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    No dedicated servers for PC MW2

    "You're completely reliant on IWNet."

    Infinity Ward appears to have dumped dedicated servers for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 in favour of its own proprietary matchmaking service.

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    New Mario is coming, says Martinet

    Voiceover actor speaks out via Twitter.

    Charles Martinet, the man who provides the voice of Mario, has said a new instalment in the series is on the way.

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    XBLA social update adds "News and More"

    Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm testers say so.

    Xbox Live's upcoming social update (Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm) may bring more features than first expected.

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    APB swings into closed beta

    Testing starts three nights a week.

    Kotaku and our forum report that invites have been sent out for the closed beta test for Realtime World's APB.

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    Mass Effect 2 dated

    BioWare targeting end of January.

    BioWare has announced that Mass Effect 2 will be released in the UK on 29th January for PC and Xbox 360.

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    Free DDO boosts subs by 40 per cent

    "Hundreds of thousands" playing for free.

    Turbine has said that its free-to-play relaunch of Dungeons & Dragons Online has actually boosted subscriptions by 40 per cent as well as attracting large numbers of free players.

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    Review | Ion Assault

    Splash damage.

    Case, the lead character in William Gibson's excellent Neuromancer, has a point when he talks about his brain occasionally moving faster than his consciousness. It's a zen-like state in which trying to process what you're doing is actually an impediment; in which it's best to simply let your hard-wired responses do the work without going through the filter of personality. He refers to these as 'moments of grace', and they'll be familiar to anyone who's ever progressed very far in a modern twin-stick shooter.

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    Review | PES 2010: Pro Evolution Soccer

    The revolution's coming, but not yet.

    For a football game that once lived or died on the pitch, it's surprising to discover that PES 2010's most dramatic changes are to be found in the menus. Or at least it would be surprising, except nowadays we live in a world where dogs and cats play together, the FIFA games are recognised for their football simulation, and Robinho may be surplus to requirements because of Craig Bellamy.

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    Review | Borderlands

    Mad to the Max.

    Halfway into Borderlands' development, Gearbox Software changed everything. A game that started out a dour shower of browns, greys and post-apocalyptic shadows was fed through the Crackdown filter and came out a blaze of SEGA blues, Mario shine yellows and Jet Set cel-shading. The visual rewrite has done more than merely distinguish the game from its nearest rival, Fallout 3. It also accentuates the Mad Max humour of planet Pandora's inhabitants and scenarios, turning grisly headshots into party-popper exclamations while, to be frank, making the world a far more pleasant place to be. Any tourist of a science-fiction planet overrun by rag-wearing sand-bandits acknowledges the risk of having one's balls torn off by a pet rabid mutant hyena. So why not balance the dark risks with some bright, happy vistas?

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    SW Battlefront: Elite Squadron dated

    DS and PSP outing in November.

    Activision has announced a 6th November release date for Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron on DS and PSP.

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    Feature | Disorderly Queue

    Queues and overcrowded servers are no way to welcome new customers to your game.

    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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    EA Sports unleashes FIFA Earth

    Manchester Utd are most popular.

    EA Sports has released its FIFA Earth website to the masses, bombarding us with stats ripped from the PS3 and Xbox 360 game.

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    Timbaland using Beaterator on album

    "I had to," says hip-hop mogul.

    Hip-hop's prime producer Timbaland has said he used PSP game Beaterator to make a pair of tracks for his upcoming album Shock Value 2.

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    Interview | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

    We finish the game and chat to Naughty Dog about it in hindsight.

    We don't normally interview developers the day their game comes out. And to be fair, we didn't exactly speak to Naughty Dog just now - we've been sitting on this for a couple of weeks. But we did speak to them after we'd made up our minds and given Uncharted 2: Among Thieves a honking 10/10 review.

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    No Euro God of War III demo this year

    Oh well, play it at the EG Expo.

    Sony has told Eurogamer that the God of War III demo will not appear in Europe this year.

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    Nintendo "in step" with HD progression

    Miyamoto to "take advantage" of tech.

    Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has rekindled HD Wii speculation by promising to support 'new' technology "as it comes out".

