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MS claims 'over half' of 360 buyers didn't own Xbox 1
Quite chirpy about it, too.
Microsoft's Chris Satchell claims that "over half" of the people who have bought Xbox 360 since its November 2005 launch did not buy an Xbox 1.
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Will appear before end of Jan.
Those of you expecting to test-flex genetically enhanced muscle today will now have to wait until the end of the month for the Crackdown Xbox Live demo.
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Not dead, not in trouble, etc.
Sony has denied suggestions that Incog's PlayStation 3 title WarHawk is in trouble and may be cut down, cancelled or released via the PS3 Store rather than at retail, declaring that the rumours are "false".
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Activision trademarks Villains
Of Guitar and Drum variety.
If you thought flapping your hands about drunkenly with your eyes closed was Guitar Hero's only natural rival, think again! Judging by Activision's latest US trademark applications, that role will soon be taken up by "Guitar Villain".
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On PS2 and PSP.
BigBig's Pursuit Force is making a comeback this summer. After enjoying relative success as a PSP exclusive first time out, the sequel - "Extreme Justice" - will be released on the handheld as well as PS2.
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Rally Cross joins PS1 emu list
With WipEout to follow.
Those of you taking advantage of Sony's new PlayStation emulation kit for PSP without being illegal about it will be pleased to learn that you can now get your hands on another '90s 'classic', Rally Cross.
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Mini-games for kids.
Nintendo has yelled from the mountain tops time and time again that it wants the Wii to expand gaming. Mum, dad, brother, sister, girlfriend (a what?); it wants everyone.
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PS3 price points for UK and Ireland revealed
In at GBP 425, EUR 630.
It seems that gamers in the UK and Ireland hoping to pick up a PlayStation 3 will have to cough up more cash than their Continental chums, just for a change.
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SCEE dismisses April PS3 launch
Stringer's suggestions "incorrect".
A SCEE spokesperson has told GamesIndustry.biz that PlayStation 3 is still on track to launch in Europe in March, despite suggestions from Sony CEO Howard Stringer that it will be here in April.
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Live, tomorrow.
Get those periscopes up, them funny beeping noises on, and air-pump that water from the sink-chambers: we're surfacing this Battlestations Midway demo.
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Boom Boom Rocket.
EA has joined forces with Bizarre Creations, the team behind Project Gotham and Geometry Wars, to bring us Boom Boom Rocket for Xbox Live Arcade.
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Full-game trial starting tomorrow.
Thursdays are rubbish, but not if you've got the power of Steam.
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Popularity contest.
Namco Bandai has announced Tamagotchi Party On! for the Wii.
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They're advertising the jobs...
Neversoft looks to have become involved in the Guitar Hero series - the suggestion being that future versions, perhaps even Guitar Hero III, will be easy enough to develop that a third party can undertake the relevant work while instigators Harmonix dip their creative wick into the oily world of new IP.
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PS3 price appears on Sony site
EUR 30 more than expected?
According to information on the Irish version of the official PlayStation 3 website, the 60GB version of the console will launch in the territory priced at EUR 629.99 - EUR 30 more than previously announced.
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Molyneux to speak (unusual!)
Lionhead's Peter Molyneux will be speaking at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March - and he's promising to let us all in on one of Fable 2's big secrets.
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'Wii death' radio station fires 10
As recording of show emerges.
The radio station whose Nintendo Wii water-drinking contest led to the death of a 28 year-old woman has fired 10 staff - including five on-air 'personalities' - as separate reports suggest the crew made jokes about their indemnity as listeners complained of the dangers of water intoxication on air.
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Comments were 'speculative'.
Electronic Arts has once again denied reports that Crysis is in development for Xbox 360, despite claims in the US press that it was discussed in some detail at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month.
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Delayed FPS gets firm target.
THQ UK has confirmed that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl will be released on 23rd March in Europe.
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Get out of my way, you squares.
Those of you hanging around Eurogamer TV, wildly attempting to catch a glimpse of tank-topped Johnny Minkley, may well have noticed a new Test Drive Unlimited trailer.
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Review | Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
Touched by the hand of Twisted.
Is there no end to WarioWare's effortless appeal? As well as being one of our favourite handheld series of all-time, WarioWare games have also displayed an uncanny knack of perfectly demonstrating fairly abstract control systems in the most intuitive fashion possible.
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ZootFly on those YouTube vids.
Zootfly has insisted that recent YouTube videos of a Ghostbusters game were real.
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Hand drawn and animated.
Abborado Studios has announced Once Upon A Time in Japan: Earth, the first title of a three-part series that will look at various periods in Japan's "storied" history.
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Review | Open Season
Hunting for a decent kids' game?
With every big-budget animated movie comes a loveless low-budget piece of gaming merchandise to cling onto the coat tails of the brand phenomenon. That's the theory, anyway, with recent attempts like Cars, Happy Feet and Flushed Away proving to be the kind of crushing, soulless cash-in exercises that ride high in the charts and do nothing but drive people away from gaming in the long run. So few of these games ever come vaguely close to delivering anything even approaching genuinely admirable gaming experiences, and as such you can't help but feel that they're a really bad introduction to gaming for those that don't know any better.
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Xevious and Moto Roader follow.
Those of you who watch an odd version of football, or play rounders-on-steroids, will be pleased to hear of three new Virtual Console games now available for download. In America. That was what I was getting at.
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'Just as procedural as the game'.
Brian Eno has confirmed he will be composing the Spore soundtrack.
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Feature | Eye on '07: PSP and PS2
The rest of the PlayStation family.
You know, we were going to focus on the PlayStation Portable - but looking over the list we made, it struck us that it would make sense to include the PlayStation 2 in this list as well. The PS2's release schedule a little thin in terms of high quality games this year, but there are still some stunning titles to come - and interestingly, many of them cross over with PSP versions, so merging the lists was an obvious step.
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Reportedly seen at CES.
Crysis is on its way to Xbox 360 - but in a radically different guise to the DirectX 10-fuelled graphics monster due out on Vista-based PCs.
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Blizz exec hints at Starcraft 2
During TBC launch event. He wants another Diablo, too.
One of Blizzard's gold-encrusted execs has said that he "hopes" there will be another StarCraft game in the near future.
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UK Charts: Wario Ware at two.
Capcom's Lost Planet: Extreme Condition has taken the number one spot in the UK All Formats charts on its first week of release.
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