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Out same day as Animal Crossing.
Nintendo has said the Wii Speak Channel will be available in Europe from 5th December - the same day Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City.
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Thousands of COD X360 keys soon
World at War, EG holding gate open.
Eurogamer is happy, historically sensitive and proud to announce that we will soon have thousands of beta keys for Call of Duty: World at War on Xbox 360 to give away. (Yes, we're reinforcing the servers first.)
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Afro Samurai for PS3 and 360 next year
Based on Samuel L. Jackson anime.
Atari has picked up Afro Samurai from Namco Bandai and plans to unleash it here in 2009.
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Listen to the latest One Life Left
With a special guest co-host. Wink.
Having invaded One Life Left - Europe's premier radio show about videogames broadcast in London on Resonance FM - last week to talk about the Eurogamer Expo, this week we went further. Much further.
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LittleBigPlanet boss "annoyed" by controls
But "we can work on that".
Media Molecule co-founder Mark Healey has admitted that controlling LittleBigPlanet "annoys" him, but insisted the studio can "refine" this after the game releases.
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Turn Rock Band 2 chars into figurines
Or t-shirts or posters or stickers.
RockBand.com has been overhauled and now lets you build custom figurines of characters from Rock Band 2.
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Silicon Knights cuts 26 jobs temporarily
Hopes to reinstate them on new games.
Too Human developer Silicon Knights has temporarily laid off 26 employees while work on "several new and exciting games" gets under way.
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MLB Stickball for XBLA tomorrow
Urban baseball and big heads.
MLB Stickball will be the Xbox Live Arcade game released tomorrow, Wednesday 8th October, as Microsoft says we've been asking for baseball game for a while now.
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Molyneux asks critics to do him a favour
Wants us to get a non-gamer to play it too.
Having given Fable 2 9/10 in his own unofficial review last month, Lionhead's Peter Molyneux is now dispensing tips and instructions to those of us who had to wait.
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Fastest seller in series. Top 40 inside.
FIFA 09 has scored a number one debut in the UK All-Formats chart this week, becoming the fastest selling instalment ever in the football series.
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Suda 51's horror game using Unreal
Weirdly, Wii is among target platforms.
EA has announced that Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami's upcoming horror game will use Unreal Engine 3.
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Xbox is "unqualified success" - Ballmer
And Xbox Live "is going gangbusters".
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has rubbished suggestions that the Xbox 360 price cut was a last-ditch attempt to spur sales going into Christmas, arguing that the console is "an absolute home run".
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Europe gets Xbox 360 price cut
Is now cheapest machine on the market.
Microsoft has officially announced it is cutting the price of Xbox 360 in Europe.
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Football Manager MMO out this year
"The game is done," says Jacobson.
Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has said the developer will soft-launch Football Manager Live, its first stab at a touchline hairdryer MMO, later this year.
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Review | Tom Clancy's EndWar
Talking to the TV: now cool.
Many years ago, I owned a computer with a very rudimentary voice-operated word processor on it. I can't remember the name of the particular bit of software, which is probably handy from a legal point of view given what I'm about to say about it, but I do remember that it was a dazzlingly effective piece of technology, so long as what you required was an easy means of taking letters, shopping lists, CVs and college essays, and transforming them into conceptually challenging works of modernist free association. It was a lovely idea, but it didn't work.
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Exclusive Tomb Raider episodes for 360
Plus exclusive Underworld demo this month.
Microsoft has secured the exclusive rights to distribute two downloadable add-on episodes for Tomb Raider: Underworld on Xbox Live following the release of the game.
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Nintendo DSi software region-locked
Only DSi-specific software, however.
Software specifically created for the Nintendo DSi will be region-locked, meaning that European software will only work on European consoles, and more importantly US and Japanese software won't.
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Fils-Aime: Wii Music is difficult actually
"We made it appear too simple."
Nintendo US boss Reggie Fils-Aime has admitted doing Wii Music an "injustice" by underselling its complexity at E3.
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Review | Need for Speed Undercover
Always crashing in the same car.
As Good Queen Bess noted in her review of the original Need for Speed in 1601, in-between denouncing its vinyl-clad carriages and under-horse neon as Godlessness, if not a plot by villainous Spaniards, this is a series with legs. She meant wheels - and she was right. These days, the yearly refresh has become as much a part of Christmas as Die Hard reruns or that nasty annual bout of conjunctivitis.
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Calamitous Rock Band 2 bug found
Wipes saved tour groups.
Fans have found a rather calamitous multiplayer bug in Rock Band 2 that wipes groups from the hard drive.
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Killzone 2 and Left 4 Dead at EG Expo
Plus indie games including Braid PC.
Eurogamer is happy to announce that PlayStation 3 exclusive Killzone 2 and the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead will be playable at the Eurogamer Expo later this month.
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Review | PSP-3000
We've got one. Thoughts on the new screen and firmware 4.20.
The first time David Reeves got up on stage and took a new PSP out of his pocket, it was easy to see why he looked so pleased with himself. The PSP-2000 - or Slim & Lite to you and me and the shops - was considerably smaller and lighter, and upon further investigation was clearly a big step forward, introducing USB charging, external video output, and more onboard memory to improve load times.
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Star Ocean PSP gets release date
SNES remake coming later this month.
Square Enix plans to launch Star Ocean: First Departure on 24th October.
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Sony explains Sackboy toy shortages
Production held up until launch.
Sony has explained to Eurogamer that there has been a slight production hiccup with the Sackboy toys, meaning they won't be shipped in time to be sent with pre-ordered copies of LittleBigPlanet.
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Be Proto Man, play an endless level.
Capcom will dish out some extra content for Mega Man 9 this week.
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Review | Brothers in Arms: Double Time
Missing in action.
The World War II shooter genre has yet to make itself essential on the Wii, with the best efforts on the console - Call of Duty 3 and Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 - still only managing to scrape their way to disappointing 5/10 scores. Now it's the turn of Ubisoft's squad-based Brothers in Arms to take up the challenge.
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Final Fantasy XI available digitally
For PC, in Europe, via Metaboli.
Square Enix's Final Fantasy XI is the latest MMO to become available via digital download.
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Stargate Worlds closed beta next week
Registration still open.
Big Download is reporting that the closed beta test for Stargate Worlds is due to start next week, on 15th October.
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PS3 Eternal Sonata for February
With added bars of content.
Atari plans to release the PS3 version of Eternal Sonata here in February 2009.
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MS shows redesigned XBL Games Store
Pretty as a picture.
Microsoft has shed more light on how the redesigned Xbox Live Games Store will work when it launches sometime in November, probably.
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