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Valve announces Steam F2P support
Champions Online among first wave of titles.
Valve has announced Steam support for free-to-play titles with immediate effect.
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Nintendo hardware slumps in the US
3DS "all-time low for new launch".
Nintendo hardware is having a torrid time in the key US market, according to a new report, with Wii sales hitting an all-time low and the 3DS failing to find any kind of momentum.
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New Xbox will be at E3 2012 – report
Crytek readying Timesplitters 4 for it.
The Xbox 360's successor will likely debut at E3 2012, with Timesplitters 4 among the titles in development for the new machine, according to a new report.
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Le Mans glory for GT Academy winner
Gamer finishes second at legendary race.
A former winner of Sony's annual Gran Turismo Academy competition has scored a podium finish at this year's Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. Yes, the real thing.
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Devil's Third Wii U looks likely
Itagaki praises Nintendo's new machine.
Tomonobu Itagaki's is looking into bringing his next title, third person shooter Devil's Third, to Wii U, the Valhalla Studios boss has revealed.
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Review | Child of Eden
Adam and Eve it.
The language of video games is long established. Mario verbs such as 'jump' and 'pound' joined Pong's 'deflect', Space Invaders' 'shoot' and Zelda's 'explore' in the medium's formative years to build a basic vocabulary that few deviate from even now, thirty-odd years down the line. Child of Eden, pseudo-sequel to Tetsuya Mizuguchi's seminal trance shooter Rez, is notable then for adding two new words to gaming's lexicon: 'grasp' and 'splay'.
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Rage 2 likely "cross-generational".
id Software's Rage team - including co-founder John Carmack - will turn its attention to finishing long-awaited shooter Doom 4 as soon as Rage is ready this October.
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RuneFest 2011 dates, prices, details
Jagex's answer to BlizzCon.
Move over BlizzCon, move over EVE Fanfest, because RuneFest is back for a second year.
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THQ UK closure: an insider's perspective
"We could have made something special."
THQ may have been working on a downloadable version of street racing game Juiced, Eurogamer has discovered.
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Xbox 360 Wireless Wheel costs £45
Out in the UK in early October.
The Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel announced for the US last week costs £45 in the UK, Microsoft has announced.
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New cars in Power and Glory Car Pack.
New downloadable content for superb racing game DiRT 3 is out now.
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Auto Club Revolution has console physics
Racing MMO's cars, matchmaking detailed.
MMO racer Auto Club Revolution uses the same physics engine developer Eutechnyx designed for console games.
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THQ shuts Red Faction: Battlegrounds dev
No more Juice left in the tank.
Another THQ studio has bitten the dust - THQ Digital Warrington, known once as Juice Games.
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Review | Halo 3
The fight, finished.
Let's cut the crap. Cut the platform advocacy, cut the ranting of Internet storm-troopers on behalf of multinational corporations who don't care if they live or die. Cut the agonised wailing and gnashing of teeth over whether something is "game of the year" or just "really good".
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"Big" THQ announcement for Gamescom
Homeworld 3? Dawn of War 3?
THQ will reveal an unannounced game at Gamescom in Germany in August.
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Microsoft denies "milking" Halo
Remake "a project of passion not business".
There used to be breathing space between Halo games (Halo 1 2001, Halo 2 2004, Halo 3 2007), but in recent years Microsoft has been flinging the IP at us: Halo Wars 2009, Halo 3: ODST 2009 and Halo: Reach 2010.
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CD Projekt hypes Witcher 2 Xbox visuals
Aiming for PC graphics on medium settings.
CD Projekt RED aims to make the Xbox 360 version of fantasy role-playing game The Witcher 2 look almost as good as the PC version when played on medium specs.
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Vita/PS3 SFxT visuals "identical"
"It's virtually a one-to-one match."
The PlayStation Vita version of Street Fighter x Tekken looks as good as the PlayStation 3 version, Capcom has claimed.
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Kojima despises NES Metal Gear
"That title has only soiled my reputation."
NES made Metal Gear famous but series creator Hideo Kojima abhors that version of the game, calling it "pitiful", an "abomination" and a stain on his career.
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Review | PSN Roundup: Comeback Special
Armageddon! Red! King! Octopus! Siege!
PSN, we really missed you. Week after week of hopeful expectation that Sony would resume service went by, and nothing but sullen messages about maintenance. But it's back! Back! [We know, it's been back a while now, but this article got held up by some glorified meeting in America. -Ed.]
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No Dissidia: Final Fantasy PS3 plans
Squeenix to consider PSP port prospects.
Square Enix is yet to decide whether its Dissidia: Final Fantasy series for PSP will make the jump to PlayStation 3.
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Huge Call of Duty: Elite beta sign-ups
"More would be even better."
More than two million people want in on the Call of Duty: Elite beta, Activision has revealed.
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EA: we lost some fans with Dragon Age 2
Will take feedback on for Dragon Age 3.
EA has admitted it "lost some fans" with the release of fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age 2.
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Console TTT2 "probably not this year"
Harada says it's 80 per cent complete.
The home console version of fighting game Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will probably release in 2012.
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id: sequels "unfairly criticised"
"We do not see Rage as a one-off."
Rage developer id Software has defended the game industry's obsession with sequels, saying they're "unfairly criticised".
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Suda51 teases Wii U No More Heroes 3
Suggests new hero.
Goichi "Suda51" Suda has given a strong indication that No More Heroes 3 will be a Wii U game.
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EA Sports to stand by Tiger Woods
"It's now about more than just the name."
EA Sports has pledged to stick with embattled golfer Tiger Woods as the poster boy of its market-leading golf sim – for now.
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MGS 3D double size of average 3DS cart
Konami persuaded Nintendo to go large.
When Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D arrives on the 3DS later this year, it'll be the first game for the system to launch on a 4GB cart rather than Nintendo's 2GB standard.
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Acti game announcement a long way off.
What is Bungie Aerospace - a mysterious spin-off company, a mobile game or something else entirely?
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LA Noire, Brink top May US charts
NPD: "Sales of the 3DS were light."
LA Noire was the biggest selling game in the US during the month of May, according to the latest NPD data.
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