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PS3 buyers have shock in store
Quite a lot naive about price.
A new report by analyst Compete has revealed that almost half of US consumers considering the purchase of a PS3 are in for a surprise when it comes to the console's price.
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Mizuguchi DOESN'T want to web-chat with you
Not today I'm afraid! Soon.
Yesterday we invited you all to come back and talk to Lumines and Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi at lunchtime. Unfortunately, the PR firm setting it up tells us that he can't join us today and needs to reschedule.
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360 ver supports camera, too.
Sports Interactive and SEGA have announced that the Xbox 360 and PSP versions of Football Manager 2007 are finished and due out on 1st December.
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UK Charts update.
With an extra boost due to the Xbox 360 release, Need for Speed Carbon has held on to the top spot of the UK All Formats Charts, despite two new entries from popular franchises Call of Duty and WWE Smackdown Vs RAW.
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SimBin's latest joins line-up.
Swedish simulation gurus SimBin have partnered with Valve to release RACE - The Official WTCC Game through Steam.
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Doesn't sound very difficult.
Some clever-clogs hackers have worked out how to get the new Xbox 360 HD-DVD player - due out here on 1st December - to work on the PC.
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Fast in every respect.
Forza Motorsport 2 is now up and running at 60 frames per second on Xbox 360 according to developer Turn 10.
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Review | FIFA Manager 07
Promotion contender?
Fireworks. That's what you expect when EA wheel out a blockbuster sequel, especially one featuring a fully licensed cast of footballing superstars. So it's a little odd that FIFA Manager 07 has arrived with barely a whimper, let alone a bang. EA didn't even confirm the game was on the cards until a matter of weeks before its release. It's the equivalent of a boss not just informing his players who's in the team ten minutes before kick-off, but not telling them there's a match until the stadium's half full.
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Review | 50 Cent: BulletProof G-Unit edition
Damn, it feels bland to be a gangsta.
50 Cent has been shot nine times. Did you know that? It's possible this fact has passed you by, since Mr Cent doesn't like to make a big deal about it. Apart from, you know, when he brings it up in interviews. Or on his albums. Or uses it as the basis for his autobiographical movie, Get Rich Or Die Tryin'. Or for the revenge-fuelled plot of his videogame, Bulletproof, which slunk onto consoles this time last year.
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Games don't reflect the feelings of consumers - Lanning
Tech race holding things back?
President of Oddworld, Lorne Lanning, has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that the majority of videogames do not reflect the passionate feelings held by consumers.
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Harrison drops hints, says elements of Killzone exceed trailer.
Sony's working on a way of recording PS3 game footage and sharing it with your friends online, according to Phil Harrison.
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UK import prices hit 1500 quid.
Sony sold 88,400 PlayStation 3 consoles over the weekend in Japan according to Japanese magazine company Enterbrain, which publishes Famitsu.
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Review | Medieval 2: Total War
Still top of the pile.
Dissing Total War would be like strolling into an army base and proclaiming "you're all only doing this because you're sexually inadequate" - in either case, it'd be massively misinformed and essentially suicidal. But, can I get away with something like, oh, I don't know, "is there likely to be a time when I will not be strung up by my lungs and left for dead for inquiring as to what point one might safely inquire into whether there is a small danger that, at an indeterminate point in the future, some folk might start to question if Total War games might have a small risk of not being considered quite as groundbreaking as they currently are?" Oh, God. I've gone and done it, haven't I? I'm dead. I'm so dead.
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Review | ParaWorld
Stone aged.
The key question for an RTS developer these days is: what can be done that's different to the norm? Their answers have varied, though lately they've tended towards bolting a strategic framework on top of the missions, as seen in the likes of Empire at War or Rise of Legends, where the player marshals his resources and directs the war on the campaign map as well as in the real-time battles. So what does ParaWorld do differently? It has DINOSAURS! That's what. The cavalry don't just have long faces here - they've got really long necks too.
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Review | El Matador
Terri-bull.
