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    Microsoft says Sky Player is fixed

    Should be available to everyone now.

    Microsoft reckons Sky Player should now be available to every Xbox 360 owner in the UK.

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    GameStop admits breaking MW2 street

    To "protect" customer base in some areas.

    American retailer GameStop has confessed to breaking the Modern Warfare 2 street date "in select markets where other retailers had broken street date".

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    Review | Rabbids Go Home

    Supermarket sweet.

    I'm exhausted. Not just because my fun muscles are still aching after the Eurogamer Expo, but because playing Rabbids Go Home is like being trapped on a bouncy castle full of kids who've skipped their Ritalin and pumped themselves up on Red Bull and Tartrazine all afternoon instead. And you know what? I like it.

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    PC version of MW2 locked till Tues

    Early delivery doesn't mean early fun.

    Call of Duty fans pre-ordering the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 won't be able to play it until Tuesday - even if their game is delivered early.

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    New Zelda may not be out next year

    Nintendo's not committing to 2010.

    Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has hinted there may be a bit of a wait in store for the next Wii instalment in the Zelda series.

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    Nearly 1 million copies of Aion shifted

    In North America and Europe alone.

    NCsoft has announced that nearly a million copies of PC MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity have been sold in the West.

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    Digital Foundry | Insomniac: 60FPS no more

    Is frame-rate really that important?

    Insomniac Games is "probably" going to turn its back on its long-standing commitment to 60FPS gameplay for its Ratchet & Clank franchise. According to the developer, there is no marketing premium, or review score value, in supporting the highest-possible refresh rate common to all HDTVs. "We want to give you guys, our fans and players, the best looking games you can buy on a console," says engine director Mike Acton, and 60FPS actually gets in the way of that.

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    Early copies of MW2 break street date

    The Hut/LoveFilm admit mistake.

    Copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have begun turning up on consumer's doormats, with both LoveFilm and The Hut sending the game out early.

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    Digital Foundry | Face-Off: Borderlands

    Skag binge.

    With its fine fusion of stylised visuals, accomplished shooting gameplay, superb co-op elements and MMO-style character building, Borderlands should deliver developer Gearbox plenty of success. Gifted with an impressive 8/10 review score on Eurogamer, it's clearly a highly desirable game, but out of the three SKUs available, which is the most worthy of your investment?

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    GAME denies shipping MW2 early

    "Doing everything we can" for Tues.

    GAME has said that emails sent to customers claiming copies of Modern Warfare 2 have already shipped do not mean people will be receiving it before launch day, 10th November.

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    Link teams with Zelda in Spirit Tracks

    Princess embodies phantoms, rides train.

    Nintendo has revealed that the player-controlled phantoms in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks are actually occupied by the spirit of Princess Zelda.

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    Langdell finds new trademark target

    Tackles PuzzleKings' Killer Edge Racing.

    Killer Edge Racing from PuzzleKings is the latest game to be targeted by IP hunter Timothy Langdell, who has complained to Apple that the casual title is infringing his Edge trademark, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

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    RedLynx: We put Trials on torrent sites

    Devs hoped to take advantage of piracy.

    RedLynx has admitted that in order to market Trials 2: Second Edition on PC it leaked it to torrent sites for pirates on the same day it was released to paying consumers, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

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    Feature | Digital Survival

    Expect top games retailers to scramble for a foothold in digital distribution in the coming months.

    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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    D2D, Impulse, Gamersgate boycott MW2

    Not happy with Valve's Steamworks.

    Digital distributors Direct2Drive, Impulse and Gamersgate have decided not to sell Modern Warfare 2, as the game requires installation of Valve's Steamworks tools.

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    Marvel UA2 demo on Xbox Live

    Thor you might like a try.

    Activision has released a Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 demo on Xbox Live.

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    Review | SingStar Take That vs. Lips: Number One Hits

    Who's top of the pops?

    Microsoft and Sony are attempting to throw yet more karaoke fun your way this autumn. PS3 is celebrating the life and work of Take That, while Xbox 360 owners get a follow-up to last year's Lips. Both discs feature a range of chart-toppers, include the proper videos and are compatible with wireless mics. So which is best? FIIIIIGHT.

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    Shin Megami Tensei DS in spring

    Atlus' Strange Journey approaches.

    Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey is heading to the US this spring under the watchful eye of Atlus.

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    UNO, Sudoku, Monkey Island on WiiWare

    Seven new games for Wii/DSi owners.

    There are seven new games for Wii and DSi owners to find online today, including the third chapter of Traveller's Tales' Tales of Monkey Island series, dubbed Lair of the Leviathan.

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    Review | Skate 3

    Skate out of ten.

    Jason DeLong, the extremely polite senior producer from EA Black Box, demos the latest instalment in the company's quietly excellent Skate series with the understated pleasure of a man who knows he doesn't have to convince you to invest in a plastic skateboard with infrared sensors instead of wheels. It's a nice position to be in, I imagine: while it looks very much like Tony Hawk is off to see the wizard, EA's developers are free to focus on something that's potentially a little more exciting.

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    Elite Squadron on PSN Store refresh

    Seasonal special offers too.

    Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is the most prestigious arrival on PlayStation Store this week. The PSP action-strategy costs £31.99/€39.99, however, and early reviews are downbeat.

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    Blizzard keen on WOW micro-transactions

    Item sales will be purely optional, though.

    According to VG247, Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime told the Activision Blizzard investor conference that the company sees micro-transactions as an important part of World of Warcraft's future.

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    Milla Jovovich, star of the Resident Evil films, has been hinting at what we can expect from the next instalment in the series.

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    WOW patch 3.3 in "coming weeks"

    What does that mean for Cataclysm?

    During yesterday's Activision Blizzard investor conference, Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime said the next World of Warcraft update would be released "in the coming weeks".

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    Rage may ditch dedicated servers too

    id waiting to see how MW2 gets on.

    id Software tech supremo John Carmack has said that Rage may follow Modern Warfare 2's lead by ditching dedicated server support on the PC.

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    Sony sued over PS3 firmware update

    Angry gamers take legal action.

    A pair of gamers who claim their PS3s were bricked by recent firmware updates have filed a lawsuit against Sony.

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    Activision president defends MW2 PC

    "Improves consumer experience overall."

    Activision president Mike Griffith has said that the controversial decision to axe dedicated servers for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 "improves that consumer experience overall by a significant margin".

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    PlayTV gets better standard-def upscaling

    Plus DVB-T HD support in some countries.

    Sony has updated its PlayTV software to version 1.21, which introduces support for DVB-T freeview HD recordings.

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    Yamauchi: GT5 cost $60m to make

    GTAIV, Too Human, Shenmue still pricier.

    Polyphony Digital chief Kazunori Yamauchi has revealed that Gran Turismo 5 cost a meaty $60 million to make.

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    LBP sequel would be "counterproductive"

    Would split community, says Mm man.

    Media Molecule has apparently dismissed the notion of doing a sequel to its PS3 platformer LittleBigPlanet.

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