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Crayon Physics Deluxe pre-orders live
15 dollars, including beta access soon.
Kloonigames' Independent Games Festival-winning Crayon Physics Deluxe is finally available to pre-order for a ridiculously minuscule USD 14.95, which will also grant access to a beta version in due course.
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Garriott leaves NCsoft as profits dive
"New interests" made him do it.
Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott has resigned from Korean publishing company NCsoft.
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Blizzard bans 350k from Battle.net
StarCraft and Diablo II hax0rs pwned.
Having banned nearly 8,000 people for cheating at Warcraft III a fortnight ago, Blizzard has now banned over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts also "found to be using third-party hacks" on Battle.net.
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Microsoft bans Xbox 360 pirates
Has them walk the Live plank.
Microsoft has banned a bunch of rule-breaking Xbox 360 owners who have modified their consoles to play pirated games.
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US to get Mirror's Edge PC in January
DLC also down for early 2009 release.
Electronic Arts has announced the PC version of Mirror's Edge will indeed be released in January - in the US, anyway.
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Far Cry 2 sales hit 1 million mark
In less than three weeks since launch.
Ubisoft has announced that a million copies of Far Cry 2 have now been sold.
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Review | Linger in Shadows
Scene but not heard.
It's a fair bet that a lot of people downloaded Linger in Shadows from PSN, perhaps enticed by its grungy visuals and impulse price point (GBP 1.99), only to be left utterly bewildered by the experience. To be fair, it's not as if Sony or Plastic, the coding team responsible, did a particularly good job of explaining what Linger in Shadows was going to be or what it was doing on PSN alongside more traditional gaming fare.
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Big Fable II announcement next week
Dev blog post sparks DLC rumours.
A mysterious post on Lionhead's development blog suggests a Fable II announcement is due "early next week".
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Review | The Lord of the Rings Online: The Mines of Moria
What's Mines is Mines... what's yours is an exclusive item giveaway.
Due to popular demand, we have 5,000 more exclusive in-game items for Lord of the Rings Online to give away. Head over to Eurogamers to claim your Hauberk of the Mithril Guard, for use on European servers, and then read on for our impressions of the beta test of the Mines of Moria, first expansion of the Tolkein MMO.
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Developer confident about new Silent Hill
Reckons it'll be "at least as compelling".
Developer Double Helix believes Silent Hill: Homecoming will be "at least as compelling as some of the previous games" in the spooky series, despite being the studio's first attempt at the IP.
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Football Manager 2009 patch on Friday
SI starts tackling score-dropping bugs.
Sports Interactive has told Eurogamer to expect a patch for Football Manger 2009 on Friday, alongisde the European launch of the game.
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King's Bounty add-on in the works
Interesting Russian RPG in demand.
Russian developer Katauri is hard at work on an expansion to well-received PC tactical RPG King's Bounty: The Legend.
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PS3 Sonic Unleashed moves to December
Plus: US, UK, Asian versions all identical.
SEGA has told Eurogamer that the PS3 version of Sonic Unleashed has been pushed back to an unspecific date in December.
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Animal Crossing Wii Speak bundle priced
Yours for around 60 quid.
Nintendo has told Eurogamer that Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City will cost around GBP 59 if you want to buy it bundled with Wii Speak.
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PC split-screen removed from L4D demo
It will be in the full game, though.
Valve has patched the PC demo of Left 4 Dead to remove split-screen play, which could be activated by plugging in an Xbox 360 controller and typing a short console command.
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Review | eRepublik
Bite-sized democracy.
It wasn't widely reported, but in April of this year, the United States declared war on Canada. Perhaps it was inevitable - the smug superiority over low gun crime figures, that cruel stranglehold on the world's moose resources, or maybe just the country's odd propensity for coming up with place names like Flin Flon and Winnipeg - whatever the reason, the US of A seemed to feel that its neighbour to the north had it coming. It certainly looked like the whole business was going to be over quickly: on one side, a nation of proud arms-bearing hyper-capitalists hepped up on Big Tastys and Buffalo Jerky, and on the other, a cadre of unnaturally polite international backpackers. What could possibly go wrong for Uncle Sam?
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Rock Band creators get USD 300m bonus
For exceeding performance targets.
MTV parent company Viacom plans to dish out enormous USD 300 million (GBP 193 million) in bonuses to Rock Band creators Harmonix for exceeding performance targets.
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Maguire is "shopkeeper-slash-pop star"
Web changed consumers, says Sony boss.
Sony UK boss Ray Maguire has said he resembles a "shopkeeper-slash-pop star" on an internet, where "everyone now is a journalist".
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Prince of Persia PC slips by a week
Another Christmas top spot for Ubisoft?
Ubisoft has pushed the PC release of Prince of Persia back a week to 12th December.
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Lich King midnight launch plans revealed
Capital cities under siege (in Azeroth).
Blizzard has helpfully supplied a comprehensive list of every single shop in Europe that will sell you a copy of second World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King at midnight tomorrow night.
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Jumpgate beta nets 150,000 sign-ups
Space combat MMO readies for launch.
Codemasters Online has announced that 150,000 people have signed up for the beta test of its massively multiplayer space combat game Jumpgate: Evolution.
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Final Fantasy VII: Snowboarding released
For mobiles, and only in Japan.
Square Enix has released the first snowboarding-themed instalment in the Final Fantasy series.
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Q3's top five best-sellers revealed
Madden, Wii Fit and Star Wars win out.
Electronic Arts notched up the world's biggest selling game from July to September with Madden NFL 09 shifting 2.994 million units, according to a new report combining US, UK and Japanese sales data.
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New ending for Chrono Trigger DS
Revamped SNES classic gains features.
Square Enix is planning to include a brand new ending in the DS remake of Chrono Trigger. And presumably this will be additional rather than a replacement, although we've asked the publisher for clarification.
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25 characters in Street Fighter IV?
Unconfirmed character-select screen.
Eagle-eyed kicky-punchers at Belgium's NEXT expo in Heysel have uncovered what looks like a complete Street Fighter IV character roster.
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Activision buys Guitar Hero port house
Budcat Creations to join ranks.
You sell some, you buy some. Having sold Swedish RTS developer Massive to Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard has replaced it with port specialist Budcat Creations.
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Romance is "f***ing hard" - Bleszinski
And women like Gears, he says.
Cliff Bleszinski has admitted that tugging on our heart-strings in his new chart-topping game, Gears of War 2, was "f**ing hard to do".
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Ubisoft snaps up World in Conflict
And Swedish developer Massive.
The Sierra Entertainment fire sale continues. Ubisoft has bought the rights to real-time strategy game World In Conflict - and picked up its Swedish developer Massive Entertainment while it was about it.
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Gears 2 top UK chart, LBP in fourth
Also slow start for MotorStorm, EndWar.
Gears of War 2 has blasted its way to the top of the UK chart while LittleBigPlanet managed fourth behind FIFA 09 and Fallout 3.
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UK charts: Fallout 3 is new clear leader
Lots of new entries. Full top 40 inside.
Fallout 3 has exploded into the UK charts, robbing the top spot from RPG rival Fable II.
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