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Blizzard: StarCraft MMO would be difficult
Pearce pours cold water on speculation.
Speaking at the Leipzig Games Convention, Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce distanced himself from speculation that the company is working on a StarCraft MMO, calling such a prospect "difficult", "overwhelming" and "scary".
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No PS3 price cut this year, says Reeves
Plus: Home is "absolutely on track".
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves has confirmed there will be no reduction in the price of PlayStation 3 before 2009.
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EA in secret talks with Take-Two
Could a takeover still be on the cards?
Take-Two is to take part in top secret talks with Electronic Arts, according to Reuters.
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Left 4 Dead held back a fortnight
Due out on Half-Life 1 anniversary.
Left 4 Dead has been delayed for a couple more weeks according to Valve boss Gabe Newell.
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Bionic Commando Rearmed sells 130k
"Consumers voted with their dollars."
Capcom has sold over 130,000 copies of Bionic Commando Rearmed via digital distribution, and producer Ben Judd reckons the sales are a message from consumers.
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Review | WiiWare Roundup
Strong Bad Episode 1 and My Aquarium.
Point-and-click adventures are making a comeback. If you're a follower of the genre, this won't come as a revelation, and you may even argue that they never really went away. My own response to this revival has been muted, and I've been accused many times of being some lunk-headed FPS addict for my less than ecstatic response to some recent examples.
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Interview | Media Molecule's Alex Evans
Setting the borders for LittleBigPlanet.
Who would have thought, with all the marketing millions and pretensions of cool behind Sony's PlayStation 3, that its most iconic characters in 2008 could end up being a nicotine-loving geriatric in skin-tight latex and a doll made out of burlap cloth? The geriatric, at least, was something we expected. The sack doll? Not so much.
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Feature | SEGA Mega Drive Handheld
Still Mega nearly 20 years on?
SEGA's quite fond of its legacy, and so it should be. So much so, in fact, that president of SEGA of America, Simon Jeffery recently commented: "We're looking at Game Gear. The interest in digital delivery media and the iPhone has really caused us to look back to the past and the great golden days of SEGA gaming in all formats, not just the Genesis. So absolutely we're looking back there."
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Interview | Bungie's Damian Isla
Bungie's AI guru on the thinking behind Halo.
Most big, modern games are, of necessity, a team effort - so much so that it's often hard to ascribe any particular part of the experience to one person. In the Halo series, for instance, all manner of people contributed to the games, and for the most part, you'd be hard pressed to pick out a great moment and say, "this person made this". It's a team effort. Everyone's fingers are in all sorts of pies, and every pie has all sorts of fingers in it.
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Bungie, Media Molecule, Retro.
Monday, 25th August is a Bank Holiday in the land of Eurogamer, which means that there won't be any news updates.
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With video! 160GB PS3, keypad, new PSP, Heavy Rain, LBP date, SingStar, EyePet.
What do you mean you missed it? Oh well, never mind. Sony had a press conference at Games Convention in Leipzig. We covered it live (including Ellie shouting MANILOW a lot). And there was a lot to cover! So, in case you missed any of it, here's a quick rundown with links through to all the key details.
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Brand new Resistance 2 video at 5pm!
Called Twisted History.
Stop by Eurogamer at 5pm UK time tonight (6pm CET / 10am PST) and you will be able to check out an exclusive new Resistance 2 video called "Twisted History".
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MG Acid for PSN "possible" - Kojima
Although nothing's in development.
Metal Gear Solid superdad Hideo Kojima has told Eurogamer that it's "possible" the Metal Gear Acid games could end up on PlayStation Network, although he stressed nothing is in production.
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Saved films for Duke Nukem XBLA
Out in September says Microsoft.
Duke Nukem 3D will sport a saved-film feature when the game launches on Xbox Live Arcade next month.
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Review | Galaga Legions
Loving the alien.
It's funny to look back on Kristan's review of the original Galaga, back when it plopped onto Live Arcade. Released in the middle of the 360's post-launch games drought, it was yet another retro arcade game shovelled online without much passion or care, and nobody was particularly surprised.
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Review | Alone in the Dark
Why the PS3 version will be better.
For once, PS3 owners should be grateful for having to wait ages for a game to show up on their platform. Because, in Alone in the Dark's case, this is no loveless and unoptimised port; this is the game it should have been in the first place.
