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MS explains "theGAYERgamer" name ban
Not a result of anti-gay lobbying.
Xbox Live "banhammer wielder" Stephen Toulouse has explained the decision behind banning "theGAYERgamer" Gamertag.
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New Prince of Persia given basic date
Between October and December 2008.
Ubisoft has marked the freshly-unveiled Prince of Persia game on its schedule for release in its fiscal third quarter.
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Age of Conan early access sold out
Head starts for pre-orderers all gone.
Via a post on the Age of Conan forums, developer Funcom has announced that the early access scheme it offered as a pre-order incentive has now "sold out".
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Family MMO Free Realms takes shape
Form rock bands, trade cards, train pets.
In his keynote at the ION 08 online games development conference, Sony Online Entertainment chief John Smedley has explained a lot more about the developer's forthcoming, free, family-oriented MMO, Free Realms. Massively was at the presentation and has all the details.
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Rare: "people are always afraid of change"
But Banjo's genre "needed shaking up".
Banjo-Kazooie creator Gregg Mayles believes the platform-adventure genre "needed shaking up", and that Nuts & Bolts is the game to do it.
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Vivendi: Lich King due this year
But Blizzard silent on release date.
In its latest round of financial results, Blizzard owner and future Activision mergee Vivendi Games has said that Wrath of the Lich King is "scheduled to be released in the second half of 2008".
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Your echochrome levels as DLC soon
Between now and next Wednesday.
Echochrome suit Kumi Yuasa has promised that 20 user-created levels will be added to the game between now and next Wednesday.
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Rocketmen Uranus expansion out today
More weapons, enemies. Gameplay?
Capcom will be releasing its Rocketmen: It Came From Uranus expansion on PSN and Live Arcade today
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Sony releases PS3 "stability" update
But apparently it's nothing to do with GTA IV.
Sony has updated PlayStation 3's firmware to version 2.35, but don't get your hopes up about the long-awaited in-game XMB or anything like this, because this is a "relatively minor update to improve stability of some PS3 titles", in the words of Eric Lempel, PlayStation Network's operations director.
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More Pirates for the Burning Sea
Two new classes on the way. Well, one.
Two new careers will be available to Pirate players of the seafaring MMO Pirates of the Burning Sea in the next patch: Cutthroat and Buccaneer.
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Gauntlet and Stubbs for Live Originals
On Monday. But neither is very good.
Microsoft has tooted its horn to announce the arrival of Stubbs the Zombie and Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows on Xbox Originals.
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MS games not suitable for handheld - Kim
Not great for "driving success" in that area.
Microsoft Game Studios corporate vp Shane Kim has said he is "very happy" the company hasn't made a handheld games console partly because the sorts of games Microsoft produces aren't suitable for that market.
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Interview | Microsoft's Shane Kim
On fighting PS3 and exclusive software.
It wouldn't be an international press event without an opportunity to grill a Microsoft executive on Xbox 360's performance, and the Spring Showcase contender was Game Studios corporate vice president Shane Kim, who believes the console is in for another "landmark year".
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Passively Multiplayer Online Game launches
Play the world at browsing the web.
PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, has launched what could be the strangest concept in browser RPGs yet (and there are some pretty strange ones out there).
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Too Human demo coming to Xbox Live
Some time before August, says Dyack.
Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack has told Eurogamer there are plans to release a demo of Too Human via Xbox Live.
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No demo for Fable 2, says Molyneux
Not if he has anything to do with it.
Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has told Eurogamer there will be no playable demo for Fable 2 - at least not if the decision is left to him.
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MMOs will be "selling point" for PS3
So says Sony Online Entertainment boss.
Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley reckons that MMO games will be important to PS3's success, according to an interview with the Seattle Times.
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Real money trading in The Agency
Could the spy MMO end up free to play?
The Agency - the spy-themed massively multiplayer action game being developed for PS3 and PC by Sony Online Entertainment - is to feature officially supported real money trading.
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Gears 2 can beat Resistance 2 - Kim
It did it the first time around, he says.
Microsoft's Shane Kim believes that Gears of War 2 will be the biggest game of the year and points to the first game's performance against Resistance: Fall of Man on PS3 as evidence of this.
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Set in kings-and-castles fantasy.
EA has trumpeted the return of MySims for Wii and DS this autumn.
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Too Human co-op cut from four to two
But still central to the action-RPG.
Silicon Knights has revealed that Too Human co-op has been chopped in half and will now support just you and a friend.
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Fable 2 "content complete" by week's end
Molyneux adamant it's out this year.
Peter Molyneux has said Fable 2 will be "content complete" by the end of this week, and assured us that any rumours it will slip to next year are "unfounded".
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Race Driver: GRID multiplayer revealed
Details here, hands-on report to your left.
Codemasters has unveiled Race Driver: GRID's multiplayer features and revealed that the game - due out on PS3, 360 and PC on 30th May - features full damage modelling.
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Review | Race Driver: GRID Multiplayer
Competitive.
Playing Race Driver: GRID online with eleven of Codemasters' finest developers, QA testers and PR people, we find something unfamiliar running through our head. It's a Dodge Viper. This happens quite a lot, and this particular one has just knocked off our bumper, but more immediately worrying is that it's flipped our car onto its back and crippled the engine. Thanks for that.
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EA games more popular on Sony formats
For first three months of 2008.
EA money results show that its games sold better on Sony platforms for the first three months this year.
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Sony sold 9 million PS3s last year
So its bank balance is going up.
Sony has told everyone that it sold 9.24 million PS3 consoles in its last financial year, which ended in March 2008.
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EA was biggest publisher in fiscal 2008
Can it fend off Activision Blizzard this year?
Electronic Arts has pat itself on the back for being the biggest publisher across all platforms from April last year to March this year.
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One Life Left live from Nordic Game
Tonight! With awards!
What with all the excitement surrounding Microsoft's big spring event in San Francisco, you might well have forgotten the altogether much more important Nordic Game conference going on in Malmö, Sweden.
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Japan surpassed by West - Kojima
"Sad as it may be, it's the truth."
Hideo Kojima believes that the Japanese games industry has been surpassed by Western developers.
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Gears 2 to have "best cover system ever"
So says Cliff Bleszinski.
Gears of War 2 has "the best cover system ever seen in the videogame industry", lead designer Cliff Bleszinski said in an interview with Eurogamer this week.
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