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Huge FIFA 11 patch detailed, dated
Offside!
EA will release a comprehensive FIFA 11 patch on 12th November for PlayStation 3 and 17th November for Xbox 360.
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Crytek: Crysis can be as big as COD
"There's no reason it can't be."
Activision's Call of Duty is the biggest first-person shooter franchise of all time, and Treyarch's recently released Black Ops is expected to be the biggest game of 2010 – but one developer reckons it can match COD's phenomenal popularity with a FPS series of its own.
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Review | The UnderGarden
Gardeners whirled.
The first thing you should know: The UnderGarden is a game. That may seem like stating the obvious, but it's true. Every mention of the game so far has made prominent use of the word "casual", usually followed by any combination of "ambient", "trippy" and "chilled out". The impression given is that it's more of an interactive mushroom experience and not the sort of game to totally harsh your buzz with downers like objectives and completion ratings and woah man, just relax, OK?
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All new Rock Band DLC only for RB3
Older generations left behind.
Harmonix will produce no new DLC for any Rock Band game other than Rock Band 3.
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Why did Wet dev A2M change its name?
"Sometimes, it becomes not funny."
It's easy to see the funny side of Wet developer Behaviour's recent name change.
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Next MotoGP game in March 2011
Rossi think he's doing?
Capcom's next attempt at MotoGP will be released in March 2011 on PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Star Wars Kinect due out Christmas 2011
Kudo: "It's super compelling."
The Star Wars Kinect game unveiled during Microsoft's E3 2010 Project Natal extravaganza in June is set for a Christmas 2011 release.
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Nintendo tops Japan's 2010 publisher list
Absolutely smashes the competition.
Nintendo has sold nearly three times as many games as its nearest competitor in Japan this year.
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Microsoft threatens Gal Gun release
Dev will fight to include knickers, tentacles.
Outrageous Xbox 360 on-rails shooter Gal Gun has had its release delayed following intervention from Microsoft.
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Black Ops hits a million XBL users
New COD enjoys unexpected popularity.
Call of Duty: Black Ops' servers have had a busy day, with nearly one million Xbox 360 users logging on to check out Treyarch's highly anticipated shooter during its first 24 hours in the wild.
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Big publishers should make 'indie' games
Fund internal teams, says World of Goo dev.
The co-creator of indie hit World of Goo has called on major publishers to create internal teams to work on smaller, more innovative projects.
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Boulder Dash makes XBLA comeback
Can you dig it?
The decades-old Boulder Dash series is set for a fresh lease of life with a new downloadable title heading to PC and Xbox Live Arcade.
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Microsoft explains XBLIG backtrack
Never intended to "bury" service.
Microsoft has explained its decision to reinstate the Xbox Live Indie Games service to the games store proper.
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Bit.Trip Fate heading to Europe
Maniac blaster hits WiiWare next week.
Bit.Trip Fate, the penultimate chapter in Gaijin Games' schizophrenic WiiWare series, will launch in Europe on 19th November.
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Who remembers Rampage?
Sony has confirmed a PlayStation Network release for Eat Them!, the latest game from Bristol-based developer FluffyLogic.
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PSP "biggest disappointment" of 2010
Retailer: Halo: Reach "biggest surprise".
Sony's PSP strategy has been the biggest let-down of the year, according to top US games retailer GameStop.
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Sources: Sledgehammer looking to the stars.
The next game in the Call of Duty series will be set in space, industry sources have claimed.
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XBLIG devs hail MS dash switch
"We all adore developing for the 360."
Xbox Live Indie Game developers have praised Microsoft for switching the XBLIG channel back to the Games & Demos section of the Xbox 360 dashboard.
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Who queues 13 hours for Black Ops?
"I've never been first in anything."
Shortly before midnight last night, 350 people stood queuing outside the flagship HMV store on Oxford Street, London.
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Ellie, Oli and the Toms rake over Kinect, Call of Duty and NFS.
This is it. This is the apex of 2010. Everything else is downhill after this, and everything before this has been leading up to this moment and exists purely to serve it. We're not talking about the Eurogamer.net Podcast #44, obviously - we're talking about this week. The launch of Kinect. The launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops.
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No Sacktoy for LBP2 Collector's Ed
But avatars and costumes included.
There's no plushy Sackboy toy snuggled inside the Collector's Edition of LittleBigPlanet 2 - the treats this time are virtual.
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Review | Mobile Games Roundup
Capcom! Evac! Phoenix! Ragdoll! Mysterious!
How many gaming platforms do you have in your life? Two? Five? How about 15? Because that's how many some of us here at EG have to pay attention to in order to filter out the most interesting nuggets for your delectation.
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Review | The Sims 3
Little console people.
The Sims 3 invites you to "Play with Life", inferring an impulse towards creativity and imagination, but I've never met any Sims player who isn't immediately compelled to create themselves – and nobody really knows why. It's the first thing I did when I played the Sims for the first time in 2000, sitting in front of the family computer.
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Acti urges Black Ops fans to report bugs
"Every game has bugs; it's a reality of gaming."
Activision has urged Call of Duty: Black Ops owners to report exploits, server reliability issues and bugs directly to creator Treyarch.
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Is SSX: Deadly Descent about to drop?
Speculation is rampant that a new game in the SSX series is in the works after internet sleuths spotted EA- registered domains relating to the arcade snowboarding franchise.
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First proper LA Noire video this week
Rockstar ready to unveil its game.
Rockstar's new open world detective game LA Noire will be shown this week.
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Homefront's getting a sequel - THQ
Takes place on the other side of Mississippi.
Homefront 1 isn't out yet, but Homefront 2 is already on the cards.
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Interview | DICE on MOH's past, present and future
"Very exciting secrets" to be revealed.
At EA's winter showcase event last week DICE's Patrick Liu took centre stage to reveal the first batch of downloadable content for the two-million-selling shooter Medal of Honor.
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Digital Foundry | God of War AA coming to PC/360?
Can new MLAA match Sony's quality?
Custom anti-aliasing techniques are becoming increasingly popular among leading games developers. Last week LucasArts talked to Digital Foundry about the new AA techniques used in the forthcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. But the yardstick remains the quality level set by Sony's morphological anti-aliasing (MLAA) tech as seen in the phenomenal God of War III. Last week, AMD has released its own GPU-based MLAA implementation for PC and other developers are working on GPU solutions for Xbox 360. MLAA is going cross-platform.
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OpFlash, GRID 2 and DiRT 3 mapped out
Release windows revealed.
The next Operation Flashpoint game, Red River, will be released at some point between 1st April and the end of June 2011, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal.
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