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Playboy-themed MMO due this summer
Free to play via your Internet browser.
Jolt Online Gaming has unveiled Playboy Manager, a casual MMO that will be free to play via Internet browsers.
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Resi is Capcom's most successful IP
Fifth game takes series past 40m sales.
Capcom's 2009 financial report shows that Resident Evil is by far the most successful franchise the company owns.
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New 50 Cent game ten times less popular
Original racked up much higher sales.
It may have got some respectable review scores (including 7/10 from Eurogamer), but 50 Cent's latest game hasn't proved as popular as its predecessor.
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PSN to be on other hardware platforms
Plus: Stringer tips hat to Nintendo.
Sony Corporation boss Sir Howard Stringer has revealed PlayStation Network will be accessible through hardware platforms other than the PlayStation 3.
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F1 2010 will be "best F1 game ever"
Says the man making it.
Codemasters' Gavin Raeburn has said that F1 2010 will be "the best F1 game ever".
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Codemasters snags Formula 1 licence
First title expected in 2009.
Codemasters has picked up the rights to the Formula 1 licence that Sony used to command.
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Codemasters' F1 game not out till 2010
The PC, PS3 and 360 versions, anyway.
Codemasters has revealed the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of its new Formula 1 game won't be out till next year.
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Wii Sports sells 45 million copies
Dethrones Mario Bros as biggest ever.
Nintendo has revealed that Wii Sports has sold an outrageous 45.7m copies, making it the biggest-selling videogame ever, according to Wikipedia. Only Super Mario Bros. comes close with 40.23m sales.
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Review | Lode Runner
Surefooted.
25 years ago, a chap by the name of Douglas E. Smith served up a digital dish that would end up being widely recognised as the very first thinking man's puzzle game. In the years that followed, Smith's Lode Runner has been tweaked, re-tweaked and ported to over 20 different platforms, the latest being Xbox Live Arcade for Lode Runner: 25th Anniversary.
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Feature | Shake, Rattle, Roll
If more motion controllers show at E3, all eyes should be on the software.
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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Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe confirmed
Comedian to pick apart industry on telly.
British comedian Charlie Brooker is poised to tackle videogames in a new TV series called Gameswipe.
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BioShock 2 multiplayer unveiled
Set before the fall of Rapture.
2K has revealed that Digital Extremes is developing the multiplayer component of BioShock 2, and it's set before the fall of Rapture.
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Sakura Wars for PS2/Wii this autumn
Mech warriors meet the Wild West.
NIS America plans to release Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love for PS2 and Wii this autumn.
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Review | Velvet Assassin
Puts the ass into it.
As everyone knows, you should never judge a book by its cover - you should judge a book by holding it so the pages fall open naturally, thereby revealing how many dirty bits there are. However, you should always judge a videogame by its cover. The back cover, to be specific.
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NIS reveals Last Rebellion for PS3
Watercolour RPG with "dark anti-hero".
NIS America has revealed a watercolour-style PS3 RPG called Last Rebellion, which will be released over there this autumn.
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World's Best DJ gets own Wii game
Armin van Buuren's big trance.
Foreign Media Games is making a Wii music game based on Armin van Buuren, the World's Best DJ, according to DJ Magazine.
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Test scheduled for next month.
Long-awaited massively multiplayer FPS Huxley has opened registration for a public beta test.
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Disgaea 2 enhanced for PSP this year
NIS integrating best bits from Disgaea 3.
NIS America plans to release PSP game Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days across the US this autumn.
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New PAL Releases Roundup - 08/05/09
Plants vs. Zombies, Broken Steel, more.
Plants vs. Zombies. There you go. See you next week.
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THQ reveals Marvel Super Squad
Plans franchise, out this year.
THQ has announced a new game called Marvel Super Squad that will launch in the autumn.
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Activision: GH a multi-billion dollar series
Joins Mario, Madden in exclusive club.
Activision overlord Bobby Kotick has said Guitar Hero is one of only three franchises to break USD 2 billion in sales - the others being Mario and Madden.
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Second Life claims the most spare time
And only WOW more popular across US.
Nielsen Games has said Second Life is the second-most played game across the US, and the virtual world where people spend the most time.
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Rainbow Islands heads Nintendo updates
One for WiiWare, one VC, one DSi.
Nintendo has updated its various online shops with three new games across WiiWare, Virtual Console and DSiWare.
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Champions Online to have item sales?
"No finalised plans" - Cryptic.
Cryptic may be considering including microtransactions in its forthcoming suerphero MMO Champions Online, going by the beta test.
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Guitar Hero to become reality TV show?
So Reuters reckons. Plus: COD film.
Activision is in discussions about turning Guitar Hero into a TV show or concert tour and bringing Call of Duty to the silver screen.
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It's not the end of the world.
Microsoft has fixed both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the Broken Steel after problems arose at launch on Tuesday.
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Public StarCraft II beta this "summer"
It's almost a date from Blizzard!
In an uncharacteristically specific statement when it comes to putting dates on things, Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime has revealed that the public StarCraft II beta test will begin this "summer".
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Fallout 3: Broken Steel DLC PC problems
And minor 360 errors. Beth responds.
It looks as though there's a problem with the PC version of Fallout 3's latest downloadable content add-on, Broken Steel.
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Switcheroo frustrates Ghostbusters dev
Acti then Atari then Sony in a year.
Ghostbusters developer Terminal Reality has expressed frustration at publishing deals that have seen the game passed around to three different companies in the past year, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
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Fifth Yakuza game in development
Contemporary setting, different style.
SEGA firebrand Toshihiro Nagoshi has revealed that work has already begun on a fifth game in the Yakuza series, known as Ryu Ga Gotoku in Japan, exclusively for the PS3.
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