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    EA Store confirms Mass Effect 3

    Save Earth from "terrifying machines".

    Oops. Someone is about to get hauled in front of HR. The EA Store has seemingly just ended weeks of speculation and confirmed the existence of Mass Effect 3.

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    Black promises "rock and roll" WWII FPS

    Plus, dishes dirt on Bodycount departure.

    Ex-Codemasters man Stuart Black has let slip a little more information about the "rock and roll" WWII shooter he's now working on for Sniper: Ghost Warrior studio, City Interactive.

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    First glimpse of X-Men Destiny

    New trailer teases Silicon Knights' next.

    A new trailer for X-Men Destiny has gone live, offering a first glimpse of what to expect from Silicon Knights' forthcoming superhero tie-in.

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    Following last week's Queen pack and Bon Jovi before that, famed ivory-tinkler Billy Joel is the latest contemporary recording artist to scissor-kick his way onto the Rock Band Store.

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    Quake Arena Arcade dated for XBLA

    Classic FPS out this month.

    Quake Arena Arcade will available on Xbox Live Arcade from 15th December, publisher Bethesda Softworks has confirmed.

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    Kinect bundles outsell Move bundles 5-1

    Plus: GT5, Donkey Kong sales figures.

    Xbox 360 Kinect bundles outsold PlayStation 3 Move bundles by a factor of more than five to one in the US last month, according to a retail analyst.

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    Open-source Kinect drivers released

    Tech firm gives modders a leg up.

    The tech firm behind the Kinect's camera sensor has released open-source drivers for the Xbox 360 add-on, opening the way for modders to put their own spin on the peripheral.

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    Massive Fallout: NV patch out now

    Crashes, save corruption finally fixed.

    A huge update for the PlayStation 3 version of Fallout: New Vegas has just gone live, with PC and Xbox 360 roll-outs expected next week.

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    PlayStation Home played by 17 million

    Sony compares now and then.

    A whopping 17 million people have walked the virtual streets of PlayStation Home, Sony has announced.

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    A Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker related announcement at this weekend's Spike Video Game Awards looks likely.

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    Dara O'Briain jokes about videogames

    Wii games are like "stroking a pony".

    Irish comedian Dara O'Briain was spotted making jokes about videogames on the Live at the Apollo stand-up television show.

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    Forza 3 goes Back to the Eighties

    Gets DeLorean and Ferris Bueller's Ferrari.

    Cars made famous by cult movies Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Back to the Future are included in a Forza 3 downloadable pack due out next week.

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    Amazon buying second-hand games

    Send yours off, get money back.

    Gigantic online shop Amazon will pay for your old games.

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    Which Gran Turismo game sold most?

    Clue: it's not the PSP one.

    Why does Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of Gran Turismo, get special dispensation from Sony when he makes a game? Because each main Gran Turismo release has sold roughly 10 million copies - or more.

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    More iPad 2 details revealed

    "Slimmer, lighter, better resolution."

    Like the heavily rumoured PSP2, the iPad 2 will have rear and front-facing cameras, multiple sources claim.

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    Need for Speed's Super Sports pack

    New cars, Trophies and Achievements.

    Criterion's announced Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit's first premium downloadable content pack.

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    Review | Download Games Roundup

    Dodo! Sneezies! Edge! Rush! Miasma!

    Newsflash! Games are pretty good, aren't they? The fact that the BBC's Panorama has taken approximately three decades to work out what some of us sussed out the first time we clapped eyes on an arcade machine in the early eighties is investigative journalism at its most biting. In other news, food is pretty tasty, and some people eat too much of it.

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    New Lara: "We wanted a bit of baby fat"

    "We want her to get damaged."

    Tits and arse aren't the most important thing this time around for Lara Croft. Youth and, by association, vulnerability are - Lara Croft is a battleaxe with "Amazonian proportions" no longer.

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    UK teen arrested for Call of Duty DDOS

    "Phenom Booter" cripples shooter.

    A Manchester teenager was arrested after preventing thousands of players from logging on to Call of Duty using a DDOS program.

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    Mass Effect 3 will be revealed at this weekend's Spike TV Video Game Awards show, Joystiq claims.

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    November US sales: Microsoft's spin

    "We wouldn't trade places with anyone."

    The best-selling console in North America right now is Xbox 360, and November's Kinect-powered 1.37 million haul marks six months of game-machine dominance. What's Microsoft got to say about that?

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    The 3rd Birthday has a shower scene

    Square Enix caves to fan demand.

    PlayStation Portable action game The 3rd Birthday will have a shower scene because fans demanded it.

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    November US sales: Sony's spin

    Cites "early blockbuster success" for Move.

    PlayStation 3 sales were well under half that of Xbox 360 during November, typically the biggest shopping month of the year. What's Sony got to say about that?

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    Gran Turismo 5 ships 5.5 million

    Series crosses the 60 million mark.

    Sony has shipped 5.5 million copies of simulation racer Gran Turismo 5 worldwide since launch.

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    PlayStation 3 Mass Effect 2 release date

    Suicide mission begins (restarts) next month.

    PlayStation 3 owners will finally be able to play Mass Effect 2 next month.

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    PS3 Final Fantasy XIV delayed

    Team restructured, free trial extended again.

    PlayStation 3 owners waiting for the release of MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV were dealt a blow this morning after Square Enix delayed the release of the game.

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    Review | Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar

    Bazaar creations.

    It's been a while since there's been a portable Harvest Moon to rival Friends of Mineral Town, which was lodged in my GBA's cartridge slot for the whole of 2004. The series has ambled off in several different directions since, turning your farmer into a robot boy or or an island castaway or a spiky-haired amnesiac youth to spice up the process of building and tending to an agricultural empire, but it always loses something in translation. Every exciting new addition is tempered by some unnecessary annoyance, and they usually end up balancing each other out.

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    Infinity Blade cuts down Angry Birds

    Epic's slice 'em up does the business.

    Epic's sharp, shiny new iOS RPG Infinity Blade has unseated the all-conquering Angry Birds at the top of the App Store charts.

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    NPD: Black Ops is 7th biggest game ever

    Plus: Donkey Kong, NFS outsell GT5.

    Call of Duty: Black Ops has become the 7th biggest-selling game ever released in the US after just three weeks on sale.

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    Sony reveals Move Sharp Shooter add-on

    Jungle Green DualShock incoming too.

    Sony has unveiled the Sharp Shooter – a Wii Zapper-esque cradle for its Move controller.

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