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    Super SFIV brings back bonus stages

    Smash up cars and punch barrels.

    Super Street Fighter IV looks set to reintroduce the car and barrel smashing bonus sequences from Street Fighter II.

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    Braid PS3 due out in US next week

    European version "TBA shortly thereafter".

    Hothead Games' PS3 version of Braid will be released in the US on 12th November, the publisher has announced, "with a European version to be announced shortly thereafter" - presumably meaning we'll get it quite quickly.

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    Review | EG Expo 2009: Indie Games Arcade

    Is art games?

    With the boom in download gaming and the crossover successes of the likes of Braid and Flower, indie showcases like the Eurogamer Expo's Indie Games Arcade have turned into the games industry equivalent of the Sundance film festival. Just as Hollywood power-players go hunting for edgy young talent to suck dry in Utah, Nintendo's been spotted scouring the likes of IndieCade and the Independent Games Festival for titles to add quantity, quality and a touch of arty credibility to WiiWare.

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    Carmack wants Rage iPhone game

    He's busy working on Doom 4 these days.

    id Software's John Carmack has said he hopes to do a Rage game for iPhone, and spoken a little more about the developer's plans for the Apple format.

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    MW2 stock has "not been sent out"

    HMV explains delivery emails.

    HMV has clarified to Eurogamer that no copies of Modern Warfare 2 have been sent to customers, despite official emails stating otherwise.

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    Microsoft cagey on public XBL rewards

    US pilot programme only, for now.

    Microsoft has told Eurogamer there is "nothing to announce" regarding an Xbox Live Rewards program being offered to the public.

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    Operation Flashpoint 2 DLC tomorrow

    Three quid. Remember, remember.

    Codemasters will offer PC owners of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising a free batch of DLC tomorrow.

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    OneBigGame reveals Zoe Mode's Chime

    Charity publisher taps Perry, Cecil, more.

    Pioneering non-profit publisher OneBigGame has revealed Zoe Mode's Chime as the charity-focused label's first game.

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    New Fable III art shows Bowerstone

    A dark, smoggy, industrialised city.

    Peter Molyneux's Lionhead Studios has offered an artist's impression of Bowerstone in Fable III.

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    Feature | Killerspiele

    In search of Germany's virtual scapegoats.

    An October Saturday and Stuttgart is pale with the cold. Outside the State Opera House, the city's grand attraction, a skip sits awkward and incongruous to its surroundings. The sides are spray-painted with graffiti, a hip hop-cum-youth club pastiche probably commissioned to soften the otherwise stark utilitarian appearance of this giant iron dustbin. While the murals may obscure the rust, they do not obscure the function, which remains as it ever was: a receptacle for unwanted rubbish. Except, rather than industrial waste or the assorted debris of home movers, this skip has been put here to collect videogames: "Killerspiele", the name given to violent games by Germany's tabloid press.

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    SC: Conviction has USB card drive

    Ubisoft spills Collector's Edition contents.

    Ubisoft has whipped the wrappers off the Collector's Edition of Splinter Cell: Conviction, due February on PC and Xbox 360.

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    Digital Foundry | GTAIV time-lapse video: 15 days in Liberty City

    Time-lapse video of Rockstar's Big Apple.

    We've been planning to put this together for ages, but the recent release of Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City (reviewed today) proved to be as good an excuse as any to finally put the effort in - not just because the additional content is so cool, but also to pay tribute to what remains the finest, most expertly realised open-world environment ever to hit consoles.

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    Buzz! Quiz World available now

    Over 5000 new questions promised.

    New PS3 title Buzz! Quiz World is out now, Sony has informed us. (UPDATE: This story previously said it would be released on 10th November, but that's the US release date - the game is already available in shops in Europe. Apologies for the error.)

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    Zimmer: games "absolutely" an art form

    "That we can't question any more."

    Immensely successful Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer considers games to be as legitimate an art form as films and theatre.

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    Thor game and movie due out in 2011

    Along with Captain America counterparts.

    The videogame tie-ins for the new Thor and Captain America movies will be released alongside them in 2011.

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    Sony patents interactive film idea

    Throw tomatoes at Hollywood greats.

    Sony America has patented a bizarre idea that would allow you to hurl virtual rotten tomatoes at actors while watching films on your television, a bit like Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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    Moore "delighted" by FIFA 10 in Japan

    Shares his thoughts on market difficulties.

    Peter Moore has aired his frustration about Western games not doing very well in Japan, and promised to keep pushing EA Sports games there after FIFA 10 did the unthinkable and pierced the top 10.

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    Nintendo to offer WiiWare demos

    Just a few. Iwata sounds sceptical.

    According to Joystiq, Nintendo said that it would being offering demos for WiiWare games at its recent investor Q&A.

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    First Halo Waypoint content discovered

    Live 'destination' launches tomorrow.

    Halo Waypoint arrives on Xbox Live tomorrow, and the first pieces of content have been revealed.

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    Britain's first gaming rehab opens

    New 12-step programme designed.

    The UK's first rehabilitation clinic for people addicted to gaming has opened in Weston-super-Mare.

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    IW: "We don't feel tied to making COD"

    Plus: Wii not really suitable for MW2.

    Infinity Ward creative strategist Robert Bowling has said that the studio may go off and do something else once Modern Warfare 2 is out of the way.

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    Spector plans two more Epic Mickeys

    But they're not approved yet.

    Warren Spector has said that he's already got two sequels for Epic Mickey planned out, although he doesn't know if they'll get made. The famous designer said that he always plans to make multiple games in a series.

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    New Zelda won't be "radically different"

    Miyamoto doesn't think so, anyway.

    Judging by a snatched quote from Nintendo Power magazine, Shigeru Miyamoto has said the new Zelda will be a familiar experience, despite being the first instalment specifically built for Wii.

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    E3: Miyamoto confirms new Wii Zelda

    WMP functionality, 2010 release date likely.

    Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed a new Legend of Zelda title is in development for the Wii.

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    Miyamoto offers brief update on Zelda

    Talks about the benefits of Wii MotionPlus.

    Shigeru Miyamoto has said that the next Legend of Zelda game will use Wii MotionPlus to make swinging your sword and targeting things easier.

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    Review | A Boy and His Blob

    Jelly good fun.

    The best candidates for the remake treatment are generally not those blessed with classic status, but ones that came close without hitting the bull's-eye; games that had lots of great ideas but never quite delivered on their promise. In a modern gaming landscape where old titles are dusted off purely to cash in on their name, A Boy and His Blob is already off to a good start - it's been remade for all the right reasons.

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    Review | Need For Speed: Nitro

    Wheel sin.

    Did you know that while Need For Speed is one of the biggest-selling gaming brands in the world year after year, no one gives a stuff about the Wii versions?

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    IGF 2010 challengers announced

    The next Braid? World of Goo?

    The Independent Games Festival has revealed the 306 contenders vying for the 2010 crown.

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    Sky Player to be rolled out gradually

    Microsoft revises Xbox 360 plans.

    Microsoft has decided to gradually roll the Sky Player service out to thousands of users at a time.

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    Left 4 Dead 2 demo on Xbox Live

    For Gold subs now. Silver to follow.

    Xbox Live Gold subscribers and PC owners can download the Left 4 Dead 2 demo today.

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