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    Two new modes for Metal Gear Online

    Team Sneaking and Headshot Only.

    Konami has updated Metal Gear Online with two free new gameplay modes: Team Sneaking and Headshot Only.

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    WOW passes "the Bushnell Threshold"

    Atari founder's son gives up; it's all over.

    As well as knocking Atari in his interview with Gamasutra, Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and creator of Pong, has declared that MMO mega-hit World of Warcraft has just passed "the Bushnell Threshold".

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    Bungie hints at E3 announcement

    Could a new game be on the way?

    Bungie is planning to make some kind of announcement at E3 next week, by the sounds of things.

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    Review | Siren: Blood Curse - Chapters 1-3

    Horribly good value.

    Americanised remakes of Japanese horror. Depending on your perspective, that phrase may or may not induce absolute revulsion - but even those who insist on the originals would have to acknowledge that Americanised remakes tend to work best when the Japanese creative team is deeply involved (The Grudge), and worst when the films are so heavily Americanised that their origins are entirely erased (the execrable Pulse).

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    Bushnell bashes Atari's lack of values

    Over last 15 years it's been "a logo".

    Atari founder Nolan Bushnell reckons Atari's big problem "for the last 15 years is that it hasn't stood for anything".

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    Atari points to September for Legendary

    Alone in the Dark PS3 down for Q4.

    Atari has told us to expect Spark Unlimited shooter Legendary in September.

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    Fable 2 Live Arcade titles due in August

    Pre-order game to get them free.

    Microsoft has decided to release the Fable 2 Pub Games on Live Arcade this August.

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    Interview | Flagship's Max Schaefer

    On the future of free MMO Mythos, and what went wrong with Hellgate.

    Max Schaefer is the operations chief and co-founder of Flagship Studios. Flagship was created by Max, brother Erich, Bill Roper and David Brevik after they all left Blizzard North, where they had worked together on the two Diablo games. Its first game, the anticipated online action-RPG Hellgate: London, released last year to mixed reviews. Flagship is now working on Mythos, a colourful free-to-play MMO with very Diablo-style, fast-paced, top-down action, which we rather liked when we tried the beta.

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    UK chart: Smash Bros. still victorious

    Buzz! PS3 playing catch-up.

    There's little change at the top of the UK all-formats chart this week, as Super Smash Bros. Brawl continues to fight off opposition from Battlefield: Bad Company at two and LEGO: Indiana Jones at three.

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    PS3 gets firmware update 2.41

    Sony apologises for inconvenience.

    PS3 firmware update 2.41 is now available for download.

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    Review | Skate It

    Skate expectations.

    Skate wasn't built for the DS and Wii, and that's presented EA with something of a problem. How can you get a gameworld filled with milling pedestrians and wide-open draw distances to work on less powerful hardware? Its solution with Skate It, due out later this year, is to bring in a series of "comical natural disasters" (their words, not ours) to kick the city of San Vanelona into more manageably angular chunks of geometry, and clear out ninety-nine percent of the original population. God may work in mysterious ways, then, but sometimes He can be alarmingly platform-specific.

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    Review | Guitar Hero: On Tour

    Stays on tour. Hopefully.

    Guitar Hero and the Nintendo DS make an odd-looking couple, but the decision to produce hundreds of thousands of wacky clip-on plastic peripherals is perfectly sound. Activision and RedOctane have driven rhythm-action to unprecedented success on home consoles (over a billion dollars in revenue, for instance), and Nintendo has widened the market for handheld games with unprecedented videogame controllers. Guitar Hero: On Tour can look as silly as it likes - it's a match made in money, as the game's more than 300,000 US sales demonstrated last week.

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    Nintendo dismisses widescreen DS claims

    "Purely rumour and speculation."

    Nintendo has told Eurogamer that claims it is preparing to unveil a widescreen DS are "purely rumour and speculation".

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    Eledees to return on DS

    Sequel to quirky Wii title coming.

    Konami has said it will be bringing the Eledees back to life on the DS this winter.

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    Review | Guitar Hero: On Tour

    Rock out and about.

    Guitar Hero relies on three things to work: a fake guitar to strum and jump around with, a good track selection, and solid and balanced gameplay. Guitar Hero: On Tour for the DS, therefore, shouldn't work. How are you meant to get all that music on a game card? And what about the guitar? It shouldn't work, but oddly it sort of does.

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    MySims to appear on PC

    Play and share with friends online.

    Electronic Arts has whipped the wrappers off a PC version of its popular town-builder MySims.

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    The Wii is a novelty console, says MS man

    Greenberg predicts graduations to 360.

    Microsoft loudmouth Aaron Greenberg reckons most people buy the Wii as a novelty to show off at parties rather than as a long-term investment worth building up a game collection for.

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    Audience wants shorter games - Argonauts dev

    Can't spare "days and days on end".

    Gamers have evolved and can't afford to spend "days and days on end" trawling through lengthy adventures, Rise of the Argonauts lead designer Charley Price has told Eurogamer.

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    Rise of the Argonauts

    Greeks bearing gifts.

    What do RPG fans want? Rise of the Argonauts' lead designer Charley Price believes they want a strong, customisable character with choices to make. And beyond that, it should be simple. Price says he's been busy "discarding the baggage of Dungeons & Dragons" for Argonauts - due out on PC, PS3 and 360 later this year - because it's laborious and repetitive. There's no juggling inventory items, no health or mana bars, no levelling up, XP or grind, and menus are few. This is a third-person action-RPG built on Unreal Engine 3. And Argonauts doesn't stop at reinterpreting the genre; it also wants to resurrect Ancient Greece.

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    Fatal Inertia Ex gets Euro date

    Improved PS3 racer here next week.

    Koei has finally decided on a European date for Fatal Inertia Ex, the improved PS3 version of its futuristic racer.

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    EA Sports games "have been too hard"

    Moore has more on his mind.

    Peter Moore believes the real "movement" for Xbox 360 and PS3 sports games in the future will be making them more approachable.

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    Final Fantasy WiiWare gets DLC

    Expand with dungeons and costumes.

    Square Enix has added more bits to download for WiiWare Final Fantasy outing My Life As King.

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    Review | WiiWare: My Pokémon Ranch and Pop

    Not impressed.

    "LUMINEON is enjoying riding on STARAPTOR!"

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    Vietnam turns to power-levelling

    MMO players earn more than teachers.

    Gold-farming and power-levelling in MMO games is already a big business in China. It now seems that Vietnam is the next Asian economy to explore this lucrative, if rather bizarre, cottage industry.

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    Codies responds to GRID complaints

    "We'd rather it hadn't come to this..."

    Codemasters has responded to irate Race Driver: GRID fans that were stripped of their hard earned ranks in the recent server-wide reset.

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    Major Vanguard update detailed

    New starting area, characters, raids.

    In a producer's letter on the official website, the makers of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes have revealed details of a major update to the Sony Online Entertainment fantasy MMO, due in the next couple of months.

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    New yoga game coming to Wii

    Will work with balance board.

    JoWooD has confirmed it plans to release a yoga-themed title for the Wii.

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    Bungie Day Halo 3 freebies arrive

    Some only available today.

    Bungie is celebrating itself today and offering you a bag of Halo 3 goodies for absolutely free.

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    New SOCOM delayed by a month

    Still no confirmation of Euro date.

    The US release of PS3 exclusive SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Confrontation has been delayed by a month.

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    EA apologises for FIFA anthem gaffe

    Made a mistake with Soldiers' Song.

    EA Sports has apologised for mistakenly including the "Soldiers' Song" as the anthem for Northern Ireland in its FIFA 2008 game.

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