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Take-Two schedule forgets Max Payne 3
2011 release looks unlikely.
A 2011 release for Max Payne 3 is looking increasingly unlikely after publisher Take-Two left it off its latest release slate.
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To infinity, and repeat.
Here's what we were(n't) picking from: Out This Week.
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BioWare Docs videogame Hall of Famers
Join Miyamoto, Suzuki, Molyneux, Carmack.
BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have been inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame alongside videogame greats such as Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter Molyneux and Yu Suzuki.
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NFS World gets dynamic day/night cycle
Has three million registered users.
EA has today added a dynamic day/night cycle and advanced vehicle performance customisation tuning system to Need for Speed World.
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Eurogamer content in PEGI iPhone app
One step closer to government.
The PEGI iPhone app that provides European game ratings on the fly is now supplemented by Eurogamer content.
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Bulletstorm Epic Ed grants Gears 3 beta
Buy your way in.
How do you get exclusive early access to the Gears of War 3 beta? By buying the Epic Edition of Bulletstorm, Epic Games has announced.
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Review | Download Games Roundup
Eat! Beat! Auditorium! Asteroids! Bomberman!
It's interesting to observe the tactics of Sony and Microsoft in promoting their respective motion gaming technology. While Microsoft tries to position Kinect as something akin to a full console launch, Sony has taken an altogether less aggressive stance.
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UK shops: Order today or miss Christmas
Snow other way.
Time has nearly run out - if you fail to order games online from UK shops today, there's no guarantee you'll get them in time for Christmas. And just think about your little nephew's face when you tell him Splatterhouse is only "on its way".
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Just Cause movie is an origin story
Has Rico's grappling hook/parachute combo.
The Just Cause movie is the origin story of game protagonist Rico Rodriguez, and hopes to emulate Bond flick Casino Royal.
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BioWare: PC Dragon Age 2 is strategic
But also an action RPG – if you want.
In Dragon Age 2, fighting can be handled one of two ways, either as a fast and fluid action RPG or as a stop-and-start strategical RPG.
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Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Deserters will be hot.
Just a day after unveiling the first trailer for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception at the Spike Video Game Awards, Naughty Dog gave the gaming press their first look at gameplay. The press event hosted by a handful of the game's developers in balmy Los Angeles granted a tantalising first glimpse of the PlayStation 3 exclusive, due out next November.
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Bloodline Champions beta opens up
Snappy and capable fantasy arena PVP.
Bloodline Champions, Funcom's Diablo-like online arena battler, is open for everybody to test.
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BF Heroes raises £2.5k for Child's Play
Sale of virtual outfits makes the difference.
Free-to-play cartoon online shooter Battlefield Heroes has raised £2500 for videogame charity Child's Play through the sale of Christmas-themed virtual outfits.
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Doctor Jean-Pierre Lautrec is familiar
Konami dreams up Professor Layton clone.
The phenomenally successful DS puzzle series Professor Layton has already inspired so many – not least Ant and Dec. But Konami takes the biscuit – the Japanese company has taken the lid-off what looks like a clone.
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iPhone Riven so big it carries a warning
Is a "VERY, VERY large application".
The biggest game in terms of filesize on the App Store has to be Riven, the resurrected 1997 sequel to point-and-click adventure game Myst.
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Just Dance 2 DLC tracks announced
Chicken Payback! Kung Fu Fighting!
Just in time for Christmas, Ubisoft has released new downloadable tracks for phenomenally successful Wii party game Just Dance 2.
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Sequel Section 8: Prejudice just £10
Multiplayer-focused FPS download only.
The decision not to sell Section 8 sequel Prejudice in shops has been made; TimeGate will offer the game online only, for 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360 and $14.99 on PC and PS3.
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EA: $99 Wii would "explode" at retail
Plus, bemoans lack of third party support.
If Nintendo cut the price of the Wii to $99 (around £63) sales would go through the roof, EA has claimed.
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XBLIG Winter Uprising campaign stalls
Only eight of 14 promised games released.
Last month a group of developers got together to launch the Xbox Live Indie Games Winter Uprising, promising a deluge of quality games in the first week of December. Alas, it seems things didn't quite go to plan.
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Sonic, Battlefield lead iOS games rush
Altered Beast, Monkey Island, Goo also out.
Seeing as Apple isn't allowing any new content to be posted over the Christmas week, iOS developers have taken it upon themselves to flood the App Store with games today.
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Red Dead Redemption ships 8 million
Helps Take Two back into profit.
Rockstar's rootin' tootin' western epic Red Dead Redemption has now shipped nearly eight million copies since its launch earlier this year, helping publisher Take Two back into its bank manager's good books.
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Microsoft announces Christmas XBL sale
Plus, Red Dead hits Games on Demand.
Super Meat Boy, Comic Jumper and Castle Crashers are among the titles seeing price cuts in a festive Xbox Live sale starting next week.
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Blizzard confirms Titan MMO project
Looking for "best talent in the industry".
Blizzard has confirmed that its next MMO is currently going by the title of Titan.
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New LittleBigPlanet portal links with PSN
Remotely queue up new levels.
A new LittleBigPlanet web portal, lbp.me, has just launched to help players sift through the thousands of user-generated levels on offer.
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Fallout: NV 360 patch goes live
What happens in Vegas, now stays in Vegas.
The game-fixing Fallout: New Vegas patch that hit the PlayStation 3 last week rolls out for the Xbox 360 today, publisher Bethesda Softworks has announced.
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Sony announces Android-friendly PS app
Log in to PSN from your phone.
A PlayStation app is coming to the iPhone "very soon", Sony has announced.
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Shogun 2 Collector's Ed has bamboo box
Hattori clan! Armour! XP! Figurine! Nagashino!
The Collector's Edition of PC samurai strategy game Total War: Shogun 2 will be wrapped in an authentic bamboo box, no less.
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Review | Killzone 3
Helghast but not least.
When it comes to enemies in shooter sequels bigger isn't always better, but it's usually the answer everyone offers. Halo went for the Scarab, Gears gave us a giant worm – even Call of Duty had a Soviet rocket. So to discover Killzone 3 has a massive four-legged robot pocked with artillery and shouldering a huge laser cannon is no surprise – and you'll be amazed to learn it's up to you to step into the Hoxton fin of Sgt. Tomas Sevchenko, and sort it out before it destroys what remains of your ISA invasion force.
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Panorama criticised by friend of "addict"
Games documentary's claims "exaggerated".
The friend of an alleged videogames addict who featured in Panorama's recent documentary, Addicted To Games?, has hit out at the makers' selective editing and "exaggerated view of games addiction and its causes".
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Change to poodle, doberman or alsatian.
Bored of your Fable III dog? Wish you could swap for a cooler one? Lionhead has a remedy: a dog pack.
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