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Console Witcher 2 now just a "potential"
"Not likely" to be simultaneous with PC.
Fans hoping to play the console version of The Witcher 2 - announced alongside the PC game last year - were dealt a blow today after CD Projekt described it as merely a "potential" release.
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Interview | Trion talks Rift
"More is not better. Better is better."
(Trion Worlds is currently taking applications for the upcoming Rift: Planes of Telara beta. Sign up on the official website.)
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Review | Rift: Planes of Telara
Telara your friends.
Trion Worlds is currently taking applications for the upcoming Rift: Planes of Telara beta. Sign up on the official website.
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Costume Quest beautifies PSN update
Schafer's Halloween RPG for THQ.
Tim Schafer's downloadable THQ game Costume Quest is up for grabs from the PlayStation Store today.
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SEGA confirms HD Dreamcast ports
Bass Fishing and Space Channel 5.2 due.
"Digitally remastered" ports of Dreamcast games SEGA Bass Fishing and Space Channel 5.2 will be released on Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network in "early 2011", SEGA's confirmed to Eurogamer.
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Sony hiring for a "futuristic racer"
Whatever could it be?
WipEout developer Sony Liverpool's after a senior designer to work on a "high profile, futuristic racing franchise". Whatever could that be?
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Blue Toad Murder Files coming to PC
PS3-exclusive plot thickens.
Quaint murder mystery game Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle will be available to download for PC on 24th November, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal.
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Feature | Control Method
SpecialEffect's mission to get disabled kids gaming.
It's exactly a decade to the month since I started working as a journalist in the games industry. Back in October 2000, PlayStation 2 was still a few weeks away from its launch in Europe, and my only internet access at home was via SEGA's Dreamcast - with its amazing email system that spontaneously deleted messages if you took too long writing them.
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Guess what percentage finished ACII
It's "huge", says Ubisoft.
A surprising 60 per cent of people gave up on story-led action game Assassin's Creed II before the end.
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Review | Mobile Games Roundup
UFO! Spirit! Abduction! Finger! Blob!
The best thing about the mobile gaming scene right now is never quite being sure of what to expect. With no budget for big marketing campaigns (or even PRs to alert us to their existence, most of the time), some of the very best games turn up fully formed, unannounced, unheralded.
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"80% willing to game with 3D glasses"
Claims a new study.
Microsoft has dismissed 3D gaming as nothing more than a "science experiment", but according to a new study gamers are well up for the tech.
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MS: Batman AA 3D a "science experiment"
"I don't need to sell you a TV," Spencer says.
Microsoft Game Studios' Phil Spencer reckons Sony has backed the wrong horse with 3D. But then, Sony has pressure to sell televisions whereas Microsoft doesn't.
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Layton VS Phoenix Wright only for Japan
But, with your support, it could head west.
Exciting crossover 3DS game Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright is as of right now a Japan-only title, but with gamers' support it could come to the West, Capcom's said.
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Nowhere near as much as COD or Reach.
Did EA's Medal of Honor make more money at launch than Activision's last Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare 2? In a word, no. More than Halo: Reach? No.
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Digital Foundry | Face-Off: Medal of Honor
Tiers before bedtime.
Technology plays a role of enormous importance within the first-person shooter genre. Design decisions in creating the game engine dictate more than just the look of the game - they're crucial in how it plays. Medal of Honor suffers somewhat compared to its competitors as the foundations for both single- and multiplayer modes were basically air-lifted in by Epic and DICE respectively, creating something of a "second hand" experience to what should have been one of EA's biggest and most important games of the year.
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Original Twisted Metal for PS3/PSP?
ESRB hints at PSone Classics release.
The original PlayStation version of Twisted Metal could be getting a re-release under the PSone Classics brand, according to an Entertainment Software Ratings Board listing.
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Violent games edited for Middle East
New initiative will target Uncharted 3 first.
A new initiative has launched in the Middle East to remove violent or controversial content from videogames, allowing them to be released in conservative Arabic countries.
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Most expensive game merch ever detailed
Chrysler demand $33k for Call of Duty Jeep.
US car manufacturer Chrysler Group has revealed further details of the special edition Call of Duty: Black Ops Jeep that it announced last month.
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Man makes game in 24 hours, is ace
Check out Thomas Was Alone.
Want conclusive proof, if any were needed, that you don't need a 200-hundred strong design team, a $50 million dollar budget and a three year development cycle to make a fun, innovative game?
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LotR Online F2P delay explained
Codemasters: "Launch is imminent."
The delay of the free-to-play Lord of the Rings Online update is down to "contractual issues", publisher Codemasters has confirmed.
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Homefront: "I promise you it competes"
With 6-10 hour campaign, says Bilson.
THQ core games boss Danny Bilson has staked his reputation on new shooter Homefront. He reckons it can go toe-to-toe with even the biggest out there - including Call of Duty.
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Avatar editing, web games and more.
The official Xbox website will be relaunched tomorrow with a host of new features, Microsoft has announced.
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Medal of Honor gets free multiplayer DLC
Plus, EA's shooter sells 1.5 million units.
Medal of Honor users will be on the receiving end of free multiplayer DLC next month, publisher EA has announced.
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Review | DJ Hero 2
Two many DJs.
Anyone taking the pulse of the rhythm-action genre right now is coming away worried. Even this time last year, sales of the genre's front man franchises were tailing off; now Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock's dreadful performance seems to be fulfilling the grimmest premonitions. High-street window displays are full of discounted plastic instruments. People are sick of pretending to be in a band, the stars seem to be saying. Something's got to change.
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Has your machine got what it takes?
The minimum specs required to run Call of Duty: Black Ops on a PC have blown their cover and are out in the open.
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Alan Wake dev hiring for AAA 360 game
Is Remedy making Alan Wake 2?
Max Payne and Alan Wake developer Remedy is looking for a producer to make a triple-A Xbox 360 game.
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Super Meat Boy gets early price drop
Grab choice XBLA cut for 800 Points.
Showing a total disregard for standard retailing convention, Xbox Live Arcade platformer Super Meat Boy will see a price cut from launch day.
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What must it be like.
Level-5 has changed Fantasy Life from a DS game into a 3DS game.
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GT5! GMAs! Something called Minecraft!
It was Ellie's birthday last week, which means this week, it isn't.
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Level-5's Time Travelers for 3DS
Studio making hostess game too.
Level-5 has confirmed Time Travelers [sic] for 3DS.
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