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Empire has told Eurogamer that a demo version of FlatOut: Head On will be released on 22nd February.
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Every Tuesday. Free biscuits.
Outspoken US author James Patterson wants to widen gaming boundaries with adaptations of his novels.
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Valve balancing it now.
Valve has confirmed that new Team Fortress 2 map Goldrush will be available "within the month".
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Beautiful Katamari gets official date
Definitely coming this month.
Atari has finally concreted the Beautiful Katamari date as 29th February in Europe.
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Middle of March.
Tom Clancy's latest royalty cheque is due to start counting upward on 21st March, according to Ubisoft's latest release schedule.
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"It's big." Needs "super senior" help.
Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford has worked himself into an excitable mess over a mysterious new project.
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Troubled puzzle MMO has 60 days to live.
Digital game distributor and publisher GameTap has announced that it is discontinuing Myst Online: Uru Live, the MMO based on the classic puzzle adventure series. The game has been running for just under a year.
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Civilization Wii was too much effort
Firaxis explains indefinite hold up.
Firaxis has said it put the Wii version of Civilization Revolution on indefinite hold because it required too much effort to get it up to standard.
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Review | The Club
Better than the Ploughman's.
Shooters are big, serious business these days, but The Club is having none of it - you pick from a range of pre-rolled hard-men caricatures with varying speed, strength and stamina statistics and then gun your way at pace through a series of grimy environments racking up kills as quickly as possible to build up combos.
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Criterion talks Burnout HDD issue
It's all in "best interests" of community.
Criterion and Microsoft decided it was in your best interests to make a hard drive an essential requirement for full Burnout Paradise online play.
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New title from Total Overdose dev
Faith and a .45 unveiled.
Deadline Games, the studio behind Total Overdose and Chilli Con Carnage, has unveiled its latest project - a shooter for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
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UK Charts: No burnout for Burnout
Entire Top 40 inside.
Burnout Paradise is still topping the UK All Formats Chart, becoming the first title of 2008 to retain pole position for two weeks on the trot.
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Brain Training racist against Northerners
Claims BBC's Watchdog programme.
Consumer affairs show Watchdog has claimed the voice recognition system in Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training isn't capable of recognising Northern accents.
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Crystal Quest XBLA update tomorrow
And confirmation of Poker Smash.
Microsoft has confirmed that Void Star's puzzle game Poker Smash will be on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, while Crystal Quest fans receive a free update.
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American McGee reveals new project
Pre-production starting soon.
Bonkers game designer American McGee has announced his Spicy Horse studio is working on a new game. A "world-class" game, if you're asking.
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GeForce-accelerated PhysX promised.
NVIDIA has signed an agreement to acquire PhysX creator AGEIA Technologies.
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Super sharp shooter?
Everything's going all casual these days - sex, Fridays, commercially successful first-person tactical shooter series. Just look at Conflict: Denied Ops. It's in development at Pivotal Games, it's coming to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this spring, and as designer Terry Watts explains, it's the first time a Conflict game has been aimed at casual players.
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Then import it. It works. In English.
Eurogamer has confirmed that the recently released Asian version of Lost Odyssey can be played in English and works on PAL Xbox 360 consoles.
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Rein rubbishes Gears of War 2 reports
"It is complete nonsense."
Epic Games vice president Mark Rein has rubbished suggestions that GamePro magazine is about to unveil Gears of War 2.
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Fresh COD4 maps, "gameplay variety"
Inbound on PS3 and 360 this spring.
Activision has radioed that more Call of Duty 4 maps will be available for PS3 and 360 this spring.
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Review | Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition
It's colon city and David Jaffe's the mayor.
Believe it or not, the longest-running PlayStation-exclusive franchise is not Gran Turismo, Ape Escape or even Hot Shots Golf. It's Twisted Metal. It debuted when the original PlayStation launched in 1995.
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FlatOut Ultimate Carnage PC date
June this year. No word on changes.
Empire and Bugbear have announced plans to release FlatOut Ultimate Carnage worldwide for PC in June.
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Deep Silver reveals X3: Terran Conflict
Series finale this year.
Deep Silver has revealed the fourth and final game in the X series of space adventures as X3: Terran Conflict.
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Buying MMO gold is like funding prostitution
Says Runescape - but bigwig has solution.
RuneScape content boss Imre Jele says that those of you buying MMO currency are effectively funding digital organised crime, not to mention cheating and ruining the experience for everyone else.
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US police refuse to investigate MMO theft
Nicked FFXI items worth nearly USD 4000.
Friday's edition of Minnesotan local rag, the Pioneer Press, carried this heart-rending report of one massive multiplayer's quest for justice.
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Feature | Born Free: the History of the Openworld Game
From Adventure to Urban Chaos.
It's rather quaint to think that just over six years ago, we were all a-twitter at the prospect of Grand Theft Auto III and its swanky new 3D world. "How will that classic top-down gameplay work in 3D?" we mused, like big silly things. "Could it possibly beat Driver?" we pondered in all seriousness. Aah, innocent times.
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Strategy legend is "exploring the possibilities".
Firaxis boss and lord of all Civilization Sid Meier has revealed he's working on ideas for an MMO game.
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PS3 to outsell 360 this year, says EA
But Wii will win war, whatever.
Electronic Arts believes up to four times more PS3s than Xbox 360 consoles will be sold in Europe this year, GamesIndustry.biz reports.
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Demo Roundup - 28th Jan to 4th Feb
Conflict, Katamari, DMC4.
It's been another bare week for demos. But I stood up on a surfboard in the freezing cold waters of Cornwall. That made me happy, at least until I fell off and hit my back on a rock and tried not to cry. You could say I had a bit of conflict with the water, which is interesting, as Conflict: Denied Ops is one of the new samplers to tell you about.
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Everybody do the dinosaur.
A new demo for the latest instalment in the Turok series has popped up on Xbox Live.
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