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Nomura: Forget FF Versus XIII for now
PS3 exclusive for 2012?
Square Enix developer Tetsuya Nomura has told Final Fantasy fans anxiously awaiting news on the release of mysterious PlayStation 3 exclusive Versus XIII to forget about it for now.
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Interview | MVC3: Netcode, balance and rejects
"In an ideal world a fighting game is in production forever."
With Marvel vs. Capcom 3 nearing its February launch, Eurogamer sat down with director and producer Ryota Niitsuma to get some last-minute details on one of 2011's most exciting fighting games. Read on for the latest on character balance, netcode and rejected superheroes, and discover how the game will pit rage quitters against each other.
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Game piracy "4:1 against legitimate sales"
UKIE claims.
For every one game sold at retail four are pirated, the UK's game publisher organisation claims.
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ACS: Law quits over death threats
Letter sending lawyer has had enough.
The solicitor behind one of the companies responsible for sending threatening letters to illegal file-sharers has ceased his work following death threats.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops PS3 updated
UPDATE: v1.06 fixes detailed.
Treyarch has released an update for the PS3 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops - the day consumer rights group Gamers' Voice reported Activision UK to the Office of Fair Trading over the "never-ending list of problems" associated with the game.
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Review | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
In with the old.
Nintendo's back catalogue is never-knowingly underexploited. In recent years the runaway success of DS and Wii has emboldened the company to keep remixing – or simply repackaging – classic titles in the confidence that there's no shortage of customers to hoover them up.
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Dragon Age 2 has 103 mins of cutscenes
Eat your heart out Killzone 3.
BioWare fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age 2 has a whopping 103 minutes of cutscenes.
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 darker than X-2
XIII characters to return in new forms.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be a darker tale than Final Fantasy X-2, the last direct Final Fantasy sequel, according to Square Enix comments reported in Dengeki (thanks Siliconera).
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PS3 Tiger Woods Move kinks smoothed
Plus: Kinect possible for the future.
Playing this year's Tiger Woods game with the PlayStation Move controller will be much better than it was with last year's game, EA's promised.
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Gamers' Voice reports Activision to OFT
Black Ops "in breach of Sale of Goods Act".
Consumer rights group Gamers' Voice has made good on its promise to report Activision UK to the Office of Fair Trading over the PC and PlayStation 3 versions of Treyarch's shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops.
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Sakaguchi: JRPGs need to change
Should focus on feelings and detail.
Japanese role-playing games need to change if they're to reclaim their former glory, the creator of the Final Fantasy series has said.
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Ridge Racer 3DS is simple and forgiving
Mario Kart-style control, less punishment.
Namco Bandai's upcoming 3DS version of Ridge Racer has been built with younger and broader audiences in mind than usual, according to localisation producer Ryo Totoyama.
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IW targets Modern Warfare 2 PS3 hacks
Robert Bowling had a good meeting.
Infinity Ward is still working to resolve hacking issues that have impacted Modern Warfare 2 players on PlayStation 3, which it last week blamed on crumbling PS3 security.
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Disney confirms "restructuring process"
Half of staff at interactive division axed.
Disney has confirmed a "restructuring process" at its Interactive Media Group – owner of Epic Mickey creator Junction Point and Split/Second maker Black Rock - that marks its transition from a boxed game publisher to a digital publisher.
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Review | Spare Parts
Mech do.
Spare Parts finally, spectacularly, irrevocably falls to pieces right on the finish line. After several hours of just about holding itself together over four stages of passable late-nineties platforming and mindless button-mashing, it staggers into a final boss fight so horribly misconceived that I was almost convinced it was an elaborate prank of some sort.
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Killzone 3 spin-off for PlayStation Home
Sony details Central Plaza Defender.
PlayStation 3's Home service is getting a Killzone 3-themed makeover to tie-in with the impending release of Guerilla Games' shooter.
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Disney lays off Epic Mickey devs?
Redundancies reported at Junction Point.
Disney Interactive is handing out P45s at Warren Spector's Junction Point studio, according to numerous industry sources.
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EA investors "betting against" SWTOR
Analyst claims city unrest over MMO.
EA's investors are "betting against" the publisher's forthcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, a top analyst has claimed.
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German TV hawks first rook at sequel.
A German TV station has broadcast what appears to be an early glimpse of an Angry Birds sequel.
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Multiple endings confirmed for Portal 2
Plus, cross-platform user-generated levels.
Portal 2 will offer two different endings, one for single play and one for co-op play, developer Valve has confirmed.
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Explodemon! release date confirmed
Fuse lit for retro-fabulous PSN platformer.
Downloadable platformer Explodemon! ignites on PlayStation Network from 8th February, developer Curve Studios has announced.
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DC Universe PS3 outsells PC version
MMO is SOE's fastest selling game ever.
The PlayStation 3 version of DC Universe Online has outsold its PC counterpart, helping the title become Sony Online Entertainment's fastest selling game ever.
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Dead Space 2! Breach! That's it!
In space no-one can hear you scream. That is, of course, unless you're wearing a headset and are playing online in gory multiplayer battles to the death. This week sees the release of Visceral's science fiction horror game Dead Space 2. We're promised scares the likes of which gaming has never seen. Oh, and with multiplayer, fast-paced online action.
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Codemasters’ CEO says it is.
If the rumours are correct, Sony will lift the lid on PSP2 – arguably the industry's worst kept secret – later this week in Japan. And Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has further fuelled speculation by telling Eurogamer that suggestions the console is as powerful as PS3 are "true".
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L.A. Noire UK release date confirmed
"Breaks new ground" says Houser.
Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire will launch in the UK on 20th May.
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Dare to be Digital open for entries
Fancy yourself a game developer?
Dare to be Digital, a competition that seeks to find the best young computer game designers, has opened its doors for applications.
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Review | Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition
Vintage port?
The presentation by a charmingly exuberant Yoshinori Ono was the highlight of Nintendo's 3DS conference in Amsterdam last week, an event which was otherwise often dreary and overlong. And, despite a warehouse-load of competition, the Street Fighter producer's game was arguably the highlight of the entire event.
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More than half of GAME's customers trade in their old games to help buy new games.
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Mass Effect 2 is available to download from the European PlayStation Store – and it costs a whopping £48.
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UK devs made 42% of Kinect games sold
Rare does the business.
42 per cent of all games sold for Xbox 360 motion-sensing add-on Kinect since launch were created by UK developers, new figures from UKIE/GfK Chart Track show.
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