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Review | Download Games Roundup
Flowers! Pirates! Rats! Impossible! Saga!
Everyone likes super secret access to new games don't they? Especially ones that looks as tempting as ilomilo. Apparently not due for general release on XBLA and Windows Phone 7 until January, it gives developer Southend Interactive the kind of headline-grabbing pre-awareness that a lot of downloadable titles could do with.
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Feature | EuroLAN #2 coverage
Coverage from EuroLAN #2
Last weekend EuroGamer took over Varndean College in Brighton for our second EuroLAN event. Around 90 players fragged it out over the weekend, with prizes including AMD Athlons, motherboards, webcams, games, and even a pair of funky Elsa Revelator 3D glasses up for grabs.
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Half of Xbox Live subs are Gold
Are you one of them?
Half of Microsoft's 25 million Xbox Live members are Gold subscribers.
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Feature | Blowing the Candles
Xbox 360 is five - and this is one console that grew up quickly.
Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial, is a weekly dissection of an issue weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.
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Ghost Trick gets free Flash demo
Check out Capcom's new DS adventure.
Is spooky DS adventure Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective on your radar? It should be – it looks ace – and there's now a playable demo online to prove it.
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THQ moving away from kids' games
Plans greater focus on its own IP.
THQ is planning to move focus away from licensed kids' games and onto its own IPs, CEO Brian Farrell has announced.
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Less is more!
EA has revealed that it plans to release around 40 per cent fewer games next year.
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Assassin's Creed 3 features hinted at
Ubisoft survey drops a few clues.
An Ubisoft survey suggests that the publisher is looking into a number of fresh innovations for the next game in the Assassin's Creed franchise, including new customisation options, crafting features and a different lead character.
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EA reveals strategy to beat COD
Riccitiello: "We can take the lead."
EA has revealed its out-there strategy to take the FPS crown away from Activision and its Call of Duty series: make a superior game.
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EverQuest II to get its own Cataclysm?
Sony: "We are looking at it closely."
Sony's EverQuest II MMO could soon be following World of Warcraft: Cataclysm's lead and hitting the reset button.
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Alien Breed 2 hits PSN next week
Team 17 bug blast sees belated release.
Alien Breed 2: Assault arrives on PlayStation Network next week, developer Team 17 has confirmed.
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Rock 'n' royal.
Queen is the latest act to power-slide into the Rock Band 3 spotlight, with 13 tracks by the glam rock legends to be made available for download next week.
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Civilization IV nominated for a Grammy
Awards recognise games for first time.
Strategy game Civilization IV has made history after becoming the first videogame to be nominated for a Grammy Award.
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Harrison: browser gaming is the future
Console-quality titles just five years off?
Web browsers, not home consoles, will be the true next-gen gaming platform, according to former Sony president Phil Harrison.
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UK getting Rock Band 3 MIDI Pro-Adapter
Mad Catz knows of peripheral availability woe.
The Rock Band 3 MIDI Pro-Adapter will be released in the UK "late next week" for around £34.99 / €39.99, Mad Catz has told Eurogamer.
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No country for old monkeys.
Here's what we were picking from: Out This Week.
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Review | Total War: Shogun 2
Once more unto the breach.
They say it's called a revolution because over time it always comes full circle. And that saying applies perfectly the Total War series.
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Unlock fifth Bad Company 2 map together
Operation Hastings needs 69m team actions.
DICE has another Battlefield: Vietnam map for Bad Company 2 - but this time you'll have to earn it. You and the entire Bad Company 2 community, that is.
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Golden Sun developer "excited" by 3DS
Refuses to reveal plans.
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn developer Hiroyuki Takahashi loves the 3DS so much he's "excited" to create a game for it.
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Monty Python stars push Facebook game
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones approve.
Beloved British comics Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones are promoting a brand new Monty Python virtual world for Facebook.
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Jon Hare remaking Speedball 2 for iPhone
A Sensible man.
Sensible Software founder Jon Hare has remade a vintage C64 [old fossil here, Speedball 2 was originally an Amiga and Atari ST game -Kristan Reed] game for iPhone. It's not Sensible Soccer, it's not Canon Fodder, it's not Wizball - in fact, it's not even one of Sensible Software's games.
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People buy £45 Donkey Kong with bananas
Pictures prove it.
Gamers have this morning bought £45 Wii-exclusive platformer Donkey Kong Country Returns not with money but with bananas.
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1080p PS Move Top Darts revealed
Coming to PlayStation Network this Christmas.
Sony's announced Top Darts, a 1080p PlayStation Move game due out this Christmas on PlayStation Network for £6.29 / €7.99.
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Mega developer Valve has launched a public beta for online shooter Team Fortress 2 over three years after its release.
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Digital Foundry | GT5 Prologue secret options revealed
Instantly drive any car in the game.
Hackers have revealed a button press code that allows access to a hidden, "special" options menu in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue that allows you to drive any car in the game and configure a number of other tweakables.
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UK game dev tax breaks on "hiatus"
Issue off the table for three or four years.
UK game development suffered another blow today after the government said much sought after tax breaks could be years away.
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Riccitiello's EA not afraid of risks
"It's very easy to sequel a product."
Other companies making sports games wait for new consoles before they take risks - but EA doesn't, not any more, head honcho John Riccitiello has boasted.
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Ace Attorney Investigations 2 details
Miles is in prison.
In Ace Attorney Investigations 2 eccentric prosecutor Miles Edgeworth is in prison.
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Sony has pulled a U-turn on its decision to include stereoscopic 3D in upcoming PS3 exclusive LittleBigPlanet 2.
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Evil Ryu and Oni Akuma in SSFIV
Arcade Edition only for now...
The heavily rumoured addition of Evil Ryu and Oni Akuma to Super Street Fighter IV has been confirmed – for the Japanese-only Arcade Edition.
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