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    Just Cause 2 will not support Windows XP

    "Written to take advantage of DirectX 10".

    Update: Square Enix has told us this was actually confirmed last year (whoops), and here's a copy of the relevant statement on the issue:

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    Worms maker Team17 is making a new Worms game for Steam.

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    Review | 3D Dot Game Heroes

    Lust in translation?

    Let's be clear upfront: 3D Dot Game Heroes is never less than delightful, and frequently more than merely charming. It's really good fun to play. Rush through it in a headlong blur of exploration, simple combat, dungeon-crawling and item management, and you'll probably be left with a sleepy grin on your face, as if you've pummelled your insides with peanut butter and marshmallow crème for a fortnight while listening to a Neil Diamond mixtape.

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    No Nazis or zombies for MW2

    Not part of Infinity Ward's DLC plan.

    Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has dashed hopes of Nazis or zombies being added to Modern Warfare 2.

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    Introversion opens up on Subversion

    Infiltration game with roots in Uplink.

    Introversion's Chris Delay has detailed the indie developer's next game Subversion on the company forums, revealing it to be a game of infiltration and espionage in which the player commands a team of operatives moving through a hostile high security building.

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    Valve overhauls Steam user interface

    Beta open, feedback needed.

    Valve has overhauled the Steam user interface and wants your feedback on the raft of changes made.

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    Latest Borderlands DLC on Live now

    PC and PSN following tomorrow.

    Following yesterday's minor delay, The Secret of Armory of General Knoxx for Borderlands has gone up on Xbox Live.

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    Peace Walker was originally MGS5

    It had a logo and everything.

    Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the imminent PSP release in the stealth action series, was until quite shortly before it was announced going to be titled Metal Gear Solid 5.

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    Army of Two campaign DLC in April

    Two new maps in Chapters of Deceit.

    EA Montreal has announced a new "campaign map pack" for Army of Two: The 40th Day called Chapters of Deceit.

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    Rocksteady to make more than Batman

    New owner Warner has made plans.

    Warner's newest purchase Rocksteady Studios will be put to work on more than just new Batman: Arkham Asylum games.

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    Borderlands Knoxx DLC delayed

    Out tomorrow on 360, says Gearbox.

    Update: Xbox 360 owners will have to wait until tomorrow to play Borderlands add-on The Secret Armory of General Knoxx.

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    SFIV for Xbox Live GOD in Europe soon

    March digital release for Capcom fighter.

    Street Fighter IV will be released through Xbox Live's Games on Demand service in Europe next week.

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    Miyamoto to receive BAFTA Fellowship

    Academy recognises "pioneer".

    The British Academy has announced that it plans to honour Shigeru Miyamoto with a BAFTA Fellowship at this year's ceremony.

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    Yakuza 3 has been edited for West

    Hostess bars "wouldn't make sense".

    SEGA has edited Japan-based organised crime game Yakuza 3 for release in the West. Some content, it was felt, "wouldn't make sense" to gamers in America and Europe.

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    Greenberg: "we'll outsell the PS3" in 2010

    Plus: MS will be "thoughtful" with Natal.

    Microsoft bigwig Aaron Greenberg has predicted that Xbox 360 will outperform PlayStation 3 in 2010.

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    Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid this summer

    According to Nintendo Australia.

    Nintendo Australia has said that both Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M will be summer releases.

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    God of War III needs no HDD install

    PS3 game occupies over 35GB.

    Sony Santa Monica has revealed that God of War III will not require installation before play.

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    Review | Perpetuum Online

    All robot's eve...

    For years now I've been banging on about how someone needs to copy EVE Online as a model for MMOs, rather than simply reworking the other more traditional models of EverQuest and World Of Warcraft. Some games, such as Darkfall and Mortal Online, are doing something like that, in that they're taking their inspiration from Ultima Online - the game that originally inspired EVE to be the game it is today. But only one game can truly be said to take EVE Online as its inspiration, and that's Perpetuum Online.

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    Apple defends App Store titillation purge

    Kids and parents top priority, says Schiller.

    Apple has responded to the controversial removal of titillating content on the App Store, claiming that, when all is said and done, kids' and parents' interests take precedent.

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    Brown: UK games industry best in Europe

    "Leading the way," says Prime Minister.

    UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown reckons making videogames is something the UK does very well, and that it is in fact "leading the way" in Europe.

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    Digimon MMO for Westerners in March

    Collect virtual pets in a virtual world.

    WeMade Entertainment will open the Digimon MMO to a US audience next month.

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    iPhone Street Fighter IV costs $10

    And has only eight fighters.

    Capcom plans to charge $10 for Street Fighter IV on iPhone next month - a figure that translates to around £5.99 here.

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    Game Room here in late March

    Perfect Dark XBLA a week earlier.

    Microsoft plans to release Game Room for Xbox Live and Games for Windows - Live on 24th March. It will be free, but game cabinets and game-plays will cost, as previously reported.

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    Despite Assassin's Creed II's inaugural downloadable content pack, Battle of Forli, having underwhelmed us so comprehensively last month, hope remained that this was nothing more than a dip in form which would be swiftly rectified with the release of this second "deleted scene".

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    Super Meat Boy coming to XBLA

    Evil indie platformer due this year.

    Super Meat Boy will be released on Xbox Live Arcade this year, according to an image posted on creator Edmund McMillen's Facebook page.

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    Garriott to make Ultima-esque game

    On his new social gaming platform.

    Role-playing legend and space tourist Richard Garriott has said that he's still interested in creating another "Ultima-esque" game as part of his new social gaming platform Portalarium, which he announced last week.

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    Unreal Engine 4 needs lots of processors

    Rein talks "massively multi-core" systems.

    Epic Games' Mark Rein has explained that Unreal Engine 4 simply would not work on the current flock of machines.

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    Natal "not quite there yet" - J. Ross

    But "sky's the limit" if lag is fixed.

    British comedian Jonathan Ross has, after a celebrity playtest last night, concluded that Project Natal needs more work.

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    PSP's biggest problem is piracy - Sony

    "We have not been able to slow that down."

    Sony Computer Entertainment America PR exec Rob Dyer has admitted that piracy is a major problem for the PSP handheld, despite what he sees as a strong slate of games.

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    Visceral confirms XBLA, PSN projects

    But says the focus is still on "AAA hits".

    Dead Space and Dante's Inferno developer Visceral Games has PSN and XBLA projects on the boil.

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