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Plus: GT5 and Army of Two 2 demos.
There's plenty of new games you can play on the PlayStation Network today without spending a penny.
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New multiplayer game launches in Home
Sodium One to encourage social interaction.
Sony has launched Sodium One, a new multiplayer online game space, in PlayStation Home.
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Review | Split/Second
Fire works.
"The one iconic action sequence that comes up time and time again is that idea of a big articulated lorry attacking the smaller hero car." Nick Baynes, game director on Split/Second, is about to show us a New Feature!
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Review | Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle
Croak and dagger.
Poke around Relentless Software's website and you can make a strong argument that the developer has spent the last few years playing it safe. But it has played it so well in the process. The Buzz! series is always at its strongest when it's in the gentle, assured hands of its real parents, and it's as much for that reason as any that Blue Toad Murder Files arrives propelled by waves of critical interest apparently disproportionate to its status as a family mystery series.
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Wada predicts all consoles will die
Squenix boss won't blink when they do.
Square Enix overlord Yoichi Wada won't be surprised when one morning he wakes up and consoles have disappeared forever, because he reckons that's what Microsoft and Sony have been planning all along.
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Final Fantasy XIV beta sign-ups open
PC to start with, PS3 details later.
Final Fantasy XIV Online beta sign-ups are open and all European and North American humans can apply.
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Battlefield Heroes hits 3m players mark
Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, etc.
EA's told the world that Battlefield Heroes has been played by three million different people since launch this summer.
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FFXIII ships 1.8m for Japan launch
Game goes on sale in the Far East.
Square Enix has dug deep and found another few hundred thousand copies of Final Fantasy XIII for the game's launch in Japan earlier today.
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ESRB outs Mass Effect 2 mature content
Colourful summary of sex, drugs and so on.
The American Entertainment Software Rating Board has published its summary for Mass Effect 2, outlining the various themes that earned the game a Mature rating.
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Activision unveils new Transformers game
It's set on Cybertron and coming in 2010.
Activision has confirmed a new Transformers videogame is currently in development.
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Medal of Honor trailer "100% in-game"
Developer answers questions about reboot.
Electronic Arts has said that the recently released Medal of Honor trailer is "100 per cent in-game footage".
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Did you Hera me?
The PSP version of Savage Moon will be released via PSN on 22nd December for £6.29 or €7.99.
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Dragon's Lair swooping to DSiWare
Download on New Year's Day.
Old laserdisc adventure Dragon's Lair is heading to DSiWare after all. So we were on the right track back in October.
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Free TF2 weekend starts tomorrow
Try out the WAR! update.
Valve's letting anybody and everybody play Team Fortress 2 this weekend for free.
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Feature | Darksiders Video Roundup
Most of level one, two massive fights and a big puzzle.
It's not the end of the world, but it is the end of the year, which seems like a good opportunity to contemplate Darksiders' fictional end of the world, since it kicks off on 8th January with the game's release on PS3 and Xbox 360.
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New Trials HD Achievements detailed
It's a slow day and nearly Christmas.
RedLynx has revealed the three new Trials HD Achievements arriving as part of the BIG Pack DLC. And that's due, remember, on 23rd December for 400 Microsoft Points (£4.80/€9.60).
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Chasing army.
Army of Two was the videogame equivalent of cow-tipping: it worked better as a co-operative experience, it appealed almost exclusively to the most obnoxious parts of your personality, and when the dust settled you could bump fists, do a little air guitar and then get on with your life safe in the knowledge you'd been engaged in something you weren't entirely proud of.
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Aion double XP weekends start soon
Temporary solution to harsh grind.
To ease the grind, winged MMO Aion is hosting numerous double-experience weekends during the Christmas period.
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Digital Foundry | GT5 Time Trial 720p/1080p analysis
Digital Foundry takes it for a spin.
It's the must-have download this Christmas. Polyphony Digital is on the brink of launching a brand new Gran Turismo 5 demo, and we've got an early preview. Already its treasures have been plundered with a 1080p screenshot gallery and an HD edit showing off the intro screen, gameplay and replay quality. Now it's time to put the code up to the usual DF image quality and performance tests.
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New PortaPlay game simulates blindness
Players can't see past intro sequence.
Stevie Wonder's recent plea for videogames people with visually impairments can play has been heard all the way over in Denmark, by the ears of Hans von Knut.
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DOA: Paradise revealed for PSP
Bikini hijinks due early next year.
Tecmo Koei reckons melons are what you PSP owners want, so Dead or Alive: Paradise is what you'll get.
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New Pirates OTC kits for LittleBigPlanet
Now you can just add water. Plus: outfits!
A new batch of downloadable content with a Pirates of the Caribbean theme is coming to LittleBigPlanet.
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Miyamoto took NSMB DS criticism "hard"
Plus lots more from the latest Iwata Asks.
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and his colleagues were dismayed when the original New Super Mario Bros. DS game was criticised for being too easy.
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Mega Man 10 confirmed for PSN, Live
Not just for the Wii after all.
The next instalment in the Mega Man series will be released on multiple platforms.
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PC Modern Warfare 2 mod tools soon?
Community man teases possibility.
PC gamers may be given the chance to modify Modern Warfare 2 in future, despite Infinity Ward's decision to ditch dedicated servers.
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Interview | Crackdown 2
Part 1: James Cope and Gareth Noyce explain the trailer's implications.
Crackdown, famously, snuck up on people. Saddled by a Halo 3 multiplayer beta, everyone assumed it was a bit cack, only for it to be anything but. We loved it.
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Review | Alien Breed Evolution: Episode One
Space doubt.
Retro revamps can be a harrowing business. For every Pac-Man Championship Edition there's an Alien Syndrome, and a Golden Axe: Beast Rider, and a Final Fight: Streetwise, usually in those distressing proportions.
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Heavy Rain to delay Trophy alerts
Acquired awards shown during breaks.
Quantic Dream co-boss Guillaume de Fondaumiere has revealed a small but interesting Heavy Rain feature that delays Trophy alerts until there are appropriate breaks in gameplay in which to display them.
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Sony reveals the SingStar Viewer
Browse SingStore/community without disc.
Sony's unveiled a new SingStar Viewer application that lets anyone browse the SingStore and MySingStarOnline community, the point being that you will not need a SingStar disc to do so.
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id Software's game changes hands.
ZeniMax Media has this minute announced the acquisition of the Rage publishing rights from EA.
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