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    Maxis PC game Darkspore will release on 29th March, a new trailer has revealed.

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    PC Crysis 2 demo announced

    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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    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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