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BioShock 2! STALKER! PS3 hacking! Mike Tyson.
Has it been a week already? Yes it has. That's why we've done another podcast - the one that they're already calling The Eurogamer.net Podcast #4.
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PSP Minis discounted throughout Feb
Sony taking the bull by the horns.
Sony is lowering the price of PSP and PS3 Minis in February.
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Tecmo Koei delays Quantum Theory
Gears-alike moved to "later in 2010".
Update: Tecmo Koei has confirmed that PS3 and 360 shooter Quantum Theory has been delayed until later in the year.
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Well-known EA IP going social in 2010
Playfish looking at Facebook, App Store.
Playfish has announced plans to turn a well-known EA brand into a social gaming experience this year.
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Civilization Facebook beta for June
Free-to-play empire-builder to seek testers.
The Facebook version of Sid Meier's Civlization will not begin beta testing until June.
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Nintendo's Iwata dismisses Wii HD
"It needs something new," he says.
Satoru Iwata has denied ever talking about a Wii HD, and told investors that any new console from Nintendo would need significantly more than high definition graphics to gain his seal of approval.
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Give it a trial via the Nintendo Channel.
A demo of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth has been released on the Nintendo Channel.
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Iwata to "show" Wii Zelda at E3
Plus: new Pokemon, Wii RPG this year.
Nintendo's Satoru Iwata has promised to finally reveal the new Zelda game this summer.
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Behemoth's next is BattleBlock Theater
XBLA mutiplayer platformer titled.
Castle Crashers and Alien Hominid developer The Behemoth has slapped a title and a story (sort of) on its third Xbox Live Arcade game: BattleBlock Theater.
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Xbox 360 getting 250GB HDD in Japan
Due for release in March.
Microsoft plans to release an external 250GB hard disk for Xbox 360 in Japan.
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Dante's Super Bowl ad censored
Not for gore or sexual imagery, though.
EA has splashed out on a TV advertising spot for Dante's Inferno during this Sunday's NFL Super Bowl, but has run into a problem with broadcaster CBS, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Review | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
Inner Pripyat content.
Crawling through a filthy, mutant-infested basement 20 metres below the surface of an irradiated Ukrainian wasteland, clutching a seen-better-days Kalashnikov while my Geiger counter rattles ominously, I stop to wonder why I actually enjoy STALKER so much.
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English Metro 2033 keeps Russian VO
THQ's spooky shooter goes authentic.
The English release of Metro 2033 will include a subtitled version of the original Russian dialogue. Both PC and Xbox 360 versions support this.
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Review | 530 Eco Shooter
Flaying waste.
The Wii-propelled renaissance of the on-rails shooter is in no way unwelcome. Both Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and House of the Dead: Overkill have reawakened an affection for laying uncomplicated waste to the undead that had lain dormant since the golden days of lightgun games.
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Monster Hunter Tri bundles Wii Speak
Plus: split-screen confirmed.
Monster Hunter Tri's coming to European Wiis in April, and there will be three ways for you to buy the game.
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Iwata: Zelda dev an "exercise in suffering"
How handheld "parody" changed the series.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that development of Zelda games is traditionally "an exercise in suffering" - but recognised that one game in the series, made in a completely different style and atmosphere, had a major influence on those that followed.
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XBLA Keflings follow-up due this year
"Much more than a sequel," says developer.
Xbox Live developer NinjaBee has confirmed A World of Keflings will release this year.
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Slitherin to spring.
Warner Bros. has sent word that LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 - 4 will arrive here in May.
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Review | Death by Cube
The square root of pain.
Back in the giddy early years of the British home computer revolution, like so many of my generation I was lured into the world of BASIC programming by the ZX Spectrum and those voluminous type-in listings from Sinclair User and Your Sinclair. My enthusiasm for coding petered out before my 12th birthday, but I did manage to save two wonky homebrew efforts to a C30 tape before my interest in the mystic runes of GOSUB and INKEY waned.
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UK chart: Mass Effect 2 takes lead
MAG features, Tatsunoko bombs.
BioWare's galactic PC and Xbox 360 RPG Mass Effect 2 has entered the UK all-formats chart at number one.
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Cobain would find GH5 funny, says Love
But she's not done with "sleazy" Activision.
Widower Courtney Love's changed her tune; she now reckons her late husband Kurt Cobain would have been okay with his digital likeness singing other people's pop songs in Guitar Hero 5.
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Original AVP gains Steam multiplayer
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
The original Aliens vs. Predator has been updated to support Steam-powered multiplayer.
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Service suitable for 10 year-olds.
Mature games may be prohibited on Microsoft's new online PC and Xbox 360 platform, Game Room. To avoid laboriously rating hundreds of retro titles individually, MS has decided to classify Game Room itself. The ESRB has deemed the service suitable for anyone aged 10 or over, and any game falling within those perameters can be sold at publisher's and platform holder's leisure.
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OpFlash Overwatch pack released for PC
PS3 version approved, waiting on release.
The PC version of the free Overwatch pack for Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is now available for download as a 244MB patch from publisher Codemasters' website.
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Number of Steam accounts hits 25m
Download service sets new records.
Valve has announced that over 25 million people now own Steam accounts, while 10 million users also have Steam Community profiles.
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Gears of War 2 Valentine's Day event
Friends with benefits.
Epic plans to reward the Gears of War 2 community for its loyalty with a special Valentine's Day event that increases bonuses for friends who work together in-game.
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Halo: Reach doesn't use Project Natal
But you can pilot the Falcon.
Bungie has said once and for all that Halo: Reach doesn't use Project Natal.
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Kojima ashamed of Japanese MGS delay
"There is no greater crime."
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has made a heartfelt apology for the delay to the Japanese release of the latest entry in the series, the PSP's Peace Walker.
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Dragon Age's Return to Ostagar returns!
DLC finally released on PC and Xbox 360.
BioWare has finally released the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the Return to Ostagar downloadable content for Dragon Age: Origins.
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Review | Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
A shining example.
I've always been more concerned with improving my Street Fighter skills than keeping up with the latest Marvel or DC adventures, but when X-Men vs. Street Fighter hit the arcades - eventually evolving into the adrenaline-pumping Marvel vs. Capcom 2 - there wasn't a fighter fan in the land who could resist its crossover charms.
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