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Battlefield Heroes has 2 million users
Heroes of the Fall update next week.
EA has announced that free-to-play online shooter Battlefield Heroes has two million users, sauntering past the milestone in three months.
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Interview | SCEI's Fumito Ueda
On The Last Guardian, ICO and more.
It's been two and a half years since Famitsu magazine dropped the first hints of Fumito Ueda's first PS3 game, and several months since it was revealed as The Last Guardian. Although there's been nothing to see so far but some impressive trailers, the hype is already huge - not surprising when you consider Ueda is the man behind cult classics ICO and Shadow of the Colossus.
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Feature | Untethered Melodies
Robert Kotick rattles Sony and Microsoft's cages again - but is this just chest-beating from the world's top publisher?
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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Metroid Prime series not finished?
Producer considering multiplayer.
Metroid Prime veteran producer Kensuke Tanabe has hinted that the series may live on, despite the story coming to a close in Metroid Prime Corruption.
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Europe gets EUR 50 Wii price cut
But won't affect UK price of £179.99.
The price of the Nintendo Wii has dropped to EUR 199 across Europe, leaving the UK the only region to not benefit from a price cut. Sniff.
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Review | Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
A big step forward for the PSP?
Metal Gear Solid as a series is the most perfect satire of the videogame that has ever been made, and I'm still not absolutely sure it's intentional. The consistency would suggest that its juxtaposition of super-serious military posturing and absolute unadulterated nonsense is the product of considered genius, but then it could just be the inspired direct-feed of a brilliantly deluded mind. MGS is one of the only series' left in the word that's largely the product of a single creator's vision rather than the filtrate of layers of ideas panels, concept meetings and corporate approval. Whatever you think of them as actual videogames, they're certainly "important".
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Next Gears may be on next-gen consoles
Mike Capps clarifies TGS comments.
Update: Epic Games president Michael Capps claims he misspoke during a Q&A session at the Tokyo Game Show today when he said, "If there were a next Gears of War, that will be for the next console generation, whenever that is."
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Assassin's DS dated, uses DSi camera
Put your face on "Wanted!" posters.
Ubisoft has confirmed Assassin's Creed II: Discovery for DS, and plans a launch alongside its big-console siblings on 20th November.
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Halo 3: ODST disc-read errors reported
Bungie looking into it.
A number of users on the Bungie forums are reporting disc-read errors with their spangly new copies of Halo 3: ODST.
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Square Enix, PopCap unveil Gyromancer
Puzzle Quest-alike for PC and XBLA.
Square Enix and PopCap are working together on a new puzzle-RPG called Gyromancer for PC (Steam) and Xbox Live Arcade.
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XBLA can't handle games over 2GB
Microsoft clarifies as rulebook retires.
Microsoft may overlook the size of most Xbox Live Arcade games today, but the company says there is a 2GB limit the system inherently cannot break.
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PSN: Lost Planet 2, Ninja Gaiden demos
Plus Fallout 3: Broken Steel and more.
Sony has updated the PlayStation Store and the highlights are Lost Planet 2 and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demos for PS3 and the long-awaited first downloadable content for the PS3 version of Fallout 3 - the Broken Steel pack that ups the level cap.
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BioShock 1 due for Mac next month
Rand about time.
British Mac conversion specialist Feral Interactive has announced that it will release 2K Games' BioShock for Macs on 7th October.
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Ninja Blade heading to PC next month
Loony action game by From Software.
Russian publisher ND Games has said it will bring From Software's bonkers action game Ninja Blade to PC this October.
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Wii price not influenced by PS3/360
Nintendo exec denies being pushed.
Nintendo has denied that the US and Japanese price cuts to Wii have anything to do with recent cuts for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
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Brutal Legend demo now on Live
Wolfenstein sampler there too.
EA has released a Brutal Legend demo on Xbox Live Marketplace.
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SCEA: No UMD conversion programme
"Legal and technical reasons."
Sony America has said that it will not be possible for people to exchange their UMDs for digital versions of the games they own.
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Review | FIFA 10
It's there.
In 1986, my beloved Liverpool were rampant: already 16-times First Division champions, FA Cup holders, four-time European Cup winners, with Ian Rush leading the line and Kenny Dalglish in a manager's seat embossed by our first ever double the previous season. The subsequent decline throughout the nineties was largely self-inflicted, but it didn't help that a sweary Scotsman had arrived at Old Trafford, and started making good on his promise to "knock Liverpool off their f***ing perch".
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FIFA team eyes playable TV replays
Football "dream" revealed.
EA has outlined its "dream" for FIFA - synching up with a live game to offer playable replays of the action fans have just witnessed. And EA Sports' marketing boss reckons the huge technical challenges involved will be overcome "very soon".
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Sony TGS announcements roundup
They've been busy!
It didn't start out very promisingly. Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai delivered a keynote speech devoid of news, focusing instead on the company's current thoughts on networking and PlayStation trends in general rather than blasting us with announcements.
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White Knight Chronicles 2 revealed
Sony backs Level-5's PS3 RPG.
Developer Level-5 has announced a sequel to White Knight Chronicles, subtitled Awakening of Light and Darkness.
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MS explains Xbox Live downtime
In preparation for Facebook, Twitter.
Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has explained that Xbox Live was taken down earlier to pave the way for new social features like Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm.
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Forza 3 to offer Ferrari 458 as DLC
Plus: Japanese track, cars confirmed.
Forza Motorsport 3 will recreate the brand new Ferrari 458 Italia as DLC this holiday.
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Review | The Saboteur
Resistance is fertile.
Deep in the Los Angeles branch of Electronic Arts there is an office where developers fear to tread. And in that dark, fearful room sits EA's vice president of in-game boob representation. It was here that Pandemic must have been ushered when Saboteur was in the planning stages. They would have sat in front of this impassive and unreadable man, and explained what they wanted to do. Create five square kilometres of Nazi-occupied France, rewrite history so that an Irish racing driver kick-started the Gallic resistance, adopt a beautiful art design in which German occupied areas are rendered in black and white with patches of primary colour shining through in vibrant Sin City style... all the good stuff. Then the vice president of in-game boob representation would have lent heavily on his desk, rested his chin on his hands, and shut his eyes as he made his decision. "Your game..." he'd begin, pausing for dramatic effect. "... must have boobs." As so it was decreed, and as so it became form.
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Room is out this year in Japan.
Sony has unveiled a new online community service for PSP called Room, which will be free and available to all Japanese PSP and PSPgo owners before the end of the year.
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Three free games for PSPgo upgraders
Update: Now with all 17 available games.
Sony has announced that people with existing UMD games who want to upgrade to the new PSPgo, due out on 1st October, will receive three "free" downloads of full games.
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Forza Motorsport 3 demo goes Live
Microsoft serves up its own TGS-week treat.
Microsoft has put the Forza Motorsport 3 demo live, as promised.
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FFXIII PS3 Slim bundle shown at TGS
Picture of fancy design within.
Sony and Square Enix have unveiled the Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Slim bundle at the Tokyo Game Show, and offered audiences their first look at the pretty console paintjob.
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Assassin's Creed II slips on PC
Console versions unaffected.
Ubisoft has just announced that Assassin's Creed II has slipped to Q1 2010 on PC.
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Sony shows PSPgo converter cable thing
Use PSP accessories, look a bit daft.
Sony has announced a Converter Cable Adaptor for PSPgo that allows existing PSP peripherals, like the 1Seg Tuner and GPS Receiver, to be used.
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