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Feature | UK Charts: Top ten receives Preys
But GTA remains the UK's best-selling game
Take-Two secures its fourth week at the top with GTA: Liberty City Stories, the publisher's long awaited FPS Prey marking this week's highest new entry at number 2.
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Alien Hominid, Castle Crashers.
The Behemoth's quirky 2D shooter Alien Hominid will appear on Xbox Live Arcade later this year, while the developer's other game, another side-scroller called Castle Crashers, will join the XBLA line-up in early 2007.
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Red Orchestra content next week
New map, smoke grenades.
Tripwire is planning a free update for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, due out next Thursday July 27th.
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Sin Episodes stats.
Clearly buoyed by the interest in Valve's own Half-Life: Episode One stats, Ritual has uploaded some of its own for Sin Episodes: Emergence - and put the Steam-bringers to shame with colourful graphs and even pie charts.
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Review | Cloning Clyde
King Clyde or should've clone better?
Ever since Dolly the Sheep first baaa'ed her unnatural soul to the world ten years ago, cloning's never been far from the headlines. Which is why I have. Boring! If it's not a full-grown insta-clone, or some sort of exciting cross-breed that has horns and seven legs, I'm not interested. Labra-doodles? Bull-spaniels? Sod-off. (Although, actually, someone does need to make a cocker-dog.)
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Defcon confirmed for September
We'd like to play a game.
Introversion has confirmed that Defcon is due out in September.
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See it in action on EGTV.
A new video showing how the Opera web browser will work on the Nintendo DS is now available to view over on Eurogamer TV.
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Ubi 'still doing sports games'
But RPGs are bigger focus - boss
With a rousing fanfare, Gallic publishing giant Ubisoft revealed back in February last year that it was producing a major new sports range, having snapped up Microsoft Games Studios' relevant assets and signed golfing legend Vijay Singh.
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Blows own trumpet some more.
Some leading UK consumer videogames website or other has announced the results of its latest independent traffic audit - and they're really rather impressive, as it goes.
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So don't get too excited.
Electronic Arts has denied that a Need For Speed: Carbon release date posted in error on its press website reflects the launch timing for the Nintendo Wii.
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D3 calls it WTF.
D3Publisher is planning to bring Sony's bizarre mini-games compilation Baito Hell 2000 to the US on September 26th - and it's got a new name.
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Kutaragi to deliver TGS keynote
There's a chance he'll talk PS3.
It's been confirmed that Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi will deliver the pre-show keynote for this year's Tokyo Game Show when the event kicks off on September 22nd.
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Play Zuma and help people.
MSN Games is inviting you to play Zuma, Luxor and other web-games - and it's for a good cause, too.
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But not for a good while yet.
The Cartoon Network has signed a deal with Korean developer Grigon Entertainment to produce a new massively multiplayer online game.
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Level 5 doing Joan of Arc game
Tactical RPG for PSP.
Nope, you didn't read that wrong - Japanese developer Level 5 is making a tactical RPG for PlayStation Portable about Joan of Arc, due out this winter in Japan.
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Consoles waste GBP 70 million of energy every year - report
Not to mention lots of time.
A British government energy review due out this week will claim that videogames consoles are responsible for GBP 70 million of wasted energy each year, according to The Times newspaper.
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Cross-genre WWII action.
Ukrainian studio Best Way has released a demo of its cross-genre World War II title Faces of War, featuring a pair of single-player missions to try out.
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Review | Swords of Destiny
Blunt.
When Sony's marketing juggernaut stopped off at the post-E3 diner for a (currently undigested) slice of humble pie, it's a safe bet that their autopsy of that disastrous conference lingered for a moment on Genji 2. Don't get me wrong, there may be potential not yet realised in both the game and the PS3, but that hasn't stopped us all having a hearty laugh at flipping over giant enemy crabs and attacking their weak point for massive damage, engaging in spuriously authentic Japanese battles, and marvelling at such innovative features as real-time weapon change.
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Chronicle 5 confirmed.
NCsoft has announced that a new expansion is on the way for PC MMO Lineage II - and that it won't cost you a penny.
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800 MS points.
NinjaBee's side-scrolling platformer Cloning Clyde is now available on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft points.
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Author teams up with Codies.
Horror author Clive Barker has signed a deal with Codemasters to produce a new action game for PC and unspecified next-gen consoles.
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Review | Over G Fighters
Not exactly Top Gun.
Sneaking onto UK store shelves with the sort of stealth that ought to bode well for a fighter simulation, Over G Fighters - the latest in Taito's Japanese Energy Airforce series - is a mid-air collision of budget-game development and next-gen price point.
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With making action adventures.
God of War creator David Jaffe has declared that while he still enjoys playing action adventure games these days, he's right fed up of making the things.
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It's out later this year.
Just a few weeks ago, we brought you news of a rumour that a DS version of classic platformer New Zealand Story is in development.
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Peter Molyneux on Fable 2's 'big, big' secret
It's one word. Can you guess?
As journalists we love Peter Molyneux, because when most people say they can't talk about their secret game projects, like the stone-hearted spoilsports they are, they generally mean it. But when Molyneux warns us he's taken a vow of omerta, what he actually means is he's going rattle away for ages and say as much as he possibly can without quite hoisting himself by any specific petard.
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Now available for viewing.
A new trailer for the forthcoming Animal Crossing movie has popped up on the Internet.
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We knew that anyway, but in case you missed it...
Nintendo Wii will use the same "Friends Code" system that DS users are used to, according to a brief glimpse of since-pulled Nintendo website pages.
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Major Nelson gives it a 'bump'.
Those of you with - actually, you don't even need a long memory for this. Those of you capable of retaining any sort of fact will recall that a Rockstar Table Tennis demo is on the way to Xbox Live Marketplace. Well, there's an update: it's now due "very, very soon". Right.
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New name, first shots.
Codemasters' first rally outing on next-gen platforms will be called Colin McRae: DIRT in PAL territories, where it will launch on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC simultaneously in 2007.
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And coming in 2007.
Codemasters has confirmed that a new Colin McRae Rally game is currently in development for next-gen platforms.
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