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Turbine details LOTRO: Siege of Mirkwood
MMO's patch notes are Sauron the eyes.
Turbine has explained, in excruciating detail, every upcoming change arriving in Lord of the Rings expansion Siege of Mirkwood, which is released in Europe on 3rd December.
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Xbox 360 GOD delivers Crackdown
RTW's openworld riot for 15 quid.
The outstanding Crackdown has been added Xbox Live's Games on Demand for £14.99.
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PS Home erecting Santa's Grotto
Stay elfy this festive season.
PlayStation Home will open a Winter Wonderland on 10th December; a fantasy land of snow and elves and Santa's Grotto.
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Interview | Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma
Extensive video and text interview with the spirit of the Zelda series.
If you're going to start working in games development, you might as well begin on one of the greatest games of all-time. That was the rather serendipitous position Eiji Aonuma found himself in, hired by Nintendo to work on the momentous first 3D instalment of the Zelda series.
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EVE Online: Dominion launches today
New territorial control, pretty planets, more.
CCP is launching the Dominion free expansion to EVE Online today. Dominion changes the way territory is conquered in the space MMO, increases players' control over space they own, makes changes to capital ships, upgrades planetary and starfield graphics and more.
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Exclusive Split/Second powerplay vid
How it works, sexy gameplay footage.
Disney's Black Rock Studio has released a sexy new trailer for its upcoming multiformat racing game Split/Second, and we've got it exclusively for you to check out this morning. Just scroll down for the embed or check out the luxurious HD version over on Eurogamer TV.
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Spring to autumn in blink of an eye.
Bethesda has told Eurogamer that yes, Brink has been delayed until autumn 2010.
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Ubi doing "around 10" Natal games
And about half that for PS3 wand.
Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has said the company is committed to producing games for Sony and Microsoft's new motion controllers.
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Sony, Nintendo flaunt Thanksgiving sales
But Microsoft keeps quiet about numbers.
Nintendo and Sony are pleased as punch with Thanksgiving-week US sales for DS, Wii and PlayStation 3, while Microsoft has issued no figures despite claims of success.
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Duke Nukem D-Day teased on Facebook
Duke "doesn't stay down for long".
A solitary screenshot, a Facebook page and the title D-Day have been associated with dormant videogame character Duke Nukem, leading some to speculate that he's due for a return.
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Call of Duty on PSN/XBLA this week
MW2 bonus trinket to be sold separately.
Activision has announced that Call of Duty Classic will be released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.
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Ecko planned to make Macbeth game
With focus on "cutting people's heads off".
Clothing designer Marc Ecko has revealed he had planned to produce a videogame based on Shakespeare's Macbeth - otherwise known as The Boring Old Scottish Play.
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Puzzle Quest 2 heading to DS and XBLA
D3Publisher announces spring release.
D3Publisher has officially announced Puzzle Quest 2 for DS and Xbox Live Arcade and said it will be out in spring 2010.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
Mild chaos, turning heavier with a risk of thunder.
Almost universally well-received for its clever integration of RPG elements into the strategy mix, Dawn of War II was a high point for Warhammer's forays into the world of games. As such, when it's time to sit down with the game's associate producer, Jeff Lydell, and talk about an expansion pack, it seems reasonable to ask how the team plans to top its previous performance.
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Digital Foundry | Xbox 360 vs. PS3 Face-Off: Round 23
Dragon Age, Beatles, Guitar Hero 5, FIFA 10, PES 2010.
In what's likely to be the last Face-Off of 2009, Digital Foundry does a little housekeeping, sifting through the teetering piles of code dotted around the office, picking out the most intriguing games we've yet to cover, and combining those with the definitive word on one of the year's biggest releases - BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins.
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Media Molecule hails BAFTA success
"More versatility" coming to LittleBigPlanet.
Another awards night, another prize for Media Molecule, which last night collected the BAFTA for Best Videogame at the 2009 Children's Awards, having picked up the Artistic Achievement prize at the gaming ceremony earlier this year.
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Review | Tony Hawk: RIDE
Thin ice.
And so the Battle for All the Money in the World rages on for games publishers. With Sony out of the running following a disastrously bold opening salvo (599 US dollars), Nintendo having let the nice mood cool and Microsoft still trying to convince us it's worth paying 15 quid a month for posh Freeview, here comes Activision Blizzard.
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UK charts: MW2 untouchable on top
LEGO Rock Band off to a blocky start.
Activision's Modern Warfare 2 has topped the UK All-Formats chart for a third week and, as December threatens to freeze releases, marches hopefully towards a possible Christmas number one.
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ESRB details No More Heroes PS3/360
Bondage-style outfits, bits that "jiggle".
The ESRB has described in juicy detail the mature moments of No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise, the recently revealed PS3 and Xbox 360 enhancey-port.
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EyePet community can now share videos
Small patch released for PS3 camera game.
Sony has popped out a patch for EyePet, enabling online video sharing by the community.
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3D is the new stereo sound, says Ubi
"No one wants to go back to mono."
Ubisoft Montreal boss Yannis Mallat has said the company is confident the future of gaming lies in 3D technology.
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Navy using PSPs to study at sea
Books are seen as "dull and boring".
Britain's Royal Navy has begun issuing sailors with bright blue PSPs to stimulate learning at sea.
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Review | iPhone FPS Head-to-Head
Doom Classic vs. Eliminate Pro.
Shooting people in the living room is a modern institution. Shooting people on the bus, at the train station, or wedged into the bath, however, is rather less prevalent.
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No iPlayer for Xbox 360 after all?
MS unhappy it's free, says source.
Plans to launch the BBC iPlayer on Xbox 360 have stalled, according to a report by The Telegraph.
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CrimeCraft banned in Australia
Drug use to blame, not rubbishness.
Independent MMO CrimeCraft has been refused classification by the Australian Classificaion Board, which amounts to a total ban in the country, reports GameSpot.
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Huge LittleBigPlanet patch today
Four-player map making!
Media Molecule will roll a LittleBigPlanet patch called Leedrammer out today that adds, among other things, four-player online cooperative map-making! Until now, only two could work together on new stages.
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Infinity Ward bans MW2 PC cheaters
Dedicated severs.
Infinity Ward has started clamping down on naughty gamers who flout the rules in Modern Warfare 2 for PC.
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BioWare reveals SWTOR's Alderaan
Millions of voices suddenly etc.
BioWare has officially unveiled Alderaan as a playable location in its Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic.
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C&C boss discusses digital future
RTS series heading to Facebook?
New Command & Conquer brand boss Jon Van Canegham has hinted at a "direct-to-consumer" future for the venerable real-time strategy series.
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Feature | ScamVille
How underhanded dealing could spell disaster for the growth of social gaming.
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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