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GameCity Alan Wake event cancelled
Remedy's Sam Lake denied by volcano.
VOLCANO WATCH: Casualty number two! Nottingham's GameCity has had to cancel a special Alan Wake event because special guest Sam Lake can't fly from Finland to the UK.
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GAME shutting over 100 UK shops
Profits down and top brass resign.
Turbulence continues for retailer GAME, which has this afternoon confirmed plans to close over 100 outlets by Christmas 2013.
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Volcano ruins MH Tri London launch
Japanese devs can't get here.
VOLCANO WATCH: We've got a casualty! Capcom has regretfully informed fans that Japanese star developers Ryozo Tsujimoto and Kaname Fujioka cannot attend the London Monster Hunter Tri launch event at GAME on Oxford Street this Friday.
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EA/Capcom games dodge volcano delays
FIFA World Cup, SSFIV, LP2 on time.
VOLCANO WATCH: EA and Capcom have assured Eurogamer that their imminent releases are not buried under tons of death-ash spouted from Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano.
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Review | Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta
Cool your jets.
Hello! Like a lot of concerned citizens, for the past few weeks I've been very worried about jetpacks. How worried? Well, if I was writing about it in a text, I would write, "I'm *very worried* about all these jetpacks. (LOL)."
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Feature | The State of the MMO in 2010
When MMOs went west.
I'm on the phone to EA Mythic's Paul Barnett. I can hear him wandering about on the other side of the world, occasionally saying something to people as he passes them in an office somewhere in the US. We're chatting because we're continuing a conversation about the MMO panel at the PAX East convention in Boston, for which he was one of the panellists. "MMO, as a phrase, is something that is becoming irrelevant," says Barnett. "It's like 'dialling' a telephone number. You don't actually dial numbers much now. And MMOs, the games that are massive and multiplayer and online, aren't really MMOs any more."
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Nintendo disti unaffected by volcano
MH Tri, WarioWare DIY on track.
VOLCANO WATCH: Nintendo has told Eurogamer that the giant cloud of ash spewed from Iceland over Europe will not halt Wii and DS game distribution.
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MS discussing Xbox Live telly channel
Report: Gold subs could rise to fund it.
Microsoft may be investigating making an exclusive television channel for Xbox Live. But in order to fund the operation, Xbox Live Gold subscriptions may have to rise by one or two dollars.
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News Corp. buys game developer
Twitter expert Irata is Mur-docked.
Media monster News Corporation has bought developer Irata Labs, a San Franciscan studio best-known for Twitter game Spymaster.
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Natal developer kit instructions leak
Needs own power source, no tilting.
Photographs of the Project Natal development kit have apparently leaked onto the internet along with handling and installation instructions.
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Mytheon MMO open beta next week
Free-to-play, strategic action RPG.
Publisher True Games Interactive and developer Petroglyph have announced that their free-to-play MMO, Mytheon, will go into open beta next week, on 28th April.
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Warner Bros. buys MMO dev Turbine
You know, they did LOTR Online.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has acquired Turbine Inc., the MMO developer behind Dungeon & Dragons Online and The Lord of the Rings Online.
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Earthworm Jim heading to DSiWare
Plus all this week's WiiWare/VC titles.
Nintendo has announced this Friday's digital releases for its platforms, with an enhanced version of Earthworm Jim for DSi the standout.
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Majesco announces Martha Stewart deal
Domestic goddess and ex-con signs up.
Martha Stewart, famous in the US for her interior design skills, amazing cakes and conviction for making false statements about illegal stock trading to federal investigators, has signed a deal with Majesco.
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Play Special Ops dress-up.
Today, EA and DICE will release a Kit Upgrade for Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
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BBC: Brain training doesn't train brain
Players get better at the games though.
Brain training games are no better at training your brain than browsing the internet, according to research going into a new BBC programme.
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StarCraft II Mac beta next week
Map editor patched in for PC this week.
The beta test for strategy super-sequel StarCraft II will extend to Apple Macs next week, Shacknews reports.
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Valve's PC shop "brand new" again.
Valve's overhaul of the Steam user interface will be rolled out this Monday, 26th April. The developer hopes the service feels like "a brand new Steam".
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DLC for BioShock 2, Just Cause 2 dated
Plus: Shrek! XBLA titles! Game Room stuff!
Microsoft's Major Nelson has revealed some of the treats coming to Xbox Live in the next few weeks.
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L4D2's The Passing out on Thursday
Includes weekly game mode "mutations".
Valve has announced that Left 4 Dead 2 downloadable add-on The Passing will be released for PC and Xbox 360 this Thursday, 22nd April.
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Digital Foundry | The Making of PlayStation 3D
How WipEout HD and MotorStorm gained an extra dimension.
Last week Sony revealed that it is due to launch its new range of 3DTVs with a small range of stereoscopic-enabled PlayStation 3 titles. PAIN, Super Stardust HD and WipEout HD get the full treatment, while a single-level demo of MotorStorm: Pacific Rift is also in the offing. All will be downloadable from the PlayStation Store.
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Plus: Okamiden in 2011, lots of DLC news.
Capcom has lifted the lid on three titles it's got lined up for a 2011 release.
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Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is official
Captivate event coverage embargo lifts.
Update: The Captivate iron-embargo curtain has lifted and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds has been revealed. The US PlayStation blog has the first trailer.
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GOG gains Master of Orion, Outcast
Atari the latest publisher to sign on.
Vintage Atari games Outcast and Master of Orion 1 and 2 have been added to digital distribution site Good Old Games.
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Xbox 360 passes 1m mark down under
MS auctions one-off consoles to celebrate.
Microsoft has now sold more than 1 million Xbox 360 consoles in Australia and New Zealand. And Xbox Live now has more than 525,000 subscribers in the ANZ region, apparently.
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Kingdom-building MMO is free.
EA's strategy MMO Lord of Ultima has shed its beta stabilisers and gone live.
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Harrison, Gardner and Bozek leave Atari
As founder Nolan Bushnell rejoins.
Phil Harrison and David Gardner have deserted dreams of reinventing Atari as a publishing powerhouse, tidied their desks and left. (Sing)Star signing Paulina Bozek has also departed.
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Review | Frozen Synapse
Laser Squad's nemesis.
Timing is everything. Half the internet is busy screaming in outrage that the new XCOM is a first-person shooter rather than a turn-based strategy game, and then along comes Frozen Synapse. This is the turn-based strategy game that's going to put its arms around you, stroke your hair and say, "There, there. Mummy still loves you." You have not been abandoned.
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EVE developer CCP not buried under ash
Icelander "far less affected" than Europe.
Icelandic developer CCP is not buried under ash, and has told Eurogamer that the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano hasn't disturbed day-to-day operations or EVE game servers at all.
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Digital Foundry | Alan Wake: the sub-HD debate
Remedy vs. the pixel counters.
Remedy has responded to online claims that upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake runs with a sub-HD resolution, releasing a statement saying that "modern renderers don't work by rendering everything to a certain final on-screen resolution".
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