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Interview | World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Chilton and Brack: Kings of all they survey.
With the next World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, well into beta testing and due out before the end of the year, we've been poring over the details - the spectacular Death Knight starting zone especially - for some weeks now. We've also been pondering the implications of the absurdly generous new friend recruitment drive, as well as theAchievement system, and how it relates to Blizzard's new company-wide Blizzard Accounts. We caught up with co-lead designer Tom Chilton and producer J. Allen Brack in Leipzig - where Blizzard unveiled the Lich King cinematic - to canvass their views.
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Thai another day.
Underworld's first trailer may have suggested total revolution, with Croft Manor blasted into dust while Mozart's Requiem shriekingly heralds the end of the entire world, but Eidos' slow striptease reveal of Tomb Raider's next instalment suggests that very little of the fundamental experience is going to change much.
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Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer
Is this living?
"But I'm sure you want to know about the games." So said David Reeves, about half an hour into Sony's Games Convention press conference. He was right, having spent the last 30 minutes showing off portables and bundles and peripherals and services. And quoting Bob Dylan, perhaps ill-advisedly: for all the talk of selling out, it's unlikely that The Times They Are A' Changin' was about the seventh generation of the console war.
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BF Heroes effectively "already out"
DICE to slowly, significantly expand beta.
DICE bigwig Ben Cousins has said there will be no big release for Battlefield Heroes, but rather a closed beta to expand so much that "every hardcore gamer in the world will probably be able to get a key if they want to".
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Feature | Battle of Destiny 2008
A weekend in the beat-'em-up hardcore heartland.
At Holloway Road's Rocket Centre in London, an annex to the Metropolitan University next door, things are fairly quiet at 10am. Cars roll past and a few early birds filter out of the nearby train station clutching roadmaps. By this point the Neo Empire crew, the most avid contributors to the UK fighting game scene, have been setting up for hours. Battle of Destiny is their biggest event ever, and, with full support and sponsorship from Capcom, nerves are on edge.
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Review | Bionic Commando
The next-gen arms race.
Now that Bionic Commando Rearmed has finally made it onto our Internet (complete with special Eurogamer Challenge Room - did we mention?), it's time to turn our attention once again to Capcom's more expansive, thematically bleaker 3D re-imagining of the series. Developed in Sweden by GRIN with occasional input from some of Capcom's most seasoned hands, Bionic Commando is a cross between acrobatic platformer and third-person shooter, bringing a twenty-year-old, inspired idea into the modern era.
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Soulcalibur IV demo on Xbox Live
Yoda well to at least try the game.
Ubisoft has strong-punched a Soulcalibur IV demo onto Xbox Live Marketplace.
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Another peripheral for Guitar Hero 4
Neversoft not ready to say what.
Neversoft, developer of Guitar Hero World Tour, still has another instrument peripheral to unveil.
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Samba de Amigo Wii to offer DLC
Full track list inside.
Samba de Amigo on Wii will offer downloadable content when a trio of songs are added shortly after the game launches on 19th September.
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Cammy included in Street Fighter IV
Won public vote, apparently. Go girl.
Capcom plans to include Cammy in the Street Fighter IV console versions in response to a public vote.
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Ratchet and other loot in PSN update
PSP and PSone games, Buzz quiz pack, more.
Ratchet & Clank: Quest for Booty - reviewed yesterday - is now available for GBP 9.99 / EUR 14.99 on the PlayStation Store, along with a new Buzz quiz pack, the PSone version of Track & Field and a pair of 15-quid PSP games.
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Super Mario RPG heads VC update
Another Hanabi Festival gets under way.
Nintendo has decided to run another Hanabi festival, which means various games that never made their way west or to Europe will be added to Virtual Console.
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Review | Space Siege
Because Metal Corridor Siege isn't as catchy.
I removed my brain because I was bored. I replaced my entire head with lump of glowing metal because there was nothing else to do. My legs are now pistons because it was the only decision I felt I had to make. My chest is a mass of steel and circuitry because surgically removing my torso seemed like more fun than walking down another corridor.
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New Prince of Persia move unveiled
Plus: why he sounds American.
Ubisoft has revealed a new acrobatic move for the titular character of the new Prince of Persia game.
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