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Music genre isn't dead, says Harmonix
User-generated content will save it.
Harmonix boss Alex Rigopulos has dismissed suggestions that the dream is over for music-based videogames.
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Interplay claims 2012 beta for Project V13
The game that could be Fallout Online.
Interplay has said that its "post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online game", codenamed Project V13, will enter public beta in 2012.
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Interview | PomPom Games' Michael Michael
Talking the Michael.
PomPom Games is possibly the most platform agnostic of all developers. Since the launch of Space Tripper as a downloadable PC title, the mostly two-man design team (Michael Michael does the art, Miles Visman handles the programming, while audio specialist James Drabble is also a regular collaborator) has spent the best part of a decade working on everything from the original Xbox's fledgling Live Arcade service to the iPhone. PomPom's games have even been ported to exercise machines - not a device with a particularly vocal fan-base.
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Final Fantasy I & II for iPhone
Get back to where you once belonged.
Square Enix is re-releasing Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy II on the iPhone.
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Mass Effect 2 DLC is out now and free
Shepards are delighted. (Slight spoilers.)
Free downloadable content has already been released for Mass Effect 2, days ahead of Friday's launch. Don't read any further if you're allergic to even tiny spoilers.
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UK charts: Just Dance staying alive
MW2 still at two, Dark Void plummets.
Ubisoft's surprise chart leader Just Dance has topped the UK all-formats top 40 for another week.
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Uncharted 2 skins DLC confirmed
It's not free, though.
The downloadable add-on for Uncharted 2 revealed by Sony Japan last week has been confirmed for worldwide release, although it's not free as was originally reported.
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Marvelous sells stake in Rising Star
Sales lower than expected, says report.
Marvelous Entertainment has sold its 50 per cent stake in Rising Star Games.
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Pick up Company of Heroes for £2.49
Save 75 per cent on usual Steam price.
Remember Company of Heroes, the 2007 World War II strategy game from THQ? Well, you might like to know it's currently going cheap on Steam.
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Valve reveals L4D2 Versus changes
Infected bots in, auto-spawn out.
Valve's working on a couple of tweaks to the Versus side of Left 4 Dead 2.
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Broken Sword for iPhone released
Pick up the Director's Cut for £3.99.
Revolution Software has released Broken Sword: The Director's Cut for iPhone and iPod touch.
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SEGA signs new deal with Alton Towers
Sonic rollercoaster and hotel room planned.
SEGA has signed a three-year deal with Alton Towers, the UK's most popular theme park.
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Iain Duncan Smith has a go at games
Singles out that pesky Grand Theft Auto.
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has claimed videogames are messing up the kids with their crazy violent ways.
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Aion plastic surgery, gender change soon
Paid account services "as early as February".
The Aion community manager known as Tamat has posted advising players that the first new account services will be available "as early as February" (via IncGamers.
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Feature | Points Mean Prizes
If console currencies aren't designed to mislead, what are they for?
GamesIndustry.biz, the trade arm of the Eurogamer Network, recently completed the next step in its evolution toward greater support for the videogames business with the implementation of a full registration system.
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Digital Foundry | PlayStation 3D
Today MotorStorm, tomorrow the Holodeck?
This is it. It's happening. Having had a strong interest in stereoscopic 3D pretty much since the Digital Foundry blog launched, today is the day I'm finally going to be able to try my hand at the first mainstream adoption of the technology: Sony's fledgling stereoscopic system for PlayStation 3.
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PlayStation 3 tops 3 million UK sales
Most of them sold in the last six months.
The PlayStation 3 has now sold over 3 million units here in the UK.
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Splinter Cell Conviction coming in April
Not delayed for too long, then.
Delayed sneak-'em-up Splinter Cell Conviction has reappeared on the radar with an April 2010 date.
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Batman not so popular in Japan charts
PSPgo also struggles to make an impact.
Batman: Arkham Asylum got off to a bad start in Japan this week, managing to enter the chart at 23rd on PS3 and 42nd on Xbox 360.
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Samurai Showdown Sen here in spring
SNK's weapon-based fighter for 360.
Rising Star Games has plucked the European rights to Samurai Shodown Sen and plans to release the Xbox 360 fighting game over here in spring.
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Uncharted 2 getting new skins in Japan
Killzone! Resistance! InFamous!
Update: Naughty Dog has Tweeted (thanks, Zero_) that this information may not be right at all. There's no word on what is, however - only a warning:
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Bungie: "Halo: Reach for us is not Halo 4"
A standalone title in more ways than one.
Bungie has reaffirmed Halo: Reach as a standalone entry for the series, stating that both spiritually and in terms of content, "Halo: Reach for us is not Halo 4."
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Review | MAG
Army of Two-Fifty-Six.
It's a MAG press event just off Baker Street. PS3s and huge HD screens are lined up in a subterranean hall, waitresses move through the crowds with bullet-studded belts, nobody during a presentation ever misses an opportunity to refer to the assembled gaming press as 'operatives' or exclaim 'Let's DO IT!' and a nice Sony PR lady has just taken to the stage to set things rolling.
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PSN update has new special offers
Plus: Comics! ModNations beta! Songs!
This week's PSN Store brings a whole new batch of special offers for PS3 and PSP downloadable games.
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New Borderlands DLC ups level limit
Biggest add-on yet, says Gearbox.
The next batch of Borderlands DLC will increase the level limit over 50 and star Scooter, the potty-mouthed mechanic from New Haven.
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Laserdisc's Fast Draw Showdown returns.
There's a 2D platformer on WiiWare today called Max & the Magic Marker that looks wholesome and accomplished and worthwhile. The idea is to traverse the eye-pleasing levels and overcome puzzles by drawing shapes using the Wiimote and they'll become real objects in the game. It costs 1000 Wii Points (£7/€10), and there's a PC demo on the proper website to try.
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Feature | Save your Scorn
Do those predicting or celebrating the Wii's decline have a point?
Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues 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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New games based on BBC shows coming
Doctor Who! Night Garden! Top Gear.
The BBC is set to have another go at producing games based on its most-loved TV shows.
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Dark Void, Resi Zero, ModNation beta.
While it is often said that there are not enough hours in the day, sometimes there are too many hours in the day, such as in any day that exists between a level-50 infiltrator and his next mission. But that's one for another time (such as next Friday).
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Tiger Woods 11/Online this summer
EA stands by its man.
EA has decided to stick with Tiger Woods, announcing a new PGA Tour 11 game for release this summer.
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