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Feature | GDC: PS3 keynote reaction
A close look at everything.
Last week in Tokyo, Sony Computer Entertainment restarted the process of releasing information about PS3 - but with today's software demos during his GDC keynote, Phil Harrison showed the progress of PS3 development off for the first time.
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Loken on BloodRayne film issues
Feels cheated by poor exposure.
Kristanna Loken has commented on Uwe Boll's game-based film BloodRayne, which did quite badly upon its theatrical release - and drew plenty of derision after a whole bunch of cinemas declined to run it despite being sent film reels.
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Blazing Angels, Astropop on Live
Demo and Live Arcade game.
Xbox 360 owners unimpressed by all this PlayStation excitement (SPIT, etc.) can pop down to the Marketplace this evening and actually play some games instead - with Astropop joining PopCap Games' growing range of Live Arcade offerings and Ubisoft's Blazing Angels joining the demo line-up.
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Out sooner than you'd think.
This year's Winning Eleven is coming out a bit earlier than usual, Konami's announced, so that everyone will have it in time for the World Cup.
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Colossus looms over GDC Awards
Five gongs for Ueda's team.
Sony's Shadow of the Colossus has emerged as the clear victor at this year's Game Developers Choice Awards, with the team behind the title collecting a total of five plaques - including the coveted Game of the Year award.
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Interview | Forbidden Siren 2
Keiichiro Toyama on Sony's latest horror title.
After the cult success of 2004's chilling Forbidden Siren, there was always hope that Keiichiro Toyama would take the concept further. Much like Silent Hill dragged the horror genre into a thoughtful new direction (a seminal game Toyama-san himself directed) Forbidden Siren introduced a wealth of completely original ideas that helped make it one of the scariest games ever conceived.
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Live Arcade continues to blossom.
Microsoft hopes to have 15 more Xbox Live Arcade titles available through Xbox 360 by the summer, according to IGN.
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Review | The Godfather
First refusal.
When the dust settles on Electronic Arts' Godfather videogame, it will be remembered for being way too short, far too easy, too damned repetitive and far too in awe of Grand Theft Auto to be held up as anything other than a rather lightweight copycat offering.
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GDC: PlayStation 3 keynote text commentary
Read what happened.
Sony Worldwide Studios head Phil Harrison is currently delivering his Game Developers Conference keynote, entitled "PlayStation 3: Beyond the Box", revealing more of Sony's plans for PlayStation 3, which is due to launch worldwide in November.
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Review | Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix
Good evening Tokyo!
It's been almost a year since Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition hit the shelves, and seeing as the game topped the charts back then it's hardly surprising that it's getting a re-release on both PS2 and Xbox at a lower price point.
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MS 'made a business mistake'.
As the CEO of Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms, 'persistence' probably ought to be Scott Miller's middle name by now - so it wasn't too surprising to read comments from the outspoken executive this week reiterating his argument that Microsoft "made a business mistake" with Xbox.
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Say hello to Hellfire Citadel.
Blizzard has revealed new details of the Hellfire Citadel, an instance in forthcoming World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade.
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Nintendo rolls out Wi-Fi hotspots
And new Download Stations.
Nintendo has announced the roll out of more than 600 BT Openzone hotspots in retail stores across the UK and Ireland, giving DS owners free access to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service.
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Brain Age, Super Mario delayed
But only in US, and not by much.
Bad news for our American friends and import fans - two highly anticipated Nintendo DS titles have been delayed over in the States.
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More challenge mode.
Sony's announced that World Tour Soccer 2 is due out on PlayStation Portable in June - just in time for you to lose your PSP down the back of a German stadium, presumably.
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Video online.
EA and newly purchased pals Digital Illusions are planning another Battlefield game, which features in the latest US edition of PC Gamer.
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DICE confirms Battlefield 2142
The war on ice.
With the producer having virtually said it and actual video footage of it on the Internet, DICE has decided to share the news of Battlefield 2142's development with its loyal fans on the BF2 community site, because "we know that you guys need to know first". Moving on...
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Review | Armored Core: Formula Front
Giant robots in the palm of your hand.
There's a distinct point in my childhood when I clearly recall being struck by the realisation that I was, to be blunt, a geek. It wasn't when I tried to convince my family that, like Han Solo, I could understand what Chewbacca was saying. It wasn't even when I spent a weekend with a tape recorder pressed up to the TV, recording a compilation of my favourite ZX Spectrum themes.
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Next PC update has CoD maps.
Activision and Infinity Ward have patched Call of Duty 2 on Xbox 360. Actually, apparently it's a "Title Update", which is a new one on us.
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Hardware and tools, anyway.
As the Game Developers Conference gets underway in San Francisco, Sony has confirmed that the PS3 will go on show at this year's event - but whether visitors will actually get to see it running games is another question.
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Seen the Lite?
Typical Nintendo. With the DS selling so well that it's practically apologetic about it, it announces a new version and releases it before anyone's had a chance to complain too bitterly.
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X360 shipments 2-3x better now
Says an excitable Microsoft.
Microsoft has announced that, beginning this week, retail shipments of the console will be twice or three times higher than at present.
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Feature | UK Charts: Streets too tough for GRAW
Strong single-format debut unable to shift EA's soccer sim.
Electronic Arts continues to dominate the UK's All Formats Entertainment Charts this week, with seven titles clogging up the top ten, barely leaving room for rival publishers Ubisoft, Codemasters and Konami to steal a little glory.
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Iron and the Maiden.
Former Naughty Dog top... man Jason Rubin is working on a game called Iron and the Maiden, which he's revealed to a certain extent on his new MySpace site, bizarrely.
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Surely... Nah, forget it.
Fans of conventional 2D role-playing games with frilly plots to do with Ice Demons and things will be pleased to hear that Ignition Entertainment is planning to publish PoPoLoCrois for PSP this spring.
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First-party DLC soon - Microsoft
PGR3, PDZ, Kameo stuff.
Microsoft says that we can expect a new wave of downloadable content for its first-party launch titles Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero and Kameo: Elements of Power before spring is out.
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Now available for download.
Nearly five years after it first hit the shelves, Microsoft has released the source code for tactical combat game MechCommander 2.
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Justice League Heroes unveiled
RPG to appear on PSP, too.
Warner Bros. has revealed more details of what we can expect from DC Comics RPG Justice League Heroes - including news that a PSP version is in the works.
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It'll be online and everything.
Good news for fans of weird old Dreamcast title Seaman - its creator, Yoot Saito, is currently working on a new game for the Nintendo DS.
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Battlefield 2 to follow.
Those of you resisting the temptation to pick up Burnout: Revenge on Xbox 360 can push yourself closer to the brink (of buying it or, if you already have the Xbox one, of shouting purple words at Electronic Arts) by checking out a new demo on Marketplace today. We haven't had a chance to check it out ourselves yet, but it weighs in at about 550MB.
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