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Darkspore release date revealed
March to glory.
Maxis PC game Darkspore will release on 29th March, a new trailer has revealed.
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EA spreads the love.
A PC demo of upcoming sci-fi shooter Crysis 2 will release, EA has announced.
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MS: Kinect sets astonishing sales record
Fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever.
Kinect is the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history.
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Review | Mario Sports Mix
Extreme Peach Volleyball.
Sometimes it's comforting when you know exactly what to expect from a videogame. Mario Sports Mix has all the Mario sports hallmarks: Mushroom, Flower and Star trophies, infuriating random items, courts that make absolutely no sense (basketball on a sandy beach? Ice hockey on the lawn of Princess Peach's castle?), a wide cast of Nintendo characters with superficially differing abilities and special moves... The woiks. It's also got a tiny touch of Square Enix in the form of unlockable characters like Moogle and Cactaur, which you can steadfastly ignore if you're still a bit upset with Square over splitting with Nintendo in the nineties.
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Simultaneous global 2011 launch for NGP?
Sony: That's going to be "difficult".
European gamers hoping to get their paws on Sony's NGP handheld before the year is out might want to measure their excitement. A simultaneous worldwide 2011 launch is not a foregone conclusion, according to Sony top brass.
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Sony Bend to develop Uncharted NGP
Resistance: Retribution team is in charge.
The new Uncharted game in development for Sony's freshly-announced NGP handheld is being put together by Sony Bend Studio, rather than franchise creator Naughty Dog.
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Kinect helps Microsoft to record growth
Plus, Xbox Live membership up 30%.
Eight million Kinect sales in the peripheral's first two months on sale helped Microsoft post a very healthy set of financial figures for the last quarter, with revenue in its entertainment division up 55 per cent year-on-year
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Nintendo not planning a 3DS Lite
There's no fat left to trim, apparently.
Whereas the DS's ugly-duckling launch model was replaced by the sleek DS Lite a year after birth, Nintendo insists it has no immediate plans to follow a similar route with its impending successor.
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Sony wins Geohot restraining order
Its lawsuit shows "likelihood of success".
Sony has won a temporary restraining order against the hackers responsible for the widely-publicised PlayStation 3 security breach earlier this month.
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NGP "unlikely to hit the mass market"
Analysts cool on Sony's new handheld.
The NGP lacks mass market appeal, according to a top industry analyst, and may fail to resonate with the mobile gaming generation, predicts another.
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Hefty Black Ops update for Xbox 360
New features detailed, bugs fixed.
Following the extensive PlayStation 3 update earlier this week, it's now the turn of the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops to get patched up.
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Nihilistic Software behind Resistance NGP
Brand new game, not a port, says Insomniac.
The new Resistance title confirmed for Sony's just-announced NGP system is being developed by Nihilistic Software, not franchise creator Insomniac Games.
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Activision stamps on Sierra fan portal
Free Space Quest "not authorised".
Activision lawyers have pounced on a website offering free access to classic Sierra On-Line adventure games, demanding its immediate closure.
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Review | Shift 2: Unleashed
"Our opposite is Gran Turismo."
Once every 18 months or so, fate dictates that I get to sit down in a small room at EA's Guildford headquarters to talk about the latest Need for Speed game with producer Jesse Abney. He's friendly, quick-witted and throws around phrases like, "At heart, we're a phototropic species, right?" so I tend to enjoy these meetings.
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Sony: 3D not right for portable devices
Looked at it for NGP, decided against it.
Sony is pushing stereoscopic 3D hard – in televisions and in games on the PlayStation 3 – but the feature is absent from the recently announced Next Generation Portable.
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Max Anarchy is Anarchy Reigns in Europe
It's MadWorld reincarnated for PS3, 360.
SEGA and PlatinumGames (Vanquish, MadWorld, Bayonetta) have announced an autumn 2011 release date for Anarchy Reigns.
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Mass Effect 2 PS3 save bug patched
BioWare delivering "ASAP" to Sony.
BioWare has fixed the PS3 Mass Effect 2 bug that was corrupting save files and throwing away hours of gamers' time.
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Interview | Andrew House talks Sony NGP price, 3G version, more
PlayStation's European boss on his next handheld.
It's a couple of hours after today's momentous PlayStation Meeting, the Tokyo event at which Sony unveiled its lavishly-specced successor to PSP, codenamed Next Generation Portable, or NGP.
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Sentinel, Hsien-Ko confirmed for MVC3
Exclusive gameplay videos inside.
Darkstalkers' Hsien-Ko and robotic Marvel villain Sentinel have joined Marvel vs. Capcom 3's bulging roster.
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Source: NGP battery life is 4-5 hours
"They'll make a loss."
The recently announced PSP2, codenamed Next Generation Portable, has a battery life of between four and five hours, Eurogamer has been told by a source.
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Brink, Rage, Hunted release dates
Bethesda lines 2011 up.
Bethesda has dated three massive games: Brink, Hunted and Rage.
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Sony: Why the NGP isn't a phone
"We've elected not to complicate the proposition."
Sony's Next Generation Portable does many things – including 3G – but it is not a phone.
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PS3 firmware v3.56 beats Jailbreak?
By George - this is Hotz property.
Has Sony's imminent PS3 firmware update stopped George "Geohot" Hotz's jailbreak from working?
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PSP2 NGP: What developers think
The Twitterverse speaks.
Sony's PSP2 announcement is only a few hours old, but game developers across the world have already taken to social networking site Twitter to voice their opinions on the eye-catching device.
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New worldwide Wii and DS total sales
Plus: Nintendo predicts 3DS numbers.
With a brand new Nintendo money report comes a brand new worldwide Wii and DS sales total.
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Sony outlines NGP "asynchronous gaming"
One SKU to feature 3G. All will include Wi-Fi.
Sony has moved to calm excitement that its Next Generation Portable will allow users to game online while out and about using its 3G function.
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Sony: NGP battery life "good, solid"
Flash media and OLED screen provide boost.
Sony has described the battery life of the Next Generation Portable – unveiled this morning at a Tokyo press conference - as "solid".
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Guild Wars 2 Guardian replaces Monk
First all-new profession detailed.
ArenaNet has revealed the fifth of eight professions you can pick to play as in new MMO Guild Wars 2: the Guardian.
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Heavy Rain film "fast-tracked"
Deadwood creator at the helm.
A film based on superb PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain is in the works.
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Digital Foundry | Digital Foundry Sony NGP analysis
"Next Generation Portable sets a new standard for mobile gaming performance."
Sony's Next Generation Portable sets a new standard for mobile gaming performance. While mobile phones are currently transitioning into dual-core ARM A8s, still with a single GPU graphics chip, NGP goes balls-out with a twin quad-core setup: four ARM A9 Cortex CPUs operate in tandem with a PowerVR SGX543 MP4+.
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