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Carmack: id graphics next-gen ready
No need to "radically rework" architecture.
Half-robot programming wizard John Carmack knows id Software needs to keep pace with new hardware - that's why he's already begun researching the next-generation of videogame graphics.
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Review | Fight Night Champion
Handbags.
Society has a name for people like me: a button-basher. All my life I've been judged because my fighting game tactic is to furiously mash anything brightly coloured while pressing jump at the same time. When I lose, people shake their heads in disbelief at how pathetic I am. When I win, I have my head slammed against coffee tables.
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Yakuza 4 has over six hours of cutscenes
More than treble Dragon Age II.
Japanese gangster game Yakuza 4 comes stuffed with a mind-bending 384 minutes of cutscenes to watch. That's more than six hours worth (6.24 approximately)!
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Review | Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
Triple threat.
After ten years of epic exchanges, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is finally bowing out as its long-awaited sequel shows up, looks nonchalantly at its watch and apologises for being late. But before we take the Sons of Sparda and Odin into the training room, two of the world's most accomplished Marvel 2 players want to show you their skills in one last high stakes money-match.
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Bulletstorm Epic Edition exclusive to GAME
Buy your Gears of War 3 beta ticket.
Epic Games' creative pin-up Cliff Bleszinksi has confirmed the Epic Edition of Bulletstorm as a UK exclusive for shop chain GAME.
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Dragon Age II PC DRM has online check
BioWare unsure of days offline allowance.
All non-Steam versions of Dragon Age II on PC will require an online check "after a select period of days".
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Review | Section 8: Prejudice
Freefalling.
"We took a pretty critical look at Section 8, both from an analytical standpoint in terms of server metrics, and from the pulse of positive and negative player feedback. We've used the points where we needed to improve as pillars for the development of Prejudice."
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PlayStation Suite targets iOS, Windows
Kaz Hirai has "completely open stance".
Sony intends to spread the PlayStation Suite much further than Android phones - even iOS and Windows are part of the plan, and they're made by the enemy.
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Interview | Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
World exclusive interview with Behaviour Santiago.
Little known developer Behaviour Santiago is in the dreaded crunch. Its eyes are bleeding as it smashes out downloadable co-op game Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime ahead of its projected spring release. And yet creative director David Williams still found the time for a chin wag, via a timezone-bending phone call, to tell Eurogamer about one of the smartest-looking downloadable games of the year. What a nice man!
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I Am Alive now a PSN/XBL game – report
Due out this year.
Ubisoft has transformed exciting survival disaster game I Am Alive from a full retail release into a PlayStation Network and Xbox Live download game, according to a new report.
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EA prototyping Fight Night Kinect
Would be a "totally different game".
EA Sports is investigating how a Kinect-enabled Fight Night game would work best for fans of the boxing game series – and has even conducted prototyping.
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Dark Souls harder than Demon's Souls
Difficulty "greatly increased".
PS3 action RPG Demon's Souls was infamous for - and defined by - being bastard hard. Bravely, developer From Software has decided to make PS3 and Xbox 360 successor Dark Souls (formerly codenamed Project Dark) even harder.
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Will Project Dark come to Europe?
"Wait and see," says Namco Bandai.
From Software's Project Dark, announced at the Tokyo Game Show as a 2011 PlayStation 3 exclusive, may see a European release, Namco Bandai has teased.
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Demon's Souls dev reveals Project Dark
Aimed at Demon's Souls fans.
The next game from Demon's Souls developer From Software is a dark fantasy game called... Wait for it... Project Dark.
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Two Worlds II UK release date delayed
Well fantasy that.
There's been another UK release hiccup for Two Worlds II; the ambitious fantasy RPG has been pushed back from a 4th February release (this Friday) to 18th February, TopWare Interactive has confirmed to Eurogamer.
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PlayStation Move PC support incoming?
Sony to discuss Move Server at GDC.
Sony could be about to unveil official PC support for its PlayStation Move motion controller, if a Game Developers Conference panel listing is to be believed.
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Report: gamers make terrible drivers
You lack "sensible risk assessment".
Drivers who regularly play videogames are nearly twice as likely to be stopped by police while on the road, according to a new study.
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New Rock Band 3 update detailed
Game-breaking eyebrow glitch fixed.
Rock Band 3 gets a hefty new title update today, developer Harmonix has announced.
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Splinter Cell Trilogy release date
Sam Fisher gets PS3-only HD makeover.
Watch your backs, people - Splinter Cell Classic Trilogy HD quietly sneaks onto PlayStation 3 in the US on 22nd March, publisher Ubisoft has confirmed.
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Original Grand Theft Auto "almost canned"
DMG dev: "car handling was appalling"
Sandbox behemoth Grand Theft Auto very nearly never came into being, with the original game in the series a hair's breadth away from being cancelled while still in production, according to a new interview with one of the original developers.
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SEGA Rally Online Arcade confirmed
First screens race in.
SEGA Rally Online Arcade will be racing onto PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this year, SEGA has confirmed.
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Activision offers Sierra fan site reprieve
Free Space Quest is go!
A fan-run site offering free access to classic Sierra On-Line adventures like King's Quest and Space Quest is back in business after a "kind" compromise was reached with original party-poopers Activision.
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The Clone Wars now out in March.
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars will be out on 25th March, not 18th February as originally promised.
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Star Wars: TOR won't be "a cakewalk"
MMO to favour skillful play over grinding.
BioWare is working hard to ensure forthcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic sports the perfect risk/reward balance, according to the game's chief combat designer.
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Abe's Oddysee HD remake confirmed
MS denies Stranger's Wrath XBLA release.
An HD remake of classic platformer Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is in the works, Oddworld Inhabitants has confirmed.
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Review | Mobile Games Roundup
Broken! Toys! Burn! Blast! Dead!
Amidst all the frenzy surrounding Sony's NGP, the company's upcoming PlayStation Suite platform for Android-compatible handsets became something of a footnote.
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Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale a series
Downloadable ARPG has hero transfers.
Atari and Bedlam Games already have solid plans for Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale to be a series - one that will potentially span three games.
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Interview | Daggerdale: The Future of D&D Games?
Zandro Chan talks loot, levels and Chinese dwarves. Sort of.
Why hasn't anyone made a co-op Dungeons & Dragons game for PC, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade before? Whatever – Atari and developer Bedlam Games are finally doing the honours with Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale.
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Sony: Emulating PSone games takes ages
Here's why.
Why isn't your favourite PSone game on the PlayStation Store yet? Emulating old PlayStation games for new PlayStation hardware isn't as easy as everybody thinks.
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Review | Two Worlds II
Crafty.
As fantasy action-RPGs go, 2007's Two Worlds may have been a bit shonky, but it certainly had a lot of heart. The sequel goes one better: it's got a lot of lung.
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