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EA botches Dragon Age Ultimate Edition
Forgot to include Return to Ostagar DLC.
European copies of Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition for the PlayStation 3 were shipped with the wrong content, developer BioWare has admitted.
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PopCap's Bejeweled 3 in December
Now with relaxing Zen mode.
PopCap has announced that a third game in the Bejeweled series will launch on 7th December.
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Shinji Mikami to continue on DMD
Sticking with chum Suda51.
Resident Evil 4 and Vanquish director Shinji Mikami will continue to develop Shadows of the Damned with Suda51 for EA despite his studio being bought by the parent company of rival publisher Bethesda.
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50/50 chance of The Witness in 2012
"It is a long time" – Blow.
Braid creator Jonathan Blow's next game, The Witness, could be delayed from Christmas 2011 to some time in 2012.
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How many copies did Rock Band 3 sell?
Not a lot.
Harmonix's hope that low sales of Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock were caused by anticipation surrounding Rock Band 3 have been dashed this morning by official UK sales figures.
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Review | Mobile Games Roundup
ChuChu! Runner! Speed! Trains! Zombies!
A couple of weeks on from launch, you're probably wondering why we haven't got around to including Windows Phone 7 games yet. We wondered that too, but it seems the powers that be aren't exactly falling over themselves to provide us with review samples.
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Fable III atop of the UK chart
New: Star Wars! WWE! Sims 3! Rock Band!
Update: UKIE has released sales figures for the top 10 games. These show that leader Fable III sold 128,895 copies since launch on Friday - 6000 more than Fable II managed.
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MUBI video streaming on PS3 this week
Films for connoisseurs.
Fussy film-streaming service MUBI will be available on PlayStation 3 this week, Sony has announced.
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PS Phone: Sony admits "new product"
Will take on iPad with new tablet, too.
Sony has admitted to having a "new product" in development that's linked to Sony Ericsson and Sony Computer Entertainment and the cellphone gaming market.
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Xbox Live UK dashboard update now
UPDATE: Eurogamer videos it.
Update #2: Xbox Live's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has provided on his blog a list of new features arriving in today's dashboard update.
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Review | Kirby’s Epic Yarn
Knit pick.
Plenty of games promise to tell you a story, but Kirby's Epic Yarn is one of the few that literally does so. The game opens with an avuncular man narrating the tale of Kirby's descent into Patch World. There's no voice-acting cast. Instead, like story hour at the local library, the narrator just changes his voice as he reads the lines of each character: a bit squeakier for Kirby and a bit more serious for Kirby's new friend, Prince Fluff. It's a perfectly analogue intro to an analogue game.
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Keita Takahashi: Why I left Namco
"I didn't belong there any more."
Katamary Damacy and Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi has for the first time explained his decision to quit publisher Namco Bandai after 11 years working for the company.
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Unusual suspects in Black Ops Zombies
Four surprising faces. Spoilers.
Guess who you'll play as in Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombie mode when co-operatively protecting the Pentagon from zombies:
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GoldenEye legend couldn't play Flower
Because it was "so emotionally provoking".
Martin Hollis, creator of N64 classic GoldenEye 007, had to stop playing PS3-exclusive Flower because he found the experience too emotional.
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Review | Football Manager 2011
The long game.
Back in the days before the games industry became the unceasing, year-long money-making juggernaut it is now and when Sports Interactive's football management games still went by the name Championship Manager, the series' yearly releases would vary between major full-price products that signified leaps forward for the series (Championship Manager 3, Championship Manager 4) and reduced-price offerings full of tweaks and data updates (Championship Manager: Season 02&03, etc.). Of course, that was a long time ago.
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TimeSplitters: Crytek UK talking to pubs
"We'd love to do another one."
Crytek UK is talking with various publishers about the possibility of creating a brand new TimeSplitters game, Eurogamer can reveal.
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Digital Foundry | Face-Off: Fallout: New Vegas
The epic adventure analysed on PS3, 360 and PC.
As the HD console generation has matured, gamers have been spoiled by developers looking to push the hardware in new and exciting directions, using the experience they have gained to make games that look better and play better.
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Interview | Can Rock Band Save Music Games?
Harmonix on making keyboards sexy and crafting its defining statement.
It's fair to say that it's not the best of times to be putting out a music game. With Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock posting dismal first week sales and DJ Hero 2 failing to break into the UK top 20, there's a consensus that the music genre might be all played out.
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Feature | What Makes Horror Games Scary?
Why we fear the fake.
You'll probably never happen across a person raving about a survival horror game by saying how hyperactive their amygdala was, and how their rostral anterior cingulate cortex was powerless to dampen the emotional stimuli.
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Feature | Phone Home
Marrying a PlayStation with a Phone has never made more sense, but remains a tough proposition.
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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It might happen "one day" though.
From Software currently has no plans to start work on a sequel to its critically acclaimed PlayStation 3 action RPG Demon's Souls, producer Takeshi Kajii has revealed.
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No Christmas price cut for Wii
Iwata relying on bundles, great games.
There's no price cut planned for the Wii this year according to Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata.
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Nintendo not interested in smartphones
"Unique" 3DS a safer bet, reckons US boss.
Don't expect Nintendo to follow Sony into the smartphone market – it's just not interested, according to NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime.
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Could Hitman 5 be in trouble?
35 staffers are rumoured to have been made redundant at Danish studio IO Interactive.
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Huge XP boost for Gears 2 this weekend
Blur gets in on the act too.
Both Gears of War 2 and Blur are celebrating Halloween by offering all gamers extra multiplayer XP this weekend.
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Nintendo hints at 3DS launch line-up
Ocarina of Time, Pilotwings are first up.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pilotwings Resort, Nintendogs + Cats and Steel Diver will be the first party 3DS launch titles, judging by a release schedule included in Nintendo's annual fiscal report.
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Tokyo Jungle confirmed for EU PSN
Mad Chihuahua vs T-Rex scrapper incoming.
Sony has announced that it will be bringing curious post-apocalyptic survival game, Tokyo Jungle, to Europe's PlayStation Network.
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XBL sees audience bump for TV/movies
Billion hours a month spent on service.
There has been a 157 per cent year-on-year increase in the amount of time users spend watching movies and TV shows through Xbox Live, Microsoft has claimed.
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Plus, see Super Mario Land in action.
Game Boy classic Super Mario Land will be one of the first games to hit the 3DS's online store, according to a video shown to Nintendo investors.
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Euro LOTRO free-to-play relaunch dated
Next week Samwise to you?
The European free-to-play relaunch of The Lord of the Rings Online will happen on Tuesday, 2nd November, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal.
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