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Digital Foundry | Digital Foundry vs. LittleBigPlanet 2
The full story on Sony's closed beta.
Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet remains to this day a remarkable game - a title whose longevity is entirely down to the ingenuity and enterprise of the people playing it. Long after the game's preloaded levels are complete, LBP continues to enthral and entertain thanks to the mammoth collection of brand new stages created by a large, vibrant community.
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Feature | Featherweight Champion
The lowly tech specs of the 3DS won't be a problem, but replicating the DS' success will be difficult.
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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Ubisoft scrapped modern Prince of Persia
Think The Day After Tomorrow, with sand.
Ubisoft started work on a Prince of Persia game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox set in the modern day but later decided to scrap it, according to a former employee of the French publisher.
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Criterion keeps things simple.
Unlike EA's recent Need For Speed outings, the forthcoming Hot Pursuit will feature no narrative in the single player mode, developer Criterion has revealed.
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Review | Medal of Honor Multiplayer
Good company?
It was actually a beta! These days when developers tell you that they're doing a multiplayer beta, it usually means they're doing a multiplayer demo which you can only access by redeeming a code. The price they pay in spreadsheet maintenance is covered by the resulting media frenzy.
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MadCatz details locked-out PS3 pads
Majority of products “continue to function.”
Peripheral manufacturer Mad Catz has assured users that the vast majority of its PlayStation 3 controllers continue to function after Sony's recent 3.50 firmware update.
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Study: PSN enjoys bumper sales month
But it's a long way behind XBLA.
PlayStation Network revenues were up an impressive 20 per cent for the month of August, according to a recent study.
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Level-5 working on Ace Attorney series?
No objection!
Dragon Quest IX developer Level-5 is teaming up with Capcom for a future Ace Attorney game, according to a mysterious tweet from a Level-5 employee.
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Star Wars MMO gets a million users
Clone Wars Adventures off to a flyer.
Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play Star Wars MMO, Clone Wars Adventures, has secured an impressive one million subscribers in its first week.
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DUST 514 "absolutely" exists - EVE dev
Has "large and powerful development team".
DUST 514 doesn't 'connect' with EVE Online yet, CCP has told Eurogamer - but the ambitious console shooter "absolutely" still exists.
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Codies trying to make Steam sell F1 2010
"We're most definitely on it."
UPDATE: Codemasters has just told Eurogamer that the PC version of F1 2010 is unlocked on Steam.
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Crysis 2 will be more fun in 3D
Crytek: “3D entertainment is inevitable."
EA's forthcoming shooter Crysis will be great in 2D, but to get the most out of the game you'll need a 3D TV, according to its developer Crytek.
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Sales battle isn't over yet.
The PlayStation 3 can still catch the Xbox 360 in terms of sales, EA has predicted.
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Gothic 4 PC, Xbox 360 demo out now
Check out the first two hours.
A PC and Xbox 360 demo of fantasy role-playing game Arcania - Gothic 4 is out now.
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Get Games Ubisoft sale underway
Assassin's Creed 2 for £10: ve-nice.
Eurogamer's Get Games digital distribution site is having a bit of a sale. And on the chopping block this week are Ubisoft games.
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Plus, upload videos to YouTube.
Football Manager 2011 will allow gamers to publish achievements and goals to social networking sites such as Twitter, Sports Interactive's announced.
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Review | El Shaddai
Angel may cry.
"Calm and soothing" isn't exactly the most common design aesthetic among the creators of game booths at the Tokyo Game Show - which is perhaps why UTV Ignition's booth for El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron stands out so prominently.
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Motion Plus plus a Wii Remote?
A new Wii controller that appears to be a fusion of the Wii Motion Plus accessory and the standard Wii Remote has popped up on US shop Gamestop's website.
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Digital Foundry | Tech Analysis: Halo: Reach
Noble.
The long wait is finally over. It's been three years since the mighty Master Chief bowed out in 2007's epic Halo 3, and while last year's ODST exhibited plenty of minor tweaks and improvements to the base tech, there was little doubt that the vast majority of the Bungie engine had remained untouched. While the gameplay delivered, core gamers spoiled by the cutting-edge graphical techniques seen in titles like Killzone 2 really wanted to see what a next-generation Bungie game could deliver.
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Digital Foundry | LittleBigPlanet 2 Engine Face-Off
How LBP1 levels are improved in LBP2.
Media Molecule's commitment to its community of level designers is impressive. With LittleBigPlanet 2, not only is the developer promising backwards compatibility with the full range of user-generated content out there, but the stages themselves automatically get a visual boost thanks to the radical enhancements made to the game's rendering engine.
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UFC Undisputed 2010 patch detailed
Coming "later in October, possibly".
A patch for fighting game UFC Undisputed 2010 is in the works and could arrive later in October, publisher THQ has said.
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See Sonic creator at Eurogamer Expo
Yuji Naka to deliver developer session.
Sonic creator Yuji Naka will deliver a developer session at Eurogamer Expo on Saturday 2nd October.
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Atari GO to make money from old games
Casual venture wants your help.
Hundreds of old Atari games are to be reinvented as casual and social experiences on sites like Facebook and in web-browsers under the newly-launched Atari GO label.
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Foundation 9 industry's "secret weapon"
"The world's largest independent developer."
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix developer Foundation 9 reckons it's the world's "largest independent game developer".
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Cafe Necro.
A handful of lucky PS3 owners are being invited into a Dead Space 2 closed beta test.
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MOH beta to "clear up misunderstanding"
"About patriotism and respect."
EA has organised a last minute PC open beta for Medal of Honor to "clear up any misunderstanding" about the Afghanistan setting of the modern war game.
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For all 35 characters.
Capcom will sell new costumes for all 35 characters in fighting game Super Street Fighter IV starting next month.
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No Donkey Kong banana pouch for UK
US gamers get all the fun.
Nintendo UK has no plans to release the Wii Remote banana pouch US retailer Gamestop is offering as a Donkey Kong Country Returns pre-order bonus.
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Halo: Reach played 70 million times
It's quite popular.
Bungie has just released some insane play statistics for Halo: Reach's first week in the wild.
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Ninja Theory pitched Enslaved movie
Hollywood: no thanks.
Ninja Theory pitched the idea of making a full CGI movie of its forthcoming action-adventure Enslaved: Odyssey to the West but Hollywood producers were unimpressed.
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