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Street Fighter II beta to begin today
Battle online as either Ryu or Ken.
Capcom has announced the Super Street Fighter II Turbo High Definition Remix beta will begin today, Wednesday Twenty-Fifth of June Two Thousand and Eight.
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New PSP firmware update now available
Not particularly exciting to be honest.
Sony has released firmware update 4.01 for the PSP.
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Limited edition Spore unveiled
Comes with Making Of video, shockingly.
Electronic Arts has revealed forthcoming evoution sim Spore will be available as a limited edition, or Galactic Edition as it's being titled.
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EA Sports to produce peripherals
Rock Band-style strategy revealed.
Electronic Arts exec David McCarthy has revealed there are plans to bundle EA Sports games with peripherals within the next year.
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Review | Buzz! Quiz TV
Let's get quizzical.
Slowly but surely, Sony's plan to woo the casual gamer is starting to become clear. Drawing obvious, yet understandable inspiration from proven internet concepts, it's now pushing the trendy idea of user-created content far more aggressively than their rivals. There's SingStar, of course, with its YouTubey karaoke video uploads. Eventually there'll be LittleBigPlanet with its drag-and-drop physics playground. And here we have Buzz! Quiz TV, the PS3 debut of Sony's mammoth quiz franchise. The nuts and bolts of the game should be familiar to most fans - Jason Donovan returns as Buzz, the smarmy host - and will be covered when the time comes to dust off the review trousers. For now we'll be taking an early look at the new features added for the PS3.
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LEGO Jones takes top slot from MGS4
Alone in the Dark at three.
LEGO Indiana Jones has retaken the UK number one spot from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots while Alone in the Dark has debuted at third position in the All-Formats countdown.
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Don King punch.
Xbox 360 owners can go home and punch each other in the pretend face later thanks to a demo of Don King's Prizefighter pitching up on Xbox Live.
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Wario Land Wii due in September
Manhunt 2 reportedly in August.
Nintendo has announced that Wario Land: The Shake Dimension will be released for Wii on 26th September in Europe.
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No Manhunt 2 date despite Nintendo claim
Rockstar comments on NUK release dates.
Rockstar has declined to confirm Nintendo's claim that Manhunt 2 is due out for Wii in Europe this August.
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Review | Mythos
A world of war and craft without the grind?
Bloke with axe is tough, bloke with magic is weak. So goes the stereotype, anyway. So you stand axe-bloke at the front chopping away merrily, and you stick magic-bloke at the back dealing out enormo-damage from afar without ever getting in harm's way. Thus has it ever been.
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Metal Gear Solid 4 sales top 1 million
In just a week. Limited edition sold out.
Konami has announced that 1 million copies of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots were shifted in Europe during the game's first week on sale.
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Eutechnyx working on casual MMO
Racing specialist branches out.
Speaking to our sister site GamesIndustry.biz, racing game specialist Eutechnyx has revealed it's working on a casual MMO title.
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Full Guitar Hero: Aerosmith tracklisting
The Clash, The Cult, Run D.M.C., more.
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith's full track listing has been unveiled, and it's a bit more diverse than you might have expected. A bit.
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Pixies and Weezer live for Rock Band
On Xbox Live today.
In case you weren't paying attention last week, today marks the release of The Pixies' "Doolittle" album for Rock Band on Xbox 360.
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What Wii owners are playing most
US stats make for interesting reading.
New stats appearing on the US Nintendo Channel have revealed what Wii owners prefer to play - and for how long.
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DICE doing five Battlefield games
Including a "core" console title.
DICE exec Ben Cousins has confirmed that the team is currently working on no less than five titles in its Battlefield franchise, according to GamesIndustry.biz.
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Rumours swirl around Blizzard teaser
Is WWI reveal Lich King or Diablo related?
With Blizzard's World Wide Invitational convention in Paris looming (it's this weekend, 28th and 29th June) the developer is stirring up hype, rumour and speculation with a teaser image on its website.
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Trading Standards cross with online shops
For selling adult-rated games to kids.
The UK's Trading Standards Institute is really not very happy at all about people selling violent games to kiddies over the Internet.
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EA doing US-only Brain Quest DS
Based on educational card game.
Electronic Arts is producing a pair of US-only DS games for different age groups based on the Brain Quest educational card game.
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Feature | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy: Video Roundup
Exclusive quintet of clips from the declassified finished article.
2002 was a momentous year for the spy movie. It was the year James Bond finally jumped the shark in Die Another Day, figuratively with that absurd invisible car, and almost literally in the laughable para-sailing sequence. It was also the year that Jason Bourne made his big-screen debut, anticipating a fundamental shift in the nature of espionage which ultimately led to the back-to-basics brutality of Daniel Craig's beefcake Bond in 2006's Casino Royale.
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Ticket to Ride on XBLA tomorrow
Along with Happy Tree Friends.
As if Elements of Destruction, Sea Life Safari and Frogger 2 weren't enough for you, Microsoft is back with another Xbox Live Arcade duo tomorrow, 25th June.
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Sports Party coming to Europe only
Well that makes a change.
Ubisoft has announced new Wii title Sports Party will only be released in EMEA territories.
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First Call of Duty 5 trailer premieres
Watch it now on Eurogamer TV.
The very first trailer for Call of Duty 5 is now showing on Eurogamer TV.
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Feature | Ninja Gaiden 2: Gameplay Video Roundup
All you need is blood.
When everyone else appears obsessed with making games more 'accessible' (boo!) and 'family friendly' (hiss!), what a pleasure it is to welcome back to the gaming fold Tomonobu Itagaki's unapologetically hardcore take on the veteran Ninja Gaiden series.
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"Messing up" was crucial - BioShock dev
"BioShock should've failed."
BioShock lead programmer Chris Kline has said that "constantly messing up, and pushing dates" is "the only way to make a good game".
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Feature | Grand Theft Auto IV Gameplay Video Roundup
Lots of direct-feed of our favourite bits.
We're not going to pretend otherwise. Today is all about you-know-what to the exclusion of all those other we-don't-care-right-nows. But because we get spoiled rotten in this gig, we've already had a string of days spent you-know-whatting ourselves into a mild madness - and it's time to give something back.
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PS3 pricing costs Sony USD 3bn
They "may not" get that money back.
Selling your console for less than it costs to make doesn't come cheap. Sony should know - they lost USD 2.16 billion on PS3 in 2007, and a further USD 1.16 billion this year.
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New patches released for GTA IV
Available for 360 and PS3 versions.
Rockstar has released new patches for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Outage to begin at 4pm UK time.
Sony has announced the PlayStation Network will be taken offline later today so "scheduled maintenance" can take place.
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Review | Xbox Live Arcade Roundup
Elements of Destruction, Sea Life Safari, Frogger 2.
A fast-paced action-strategy game, Elements of Destruction's secret weapon is its glorious premise. You are a mad scientist, wreaking revenge on those that done you wrong using your fiendish machines that create not-so-natural disasters. Earthquakes, lightning storms and tornadoes are all at your disposal, and the prospect of being able to let rip with some fire and fury makes the game a very tempting proposition.
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