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Quantic Dream and Valve live text on Sat
Expo sessions on the website tomorrow.
Can't make it down to the Eurogamer Expo tomorrow? Well, obviously we'll miss you, but it doesn't mean you should miss out on Quantic Dream talking Heavy Rain and Valve showcasing Left 4 Dead 2.
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Review | Star Trek Online
Let them eat Kirk.
Trekkies can put one fear to rest right now: Star Trek Online feels just like Star Trek. From the 10-minute demo available on the Eurogamer Expo show floor, it's difficult to learn all that much about the mechanics and structure of this licensed MMO (you can read more about these in our recent preview and interview). But it's immediately apparent that developer Cryptic has nailed the unmistakable flavour of faintly cheesy, high-minded, planet-hopping science-fiction with a straight face and a glint in its eye - with an equal love of politics, philosophy and punch-ups.
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PS3 sales up compared to last year
But PSP and PS2 on the slide.
Sony has published its second quarter financial results, revealing that 3.2 million PS3 units were sold in the last three months.
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EG Expo 2009: 2000 in one hour
Valve comments on Bill cosplayer.
London's Eurogamer Expo 2009 has begun in flying form, with over 2000 people entering in just over an hour.
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Black Rock shows Split/Second Docks
Nick Baynes demos fancy racer at Expo.
Black Rock Studios' Nick Baynes has just finished showing off Split/Second in the first of the Developer Sessions at the Eurogamer Expo in London, and gave the crowd a sneaky live demo of the Docks level in the process.
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Review | DJ Hero
Floor filler?
The turnaround has been astonishing. Guitar Hero launched in 2005, its first set-list composed extensively of cover versions, with the music industry's nostrils too busy sweeping lustily over cisterns to pay it much heed. Developer Harmonix was virtually required to shuffle up to record label doors, cap in hand, begging for whatever scraps of licensed music were lying around.
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Retaking the Mickey.
Here's a fact you almost certainly didn't know about Warren Spector: he is exactly the right height to stand upright on the top floor of an old Routemaster double-decker bus. The curving roof brushes the top of his tidy crop of grey hair and frames the compact games designer, creator of Deus Ex, perfectly.
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Plus: Zombies on VC, two for DSi.
Nintendo has updated the various Wii and DS shops with a selection of games, some old, some new.
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London EG Expo queuer bags PSPgo
Visitors swamp Old Billingsgate building.
The Eurogamer Expo 2009 has landed in London and the queues outside the Old Billingsgate building on the Thames are immense. At the front stood Josh, 19, a student from Bristol. He woke up at 5am today to ensure he was in line at 8am, a whole three hours before the show.
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Tekken 6! Wii Fit Plus! DJ Hero! Gay Tony!
What a weekend in prospect! Not only can you come to London and visit the Eurogamer Expo (we'll shut up about it soon, promise), but there are all sorts of interesting games to buy on the way home.
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Changes planned for 1 vs. 100 Season 2
It's all about improving things for the One.
Microsoft has revealed some of the changes we can expect to see in 1 vs. 100 Live when the second season begins.
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Wallace & Gromit coming to XBLA
Grand Adventures begin next week.
Telltale has announced that Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures will be available on Xbox Live Arcade from Wednesday 4th November.
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1m characters created in Champs Online
Free weekend starts today.
Cryptic Studios' Champions Online has witnessed more than one million characters created since launch. Note, however, that the MMO allows each account to make more than one hero, meaning there probably aren't that many players.
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EG Expo 2009: Exhibitor vox pops
The faces behind the games.
The Leeds half of the Eurogamer Expo 2009 has finished, and I jolly well hope everybody that turned up enjoyed their sneak preview of the world's biggest upcoming games. Here, however, I turn the microphone on the people whose games you were playing: the exhibitors brave enough to lay bare their unfinished products for all to fondle. You may have bumped in to one or two of them.
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Wii Resi Zero due out in January
Evil in motion.
Capcom has announced a 22nd January European release date for Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero on Wii. The same game goes on sale from 1st December in the US.
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Iwata explains sagging Wii sales
Lack of "strong software" to blame.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has admitted that sales of Wii "stalled" because the company was "unable to continually release strong software" and "unable to show a new game to become 'the next thing'".
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SEGA dates Bayonetta for Europe
Due here moments into the New Year.
SEGA has decided that 8th January is a good time to release third-person action romp Bayonetta in Europe. The US will play the game a few days earlier from 5th January.
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Review | Red Steel 2
Slash and grab.
There's always been something satisfying about hitting things with other things. When I was a nipper, a stout stick and a collection of other, slightly less sturdy things to clatter with it was pretty much the height of sophisticated entertainment. These days I tend to keep the urge to batter random objects mostly under wraps, but when the opportunity arises to do it in a socially acceptable environment, I am totally there - wrists cocked and feet planted.
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Plus: Tickets on the door from 1pm.
Following two excellent days in Leeds earlier this week, the Eurogamer Expo has travelled saaarf and pitched itself on the banks of the Thames for two days in London.
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Digital Foundry | Left 4 Dead 2 demo performance analysis
Digital Foundry tests the end of the world.
Alongside the new Assassin's Creed and Modern Warfare sequels, Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 must surely rank as one of the most highly anticipated games of the year for Xbox 360 users. Currently only available as a bonus to US customers who pre-ordered the game, we've managed to procure the Xbox 360 demo and subjected it to the usual battery of performance tests. This is the first time the Digital Foundry channel has seen the game running, and overall impressions are very positive indeed.
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Review | BioShock 2
Going deeper.
Sisters are not doing it for themselves. But then, it shouldn't come as a surprise to discover the Big Sister is not the main baddy in BioShock 2 despite what we've been encouraged to think. After all, this is the series that had you take a golf club to its own illusions last time out. If even 2K Marin's press events are a festival of misdirection, surely that's another tick in the "worthy" column for the arch-nerds in the audience.
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Interview | 2K Marin's Jordan Thomas
BioShock's new Big Daddy suits up.
It can't be easy to follow in the footsteps of Ken Levine. That sharp, manly beard, for example. I would.
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Blu-ray District 9 GOWIII demo US-only
Sony's European plans are a secret.
Sony has said that Europe will not receive a God of War III demo with the Blu-ray release of film District 9.
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SOCOM Fireteam 3 dateless in Europe
US going to the PSP ball in January.
Sony has told Eurogamer that a European date for SOCOM: US Navy SEALs - Fireteam Bravo 3 has not been confirmed.
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More AOC subs "initiatives" in pipeline
Funcom rewards vets, releases new patch.
Funcom has told Eurogamer that more Age of Conan subscription "initiatives" are planned, following the slashing of long-term memberships to the MMO.
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Team17 reveals Alien Breed structure
Each episode to last five to eight hours.
Team17's John Dennis has revealed what we can expect from the new Alien Breed game for PS3 and Xbox 360.
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New WOW dungeon system detailed
As race-change feature goes live.
Blizzard has detailed its ambitious new dungeon system for World of Warcraft and launched the Race Change service.
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Big-screen DSi coming to Europe too
But not until next year.
Nintendo has said the new DSi with bigger screens will launch in Europe as well as Japan.
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Painkiller Resurrection released on PC
Aspirin' to be a hit with shooter fans.
JoWooD has sneakily released biblical shooter Painkiller: Resurrection on Steam.
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JAW dates Gravity Crash for PSN
Mystery iPhone and retro titles also on cards.
Stewart Gilray, head of indie development studio Just Add Water, has announced a definitive release date of November for PSN title Gravity Crash.
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