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Resi 5 demo coming to Live this month
No PSN version, by the looks of things.
Capcom has announced a demo of Resident Evil 5 is coming to Xbox Live on Monday 26th January.
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Eidos unveils new Mini Ninjas game
Kane & Lynch dev working on it.
Eidos has unveiled a brand new Mini Ninjas IP, due for release on PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and DS this autumn.
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No 'PlayStation' phone for Sony Ericsson
Mobile manufacturer denied use of brand.
Sony Ericsson has said that the current level of mobile phone technology could not do the "prestigious" PlayStation brand justice.
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Phantasy Star Portable gets new DLC
Download a brand new multiplayer mode.
SEGA has released new downloadable content for PSP exclusive Phantasy Star Portable.
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F.E.A.R. 2 demo coming this week
For PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
Warner Bros. has announced a demo for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin will be available from Thursday 22nd January.
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Nirvana bassist impressed by Rock Band
But he can't play his own song properly.
Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic has paid tribute to Rock Band for encouraging people to buy music again, but admitted he's rubbish at it himself.
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SOE MMOs now on Steam for cheap
EverQuest I and II, Vanguard, Pirates.
Valve and Sony Online Entertainment have linked arms to bring some of the MMO operator's games to Steam.
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COD's zombie Nazis unlocked for consoles
Nacht der Untoten playlist set free.
Treyarch has unlocked Call of Duty: World at War's "Nacht der Untoten" playlist - the one where you and up to three friends fight off waves of zombie Nazis.
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Review | Weapon of Choice
The right to choose. Guns.
If you got my fifteen-year-old self to design a game, and assuming you hadn't got me in one of my 20-sided-dice-with-everything moods, you'd end up with something which - at first glance - would look a lot like this all-action Xbox 360 Community Game.
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Review | Virtual Console Roundup
The last ten! Including Secret of Mana.
Typical. You turn your back for a few months and the Virtual Console fills up with games, including a sprinkling of bona fide classics. There's a lot to catch up on, so let's not waste time on introductions, eh?
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Feature | Uphill Struggle
Sony's expected operating loss isn't the PS3's fault, but that's where the blame will rest.
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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Interview | Overlord II
In conversation with Triumph's creative director, Lennart Sas.
Fusing elements of Sacrifice, Pikmin and wicked British humour into its deliciously dark premise, Overlord is one of the most adorable new games of recent times. Released in 2007 on 360 and PC, positive feedback was in plentiful supply, with the monumentally evil Kieron Gillen happy to dish out a well-deserved 8/10 for Triumph's strategy-adventure. A year later, the tweaked, beefed-up and generally refined Overlord: Raising Hell appeared on PS3, and scooped another creditable 8/10.
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Special YouTube launches for Wii, PS3
Simplified and tailored to fit tellies.
YouTube has launched a fancy version of its website tailored specially for PlayStation 3 and Wii owners using television displays.
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Treyarch explains PC patch process
Helps fans cope with lengthy wait.
Treyarch has explained to the Call of Duty: World at War community why patching the PC version has taken so long.
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LBP the creative star of 2008 - Molyneux
"One of the defining titles on PS3."
Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has hailed LittleBigPlanet as the most important creative innovation of 2008, ahead of his own dog-filled role-playing adventure Fable II.
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Guild Wars plans the year ahead
Fewer content updates, more stuff.
The live team looking after NCsoft's MMO Guild Wars has posted its plans for 2009. These include doing less frequent, but more substantial content updates.
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Nintendo still king of the castle in Japan
But PS3 gains momentum.
Nintendo systems are winning Japan once more after a greedy Christmas period.
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Three more line-up for WiiWare
Strong Bad! Lonpos! Minigolf!
Nintendo has crammed three more games onto the WiiWare store.
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Garriott "would continue" Tabula Rasa
Creator feels it wasn't given a chance.
Ultima and Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott has told GameDaily that he's disappointed that NCsoft didn't stick with his science-fiction MMO longer.
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SEGA dates House of the Dead: Overkill
Has great night, does coffee.
SEGA has decided to release spooky Wii shooter House of the Dead: Overkill on spooky day Friday 13th February.
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Killzone 2 demo due day before launch
In the US. Still no word on Europe.
Sony America plans to offer a Killzone 2 demo to the general public on Thursday 26th February, a day before the confirmed US release.
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Big backing for the book-based fantasies.
EA Partners has signed on to distribute the Wheel of Time games based on the popular Robert Jordan fantasy novels.
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Leaked Battlefront III footage emerges
As Rebellion takes creative control.
Footage supposedly showing an alpha build of Battlefront III in action has leaked onto the internet.
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Review | The Godfather II
Don? Moi?
Of all the games at EA's Winter Showcase in Guildford this week, there wasn't much that bruised any expectations. We always knew that a salvo of spin-offs and expansions would inflate the Spore franchise into something infinitely more disturbing and vulgar than a creature with bell-ends for eyes. And it comes as no surprise that Dragon Age is shaping up to be another fantastic BioWare story, and a game that'll bring a furious itching disease to the entire skin of anyone with a hint of ADHD.
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Hardcore MMO slips to February.
Darkfall Online, the intimidatingly strict player-versus-player MMO from Greece, has had its release pushed back from next week to next month.
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Nintendo breaks US sales records
Takes credit for "99 per cent" of growth.
Nintendo has broken the record for the highest number of consoles sold during one year in the US.
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No FFXIII in US/Europe until 2010
But Japanese PS3 version out this year.
Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has told Reuters that Final Fantasy XIII will not be released outside Japan until April 2010 or later.
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Xbox 360 beating PS3 by 8m, says MS
Claims to be winning in both EU and US.
Microsoft has said its internal figures show 28 million Xbox 360 consoles have now been sold worldwide - putting it ahead of the PS3 by 8 million units.
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US PS3 sales up 40 per cent year-on-year
Sony feeling "confident" about 2009.
Xbox 360 may be outselling PS3 by nearly 2 to 1 in the US, but Sony has said it's "confident" 2009 will be a great year for PlayStation.
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Nintendo tops US game charts for 2008
Plus: GTA more popular on 360 than PS3.
Nintendo "bossed" the American software charts for 2008, with the top four best-selling games all exclusive to the Wii.
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