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Valve has confirmed the Heavy update for Team Fortress 2 will be released on PC on Tuesday 19th August.
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TF2's Heavy class to get new upgrade
Valve seeking inspiration from gamers.
The next Team Fortress 2 class to be given some new toys will be the Heavy, and Valve wants your help to dream up ideas.
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Eternity's Child dev quits games industry
Stomps off after PC game is slated.
Independent British developer Luc Bernard has vowed never to make another game.
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Roadrunner Records tracks for Rock Band
Six new reasons for neighbours to hate you.
MTV and EA have cobbled together another pack of songs for Rock Band, culled from the catalogue of Heavy Metal indie stalwarts Roadrunner Records, all of which should be out now.
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Future C&C beta key in Red Alert 3
Premier Edition treat.
GAME's exclusive "Premier" package for Red Alert 3 on PC includes a mystery beta key for an unnamed Command & Conquer game.
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MadWorld spoils "family fun image" of Wii
UK pressure group gets hot and bothered.
SEGA Wii game MadWorld will "spoil the family fun image" of the console, according to Mediawatch-UK, a British organisation that campaigns for decency in television, games and films.
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PhysX free for GeForce 8 and above
NVIDIA drivers enable onboard support.
NVIDIA has begun rolling out drivers to activate the sleeping PhysX beast in all GeForce 8 series or higher graphics cards.
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Psyonix making vehicle sports for PSN
Score goals and crash cars in mid-air.
Psyonix Studio, the developer porting Monster Madness to PS3, is working on a PSN game called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars. Which is quite a mouthful.
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Feature | The Casuals Are Coming!
Leave those kids alone.
When you look ahead to the future of gaming, what do you see? An ever-expanding electronic frontier, where games become more varied and immersive as technological boundaries are broken? An infantile playground for the undiscerning masses, dominated by repetitive tasks involving colourful blocks?
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Review | Spore Creatures
Genetically codified.
The obvious reaction to Spore Creatures is that it can't hope to rival its big brother - daddy, perhaps - for depth and scope, and that EA's decision to launch it alongside the PC version on 5th September suggests it's a spin-off for a different market. So it's a bit of a surprise to discover Spore on the DS is secretly an action-adventure. We like those.
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It would take a billion to tackle WOW
So says Football Superstars dev.
Monumental Games boss Rik Alexander has explained why is studio is producing an MMO based around football - rather than opting for a more traditional fantasy theme.
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Magic Roundabout turned into game
Theme tune stuck in head now.
Deep Silver is transforming The Magic Roundabout into PC, Wii, and DS games for release at the end of the year.
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Another free update for Warhawk soon
Trophies, training tutorials, paint jobs.
Warhawk will get another free patch on 27th August, adding all sorts of features such as Trophies, training tutorials, paint jobs, and more, Sony has announced - confirming previous reports.
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Geometry Wars is "not going to stop"
They have enough ideas for 10 games.
Those of you enjoying Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 will be pleased to hear that Bizarre Creations has no intention of giving up on its popular two-stick arcade shooter.
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Midway bins The Career Criminal
GTA-alike not on course for success.
Midway has dumped The Career Criminal, a "large, ambitious, openworld project" that sounds a bit like Grand Theft Auto.
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IPhone Monkey Ball sales hit 300k
SEGA boss says platform looks "viable".
SEGA's iPhone version of Super Monkey Ball sold more than 300,000 copies in its first 20 days on sale, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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"He's kind of his own man right now."
SEGA development legend Yu Suzuki is no longer with the company, the publisher has revealed.
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Braid for PS3 is a possibility - Blow
But no plans for WiiWare or sequel.
Braid might be released for PlayStation 3 in the future, but the PC version is developer Jonathan Blow's primary focus following the game's triumphant, 10/10-winning debut on Xbox Live Arcade.
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Fallout 3 unbanned in Australia
Edited submission gets Skippy's approval.
Australia has decided to unban Fallout 3 and reclassify the game with an MA 15+ title, which happens to be the highest rating in the entire country.
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Wii Fit balances on top of UK chart
Soulcalibur IV denied. Top 40 inside.
Wii Fit has reclaimed the top spot in the UK all-formats chart, bending past last week's winner, Soulcalibur IV, at two.
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Miyamoto hushed up about hobbies?
Times report says so.
British newspaper The Times claims that Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto has been told not to discuss his hobbies in public.
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Street Fighter Alpha confirmed for PSN
Out this Thursday in US, PAL unknown.
Capcom has confirmed the January ESRB listing for Street Fight Alpha on PS3 and PSP - it's the PSone version and it's out this week in the US according to the publisher's website.
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No Brain Training profits for Kawashima
He turned them down. Family unhappy.
Dr Ryuta Kawashima, known to millions as him what did the Brain Training for DS, has revealed he hasn't made a single yen off the profits.
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Review | Fallout 3
Duck and recover?
In games, as in movies, answers tend to hide behind doors. And they don't get much bigger than the door to Vault 101 at the start of Fallout 3, having kept its nuclear bunker safe from the irradiated remains of good ol' USA for a few hundred years. Early on in Bethesda's game, you'll get to open this door. And what lies beyond? A loading screen.
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Eidos reveals new Lara Croft model
Karima out, Alison Carroll in.
Eidos has hired Alison Carroll, 23, from Croydon, as the next in a long line of Lara Croft models.
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Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford
Check out our live Q&A chat-log.
Hello and welcome to our live interview with Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software! Randy's here to talk about the Brothers in Arms series today, courtesy of our friends at Ubisoft.
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Gearbox doing BIA: Hell's Highway demos
Plus PC Achievements, PS3 Trophies.
Randy Pitchford, general of Gearbox Software, is confident there will be demos of Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway at some point.
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What kind of gamer are you, asks analyst
Loyalist or magpie? Lone ranger or wolf?
Industry analyst Sean Dromgoole has identified a range of gaming "types" as part of an attempt to explain who plays what games - and why. Wow.
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MS: Wii third-party sales "not pretty"
Says 360 is the real champion.
Microsoft has hit back at claims made by Nintendo that Wii sells the most third-party games, arguing that its own figures crown Xbox 360 the real winner.
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Feature | Biting the Apple
The generation's big battle might not be between Sony and Microsoft after all.
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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