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Two Worlds II re-dated, Amazon only
TopWare making sure UK is "taken care of".
The good news: Two Worlds II will be released in the UK. The bad news: you won't be able to buy it in a high street shop.
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Review | Fight Night Champion
Hurt the ones you glove.
There was a time when I wouldn't have taken a second glance at Fight Night Champion. But ever since Eurogamer asked me to transfer my arcade fighter fanaticism to a preview of UFC Undisputed 2009, I've realised that strategic stamina control can be just as intense as setting up cross-ups and frame traps. This epiphany then prompted me to sample the other simulation of the moment, namely Fight Night Round 4.
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Red Faction: Armageddon release date
Get your ass to Mars. In June.
Volition's third-person science fiction smash-em-up Red Faction: Armageddon will launch in Europe on 3rd June, THQ has announced.
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Why we have to wait for Pokemon games
"We take care with the Pokemon names."
Pokemon developer GameFreak has explained why their games launch in the US and Europe so long after they do in Japan.
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Free Super Meat Boy DLC released
Two new chapters available from XBLA.
New content is available to download for rock hard platformer Super Meat Boy.
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Five maps, two Leash enhancements.
On the day Bulletstorm launches in the US and three days before it goes on sale in the UK, EA and Epic Games have announced paid for downloadable content.
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Dragon Age II "more tactical" than DA
"It's time we learned from action games."
BioWare has moved to calm concern that it has dumbed down the Dragon Age experience with the second game in the series, insisting combat is more tactical this time around than it was in the first game.
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Avatar Kinect video details tech
Free for XBL Gold members this spring.
Microsoft took the lid off of its curious face-tracking Xbox 360 communication service Avatar Kinect this week.
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Square Enix: There is no next Dissidia
But series could return in another form.
Final Fantasy spin-off PlayStation Portable series Dissidia ends in its current form with the launch of Duodecim on 25th March.
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Duke: Pitchford welcomes feminist anger
"Take it. Use Duke. That would be awesome."
They say bad press is good press – but for Duke Nukem Forever creator Gearbox, bad press is awesome press.
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GAME's £190 Nintendo 3DS trade-in price
If you trade it in by 25th April.
Shop GAME will give you a trade-in price of £190 on the £196.99 Nintendo 3DS if you bring it back within a month of buying it.
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Eutechnyx to explore region free NASCAR
So UK gamers can play it.
Publishing behemoth Activision won't release NASCAR 2011 in the UK, but developer Eutechnyx has offered fans a glimmer of hope that they may one day play the game.
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Review | de Blob 2
de Blightful.
The best games are often those that don't need to bulk out their premise with weak secondary mechanics. THQ's de Blob for Wii wasn't the best game in the world, but the idea at its heart is timelessly fun all by itself: colour in. How wonderful to see it back for another try, especially now that it's multi-platform.
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Mexico: Ban Call of Juarez: The Cartel
Will give children a "lack of values".
Mexican officials want their government to ban upcoming shooter Call of Juarez: The Cartel because, they claim, it will give children a "lack of values".
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Final Fantasy III iPhone announced
Out next month.
Classic Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy III will launch on iPhone and iPod touch next month, Square Enix has announced.
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Digital Foundry | Valve: games will detect your feelings
Wants access to "internal state" of players.
Valve Software believes that processing biometric data from players will become a fundamental aspect of future games. It's a hugely exciting idea: developers will be able to adjust gameplay according to how the player is feeling, and the way people interact in multiplayer titles could change irrevocably.
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Dragon Age II Xbox Live demo is 1.98GB
Massive prologue file out now.
The Dragon Age II demo can be downloaded right now from Xbox Live Marketplace.
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Two Worlds II "uncertain" for UK - source
TopWare: "We will do something different."
Eurogamer understands that Two Worlds II, the game with more release dates than Henry VIII had wives, may never see a UK release.
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Activision cancels NASCAR UK release
UK made game not coming to UK.
NASCAR 2011 will not release in the UK, according to a new report.
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MineCraft documentary needs your cash
Pledge enough, get a mounted pickaxe.
Got any spare cash? Care about MineCraft? Film maker 2 Player Productions wants your donation to help make a feature-length MineCraft documentary a reality.
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Deathsmiles iPhone, iPod touch announced
Out in the spring.
Cave's brain-melting horizontal shmup Deathsmiles will launch on iPhone and iPod touch in the spring.
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Uncharted movie director: trust me
"It’s going to be real, it’s going to be raw."
Uncharted movie director David O. Russell has moved to reassure fans of the videogame concerned by the direction of his unfinished script, asking them to trust that he'll make an "amazing" film.
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Gears 3 beta via Bulletstorm requires disc
Until a more Locust alternative arrives.
Gaining a headstart entry to the Gears of War 3 beta via the Epic Edition of Bulletstorm requires more than the supplied code - you'll need your Bulletstorm game disc, too.
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Making PS3 profitable is Sony's priority
More important than beating Xbox 360.
Making the PlayStation 3 profitable is more important than selling more consoles than Microsoft, Sony has said.
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Capcom wants Dead Rising 2 feedback
Did you complete the game?
Did you play zombie kill-em-up Dead Rising 2? If so, Capcom wants to know what you thought of it.
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Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC outed
How the Reapers found Earth?
The next significant Mass Effect 2 add-on has been spotted and goes by the name of Arrival.
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New Command & Conquer revealed, pulled
EA developer Victory Games at the helm.
A new game in the long-running real-time strategy series Command & Conquer looks set for a reveal after the game's official website spilled new details before EA yanked it off the internet.
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Microsoft gives Kinect SDK to academics
Commercial version due at a later date.
Motion-sensing Xbox 360 add-on Kinect will be officially available to all non-commercial organisations to help create new interfaces, Microsoft has announced.
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Review | inFamous 2
Fully charged?
Every now and then, Hollywood has a spasm and churns out pairs of movies about the same thing. Giant space rocks provided the drama for both Deep Impact and Armageddon. Lava threatened famous faces in Dante's Peak and Volcano. Magicians got all huffy in The Illusionist and The Prestige.
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OutRun Online Arcade dev grows.
Project Gotham Racing and Blur lead designer Gareth Wilson has found a new home at Sumo Digital - maker of OutRun Online Arcade and SEGA All-Stars Racing.
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