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    Activision fined €1m for price raising

    Nintendo plus distributors fined €168m.

    No, Europe's most powerful court has told Activision Blizzard, your fine for colluding with other top companies to raise the price of consoles and games between the years 1991 to 1998 will not be lowered.

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    PES 2011 Android out now

    Konami expands its beautiful game.

    Konami has launched PES 2011 for Android phone users.

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    Look at all these games Nintendo has prepared for Wii and DS - and they'll all be released before the end of March (Q1 2011).

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    New UK publisher Outplay Entertainment

    Will focus on Facebook and iPhone.

    The UK has a new game publisher – Outplay Entertainment.

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    Inversion given UK release date

    TimeShift dev's gravity gun romp.

    Inversion, the next game from TimeShift maker Saber Interactive, will release on 8th February 2012.

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    Take-Two is Metacritic's top publisher

    Makes higher-rated games than any other.

    Grand Theft Auto, BioShock and Red Dead Redemption company Take-Two makes the best games, according to review aggregation site Metacritic.

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    What's Beachhead doing for Call of Duty?

    And will you have to pay for it?

    Overnight Activision announced the formation of a new studio with a single aim: to create "exclusive content" for the Call of Duty community.

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    What next for Guitar Hero DLC?

    The day the music died.

    Last night Eurogamer broke the news that Activision had closed its Guitar Hero business, effectively killing the music game after five years of groundbreaking success.

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    PS3 Geohot: Sony denied Google subpoena

    Ditto YouTube, Twitter, PayPal, SlashDot.

    Sony's attempt to subpoena internet titans Google, YouTube, Twitter, SlashDot and PayPal - and find out where notorious PS3 hackers Fail0verflow live - has been denied.

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    Images of what appear to be an upcoming map pack for Xbox 360 exclusive first-person shooter Halo: Reach have leaked onto the internet.

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    Torchlight II delayed

    Will launch in July.

    Action role-playing game Torchlight II will launch in July, developer Runic Games has confirmed.

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    Clint Mansell making Mass Effect 3 music

    BioWare hires Aronofsky's favourite.

    Mass Effect 3 may sound very different to Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 - BioWare has hired Clint Mansell, whose best work has been done partnering with celebrated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler and Black Swan), to make the game's music.

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    Uncharted movie has Sopranos-like family

    "I don't think you can please everybody."

    Uncharted fans worried about the upcoming movie of the game were given further cause for concern after the director and scriptwriter revealed plans to depict a Sopranos-like family with a sense of justice.

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    New Spider-Man, Family Guy due 2011

    Transformers 3, Wipeout, X-Men, too.

    A new Spider-Man game and a Family Guy game will launch this year, Activision has announced.

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    No new Bungie game this year

    But has "tremendous long-term potential".

    Bungie's first game for new partner Activision will not see the light of day in 2011, the publisher confirmed today.

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    No Activision skateboarding game in 2011

    Tony Hawk sits the year out.

    There will be no new Activision-published skateboarding game on the shelves this year for the first time since 1999.

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    Braben wants Metacritic for journos

    Frontier boss: review the reviewers.

    Game reviewers should be subjected to a Metacritic-like system to judge which of them are the most reliable, Elite creator and Frontier Developments boss David Braben has suggested.

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    True Crime was "not good enough"

    Acti's damning verdict on canned game.

    Open world actioner True Crime: Hong Kong was cancelled because it just wasn't up to scratch, according to publisher Activision.

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    The DJ Hero franchise will follow Guitar Hero into the flames, publisher Activision has confirmed.

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    Blizzard plans to release at least two games by the end of 2012, the publisher has announced.

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    Beachhead to build digital COD content

    Activision forms new studio.

    Activision has just announced a new studio called Beachhead.

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    Black Ops: First Strike dated for PS3/PC

    Sells 1.4 million in 24 hours on Xbox 360.

    The First Strike DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops launches on PlayStation 3 on 3rd March, publisher Activision has confirmed.

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    Acti explains Guitar Hero, True Crime cull

    Cites "continued declines" in music genre.

    The Guitar Hero franchise has been officially killed off following consistent decline in the music sector, Activision has announced.

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    Activision kills Guitar Hero

    Layoffs at DJ Hero dev, True Crime cancelled.

    UPDATE: Reports are coming in that layoffs have also hit the Activision-owned developer Vicarious Visions. Developer Manveer Heir tweeted this evening to say, "Ugh sorry to hear about the Vicarious Visions layoffs today after Guitar Hero canceled. Shitty. Sounds like Freestyle (DJ Hero) got hit too."

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    Capcom announces App Store sale

    Would you pay 59p for Dead Rising Mobile?

    Capcom has slashed prices on a number of its big name App Store titles, offering the likes of Street Fighter IV, Dead Rising Mobile and Devil May Cry 4 Refrain for just 59p.

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    Killzone 3 beta notches up 58m kills

    Two players pass 1 million XP.

    The Killzone 3 beta test has witnessed 58 million kills racked up in more than 350,000 games, Sony has revealed.

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    Interview | Stacking: "Farts and Chopin"

    Double Fine's Lee Petty and Tim Schafer.

    Contrary to popular belief, game developers like Double Fine do not live in ivory towers surrounded by moats of blood, snorting the crushed bones of children through your hard-earned £10 notes. Not since they've left Activision, anyway. (Too much?)

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    Super Meat Boy tunes for Rock Band

    Ludicrous difficulty confirmed.

    Three tracks from hit indie platformer Super Meat Boy's soundtrack are heading to Rock Band Network, composer Danny Baranowsky has confirmed.

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    Review | Duke Nukem Forever

    Strip teaser.

    We all know that Duke Nukem Forever has been in been in development for 13 years. The fact the game is going to see the light of day at all is a testament to the wills of the nine 3D Realms staff who kept working on it in secret after their employer's demise, and to the artistic sympathy of Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software and one of the industry's great showmen.

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    Channel 4 news report shows Halo 5

    And Project Gotham Racing.

    Microsoft has flashed a cheeky glimpse of Halo 5 to the Channel 4 news team - what happened to Halo 4?

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