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Konami confirms new Silent Hill game
Shattered Memories for Wii, PS2, PSP.
Konami has officially unveiled Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for Wii, PS2 and PSP. British studio Climax will develop and aims to release this autumn.
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Plus: story follows multiple threads.
Hands-on previews of Final Fantasy XIII in Edge and the UK Official PlayStation Magazine have torn the wraps off the game's battle system for the first time.
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Worms for Euro PSN this Easter
1080p enhanced version of XBLA release.
Team17 has announced that the PlayStation Network version of Worms will be released in Europe over Easter, which presumably means we'll get it on Thursday, 9th April, before we all shut down to scoff chocolate.
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Most popular US iPhone games named
Tap Tap Revenge leads in comScore data.
32 per cent of US iTunes App Store users have downloaded Tap Tap Revenge, according to a new report from data firm comScore.
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Nintendo not worried by PS3's Japan surge
Has a whole year to regain lead, it says.
Nintendo is "not particularly concerned" about PlayStation 3 being the best-selling console in Japan during March, actually.
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Schafer: Fans worry too much about sales
Publishers like good games, apparently.
Psychonauts developer Tim Schafer reckons we all worry too much about the sales of videogames, while publishers actually put a lot of stock in a game's quality and critical reception.
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Assassin's Creed 2 reveal this month
Da Vinci-covered teaser site pops up.
Assassin's Creed 2 will be unveiled in mid-April according to a teaser site for the game that went up this week.
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PS3 outsells Wii during March in Japan
Yakuza 3, Resident Evil 5 to blame.
Yakuza 3 and Resident Evil 5 helped the PlayStation 3 outsell the Wii in Japan during March for the first time in 16 months.
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Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands WiiWare
Square Enix raids Taito cupboard.
A shellsuit-clad Square Enix plans to release Bubble Bobble Plus for WiiWare on 10th April, followed by Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure sometime in May.
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Resi 5 Versus mode out tomorrow
Shoot friends for under four quid.
Capcom has just announced that the Versus mode for Resident Evil 5 will available tomorrow for Xbox 360 and PS3.
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Second batch of Fable II DLC revealed
See the Future offers just that.
Microsoft and Lionhead have revealed the second batch of Fable II downloadable content, which will be arrive in May for 560 Microsoft Points (GBP 4.76 / EUR 6.72).
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New date for Don King Boxing Wii
Problem obviously solved.
2K Sports has confirmed that Don King Boxing for Wii will be released on 24th April following its recent mishap.
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As Harmonix designer spills beans.
EA has declined to comment on what may be accidental confirmation of LEGO Rock Band.
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Review | The Path
As far off the beaten one as you can imagine.
There's an urge to give it one out of ten. Maybe a two, because two sounds more genuine than one. One sounds like foot-stomping petulance. Two sounds considered, as if I really do mean it. I'm not, because I don't, but it'd serve a couple of good purposes. Firstly, if considered solely as a classical game, The Path is bloody terrible. Secondly, if you're the sort of person who cares about the review score, it's almost certainly not for you and I should turn you off as quickly as possible.
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GH: Greatest Hits renamed Smash Hits?
Activision won't tell us.
Activision has declined to comment on "rumour and speculation" that Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits will be renamed Guitar Hero: Smash Hits.
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The Secret World teased with ARG?
Funcom's community is smarter than yours.
The small but ardent community following the development of The Secret World has uncovered an online puzzle that might be related to Funcom's mysterious MMO.
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Wii Fit reclaims UK chart top spot
Wanted struggles. Ninja Blade fails.
Wii Fit recaptures the UK all-formats chart top spot this week, equalling Nintendo's personal best of 10 weeks for a game at number one - set by Pokémon Yellow back in 2000.
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Feature | SingStar: Past, Present and Future
Sony's karaoke revolution.
Sony is justifiably proud of SingStar. It's sold over 17 million units. Over 4 million songs have been bought and downloaded. It's also almost universally adored by critics. Everyone at Eurogamer plays SingStar, for example, often to the exclusion of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. SingStar's brilliant, and it's a success. So it's slightly bizarre that the highest score it's ever had on Metacritic, across 26 individual disc releases, is 82, with the majority languishing in the mid-70s, if not lower.
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SingStar Extras to offer new game modes
Paid-for or free download additions likely.
Sony plans to launch a new section of the SingStore called "SingStar Extras" soon and use it to distribute paid-for or free gameplay updates for its monstrously popular music game series.
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Ostrich hammer for Red Faction
April Fool's gag is actually in game.
Volition has revealed that the ostrich hammer seen in its brilliant April Fool's video will actually be included in Red Faction: Guerrilla when it launches on 12th June.
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TV man on Stargate MMO: "It's a shame"
Fate of licensed MMO unknown to TV team.
An executive producer of the Stargate TV series has cast serious doubt on the future of the licensed Stargate Worlds MMO, saying that its failure to appear is "a terrible shame".
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Crysis Wars free trial starts Thursday
Full online, LAN, editor access for a week.
Crytek is offering another free trial week for Crysis Wars starting this Thursday, 9th April.
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Sony PSP man slags off Nintendo DSi
Third parties struggle, for kids, etc.
Sony's John Koller has issued a ranty missive accusing the DSi of missing out key demographics and being rubbish for third parties.
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Blizzard has rights to Redneck Rampage
Hillbilly shooter to be revived? No.
A minor fuss has been kicked up by IncGamers' discovery that Blizzard has acquired the rights to, of all things, Redneck Rampage.
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July MotionPlus date is "speculation"
Says Nintendo. Retail leak disagrees.
Nintendo has told Eurogamer that July release dates for MotionPlus and Wii Sports Resort are "purely rumour and speculation".
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New Wii Rabbids title drops mini-games
Series goes back to action-adventure.
Ubisoft has decided to ditch mini-games from the next Raving Rabbids title on Wii and focus on trusty action-adventure instead.
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Crystal Defenders for Wii this month
Episode one, anyway.
Square Enix has announced that the WiiWare version of Crystal Defenders R1 will be released in April, with follow-up game R2's date to be announced later.
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Over 2.5 billion Achievements unlocked
"We never anticipated this reaction."
Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has revealed that over 2.5 billion Xbox 360 Achievements have been unlocked so far.
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Madden NFL 10 due out in August
New animations, special Wii approach.
Electronic Arts has announced that Madden NFL 10 will be released for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2 and PSP this August.
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Yu Suzuki retires from SEGA R&D
Continues to manage one arcade division.
According to GameSpot, SEGA Sammy has announced that legendary designer and producer Yu Suzuki has retired from active, creative development work.
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