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echochrome out in Europe next week
Same source says Elefunk today, but no.
European PS3 and PSP owners will finally be able to get their hands on echochrome next week when the game launches on PSN and boxed PSP copies emerge in shops a day later.
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Early chance to try the space combat MMO.
Codemasters Online has opened registration for the beta test for its upcoming space combat MMO, Jumpgate: Evolution.
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Review | Siren: Blood Curse
Grim fandango.
Bloody Japanese villages: safe havens for murderous occult types, intent on turning their human sacrifices into a shambling posse of frothing undead. There are easier ways to commit mass benefit fraud, but there's no telling them. What's more, after decades of zombie education, a dozen Hideo Nakata movies, The Blair Witch Project, Scooby Doo, and all those spooky survival-horror games, you'd think people would reconsider 'investigating' a village that vanished 30 years previously. That shaky cam footage isn't going to help anyone, really, is it?
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PS3 movie download service to begin in US this summer
Japan and Europe to follow later.
Sony has announced it will launch the PS3 movie download service this summer - but only in the US.
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Microsoft hosts PC gaming event
"These are exciting times," says Schappert.
Microsoft is hosting a big old showcase to prove that PC gaming is not dead just having a bit of a sit down.
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Super Robot Wars tops Japanese chart
Metal Gear Solid 4 knocked down to 2.
PSP title Super Robot Wars A Portable has knocked Metal Gear Solid 4 off the top of the Japanese software chart.
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Review | WiiWare: Block Breaker Deluxe and Cocoto Fishing Master
Really? And, really?
Breakout? Really? Yes, that was my first impression as well, but then I thought, well, why not? The ol' bat-and-ball concept has endured because it's inherently fun - for whatever evolutionary reason, we humans like to bounce spherical objects off things, and if the things smash in the process then all the better.
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No patch planned for SFII beta
Might as well stop whinging then.
Downloaded the Super Street Fighter II Turbo High Definition Remix beta? Having problems with freezes, like so many of those posting on the Capcom forum?
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Dyack defends Too Human on forum
May not have thought this through.
Denis Dyack has taken to the Internet to "draw the digital line" under criticism of his forthcoming Xbox 360 game, Too Human.
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Realtime Worlds donates to APB site
Fans get USD 1000 for new server.
Realtime Worlds has donated USD 1000 to an All Points Bulletin fansite to help keep it up and running, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
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I Am Murloc available free today.
As Activision and Blizzard prepare to merge, we get the first sign of what executives likes to call 'synergy' between their businesses: a World of Warcraft-themed song distributed as a free downloadable on Guitar Hero III.
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Review | Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
Inspect a Luso.
The seminal 1998 strategy RPG, Final Fantasy Tactics, begins as all the very best war fairytales do, with a sad princess. She's kneeling on the stone slab floor of an ancient chapel pleading with God for deliverance from her enemies, who advance even as she whispers her grim supplications. The ensuing battle between her bodyguards and the would-be kidnappers is an orthodox but distinguished representation of the genre's chess-like mechanics. Sure, some of the characters are riding overgrown chickens but nonetheless it's an arresting, solemn set-up for a fantasy game whose mechanical complexities match the machinations of its rich and intricate plot.
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Queen! Bros! 2raumwohnung!
Good news, karaoke fans - Sony has whacked a bundle of new songs in the SingStore.
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Commando 3 on Euro PSN next week
The circle is complete.
Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 will be released on the European PSN store next Thursday, 3rd July, a Sony source has told Eurogamer.
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Gears 2 multiplayer details revealed
Four modes explained.
Epic has revealed four multiplayer modes from Gears of War 2, including novel twists on traditional team deathmatch and capture the flag.
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Smash Bros. Battlefield, Aerosmith, Bourne.
For those of you who lost reception during the football yesterday, I sympathise. Unless you're a primary school teacher, obviously, in which case you probably want to call the police and get in touch with the parents and so on. But seriously, there's no segue here: I actually share your pain, although hopefully you didn't share my other pain: babysitting a two-year-old child and a two-month-old puppy as they try and out-piss and s*** one another for seven hours.
