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Taste Majin.
An Xbox 360 demo for Game Republic's Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom is available to download now.
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Champions Online going free-to-play
Take superhero to max level for nothing.
Atari Europe and Cryptic Studios have announced a change to superhero MMO Champions Online: from Q1 2011 the game will be free-to-play.
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Sony proclaims PS3's VidZone a success
More than half a billion music vids delivered.
Sony has hailed the PlayStation 3's free music video streaming service VidZone as a resounding success.
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Not long now.
The long-awaited patch for F1 2010 is in submission with Microsoft and Sony, Codemasters has revealed.
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MS pours cold water on HD Halo rumour.
HD remakes of classic Xbox games look unlikely after Microsoft Game Studios expressed ambivalence to the idea.
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PSPgo price cut "too meagre, too late"
Analysts want "more aggressive price cuts".
Sony will slash the price of the disc-less PSPgo on 1st November by £65, but analysts are doubtful the move will reverse the embattled console's fortunes.
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"All the Trappings" free for 30 days.
The first downloadable add-on for the wonderful Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is called All the Trappings, Square Enix has announced.
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"Breathtaking" game's breath taken.
WarDevil, the "Xbox 2" game we thought was "breathtaking" in 2004, has been terminated.
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Blizzard: PC gaming "super healthy"
"It keeps on growing," says Pardo.
World of Warcraft, Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 creator Blizzard has rebuffed the suggestion that PC gaming is dead.
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MS: New PC Marketplace not like Steam
Claims it has "different vision".
Microsoft has said that its relaunch of the Games for Windows Marketplace next month will be distinct from existing services and will be flexible about publishers' DRM requirements.
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65.3 million Wii remotes sold in US
And 52.9 million nunchuks.
Nintendo of America has sold 65.3 million Wii remotes in the US since the Wii console launched in November 2006, and 52.9 million nunchuks.
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Telltale's Back to Future for December
"Let's see if you bastards can do 90."
Telltale's episodic Back to the Future series will hurtle onto the internet in December. PC and Mac go first, with PS3 and iPad releases to follow.
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Sony: Kinect-style control is "cumbersome"
EyeToy's dad critical of Move competitor.
Sony's Dr Richard Marks has reiterated his belief that using controller-free input to manipulate complex interfaces is a novelty that doesn't last.
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SEGA encouraged by Vanquish sales
But admits it faces a "challenge".
SEGA's "reasonably encouraged" by sales of PlatinumGames' superb third-person shooter Vanquish, but cautioned that it's too early to judge.
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MS: Kinect games will span all genres
"It is as core to the platform as Live."
Microsoft envisages Kinect as a "fundamental" part of what Xbox 360 offers - an experience to span all genres and be considered as inherent as Xbox Live.
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John Lennon's classic album "Imagine" will be available to download for Rock Band 3 shortly after the game's release, Joystiq reports.
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Review | Fable III
The difficult third Albion.
We've hardly been starved of RPGs since Fable II came out. Thanks to BioWare alone, Mass Effect 2 had us chasing the Collectors through the Omega-4 Relay (killing all our friends in the process), while Dragon Age taught us all kinds of arcane trivia that we wouldn't shut up about for six months (boring all our friends in the process). So for the first few hours of Fable III, it's not exactly good news that you sense the law of diminishing returns.
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Review | Indie at the Expo
Highlights from the Eurogamer Expo's Indie Games Arcade.
Amid all the big-game bluster at the recent Eurogamer Expo it was refreshing to see the constant mill of people around the Indie Games Arcade at the back of the hall. Fortifying himself with a hot dog at the tail-end of the Saturday, our correspondent dared to enter this den of experimental gaming thought. This is the report he filed.
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Now £159.99.
Sony will cut the price of the PSPgo by £65 on 1st November.
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GOW PSP dev making new, original IP
Uncharted 2 "the kind of game we're making".
The studio behind the God of War PSP games is working on a brand new story driven action adventure that's based on an in-house intellectual property, Eurogamer has learned.
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Fable 3! Rock Band 3! Force Unleashed II!
No rest for the wicked, as they say. And this week sees the release of some wicked games. We've got the long-awaited Fable III, which Microsoft will hope helps the Xbox 360 shine this Christmas. Will it prove Peter Molyneux right all along?
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MOH! Just Dance 2! Sonic!
This week sees the release of perhaps 2010's most controversial game: Medal of Honor. The Danger Close and DICE developed Afghanistan shooter has attracted attention from all quarters, not least because the Taliban are a playable multiplayer faction. Well, were. EA decided to change the name to Opposing Force last week. Finally, it's time to see what all the fuss is about.
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Fallout! Vanquish! DJ Hero 2!
The blockbusters just keep on coming (it must be the fourth quarter!). This week sees the release of a half a dozen games that each aspire to sell a bucket load of copies. Top of our interest pile is Obsidian's Fallout spin-off New Vegas, which takes the post-apocalyptic fun into brighter skies. But will the Alpha Protocol developer's effort live up to expectations set by Fallout 3?
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Get Games stabs prices for Halloween
VVVVVV, Civ5, Tropico 3 among wounded.
Superb indie game VVVVVV is only £3.20 over on Eurogamer's digital distribution sibling Get Games.
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NFS: Hot Pursuit demo tomorrow
And on Wednesday for PS3.
EA is set to release a Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit demo this week. Xbox 360 owners can play from tomorrow and PS3 owners the day after.
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Interview | Linkin Park's Phoenix Farrell
On Medal of Honor, Man United and more.
Imagine being an international rock star. The girls! The parties! The drugs! The endless interviews with videogames reviewers who demand you justify your latest adventure in corporate schilling and obvious choice of football team!
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Fable III UK launch night plans
Albion the train there.
Fable III will have its own midnight launch event at GAME on London's Oxford Street this Thursday.
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"There appears to be a buyer."
The future of APB may soon be secure: a buyer has been found.
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No Shaun White Blu-ray mishap here
Sony's misprint restricted to US.
Sony America fudged the production of Shaun White Skateboarding on Blu-ray causing a delay. Thankfully, the problem won't spread to Europe and halt Friday's launch.
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Co-written by Apocalypse Now screenwriter.
The novel set in the Homefront universe and due out early next year is co-written by Apocalypse Now screenwriter John Milius and Raymond Benson, author of two Metal Gear Solid books and multiple James Bond novels.
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