Boot camp. It's where every good shooter begins, the obligatory training tutorial in which a fifty-something bloke with more stars on his uniform than Cat Deeley has in her eyes barks obscenities as I run across planks of wood and through concrete pipes. Then my DEA special agent arse has to negotiate the shooting range, where cardboard villains pop up at windows, waiting to be shot. Afterwards, it's time to polish my boots, then catch the next flight to South America, home of the drug cartels. My job - to stop them carting. I am... El Matador... (Cue brief burst of Spanish guitar). Stop that sniggering.
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi wants to web-chat with YOU
Rez creator online tomorrow.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of lots of excellent games including Lumines and Rez, will be joining us on the web tomorrow lunchtime to field questions from you, our beloved readers.
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New format war is 'unfair to gamers', says Nintendo exec
Blu-ray and HD-DVD handbags.
Pierre-Paul Trépanier, marketing director for Nintendo Canada, has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz he believes it's unfair to "force" new technologies such as HD-DVD and Blu-Ray on gamers.
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EVE dev merging with White Wolf
And create new IP.
Developer of EVE Online, CCP, is to merge with table top role-playing specialist White Wolf, with the new company intent on creating new IP for the MMO market.
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(And filled with fun.)
"It's horse party time!" is the cry that's going out as we discover that our US copy of Viva Piñata works fine on a PAL Xbox 360. We thought you'd want to know.
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Review | Praetorians
Review - what have the Romans ever done for us, eh? Bloody Romans.
Remember watching Gladiator for the first time? Remember how the jaw-dropping opening scenes of the movie exploded onto the screen, and how your popcorn (or fattening cinema food of choice) sat abandoned as Maximus' army unleashed hell on the hapless barbarian tribes? Remember how you stood up in the cinema and embarrassed yourself by revealing your online gaming roots and screaming "0wned!" as a particularly large and bearded barbarian was felled by the Roman onslaught� No? Damn. Maybe that was just me, then.
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Haven't we been here before?
As you may have read in our feature on the Japanese PS3 launch, there have been some early reports of problems getting PSone and PS2 titles to work.
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360 HD-DVD, racing wheel dated
MS goes accessory mad.
Microsoft has painted a clearer picture of its plans for the launch of Xbox 360 accessories in the run-up to Christmas.
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Well, close enough.
Nintendo's next generation competition may not be all that bothered about the Wii (UK Xbox boss Neil Thompson last week called it "a kid's toy"), but Reggie Fils-Aime reckons they will be proved wrong.
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March PS3 launch 'still on track'
Sony Europe clarifies.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 is still on track to launch across Europe in March 2007.
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Original game's anniversary.
Bungie has hinted at a big Halo surprise in the next week.
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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
Hands-on with the first five levels.
Once upon a time, Earth was a bit rubbish. So we left. We got on spaceships, and flew off to a place called E.D.N. III. I don't know why it is called that - perhaps they had a competition, and that was a little girl's entry, and the little girl had some sort of horrible brain cancer and they couldn't say no despite the fact nobody was really keen on it.
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PC/360 RPG due next year.
Reality Pump and Zuxxez Entertainment have revealed that their forthcoming PC and Xbox 360 RPG Two Worlds is due out on 7th March in Europe.
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Due. Out. Nextweek.
Vivendi Games has announced that Scarface: Money. Power. Respect.
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And we were there. Pics and info.
The PS3 launch is likely to remain Japan's most unusual for many moons to come. The man on the street expected Sony to put its considerable marketing clout in full motion months ago, but the first PlayStation 3 commercial arrived only few days before the launch. No ads could be seen in the streets of Tokyo to inform the public that the launch of a new PlayStation console was imminent. In contrast, Wii is everywhere, but it's also true that Nintendo has to explain what it is about to introduce to market. So yesterday, Friday November 10, the day before PS3's launch, the absence of queues in Tokyo came as no shock. Just a surprise.
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Same for films.
Those of you hoping to ditch your old PlayStations when the new one turns up might want to bear the following in mind: early reports suggest that the system maintains the region-coding that governed PS2 and PSone games.
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