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Digital Foundry | Tech Analysis: Killzone 3
Performance, lag and even 3D analysis.
Almost two years on from release, Killzone 2 remains one of the most technologically advanced shooters available on console. According to Guerrilla Games, the game runs using just 60 per cent of the PlayStation 3's SPU satellite processors. Factoring in this "leftover" power, combined with lessons learned in developing Killlzone 2, hopes are high that the sequel will prove to be a significant advance over its predecessor in terms of both tech and gameplay.
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Bon Jovi DLC storms Rock Band 3
Deftones, New Order also up for grabs.
Less is always more, right? Well, when it comes to Bon Jovi, apparently not. A whopping 12 tracks from the New Jersey stadium rockers are heading to Rock Band 3.
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Nintendo sees quirky future for DS
Plans to feed us localised Japanese titles.
With the release of the 3DS imminent, you'd imagine the old DS model was staring down a bleak future. Not so, insists Nintendo.
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GAME selling Black Ops for £24.99
COD price war kicks off.
GAME and gamestation will be selling Call of Duty: Black Ops for just £24.99 until 14th November.
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Aborted Spielberg epic was Uncharted rival.
Information and early footage of Spielberg's canceled LMNO project has slipped onto the internet, painting a fascinating picture of an aborted blockbuster.
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PlayStation Home has the builders in
New group feature, wardrobe tweaks.
There's a number of new features and tweaks on the way for PlayStation Home, Sony has announced.
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APB could be turned around in 9 months
But Codemasters Online isn't doing it.
APB as we know it is dead, but Codemasters Online general manager David Solari is convinced it could be turned around - providing someone has "nine months of hard work" to spare.
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Ninja Gaiden 3 to reboot series
Plus, Dead or Alive: Code Cronus axed.
Ninja Gaiden 3 looks set to completely reboot the franchise, according to Team Ninja boss Yousuke Hayashi.
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Get your artwork in official MVC3 book
Capcom launches hunt for best drawing.
Capcom's launched a competition to get fan artwork into the official Marvel Vs Capcom 3 art book to be released with the special edition of the game.
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3DTV in every home in 8-9 years – Perry
Plus, Apple will never make a games console.
Dave Perry, Gaikai CEO and developer of cult platformer Earthworm Jim, reckons there will be a 3DTV in every home in eight or nine years.
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Big US chains are out of stock.
Microsoft's Kinect system is, as anticipated, selling like gangbusters, with some of the biggest retail chains in the US all out of stock.
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Check out RB3 and Apache: Air Assault too.
Kinect Joy Ride heads up a fresh batch of demos available on Xbox Live today.
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Peace Walker "well received by hardcore"
Konami talks cash.
When Hideo Kojima releases a Metal Gear Solid game, Konami's bank balance explodes. That didn't happen with PSP game Peace Walker, but Konami takes solace in the fact it was at least "well received by hardcore Metal Gear fans".
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Digital Foundry | Killzone 3 pad lag measured
Guerrilla makes good on latency claims.
Guerrilla Games says that Killzone 3's control system has been substantially improved over its predecessor's. Last week's limited release of the Killzone 3 multiplayer beta was a golden opportunity to put these claims to the test, and forms a small part of an extensive tech analysis set to be posted on the Digital Foundry blog tomorrow.
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Battle Islands or your friends.
Wii game Worms Battle Islands will launch on 26th November, THQ has confirmed.
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Get Football Manager 2011 for 24 quid
Or Worms Reloaded for 16.
Eurogamer's sister site Get Games is doing a special deal on our Game of the Week at the moment, allowing you to snap up Football Manager 2011 for a mere £23.99.
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Meta the devil you know.
Here's what we were picking from: Out This Week.
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Review | Download Games Roundup
Bloody! Go! Boom! Nimbus! Dice!
While the whole world gets caught up in Kinect fever (or not), it's reassuring to know that it's possible to completely ignore the whole thing and still end up playing some real gems.
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Review | On the Battlefield
A look at Play4Free and Bad Company 2 Vietnam.
This week's EA Winter Showcase saw Battlefield looking to the past and the future – the former by way of a Vietnam-themed DLC expansion for Bad Company 2, and the latter with an extremely ambitious free online title, Battlefield: Play4Free.
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Adrian Bolton exits Codemasters
Bodycount now due early summer 2011.
The general manager of Codemasters Guildford, the developer behind shooter Bodycount, has left the British publisher, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal.
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Interview | BioWare Doctors talk EA Louse, Mass Effect 3, SWTOR
Plus: nobody wants the next generation yet.
Back stage at Matter in the gargantuan O2 Arena (surely a perfect fit for the next Dead Rising game), BioWare founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka sit relaxed and waiting for press to quiz them on the likes of Mass Effect 2 for PS3, Dragon Age II and Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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UK Kinect launch stock is "tight"
Queuing may be a good choice.
If you want to buy Kinect next week you ought to consider queueing - three separate shops have told Eurogamer stock will be tight.
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BioWare: "It was sad to read EA Louse"
Star Wars MMO "a big bet, but the right bet".
BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have told of how they were "disappointed" and "sad" after reading the recent scathing anonymous blog post from EA Louse.
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Battlefield: Play4Free announced
Free-to-play realistic PC Battlefield FPS.
EA's announced a realistic first-person free-to-play PC Battlefield game set in the modern theatre of war and designed to appear to hardcore shooter fans.
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Review | Dragon Age II
Blight club.
Splattered with sexy blood and fairly creaking under all of that carefully-crafted history, Dragon Age was a decade in the making. The sequel, on the other hand, has been in development for a couple of years at most.
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DICE: MOH controversy affected reviews
Competing with Battlefield "awkward".
DICE, the studio behind the multiplayer portion of the recently released Afghanistan shooter Medal of Honor, reckons reviews were affected by the controversy surrounding the game's setting.
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FFXIV: "Full power on regaining trust"
Square Enix reveals game sales.
Undercooked MMO Final Fantasy XIV was the talking point of Square Enix's six-month money report yesterday. President Yoichi Wada was pressed hard by analysts wanting to know what on earth was going on.
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Digital Foundry | Perry reveals Gaikai on iPad
Pic shows playable World of Warcraft
Gaikai's David Perry has revealed the first work-in-progress shot of gameplay streaming service Gaikai running on Apple's iPad.
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Sony unveils lost God of War II stage
Huge Atlantis level cut from final game.
Sony has offered a glimpse at an enormous Atlantis stage that was cut out of God of War II.
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Live poker coming to Xbox 360?
Microsoft sends out beta invites.
It looks like Xbox Live's defunct episodic game show 1 vs 100 might have a spiritual successor on the way, in the form of Full House Poker.
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