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    VG247 cleans up at the GMAs

    Eurogamer takes home a trophy too.

    VG247.com won big at last night's Games Media Awards, with bossman Patrick Garratt picking up three trophies.

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    US to get 250GB PS3 Slim

    Comes in at just under 350 "bucks".

    Sony has unveiled a new PS3 Slim model with a 250GB hard drive.

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    360 will outsell PS3 this year, says MS

    Reckons Slim bump will be "short term".

    Microsoft mouthpiece Aaron Greenberg has said the company is confident Xbox 360 will outsell PS3 this year, even if that wasn't the case last month.

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    Review | Forza Motorsport 3

    All will drive.

    Is it naïve to think you can judge the character of a racing game from its choice of cover star? Probably. Yet the Project Gotham Racing series' love affair with Ferrari was perfectly suited to its flamboyant character; Race Driver GRID's hulking Dodge Viper in race trim captured its brutish, high-octane track-day drama. And Forza Motorsport 3 couldn't be more aptly summarised by the car that adorns the box (and kicks the racing campaign off in the obligatory high-speed teaser, before you're relegated to buzzing around in superminis): the Audi R8.

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    Ed blog: Pat Garratt wins the internet!

    VG247 dominates Games Media Awards.

    I can't remember exactly when I first met Patrick Garratt, which - as anyone who knew the man back in the day will attest - is sort of appropriate. He's lived a life. Known for many things, perhaps the best story about Pat is that he's the only games journalist ever missing, presumed dead off the coast of a Spanish press trip.

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    Quiet week for PlayStation Store

    WipEout HD bundle, not much else.

    It's hardly a quiet day for PlayStation, what with the launch of Uncharted 2, but it's not the best week for fans of the PlayStation Store, with relatively little of note appearing for either PS3 or PSP.

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    Review | Machinarium

    Scrapheap challenge.

    Machinarium is a point-and-click adventure. No, really. It's a point and click adventure. The old-fashioned sort, where one screen can keep you stumped all weekend, where having a notepad to hand is a good idea and where every door and hatchway is guarded by some fiendish puzzle. As amusing as Telltale's Sam & Max games have been, a few hours in Machinarium's arcane steampunk world makes you realise just how far the genre has wandered from its traditionally ruthless roots.

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    Valve dates and details L4D2 demo

    Co-op and has all-new infected, tools.

    Valve has laid out pre-order and general release timings for the Left 4 Dead 2 demo.

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    SEGA confirms Alpha Protocol delay

    Espionage RPG pushed to spring 2010.

    SEGA and Obsidian have pushed the release of Alpha Protocol back to spring 2010, surprising nobody.

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    Germans invited to dump violent games

    In bins outside opera house this weekend.

    Germany's movement against violent videogames has lunged forward again, as families affected by the Winnenden school shooting urge people living near Stuttgart to dump their "games that simulate the killing of humans" - "Killerspiele".

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    Review | Valkyria Chronicles II

    Sociopolitics, tanks, strategic deployment and, er, homework.

    Japan's not short of games that have seen far greater success on portable systems than they ever did on under-telly gameboxes, but Valkyria Chronicles seems a strange choice for downsizing. It's remembered for its beautiful sketchbook-style graphics and hour-long strategic battles - two things that have had to be scaled down to fit the PSP. Thankfully everything else that made it interesting is present and correct. This is still a game where your gay engineer will enjoy a stats boost if you make sure she's deployed near female squad-mates, or your racist scout won't fight with Darcsen soldiers. It's still a complex, politically engaging storyline framed in an innovative semi-real-time battle system, with likeable, developed characters. Superb!

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    UK charts: FIFA still top of the table

    Flashpoint, Scribblenauts best debutants.

    FIFA 10 has scored a second week at the top of the UK all-formats chart, shrugging off a strong tackle from Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising at two.

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    Band Hero demo on Xbox Live

    Clutch of songs, modes to play.

    Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has announced the arrival of a Band Hero demo on Xbox Live.

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    Rare has "no idea" where DK64 is

    VC-revival is Nintendo's decision.

    Rare has admitted to having "no idea" why Nintendo hasn't converted Donkey Kong 64 for the Virtual Console.

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