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GC: PES, FIFA exclusive to 360
For 12 months.
Microsoft brought a touch of the Abramoviches to the next-gen football market today, fashioning a deal to secure FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer's Xbox 360 exclusivity for the next 12 months.
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Forza this winter, with three new Live Arcade titles too.
As well as news of securing FIFA and PES for a year, Microsoft's Leipzig conference brought with it a bit of release date clarity and a bit of release date confusion - with the HD-DVD drive now listed as "autumn" (or "fall" in American) and Forza Motorsport 2 swerving perillously close to 2007 with its new "this winter".
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MS shows off PC XNA tools, too.
Today at the Leipzig Games Convention, Microsoft made all sorts of bold pledges about PC support - and announced the Windows Wireless Gaming Receiver, which will allow PC users to play games using Xbox 360 wireless peripherals.
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GC: Flagship's plans for Hellgate
And thoughts on Psychonauts.
There's still a while to wait until Flagship's rather fancy looking PC title Hellgate: London hits the shops - but according to studio boss Bill Roper, they've already got big plans for developing the franchise further.
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The live-text log. FIFA and PES exclusive!
Right! Hello again. Here we are at the Microsoft stand, having braved the perils of the cavernous glass central hallway in the Leipziger Messe and the slightly suspicious tasting coffee. There's a mini colloseum in the middle of the stand, and about 200 people are milling around in here - I say "about 200", meaning "an indeterminate number that looks like Quite A Lot." A wraparound screen is showing off a looping promo reel.
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The live-text log.
WILKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLANE, Nintenzigger fans. Es ist time for the conference. It's very white. I've got mich a headset and we're expecting to start soon.
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GC: Football fever in Germany. Again.
For once, Microsoft has the luxury of not taking sides - and being praised for it.
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GC: 'Xbox 360 is only option for next 12 months' - Lewis
Xbox boss speaks to EGTV.
Following the revelation of next-gen exclusivity on market-leading football franchises FIFA and PES, a confident European Xbox boss Chris Lewis has claimed Microsoft now has the console war sewn up for the year ahead.
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Virtua Tennis served on PC, PSP
In addition to PS3/360.
With the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Virtua Tennis 3 on display at the Games Convention this week, SEGA's announced that the game will also be appearing on PC and PSP next spring when the game debuts
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Wheel, mice, cameras, etc.
Following its press conference yesterday, Microsoft announced a list of prices and dates for its big old pile of new peripherals, including the Habu Laser Gaming Mouse (60 quid), the wireless PC receiver (20 dollars) and the Xbox 360 steering wheel (all the gold in the world).
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In time for 10th anniversary.
The fifth incarnation - or should that be incantation - of the Suikoden series is due in Europe for PlayStation 2 next month.
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Nintendo Europe bigwig predicts.
Whilst Nintendo has once again failed to announce the official price or launch date for Wii, the company's head of German operations has stated that he expects a price point below 250 Euro.
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Ludicrous Steam pricing.
Introversion's swinging game of global thermonuclear war is due out next month and for some reason they're planning to flog it on Steam for, get this, US$ 14.95.
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RTS studio joins up.
Software giant Electronic Arts has announced its acquisition of German development studio Phenomic, creators of Settlers and Spellforce, amongst other titles.
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17 titles to start with.
Casual games provider PopCap Games and Valve Software have jointly announced a new agreement that will see a significant number of casual games digitally distributed through Valve's Steam platform.
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GC: World-first showing of Konami's PSP-exclusive.
Tucked away rather sheepishly in the handheld inner sanctum of Konami's (literally) throbbing Leipzig stand, Silent Hill Origins made its unheralded public debut today - but we came away wondering whether it really benefited from such a premature showing.
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Asphalt: Urban GT 2 announced.
Ubisoft has announced the development of a new game in the Asphalt: Urban GT series, which you'll be pleased to hear is coming out on both DS and PSP - although at completely different times.
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Go West this October.
There's not long to go before you can once again don your Stetson and head West, with the latest instalment in the curiously entertaining Wild Arms RPG series.
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Two missions.
Vivendi and Mithis' upcoming PC strategy title Joint Task Force, which adopts a more action-oriented stance (perhaps it's standing with a leg up on a stack of Die Hards), has thrown up a demo.
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Free for 48 hours, remember.
It's poker time, kids. Well, it's not, since I'm writing this in a hotel in Germany at 6am and Texas Hold 'Em won't be released on Xbox Live Arcade until 8am, but you get it.
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Lots to kill and explore.
Bungie has been dropping hints about the exploratory nature of Halo 3's campaign levels, but caution against us getting all excited about how freeform it is.
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Molyneux questions sensors.
Speaking at the Leipzig GCDC, Lionhead's Peter Molyneux has warned that motion-sensing controllers such as the Wii remote could leave gamers exhausted unless developers think creatively.
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'Floodgates' to open in '08.
Microsoft today unveiled its roadmap for PC and Xbox 360 cross-platform gaming, predicting that "the floodgates will open" for software playable across the two formats by 2008.
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Kaz made a boo-boo.
Sony has issued a statement correcting the information regarding its projected retail allocation for the PlayStation 3, confirming plans to have 2 million units available by launch day.
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Freebird and Sweet Child o' Mine.
RedOctane has announced that Guitar Hero II will feature two rather awesome headline tracks - Freebird and Sweet Child o' Mine.
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Interview | FIFA 07
Producer Hugues Ricour unveils the X360 version. PS3 next year.
Leipzig isn't the only thing kicking off today - EA Sports has also chosen this morning to unveil the highly anticipated next-generation version of FIFA 07, due out later this year on Xbox 360.
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PS3 version to follow in 2007.
Electronic Arts today unveiled the next-generation version of FIFA 07, promising a completely new experience based on an engine that's been two years in the making.
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Games Convention’s PS3 section revealed
No controllers in sight. We have pictures and everything.
Amazing what you find wandering around trade shows the day before they open their doors. When Sony recently said it had taken the decision to hold off letting the general public gets their hands on PlayStation 3 until Tokyo Game Show at the end of September it really wasn't lying. We walked around the PS3 section of Sony'stand at Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany today and saw logos, screens and seats, but nary a controller (or PS3 hardware) in sight.
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It's time for a revolution, he says.
In a speech delivered at the Leipzig GCDC this morning, Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has declared it's time to revolutionise combat games - and guess what, he's got some ideas on how to go about that.
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Review | Cossacks 2: Battle For Europe
Not tonight Josephine.
The Battle of Waterloo has been reproduced in videogame form on more than a dozen occasions and yet so far no-one has got round to modelling one of the most important factors in the French defeat - Napoleon's colossal haemorrhoids. (It's said that chronic piles limited the Little Corporal's mobility during the battle by keeping him out of the saddle). Developers GSC had the opportunity to rectumify this grievous situation with this standalone expansion for Cossacks II, but - criminally - they've parsed it up.
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