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Analysed: lifetime PS3 and 360 sales
Who's winning? Who cares? What now?
After a slow start, Sony's PlayStation 3 has closed the gap on Microsoft's Xbox 360 - global PS3 sales are 47.9 million and Xbox 360 sales 50 million.
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Carmack: Smart phones may satisfy gamers
3DS, NGP last specialised game handhelds?
John Carmack, founder and technical director of id Software, reckons the Nintendo 3DS and the Sony Next Generation Portable could be last generation of specialised handheld game consoles ever built.
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Metal Gear Online patch released
Detects fraudulent network connections.
Konami has released a patch for Metal Gear Online, the free online component of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots that was released just shy of three years ago.
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Digital Foundry | Tech Analysis: Crysis 2 Demo
Crytek analysis!
Can consoles run Crysis? It's a question Digital Foundry has considered on a number of occasions in the past, based on tech demo footage Crytek released showing its state-of-the-art CryEngine 3 running on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The recent Xbox Live Crysis 2 multiplayer demo allows us to revisit this topic once more, this time with the benefit of being hands-on with live code.
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Shop reveals inFamous 2 Hero Edition
Quickly removes evidence.
The Collector's Edition of upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive inFamous 2 includes an 8.5" Cole MacGrath statue, Amazon has revealed.
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EU PlayStation Store update 9th Feb
Stacking! Plants vs. Zombies! Explodemon!
Today, PlayStation Plus comes of age. Free to subscribers are Tim Schafer's potentially fantastic downloadable Russian doll game Stacking (usually £9), and a Killzone 3 single-player demo.
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2K narrows XCOM, Spec Ops release dates
Both before April 2012.
The 2K Australia revamp of XCOM will be released sometime between April 2011 and the end of March 2012, Take-Two's money report has spewed.
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GAME selling XBLA games and DLC
Pay cash, use trade-ins.
You can now buy downloadable content and Xbox Live Arcade games from GAME shops around the UK.
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Raven's James Bond now 20 months old?
Built on Unreal Engine 3, CV reveals.
Raven Software has been building an action adventure game based on an "international movie licence" for 20 months, according to an employee CV.
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WiiWare MDK 2 revival in certification
And MDK 2 HD project for PC still exists.
Interplay's Wii revival of MDK 2 has entered certification, developer IdeaSpark has revealed.
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Gears of War Kinect an "on-rails shooter"
Reuses parts of Gears of War 2.
Epic's Gears of War Kinect game is an on-rails shooter, according to a new report.
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Epic Mickey sales "strong" - Disney
Revenues rise following layoffs.
Disney Interactive and Warren Spector's studio Junction Point suffered severe layoffs in recent months, but Wii-exclusive adventure game Disney Epic Mickey did the business.
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Review | SBK 2011
The scary bikers.
Milestone won a race last year. It may have been a two bike race between SBK X: Superbike World Championship and MotoGP 09/10, but in terms of who earned the accolade of "real riding simulator", Milestone proved a premiere racing license doesn't necessarily make for a more realistic simulation. It also takes dedication, experience and – due to the complex nature of two-wheeled physics – a meticulous attention to detail.
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Killzone 2 nearly saw on-rails Move port
Guerrilla Games talks motion controls.
A Move-friendly on-rails version of Killzone 2 very nearly came into being, developer Guerrilla Games has revealed.
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No demo planned for Dark Souls
DLC looks unlikely too.
Dark Souls' developer From Software has no plans to release a demo for the game prior to its release.
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Smartphone smash triumphs on consoles.
Smartphone phenomenon Angry Birds has made a very successful hop over to consoles, topping the PlayStation Network chart in its first month on sales.
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Is iPad the future for indie developers?
World of Goo iOS smashes Wii/PC sales.
In recent years PlayStation Network, Steam, WiiWare and Xbox Live Arcade have been the primary hunting grounds for indie developers in search of an audience. However, according to the studio behind cult hit World of Goo, the future could lie elsewhere: namely, on the iPad.
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Fox pundit: gaming fuels sex crime
The Bulletstorm backlash starts here.
As sure as night follows day, tabloid journalism was always going to be snapping at the heels of Epic's forthcoming OTT shooter Bulletstorm. Fox News is first out of the gate, accusing the game, and others like it, of being responsible for a recent spike in sex crimes.
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uDraw pencils in UK release date
THQ's Wii tablet arrives next month.
uDraw, THQ's tablet peripheral for the Wii, goes on sale in the UK on 4th March, the publisher has announced.
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Dark Souls almost called Dark Race
Dark Ring discounted too.
Dark Souls, From Software's spiritual sequel to PlayStation 3 sleeper hit Demon's Souls, was almost called Dark Race, producer Hidetaka Miyazaki has revealed.
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Review | Test Drive Unlimited 2
On a road to everywhere.
It's been four and a half years since Lyon's Eden Games unfurled its manifesto for "massively open online racing" with the sprawling, quixotic Test Drive Unlimited – and like every year in the young industry of videogames, they've been long ones.
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Beyond Good & Evil HD, Torchlight dated
Full XBLA House Party schedule goes live.
Beyond Good & Evil HD hits Xbox Live Arcade on 2nd March, one week before action RPG Torchlight, Microsoft has announced.
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Fancy a starring role in Resistance 3?
Sony wants to see your warface.
Sony is offering fans the opportunity to get their likeness in forthcoming PlayStation 3 FPS sequel Resistance 3.
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New Breach update targets PC lag
Shooter gets new features, bug fixes.
Downloadable shooter Breach gets its first update this week, with PC lag issues firmly in the crosshairs.
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Cut the Rope downloaded 6 million times
Free level pack released to celebrate.
Cheerful physics-based puzzler Cut the Rope has secured six million App Store sales, publisher Chillingo has announced.
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Bleszinski: No "COD shooter pie" left
"It's not enough just to make a shooter."
Epic design chief Cliff Bleszinski reckons developers that attempt to emulate Activision's shooter behemoth Call of Duty are barking up the wrong tree.
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Review | Dragon Age II
Fatal era.
If there's a series less suited to preview events than Dragon Age, I'd like to see it. Actually, I'd like a colleague to see it instead.
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Virtua Tennis 3DS, NGP if fans want it
Make some noise.
Would you like SEGA to develop and release a Virtua Tennis game for the Nintendo 3DS and the Sony Next Generation Portable? If so, then you're going to have to make some noise.
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Interview | Virtua Tennis goes back home
SEGA on taking matters into its own hands.
SEGA's Virtua Tennis, in its Dreamcast heyday, was considered by some to be the greatest multiplayer videogame around. Its appeal was clear: fast, responsive arcade action fused with devilish depth. The old easy to learn, hard to master job.
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Blizzard StarCraft II mods need testing
StarJeweled, Left 2 Die, Aiur Chief.
Blizzard-made StarCraft II mods Aiur Chef, Left 2 Die and StarJeweled are now available for beta testing.
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