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Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta dated
First dibs with PSN Plus and InFamous 2.
Sony has confirmed a multiplayer beta for Uncharted 3, with early access on 28th June if you buy InFamous 2 or subscribe to PSN Plus, becoming freely available on 5th July.
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Back in the hunt.
Released in 2006, Human Head's Prey may not have set all hearts equally aflutter, but it was a first-person shooter with a few remarkable features.
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id happy taking years to make games
18-month dev cycle not for Doom, Rage dev.
Doom, Quake and Rage developer id Software is famous for taking years to make its games – and it's not about to change.
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Combat Rally and co-op episodes instead.
RAGE developer id Software has announced that the game's multiplayer modes are called Combat Rally and Legends of the Wasteland.
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Publisher assembles largest ever dev team.
Capcom has announced its first open world game: Dragon's Dogma.
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Fallout: New Vegas Game of the Year Ed
Amazon spills beans.
The inevitable Game of the Year version of Bethesda role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas has been revealed.
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Asura's Wrath "satisfies" God Hand 2 cravings
Action games share inspiration.
Capcom reckons upcoming action game Asura's Wrath will "satisfy" cravings fans have for a God Hand sequel.
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Review | Mobile Games Roundup
Asphalt! Tiger! Fight! Harbour! NOVA!
A week down the line, I can safely say that I'm a big fan of Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play. It's comfortable to play, I've got no complaints about the screen at all, and it's big enough without feeling too bulky.
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Resident Evil 3DS re-uses console assets
"Blurs" portable/console visual divide.
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D's graphics are so good they "blur the line" between portable and home console visuals.
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UK top 40: Zumba sweats second week
Michael Jackson moonwalks up the chart.
Dance workout title Zumba Fitness has staved off competition to survive a second week atop the UK all-formats chart.
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Anonymous Sony Centre protest flops
Police on the door, but nobody shows.
Sony reportedly tasked police with protecting its stores from protests by supporters of the hacker group Anonymous – but hardly anyone turned up.
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Gamers' Voice slams The Wright Stuff
Makes official complaint.
Gamer rights group Gamers' Voice has pledged to write to UK broadcaster Channel 5 after The Wright Stuff linked violent video games to a real life murder.
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SSFIV Arcade Edition PC a "just cause"
Capcom: PC gamers "back in the family".
Capcom has described the release of Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition on PC as a "just cause".
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Ono teases four-player SF x Tekken
"Eventually I'll have to answer that question."
Street Fighter x Tekken is likely a four-player game after its producer teased the feature.
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We take Gears 3's visuals "for granted"
Epic: "Your memory is far better than reality."
Gamers take Gears of War 3's graphics "for granted".
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Interview | Gears of War 3: defining HD gaming
Rod Fergusson bares his soul.
Today the Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta kicks off for those who bought the Epic Edition of Bulletstorm. Epic reckons a million gamers will take part, enjoy the carnage and unlock special items for use in the full game.
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Digital Foundry | The Making of Crysis 2
Digital Foundry talks with Crytek on Crysis 2, CryEngine 3 and beyond.
It's been just over three weeks since Crytek released its first proper game in three years. With Crysis 2, the Frankfurt-based developer has delivered a technically excellent, graphically superb shooter that is groundbreaking in many respects. It delivers state-of-the-art visuals, effects and physics onto five-year-old console architecture, and in stark contrast to its predecessor it manages to run extremely well even on relatively middle-of-the-road PCs.
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Puzzle Agent on US PSN next week
European date promised soon.
Puzzle Agent arrives on the US PlayStation Store on 19th April priced at $10, developer Telltale Games has announced.
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Last Light URLs snapped up.
Forthcoming FPS sequel Metro 2034 is to be renamed Metro 2033: Last Light, if a set of new URL registrations are to be believed.
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Final Fantasy VI to get PSN release
Due out in Japan this month.
Classic Square RPG Final Fantasy VI is getting a PlayStation Network re-release in Japan this month.
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Did Nintendo steal Final Fantasy art?
Pandora's Tower cover looks very familiar.
Fingers are being pointed at Nintendo over uncanny similarities between the box art for its forthcoming Wii action title Pandora's Tower and concept art for Square Enix's planned PlayStation 3 title Final Fantasy Versus XIII.
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'No kids' COD multiplayer dismissed
Young 'uns "want to have their fun too".
Sick of potty-mouthed pre-teens fouling up your Black Ops multiplayer sessions? Get used to it, because an 'adults-only' mode isn't going to happen, so says developer Treyarch.
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4 million LittleBigPlanet levels shared
It would take 78 years to try them all.
More than four million user-created levels have been shared around the world in PlayStation 3 DIY platformer LittleBigPlanet, publisher Sony has announced.
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Play indie games, get PC Portal 2 early
Get stuck into the Potato Sack now.
Want to unlock Portal 2 on Steam ahead of its published 22nd April launch date? Then you'd better get stuck into the Potato Sack indie bundle.
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DX11 patch for Shogun 2 in early May
Anti-aliasing, multiplayer fixes also due.
A patch adding DirectX 11 support to PC strategy sequel Total War: Shogun 2 is scheduled for the first week in May, developer The Creative Assembly has announced.
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Two Worlds II Pirates expansion revealed
Avast improvement?
A Pirates of the Flying Fortress expansion pack has been announced for Two Worlds II.
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Blizzard hiring for "unannounced game"
Work for the "newest game team".
We know about Titan, we know about two more StarCraft II games, we know about two more World of Warcraft expansions, we even know about a Diablo III expansion - so what is this "Unannounced Game Title" Blizzard is hiring for?
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Review | Gears of War 3: Multiplayer Beta
Meat and murder.
It's impossible to play Gears of War 3's multiplayer beta without hearing an internal narration from Cliff Bleszinski. Roadie-running from our spawn, shotgun cocked, the first thing we see is a chicken. "That's no chicken, that's a mother****ing Gears chicken!"
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Next Nintendo console to use Blu-ray?
Reports suggest touch-screen controller.
Nintendo's next home console will use Blu-ray, a new report has claimed.
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Review | Download Games Roundup
Clash! Dungeon! Sub! Duæl! Strania!
When a game as good as Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes HD comes along, it does make you recalibrate your price expectations of other games. It doesn't happen that often, granted, but when it does, it's hardly surprising that some of the old-school thinkers in the industry worry about the kind of precedent it sets.
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