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Halo MMO canned due to Wii's success
"WOW killer" ended by MS casual drive.
A former Ensemble Studios developer who worked on the Halo MMO has revealed that it was Microsoft's pursuit of the casual market, inspired by the success of the Wii, which caused the project to be cancelled.
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Kojima "obsessing" about next game
Is "unconsciously smiling" to himself.
Hideo Kojima has admitted to fantasising about his next game, despite having his plate full with Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
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Final Fight: Double Impact dated
On both XBLA and PSN this week.
Final Fight: Double Impact is due out on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow and on PlayStation Network on Thursday.
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Silicon Knights bags more gov investment
Denis Dyack raking it in for new game.
Too Human developer Silicon Knights has been given a further $4 million by the Canadian government to help produce a new and unannounced game.
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PS Move sub-controller renamed
Slow motion news.
Sony has decided to call the PlayStation Move sub-controller the "navigation controller" instead.
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EA has no option to buy Respawn
West/Zampella talk up game prospects.
Electronic Arts may have signed a multi-game deal with Respawn Entertainment, the company set up by former Infinity Ward bosses Vince Zampella and Jason West, but the publisher does not have an option to buy the independent studio.
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
21st Century Toy.
At last: an answer to the ancient question of how videogame heroes manage to lug around enough military hardware to turn Stevenage into a smoking hole in the ground without wheezing and having a sit down every ten minutes. This future-soldiers in the new Ghost Recon stride around the world's battlefields wearing exo-skeletons, which enable them to keep running, jumping and pistol-whipping even when burdened with transforming machine guns, shoulder-mounted rocket-launchers and invisibility-generating projectors.
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Zampella now "daunted" and "excited"
EA grabbed at "stunning opportunity".
Vincent Zampella has admitted to being nervous about his new Respawn Entertainment venture, having been kicked from multi-million seller Infinity Ward back into the arms of old employer EA.
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UK charts: Just Dance denies BFBC2
Dancing more popular than war death.
Just Dance is at the top of the UK all-formats chart again, after a week devoid of any noteworthy new challengers.
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Bungie recalls "brutal" Halo 2 crunch
Thought they were "all going to die".
Bungie has recalled a hellish Halo 2 development that remains a grim reminder of what the studio never wants to revert to ever again.
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US Splinter Cell may have dodgy USB key
No such problem in Europe.
Update: As expected, Ubisoft has confirmed this isn't a problem in Europe. "Europe has a separate collector's edition which does not contain a USB drive, so is not affected by this issue," it said in a statement.
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With new studio Respawn Entertainment.
Ex-Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella have created a new studio called Respawn Entertainment that will work exclusively with EA as part of the EA Partners program.
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EA confirms Bulletstorm for 2011
CliffyB's thunder stolen, again.
EA has confirmed publishing rights to People Can Fly's shooter Bulletstorm, which will be released sometime in 2011 on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
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BioWare DLC codes do not expire
Bonus DAO, ME2 content is timeless.
EA's told Eurogamer that codes for bonus Dragon Age: Origins or Mass Effect 2 content do not expire and can be redeemed beyond what the leaflets inside the retail boxes say.
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Football Manager for iPhone tomorrow
Sports Interactive wants £7 for it.
Sports Interactive has announced tomorrow's release of Football Manager Handheld on iPhone.
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Review | Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
Pokedemon.
Recently, a friend of mine asked me what the attraction was with RPGs, because as a devotee of Call of Duty and FIFA, all he could see was grinding drudgery. After half-heartedly conveying the usual arguments about tactical battles and general escapism and quickly deciding this was just another case of "each to their own", I got sidetracked, discussing the importance of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest in Japan. What I didn't expect was his follow-up question: "what's the third most popular RPG series?"
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Halo 2 E3 demo was "smoke and mirrors"
Bungie had to scrap engine afterwards.
Bungie's admitted to Eurogamer that the Halo 2 E3 2003 presentation was a fanciful snapshot of a game that could never be recreated on Xbox hardware.
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Week-long NFS World beta imminent
Third phase begins on Wednesday.
Need For Speed World is to enter its third stage of beta testing with a week-long test starting on Wednesday.
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Patent application for "coin-sized" motor.
A US patent application by Nintendo - spotted by GoNintendo, via Broke My Controller and Kotaku - shows more evidence that the company is considering putting force feedback in a future version of the DS handheld.
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First pack free with Play pre-orders.
Retailer Play has blown the whistle on Split/Second downloadable content, promising pre-order buyers the "first DLC pack" for free.
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UK schools trialling GTA lesson
To teach kids what's fact and fiction.
Eight Merseyside primary schools are using select images from Grand Theft Auto, The Itchy & Scratchy Show and real-life as part of a new Government-backed campaign to help children differentiate between what is and isn't real.
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CliffyB doing two announcements tonight
Gears 3 and Bulletstorm expected.
"BOOM!" Epic Games designer Cliff Bleszinkski has tweeted, with typical exuberance, that he'll make not one but two game announcements on his delayed TV appearance tonight.
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MS changes Xbox Live Points system
But only in the US, so far.
Microsoft has changed the options for Microsoft Points in the US, allowing users to purchase the currency in increments of 400, 800 and 1200.
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Serious Sam 2 has new MP modes
Campaign co-op for up to 16 people.
Croteam's HD revamp of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter - due next month - will gain extra multiplayer modes.
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iPhone's rate-on-delete feature binned
Plus: social gaming network coming soon.
Apple has removed the feature which asks iPhone users to rate Apps when deleting them.
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COD duo: Acti claims "false, outrageous"
EA's Jeff Brown takes a pop as well.
Robert Schwartz, the lawyer representing former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella, has described allegations made by Activision on Friday as "false and outrageous".
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Green Beret to return on XBLA, PSN
Rush'n Attack, to our US friends.
Konami is to revisit its 1985 arcade game Rush'n Attack, known as Green Beret in Europe, in a new Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network game this autumn.
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Konami reveals a second instalment.
Konami's having another bash at the SAW licence with SAW 2, which will be released on PS3 and Xbox 360 this autumn.
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Acti: Modern Warfare 3 "held hostage"
Claims West/Zampella were very naughty.
Activision has accused former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella of "delaying pre-production of Modern Warfare 3" in its cross-complaint against the duo, who launched a legal action against the publisher after they were sacked last month.
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Crysis 2 writer slams Modern Warfare 2
IW "way too impressed with themselves".
Richard Morgan, the sci-fi author currently penning the script for Crysis 2, has taken a pop at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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