessible to low-spec PC gamers and their console brethren might have been a mistake, reckons the studio's CEO.
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Rockstar announces LA Noire for PC
Autumn launch clued up with 3D support.
Rockstar has announced a PC version of dark detective drama L.A. Noire for release this autumn.
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Sega: "We made too many Sonic games"
Publisher says future vision is "brilliant".
As Sonic celebrates his 20th anniversary, Sega West boss Mike Hayes has admitted to "making too many Sonic games", promising: "The development teams now know what they need to do" with future titles.
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Sonic Generations Xbox 360 demo is 3D
Sonic does a Call of Duty: Black Ops.
The Sonic Generations demo launched today on Xbox Live displays in stereoscopic 3D.
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Miyamoto: winning online "not our goal"
Nintendo uninterested in besting rivals.
Nintendo is not looking to provide a better online experience than Microsoft or Sony does, says the company's top designer Shigeru Miyamoto.
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Review | L.A. Noire: Nicholson Electroplating
Boom town.
Nicholson Electroplating is like an extra spleen that's been cloned from the stem cells of L.A. Noire and grafted onto its armpit. Sure, it's a mighty fine spleen and all, but if you're just gonna stick it on there, don't be surprised when it fails to come alive.
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Tales of Monkey Island HD hits iPad
Episode 1 free for now, 2-5 4 quid.
Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Island HD series is out now for iPad.
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Seminal shooter 15 today.
id Software wizard John Carmack has recounted the experience of creating Quake, the seminal first-person shooter that turns 15 today.
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Nintendo announces Wii Play: Motion
Bundled with Wii Remote Plus.
Nintendo has announced a sequel for mini-game collection Wii Play.
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Sonic Generations demo on Xbox Live
Happy 20th birthday Sonic!
A demo of Sonic Generations has just hit Xbox Live Marketplace.
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Report: EA buying PopCap for $1 billion
Prominent US tech site makes claim.
Electronic Arts is rummaging around down the back of the couch in search of a spare $1 billion to purchase PopCap, according to a report on a US tech news site.
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PS3 gamer fury over Mortal Kombat DLC
UPDATED: WB responds, pricing incorrect.
UPDATE:
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