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PSP Japan's best-selling console in 2010
PS3 outsells Wii for Sony clean sweep.
The PSP was the best selling console in Japan over the last fiscal year, according to a newly published set of sales figures.
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Madden co-creator sues EA for billions
Claims unpaid royalty earnings, fraud.
The man who co-created the very first game in EA's hugely successful Madden NFL Football franchise is suing the publisher for millions - possibly billions - of dollars in unpaid royalties.
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Digital Foundry | The Making of MotorStorm Apocalypse
Digital Foundry talks to Evolution Studios about its most ambitious racer yet.
Finally released this week, Evolution Studios' MotorStorm Apocalypse marks the arrival of another high-quality, high-profile first-party release for the PlayStation 3. Sporting state-of-the-art environment deformation, 1080p and 3D support, superb dynamic lighting and an even more refined version of the franchise's remarkable physics engine, this is still clearly a MotorStorm game, albeit one quite unlike of its predecessors.
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Feature | Slapped Down
Gearbox' misstep with Duke's Capture the Babe mode is likely to raise hell - and rightly so.
Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial, is a weekly dissection of an issue weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.
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Joy Division DLC for Rock Band 3
It's that or Grand Funk Railroad.
Joy Division's bleak indie anthem Love Will Tear Us Apart headlines next week's Rock Band DLC update.
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New FFXIV producer admits launch failings
Insists struggling MMO can recover.
The new producer brought in to steady the sinking Final Fantasy XIV Online ship has detailed the internal issues that blighted the game's launch.
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Japan gets New Super Mario arcade game
Made by Capcom.
A New Super Mario Bros. Wii arcade cabinet has launched in Japan, and it's developed by Capcom not Nintendo.
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Back to the Future ep. 1 now free
Telltale: "This isn't an April Fools prank."
Telltale Games is offering all PC and Mac users the first episode of its Back to the Future series free of charge.
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Worldwide PS3 numbers pass 360 – report
360 "continues to disappoint" outside US.
The global PlayStation 3 install base now exceeds that of the Xbox 360, according to a new independent report.
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Opinion | For and Against: Violence in video games
Keza vs. Kristan.
As followers of the For and Against series will know, we've already addressed the issues of motion control and fanboyism. This month, we're having a look at the issue of violence in video games.
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Championship Manager hits Facebook
Footie sim goes social.
Long-running footie timesink Championship Manager is on its way to Facebook, publisher Square Enix has announced.
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Feature | Game of the Week: MotorStorm Apocalypse
Drive time.
Writing about games was a lot simpler 15 years ago. Back then, before websites really took off, magazines were competing with a handful of other publications rather than dozens. It was a lot easier to get away with trawling out lazy old cliches and recycling jokes.
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Nintendo announces UK 3DS sales figures
Fastest-selling Nintendo console ever in UK.
The Nintendo 3DS sold 113,000 units during its first two days on sale in the UK, Nintendo has announced.
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Sony defends PS3 Music Unlimited price
"Some wrongly think music should be free."
Sony has defended the £10 a month subscription fee it charges for complete access to Music Unlimited, the cloud based music service available on the PlayStation 3.
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Opinion | For and Against: Fanboyism
Fahey vs. Minkley.
Earlier this month, we kicked off Eurogamer's new series of For and Against articles with a debate about motion control. The idea was to settle the argument once and for all.
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Cave Story 3DS confirmed for Europe
Out this summer.
The 3DS version of side-scrolling platform adventure game Cave Story arrives in Europe in this summer, NIS America has announced.
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Mega Man creator returns to video games
Keiji Inafune starts two companies.
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune – the man who famously declared "Japan is dead" - has returned to video game development following his exit from Capcom last year.
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Persona 3 Portable EU release date
Out at the end of the month.
Persona 3 Portable, the PlayStation Portable version of the PlayStation 2 Japanese role-playing game, launches in Europe on 29th April.
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Kaos promises "exciting" Homefront DLC
Xbox 360 profile freeze update live.
Kaos Studios has confirmed first-person shooter Homefront will get "exciting" downloadable content and promised to continue to support the game.
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Star Trek Online gets Foundry tools
Have a Jean-Luc at this.
The make-your-own-missions Foundry tool has now officially launched for Star Trek Online.
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What you can play?
The Xperia Play launches today – if you fancy going with Orange - and there are over 60 games available to download for it.
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Review | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D
Fisher price.
If you're going to port a popular old game onto shiny new hardware, it's a smart idea to make sure said console can do it justice. Case in point - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, a moody stealth adventure where you guide sneaky old Sam Fisher around as he snaps necks and hacks computers in perpetual darkness.
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Portals, gravity shifts dropped for Prey 2
Shifts away from puzzle elements.
2012 first-person shooter Prey 2 will not include the portals and gravity shifts that were central to the first game's appeal.
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Metacritic dev scores gone for good
Admits they're "not fair".
Metacritic's controversial developer career scores system will not return.
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Platinum: "industry deeply saddens us"
Outlines new vision, Platinum Next.
Bayonetta, MadWorld and Vanquish developer PlatinumGames has outlined its new vision and lamented the decline of originality in video games.
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Review | Gods Eater Burst
Aragami Killer.
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the first Monster Hunter title. Released six months before World of Warcraft, it's a game which shares the MMO's focus on co-operative gameplay.
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THQ confirms Kaos, Volition lay-offs
17 staff let go at Homefront developer.
Homefront developer Kaos Studios and Saints Row team Volition have both been hit by a round of redundancies, owner THQ has announced.
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L.A. Noire tech is "interesting dead end"
David Cage discusses future of mo-cap.
The impressive motion capture tech that fuels Rockstar's forthcoming open-world crime epic L.A. Noire is nothing but an "interesting dead-end" according to Heavy Rain creator David Cage.
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Superbrothers soundtrack out next week.
A collection of tunes that both inspired and were inspired by recent iOS gem Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery goes on sale from 5th April.
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More Dawn of War II DLC announced
Dark Angels Pack detailed.
A new DLC pack is on its way to Relic-developed PC RTS sequel Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, publisher THQ has announced.
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