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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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Jovovich twitters on about new RE film
The woman's obsessed.
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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Digi disti will take over in 20 years - Iwata
Plus: Demo plans! Vitality Sensor! Cats!
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said there's still life in the old shops yet, predicting it will be decades before we're buying all our games over the internet.
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Move to HD is likely, says Nintendo
"We cannot swim against the tide."
Nintendo's top execs have confirmed the company is looking at moving into high-definition gaming, suggesting such a shift is inevitable.
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SWTOR's Imperial Agent revealed
Sneaky type on the dark side of the Force.
BioWare and LucasArts have revealed the sixth of eight character classes in their Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic: the Imperial Agent.
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Review | Mass Effect 2
Collectors' edition.
People didn't really respond all that well to the unveiling of the new Mass Effect character Subject Zero. A troubled lady with attitude and tats, she looked like the kind of person you'd rather have blasted out into space through an air lock than get stuck in a lift with - a particularly poignant worry given the original Mass Effect's excessive elevator-based predilections.
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International FFXIII out before April?
Square Enix boss Wada sounds hopeful.
Kotaku reports that Square Enix has said Final Fantasy XIII could be released in the West before April 2010.
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Battlefield BC 2 PS3 beta confirmed
This month. Details and video inside.
DICE has confirmed that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will enjoy a one-month beta test, on PS3 only, starting on November 19th.
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Halo: Reach screenshots leaked?
Battle Rifle, Needler sighted, among others.
A man on the internet has secured what look very much like blurry digital camera shots of Halo: Reach in action.
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StarCraft II on track for next spring
Where's that beta, Blizzard?
Blizzard has reassured investors that StarCraft II is on track to launch in the first half of 2010 - or, to be more specific, the second quarter. That means we should get our hands on it some time between the start of March and end of June.
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Review | James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
The game of the film of the decades-in-the-making vanity project.
Was that a Warthog? I could have sworn... Given Halo seems to have informed Big Mad Jim's upcoming scfi movie more than a little, it's unsurprising to see it making its presence known in the spin-off game. Pandora (confusingly, also the name of the planet in Borderlands) is a lush land of human soldiers in vehicles battling alien humanoids with a tribal bent - it's familiar, if rather more ornate, territory. But this isn't Halo, nor is it yer bog-standard made-in-eight-months movie adaptation. Avatar really wants to be its own world, and its own game.
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Star Trek Online out in February
Cryptic has its Kirk and eats it.
Cryptic and Atari have confirmed that their MMO Star Trek Online will be released for PC on 2nd February 2010 in North America, and 5th February in Europe.
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May made LEGO: RB hair demands
Queen guitarist happy now, though.
Queen guitarist Brian May required his famous perm be replicated perfectly before he signed away his likeness for LEGO Rock Band.
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GOG snaps up Psychonauts for pittance
Grabs Advent Rising, BloodRayne too.
Good Old Games (GOG.com) has begun selling the brilliant Psychonauts for the paltry price of $9.99 (£6).
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EA signs top British writer Morgan
Sci-fi wizard working on three games.
Award winning British author Richard K. Morgan has been hired by EA to oversee the stories of three new games.
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Free version of Unreal Engine 3 released
Epic aims to get students' cogs turning.
A free, standalone version of Unreal Engine 3 has been released by Epic Games, giving aspiring developers and professionals alike the chance to use Epic's 3D engine technology for free.
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BioWare defends Dragon Age DLC
Not designed to "bilk" you for money.
Dragon Age lead systems designer George Zoeller has explained that it was BioWare's decision what to put in the DLC and what to charge for it.
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Mass Effect 2 Collector's Ed detailed
DVD! Art! In-game treats! Tin!
EA has unveiled the Collector's Edition of Mass Effect 2, which arrives in Europe on 29th January 2010.
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Review | SAW
I want to play a game. Just not this one.
The twisted misery of a mental asylum has been something of a happy stomping ground for horror gamers in recent years. From the meanderings of Manhunt 2 to practically every Silent Hill game ever, there's no better place to conjure tension as you fumble through the grim darkness armed with a nailbat.
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Time Gentlemen, Please! now half-price
Pay just £1.49 for a 9 out of 10. Bargain.
Zombie Cow Studios has slashed the price of comedy adventure game Time Gentlemen, Please! by 50 per cent.
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"Hundreds" of films at PS3 VOD launch
Sony promises healthy rental variety.
Sony has told Eurogamer that its PS3 video rental service will stock "hundreds" of films when launched later this month.
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Gamers love POP film, says Bruckheimer
"Women flipped" during test screenings.
Uberproducer Jerry Bruckheimer has said the new Prince of Persia film is a hit with test audiences.
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