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No Halo: Reach reveal this year
Prequel will be "big, epic and fun".
Bungie has told Eurogamer that we won't be seeing anymore of Halo: Reach this year, following the game's high-profile announcement during last month's E3 Xbox conference.
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Mystery game still unsigned.
Bungie has revealed that the secret, non-Halo game it's working on is still not signed to a publisher - but suggested a deal is "close".
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BioWare explains Mass Effect save usage
Tiny details in first game to make an impact.
BioWare has explained how your Mass Effect save-game will be put to use by the sequel, which is due out next year.
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Plants vs. Zombies heading to XBLA
Er, branching out? Sorry.
PopCap's excellent PC game Plants vs. Zombies is on its way to Xbox Live Arcade, the developer reportedly confirmed at the Casual Connect conference this week.
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Katamari Forever demo out in Japan
Time to dust off your 'other' PSN account.
Namco Bandai has released a demo of Katamari Forever on the Japanese PlayStation Store to coincide with the game's launch in the region.
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Batman bonus for GAME pre-orders
Special level with Scarecrow in it.
Eidos has announced that pre-ordering Batman: Arkham Asylum from GAME will grant you access to a special Villains Challenge Map.
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Kaz Hirai to keynote Tokyo Game Show
"New Strategy, 2009" apparently.
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai will be delivering this year's Tokyo Game Show keynote address, the organisers have announced (thanks Kotaku).
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Home is beta until it hits "final quality"
Sony has "philosophical targets" to hit first.
PlayStation Home's current legal guardian, Peter Edward, has said the online social service thing will be in beta until it hits "a kind of final quality".
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Review | WiiWare Roundup
NyxQuest plus two Final Fantasy spin-offs.
Those who once held out hope for Nintendo’s WiiWare service as an outlet for charming, offbeat and innovative games might well be sobbing into their lacy handkerchiefs. While there’s no shortage of games available now, the prices remain prohibitively high and quality is an often secondary concern.
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Interview | Sony's Peter Edward
A chat with the head of Home.
In December last year, following a series of delays, PlayStation Home launched - or the beta version did, anyway. At the Develop conference last week, platform director Peter Edward delivered a speech titled Home: First Term Report. In it he discussed how the last seven months have gone and the lessons Sony's learned.
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No Unreal Tournament "for several years"
Epic has other priorities, says Sweeney.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has said that we're unlikely to see another Unreal Tournament game "for several years".
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2K pres: fewer triple-A games this year
"A good holiday to put something out."
2K president Christoph Hartmann reckons this Christmas season could see fewer amazing games released than last year's.
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Universal songs to appear in SingStore
Cher! Tiffany! Girls Aloud! Keane.
Sony has signed a deal that will see Universal Music's songs appearing in the European SingStore.
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Takeuchi doesn't expect to do Resi 6
Reckons somebody else will get the gig.
Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi has said he doesn't expect to be in charge of the next game in the survival horror series, and nor does his fellow producer Masachika Kawata.
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11.2 million Xbox 360s shipped in FY09
But sales down in the last few months.
Microsoft shipped 11.2 million Xbox 360 units over the course of the last financial year.
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Left 4 Dead 2's Swamp Fever detailed
Mud men! Spitters! Riot cops! Water!
Valve has shown off the promised Swamp Fever campaign at Comic-Con in San Diego, revealing new infected types along the way.
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Battlefield 1943 sells over 600,000
Sets records too complicated for headline.
DICE and EA have announced that Battlefield 1943 is the fastest-selling day one and week one downloadable game worldwide in Xbox Live history, and has taken the same accolade on PlayStation Network in North America.
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Monkey Island now available for iPhone
Yours for just under a fiver.
LucasArts has released an iPhone version of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.
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New Halo destination planned for Live
Waypoint to offer exclusive videos etc.
Good news, Halo buffs - Microsoft is launching a new "destination" on Xbox Live especially for you.
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Digital Foundry | Benchmark Resi 5 on your PC now
Apologies for not bringing this one to your attention sooner, because it really is excessively cool. While Capcom doesn't appear willing to release a playable demo of Resident Evil 5 on PC for now, it has unleashed a very nifty benchmarking tool that allows gamers to accurately gauge performance of the final game on their hardware. Choose your desired levels of graphical excellence, then engage the benchmarking tool to see the game play out with your chosen settings across a series of test scenarios.
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DiRT 2 to feature X Games stages
Block! Mirra! Tanner! Faust! Pastrana!
Codemasters has signed a deal with ESPN to put X Games stages in Colin McRae: DiRT 2.
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Complete with Drum Grip peripheral.
Activision has announced Band Hero will be coming to the DS, and will be playable with a new Drum Grip peripheral.
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SAW director doing Castlevania film
He'll be helping out with the script too.
The co-creator of the SAW series, James Wan, has signed up to direct a film based on the Castlevania games.
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Disney doing Alice in Wonderland games
To tie-in with new Tim Burton movie.
Disney Interactive Studios is developing a batch of games based on Alice in Wonderland.
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EndWar sequel in development, says Ubi
Original officially not better than Halo Wars.
Ubisoft's Michael De Plater has revealed a sequel to voice-controlled RTS EndWar is on the way.
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GTAIV double-episode disc to cost £34.99
October 29th date confirmed as worldwide.
Rockstar has confirmed a UK price for the disc featuring both episodes of the Grand Theft Auto IV DLC.
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New GTAIV DLC gets release date
Ballad of Gay Tony here for Halloween.
Rockstar has announced the next batch of downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV will be available via Xbox Live on 29th October.
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One million LBP levels now uploaded
That's one every 21 seconds. Solid.
More than a million user-created LittleBigPlanet levels have now been uploaded.
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Need for Speed Nitro here in November
Date for Wii and DS racer confirmed.
Electronic Arts has announced Need for Speed Nitro will launch this November.
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Pachter: Activision MW2 price "is a test"
Nothing to do with weak pound, he says.
Analyst Michael Pachter reckons Activision's controversial decision to raise the price of Modern Warfare 2 has nothing to do with a weak Great British Pound.
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