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Just Cause 2 demo dated, detailed
"35 square miles" of sandbox.
Update: Panau Island now reports that the demo will be released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next Thursday, 4th March.
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EVE Online developer opens UK studio
For "current and future" console games.
EVE Online developer CCP has told GamesIndustry.biz that it has opened a new studio in Newcastle in the UK.
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Fable-branded condoms on the way?
Lionhead asks for merch suggestions.
Lionhead Studios is asking fans to come up with ideas for Fable III merchandise.
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Bad Company 2 maps unlockable at launch
Code included for "ten dollar" content.
EA has detailed the free unlockable content that will be provided with next week's launch of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as part of the company's Project Ten Dollar initiative to make pre-owned sales less attractive.
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PS3 owners reporting Heavy Rain issues
Plus: SCEE apologies for SE code problem.
Update: Sony Europe has told Eurogamer: "We are aware of the reported issue and are investigating the situation." More when we hear more.
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Plants vs. Zombies breaks iPhone record
As Bejeweled 2 sparkles past 3m sales.
PopCap's tour de force Plants vs. Zombies has beaten App Store records by selling over 300,000 copies in just nine days.
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New EA studio making a "ground-breaker"
Sims Studio talent drafted in.
From EA's Redwood Shores Sims Studio will emerge a new development team in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Kojima: PSP not main MGS platform
Peace Walker is a test, he says.
Hideo Kojima's shift to PSP development raised questions about what platform the Metal Gear Solid series will continue on. Thankfully, the man himself has signed up to Twitter in order to provide an answer.
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GAME to shut down 43 shops in the UK
Nearly 250 employees face redundancy.
High street retailer GAME plans to close down 43 of its UK stores, with 247 members of staff set to lose their jobs.
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Review | Napoleon: Total War
Short shift.
So, Napoleon finally gave me the battle I wanted from Empire.
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Review | Super Mario Galaxy 2
Fly me to the moon. Again.
A lot of people think that Nintendo loves America more than it loves Europe. Thankfully, it only appears to love America by about 16 hours more. 16 or so hours is the gap between Nintendo's latest media summit in the US, where it let loose with quite a lot of exciting information, and its media summit in the UK, where it did the whole thing all over again, except we mostly knew what was coming.
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Tretton: PS3 has proved our 10-year point
"Can't even imagine" PS3's successor yet.
Sony America boss Jack Tretton has said that PlayStation 3's position now proves what the company was saying all along about a 10-year console cycle.
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MAG receives "dramatic" update
Zipper revamps from cover to cover.
Zipper has released a big patch for MAG.
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Digital Foundry | FFXIII uses much less space on 360
Digital Foundry explores and explains.
Website Ve3tro.com has reported the NXE hard disk install sizes for each of the three game discs that make up the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII.
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Mass Effect 2 Hammerhead in late March
Firewalker pack introduces vehicle.
BioWare has announced plans to release the Firewalker pack for Mass Effect 2 in late March, introducing the Hammerhead heavy assault vehicle.
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Review | Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
U kart touch this.
Is there any other game that has dominated its field so conclusively and with such tenacity? Super Mario Kart is seventeen years old yet it remains the touchstone and the benchmark for its peculiar subset of the racing genre. Crash Bandicoot came tantalisingly close to taking the plumber's crown in 1999 with Crash Team Racing, but its otherwise been a one horse (and kart) race.
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God of War III demo on PSN Store
Plus: Comics Store, VidZone, Video Store.
There's a mountain of new content on the PlayStation Store today, and the biggest new arrival is a demo for God of War III.
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Heavy Rain! Silent Hill! WKC! Napoleon!
Another week, another enormous pile of games, glittering with potential this Friday. Some of them really are out this Friday, too, which is an improvement on last week's is-it-isn't-it White Knight Chronicles debacle, for which the New PAL Releases Roundup entity apologises. We are certain it's out this week. Probably.
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New WarioWare for DS/Wii in April
Make and share micro-games.
Nintendo's got two new WarioWare games to release on 30th April, one for DS and one for Wii. What's more, they'll work together.
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Review | StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Multiplayer beta.
So there, right at the top of this invisible pyramid I'm gesturing at, are the guys who play StarCraft competitively. Then there are the guys who are really, amazingly, incredibly good at it. Then there are those who are very, very good at it. Then the ones who are good at it. Then there are the ones who are competent at it.
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Euro Dragon Quest IX in summer
Japanese champion nearly here.
One date that slipped under the radar earlier was a summer launch for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies.
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Supreme Commander 2 demo on Steam
Game using Steamworks tools.
There's a free Supreme Commander 2 demo on Steam that you can play providing your PC meets the listed system requirements.
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New STO raids introduce the Borg
Challenging content opens today.
Cryptic Studios has revealed a healthy dose of brand new raid content for Star Trek Online.
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Digital Foundry | Tech Interview: Metro 2033
Oles Shishkovstov on engine development, platform strengths and 4A's design philosophy.
Last week, Digital Foundry introduced the technology behind 4A Games' new Metro 2033. Featuring a brand new engine with an eye-opening level of bleeding edge rendering tech, the game instantly got our attention.
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Mario Galaxy 2 gets European date
Plus: Monster Hunter, S&P2, Metroid.
Nintendo Europe has announced European dates for Super Mario Galaxy 2 and other titles at its London press event.
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App Store considering "explicit" option
But it won't appear "any time soon".
Apple's considering offering an "explicit" category to developers using the App Store
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Online multiplayer arena battler.
New developer Punchers Impact has announced its first game, Crasher, for PC.
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Lost Planet 2 split-screen confirmed
LP2 and SSFIV pre-order goodies, too.
Capcom has confirmed that sci-fi shooter Lost Planet 2 will support split-screen co-op gameplay, in the tradition of the previous game from the same development team, Resident Evil 5. Lost Planet 2 also features four-player online co-op and 16-player multiplayer.
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New Prince of Persia has co-op on Wii
A first for the action-adventure series.
Ubisoft has revealed co-op support for the Wii version of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.
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Dishwasher: Vampire Smile revealed
"More badass" follow-up to Dead Samurai.
Developer Ska Studios has lifted the lid on The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, an Xbox Live Arcade follow-up to The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai.
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