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Ridge Racer Unbounded announced
Due out next year for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Namco has announced a brand new multiplatform Ridge Racer game, due out next year for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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Hare clarifies FPS innovation stance
Reused mechanics are "tired and boring".
Jon Hare recently made the bold claim that first-person shooters haven't seen "clear innovation in 20 years" - bar graphics upgrades and "the ability to talk to people and work in groups".
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Kim Jong-Il cut from Homefront Japan
Bespectacled boss now "Northern Leader".
Controversial North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has been removed from the Japanese version of Homefront, regional publisher Spike has revealed.
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Sony Cambridge making Killzone NGP
In "good hands", says Guerrilla.
Guerrilla Games isn't making Killzone for Next Generation Portable - Sony Cambridge is.
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Fallout: New Vegas DLC coming to PC, PS3
Three more add-on packs in the works.
Fallout: New Vegas' first DLC pack Dead Money will launch on PC and PlayStation 3 on 22nd February, Bethesda has announced.
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Levine has "zero desire" for new consoles
BioShock dev happy with what he's got.
BioShock Infinite developer Ken Levine doesn't want Sony and Microsoft to launch new consoles any time soon – despite the Xbox 360 being half a decade old and the PlayStation 3 nearing its fifth birthday.
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Rumour: TimeShift dev remaking Halo 1
Reportedly has online co-op.
The heavily rumoured Halo: Combat Evolved HD remake is being created by TimeShift developer Saber Interactive, according to a new report.
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New NGP details emerge at private event
"It’s a developer's dream" says source.
During a presentation to around 20 UK developers at its headquarters in London yesterday, Sony shared a wide range of information about its new handheld platform, revealing significant new details on launch plans, hardware specifications, networking features and more.
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Miyazaki up for doing Dark Souls NGP
"It won't be a straight port if we do it."
Hidetaka Miyazaki, the man behind Demon's Souls, has said he'd be interested in producing an instalment in the series for the Sony NGP.
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Review | Portal 2
Holesome.
Although the developer will always be known as the house of Half-Life, it's Portal that increasingly looks like the quintessential Valve game. It's both clinical and funny, like a shaggy dog story told by Stanley Kubrick, and its complex folds wrap geography and narrative together so tightly that they become two sides of the same object. Its ingenious puzzles are peculiarly action-packed, and if Gordon Freeman's adventures served to make realistic physics an indispensable part of modern videogames, the GLaDOS saga shows you the fun that can be had with entirely bizarre physics, too.
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Interview | Jon Hare's Sensible resurrection
"FPS gameplay hasn't evolved substantially for 20 years!"
Jon Hare comes from a bygone era when videogames weren't bloated multi-million dollar projects that had to tick boxes to ensure they repay an anxious publishers' dollars. Creativity, he would argue, was never better than before 1994. Soon, however, it could be. Take a bow, the App Store.
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Martyn Brown quits Worms dev Team17
"I had an amazing 20-year ride."
Martyn Brown has left Team 17 after 20 years at the helm.
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Worldwide launch set for May.
Codemasters will launch rally game DiRT 3 worldwide on 24th May.
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Review | Download Games Roundup
Trino! Dead! greenTech! Ballistic! Ben!
Is the proliferation of downloadable games making us choosier about our full-priced gaming purchases? It's quite a heavy topic to throw at you on a Friday afternoon, admittedly, but I've a feeling that the answer is, in most cases, yes.
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Conduit dev making Kinect game for 2K
Announcement at GDC. Out this year.
Conduit 2 developer High Voltage Software is making a Kinect-enabled game for BioShock publisher 2K Games, Eurogamer can reveal.
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Western Vanquish and FM11 sales "slow"
Both fail to reach one million units sold.
Sales of Platinum Games' Vanquish, Sports Interactive's Football Manager 2011 and Nintendo platforms game Sonic Colours in Europe and North America were "slow", SEGA has said.
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Treyarch up for near-future Call of Duty
"It would be a unique opportunity."
In the land of Call of Duty, the battlelines are clearly drawn: Modern Warfare maker Infinity Ward creates the near future shooters and Black Ops maker Treyarch creates the shooters set in the past.
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What are you doing this weekend?
Tomorrow, you could be playing a Nintendo 3DS.
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Review | SpaceChem
Up and atom.
SpaceChem and Super Meat Boy. One is a game of atomic engineering, the other is about a skinless kid and his hot girlfriend. There's not too much common ground there, except on this essential level: they both nail the "Look what I made!" factor.
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Treyarch beefs up PS3 security post-hack
Black Ops studio not taking any chances.
Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has brought in increased security measure following the much-publicised PlayStation 3 security breach last month.
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Shantae gets Euro DSiWare date
2010's highest-rated DS game incoming.
Shantae: Risky's Revenge, the DSiWare sequel to Capcom's long-forgotten cult Game Boy Color platformer, finally releases in Europe on 11th February, four months after its US launch.
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PS Plus members get Stacking for free
UPDATE: Offer applies in Europe too.
UPDATE: The European PlayStation Blog has confirmed the offer will be available on these shores. A post on its Twitter feed reads, "Not sure if you know this yet, but I'm hearing the PS Plus members can download Stacking, the new game from Double Fine, for free next week."
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Capcom offers launch day price cut.
Devil May Cry 4 Refrain has hit the App Store, and it's going cheap for a limited time only.
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Stacking headlines new XBLA schedule
Plus, Microsoft launches retro shooter sale.
Double Fine's delightful new download Stacking is the highlight of the latest Xbox Live release slate.
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Bonus mode for Yakuza 4 special edition
Steelbook Edition packs in the extras.
The limited Steelbook Edition of Yakuza 4 includes an exclusive game mode for SEGA's forthcoming PlayStation 3 gangster epic.
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Zombie epic Class3 announced for XBLA
Undead Labs plans full "online world".
World of Warcraft co-creator and MMO veteran Jeff Strain has unveiled his ambitious new project: a zombie-survival game for Xbox Live Arcade that will start out as an open-world action title, but then later evolve into a massively multiplayer online game.
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DR2: Case Zero tops 2010 XBLA chart
While Black Ops takes XBL crown.
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero was the top Xbox Live Arcade game of 2010, Microsoft mouthpiece Major Nelson has revealed.
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Tony Hawk vs Shaun White results in
Which skating game was the biggest flop?
Last year, two of the biggest names in skateboarding competed for gamers' hard-earned cash with Tony Hawk: Shred and Shaun White Skateboarding. Both titles tanked, but which one bombed the hardest?
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"It runs pretty darn well with full 3D."
Wii science fiction first-person shooter series Conduit is in development for the Nintendo 3DS, Eurogamer can reveal.
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Unlocks an item in the full game.
Our German colleagues at Eurogamer.de have just received a press release from Electronic Arts confirming a Dragon Age 2 demo.
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