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New ratings system could delay releases
So says EA executive.
EA UK boss Keith Ramsdale has warned the Government's proposed new ratings system could cause delays to the release of games in Britain.
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Over 1 million Spore creatures created
But EA quiet on penis monster tally.
More than a million wild, wonderful and mostly penis-shaped beasties have now been designed using the Spore Creature Creator.
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Review | Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Fantastic.
The other week we joked that if OutRun 2 was fan service, SEGA Superstars Tennis was dinner, dancing, cocktails and fellatio. We'd lose our jobs if we tried to put Super Smash Bros. Brawl on that scale. It's so completely, bonkersly in love with Nintendo that it's hard to imagine how it will be topped. Perhaps if the next Mario game prints money out of the disc slot every time you find a star. And Princess Peach turns out to be Scarlett Johansson, who lives in the box, and needs a backrub.
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Interview | Spore
Through the eyes of right-hand lady, Lucy Bradshaw.
Spore is either accompanied by sweeping statements proclaiming its genius or by confused faces wondering what all the fuss is about. It's certainly ambitious. And early last week - Tuesday for those who like specifics - we were treated to the first stage of its launch: the Spore Creature Creator.
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Review | Spore Creature Creator
Ironically, not evolutionary: revolutionary.
It's an unusual situation, to say the least. The Spore Creature Creator is one small part of the full game of Spore, due out on 5th September. Specifically, it's the bit - and smart, title-reading readers will spot this - about creating the creature. You stick bits together, in the manner of a 21st Century Mr. Potato Head, and watch it animate. There's no game. Of course, since one of Spore's main selling features is that your in-game universe will be populated with everyone else's creatures, they'll turn up in a game eventually, but right now there's nothing more than making a creature out of computer clay and marveling as Maxis' magic brings it to life. Maybe put it in front of a different background. Make it dance. Make it play with kids.
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Thousands claim Hot Coffee compensation
Tens of millions don't bother.
It's been revealed that only a few thousand people have claimed compensation over the Hot Coffee mini-game that appeared in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Fallen Empire: Legions goes live
Play the beta of Tribes-style browser FPS.
Browser game portal InstantAction has launched the public beta of GarageGames' multiplayer shooter, Fallen Empire: Legions.
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Original plan featured ads, not a sub.
Speaking at the Game Developers Conference in Paris yesterday, Blizzard's vice president Rob Pardo revealed that World of Warcraft was originally conceived as a subscription-free game supported by advertisements, Gamasutra reports.
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Double D Dodgeball gets release date
It's coming to XBLA next month.
A new trailer for Double D Dodgeball has revealed the game will be released on Xbox Live Arcade on July 30th.
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Review | Top Spin 3
Love at first service.
First they giveth, then they taketh away. Last time around, PAM slightly overcooked Top Spin 2's controls with layers of added complexity which appeared to add depth at the consequence of making it far less intuitive and playable than its deadly rival, Virtua Tennis. As good a game as it undoubtedly was, there was always the nagging sense in the back of your mind that you'd rather be playing SEGA's ageless offering.
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Fable 2 looking likely for October
Molyneux suggests so in new video.
A new developer diary for Xbox 360 exclusive Fable 2 has offered a strong hint the game will be released in October.
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Review | Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Stupid name, fantastic game.
Unlike Namco, Konami, Atari, Midway, and, more recently, SEGA, Capcom has seemingly resisted the cynical urge to lovelessly cash-in on its retro glories from decades past. With Street Fighter 2 the sole representative on Xbox Live Arcade, it seemed only a matter of time before the Japanese giant got around to digitally distributing more of its revered back catalogue.
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Even DC blokes have fatalities - Boon
In new Mortal Kombat. Well, "brutalities".
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe jolly well will have fatalities, series co-creator Ed Boon has reiterated, and even the licensed good guys on the DC side will have equivalents.
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SEGA comments on Nintendo date listing
Some made-up games on there.
SEGA has joined the chorus of PRs clarifying release dates issued en masse by Nintendo yesterday, telling Eurogamer that there's no Beijing 2008 for Wii or Sonic Unleashed for DS despite listings for both.
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