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Review | PilotWings Resort
Come fly with Mii.
Don't know about you, but I was hoping the conclusion of Lost would turn out to be more interesting and intelligent than it was. Let's not spoil the ending for those who haven't seen it (the scriptwriters have already done that anyway). Suffice to say it wouldn't have taken a lot.
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Interplay: Fallout 6 could be ours
If Bethesda blocks Fallout Online.
Interplay reckons it could end up developing the sixth Fallout game if Bethesda successfully prevents it from releasing Fallout Online.
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Review | DC Universe Online
Clicky boom boom down.
As the first MMO to attempt to bridge the gap between console and PC since Final Fantasy XI in 2002 – and the first to ever do so simultaneously at launch – DC Universe Online raises a lot of questions. Will the PC game be limited by the necessity of designing around a controller? Are PS3 owners willing to embrace a subscription model?
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Virtua Tennis 4 confirmed for 360, Wii
Fuzzball sequel no longer PS3-only.
Virtua Tennis 4 is coming to Wii and Xbox 360, publisher SEGA has confirmed, not just the PlayStation 3 as was initially announced last year.
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Capcom: Gamers no longer use handhelds
Smartphones have taken over.
Both core gamers and casual PC users are no longer interested in dedicated handheld consoles and are happy to get their portable gaming fix via a smartphone, reckons a top Capcom exec.
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MS offers free Xbox Live Gold trial
Plus, 2K 50 per cent off sale incoming.
Microsoft is offering all Xbox Live members a complimentary three day Gold membership trial between the 28th and 31st January.
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Sledgehammer on Modern Warfare 3?
Report: Raven helping out Infinity Ward too.
Sledgehammer Games' first Call of Duty title will be Modern Warfare 3, according to reports.
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Thwarted StarCraft modder wins job offer
Impressed League of Legends dev swoops.
It's been a real bad news/good news week for the modder behind a much-publicised StarCraft II mod. While he was left nursing his wounds yesterday after Blizzard's lawyers stamped on his World of StarCraft confection, today he's popping corks after winning a job offer from Riot Games.
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Telltale planning Walking Dead game?
Sam & Max team has 5 titles to announce.
Sam & Max developer Telltale Games has five new games to announce, one of which could be based on zombie comic and TV series The Walking Dead, reports suggest.
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EA email implies Zampella sabotaged COD
It was "a joke", insists EA.
Former Infinity Ward boss Vince Zampella deliberately conspired against his then-employer Activision by holding back the release of a Modern Warfare 2 map pack until after the release of EA's Battlefield: Bad Company 2, court documents made public today suggest.
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Scarface crowned sweariest game ever
Guinness rounds up new gaming records.
Potty-mouthed PlayStation 2 movie tie-in Scarface contains more swear words than any other videogame, according to Guinness World Records: 2011 Gamer's Edition.
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Frontier's The Outsider sheds staff
Oft-delayed title "not canceled" though.
A number of staff working on The Outsider, the oft-delayed action title from Kinectimals creator Frontier Developments, have been made redundant and the title's priority reduced, studio boss David Braben has announced.
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Review | Top Spin 4
Love-in.
Pick up and play mechanics may have served every previous tennis title in history, but 2008's Top Spin 3 was devoid of wussy visual indicators like power bars. Instead it was down to players to figure out the correct timing.
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Four Ubisoft Nintendo 3DS launch titles
Rayman! Ghost Recon! Splinter Cell! Asphalt!
Four Ubisoft-created Nintendo 3DS games will launch on the same day as the console: 25th March.
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Hollywood "intensely interested" in 3DS
Miyamoto hints at new movie tie-ins.
Hollywood cigar-chewers are finally taking Nintendo seriously, and it's all thanks to the 3DS, CEO Satoru Iwata has claimed.
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Test Drive Unlimited 2 goes gold
Plus: New screenshots.
Eden Games' simulation racer Test Drive Unlimited 2 has gone gold, Atari Europe has announced.
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Review | Red Faction: Armageddon
My sickle friend.
"They don't call it the red planet for nothing," Darius Mason growls. Indeed not, Darius – according to our extensive research on Wikipedia, they are in fact referring to the prevalence of iron oxide on the planet's surface.
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Volition welcomes Dead Space parallel
"Oh yeah, definitely, that's a big one."
Red Faction: Armageddon producer Jim Boone has told Eurogamer that Dead Space definitely numbers among the sci-fi shooter's influences – and that once the team settled on a storyline involving dormant aliens the comparison was perhaps inevitable.
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Microsoft encourages Geohot's work
Wants to send free Windows Phone 7.
George "Geohot" Hotz broke open iPhone and broke open PlayStation 3. Apple wasn't happy and Sony has taken Hotz to court.
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Why The Last Story is Japan exclusive
"It has to be viable."
Nintendo has explained its decision to only release promising Wii Japanese role-playing game The Last Story in Japan.
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Street Fighter IV 3DS has Download Play
Fight wirelessly even if you don't own the game.
Street Fighter IV 3D Edition lets you send a versus demo of the game wirelessly to a friend - which they can then use to play versus matches without the full game.
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Lovefilm targeting "many platforms"
Defends small PS3 film selection.
Streaming film service Lovefilm has told Eurogamer its console ambitions don't begin and end on PlayStation 3.
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Try PS3 games before they're out.
Sony's going on tour next month with a new campaign called PlayStation Access. This allows people of the UK to try new PS3 games long before they're released in shops.
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Review | Kid Icarus: Uprising
Winging it.
Is he really still a kid these days? Wouldn't Dad Icarus be a more appropriate name? Or something more relevant to what he might have been up to for the past few decades, such as Middle-Aged Divorcee Icarus?
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LittleBigPlanet 2! Mass Effect 2! Mindjack!
Ah, 2011. Full of optimism, hope and... wait, today's the most depressing day of the year. And it's raining everywhere. Yeah!
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Game/film rental service to improve?
Online shop pioneer Amazon will soon become the new owner of film and game rental service Lovefilm.
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UPDATE: Zavvi admits error.
Update: Zavvi has informed Eurogamer that the Pikmin 3DS listing on its website was a mistake.
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Interview | Nintendo's David Yarnton
On the 3DS, value and region locking.
Fresh from watching Jonathan Ross and his Nintendo chums announce a 25th March European launch date for the the 3DS and fail to announce a price (in Europe Nintendo has only set a trade price, leaving retailers to tag the console at £220-£229), David Yarnton, the man who runs the Big N in the UK, found the time for a chinwag with Eurogamer to discuss all things glasses-free 3D.
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Digital Foundry | Xbox 360 update hurts COD, Halo pirates
But for how long?
Microsoft's new Xbox 360 dashboard update adds "boot to disc" functionality and visually tweaks gamercards. But an undisclosured feature is new anti-piracy measures for Call of Duties Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops, and Halo: Reach.
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Disney shuts Tron/Turok developer
Farewell Propaganda Games.
Propaganda Games, the studio behind the recent Tron: Evolution movie tie-in, has been closed, owner Disney Interactive has confirmed.
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