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    Kojima on Metal Gear Solid 4

    The series creator says his absence may curtail references and Codec humour, but says stealth will be key and that next-gen formats could lead to more "conceptual" or "spiritual" ideas.

    Hideo Kojima says that the "No place to hide" line Konami is using to promote Metal Gear Solid 4, which it started developing for next-generation formats just last week, is not an indication that the series is to abandon its stealth roots, but rather a comment on an interesting new setting.

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    Dead Rising for 360

    Capcom's new survival horror.

    Capcom has announced its first title for Xbox 360 - a brand new survival horror game going under the name of Dead Rising. You can find some screenshots here.

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    Capcom's PSP trio

    SF Alpha 3, Monster Hunter, VJ.

    As well as announcing Xbox 360 title Dead Rising yesterday, Capcom also revealed that it plans to back PlayStation Portable with three more titles: Monster Hunter Portable, Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Viewtiful Joe: VFX Battle, the latter having been mentioned but not seen in any great detail previously.

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    Blizzard acquires Swingin' Ape

    Metal Arms dev bought out.

    Blizzard Entertainment, developer of the best-selling World of Warcraft MMORPG for PC, has announced that it has acquired Swingin' Ape Studios as part of plans to expand into the console market.

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    Dark and Light

    Biggest MMORPG ever, apparently.

    E3 is to host the debut of the “biggest MMORPG ever”, according to publisher NP Cube.

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    More PGR3 details

    Bizarre man talks next-gen.

    Now that Project Gotham Racing 3 has officially been announced as an Xbox 360 title, and shown off briefly at the Xbox 360 press conference in LA, developer Bizarre Creations has revealed more details of what we can expect from the game in an interview with the official Xbox site.

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    Xbox 360 Hardware Unveiled

    Everything from base tech to Live and peripherals.

    Xbox 360 has been officially unveiled by Microsoft.

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    X360 backwards compatible

    Final Fantasy XI confirmed, DOA4 for launch, dates, etc.

    Microsoft's pre-E3 conference has revealed a number of new details about the Xbox 360 console, including the fact that the system will be backwards compatible and the arrival of Square Enix' first product for a Microsoft console.

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    Revolution on Nintendo site

    Size, compatibility, online, date.

    Following Perrin Kaplan's comments in the New York Times last week, details of the Nintendo Revolution console have now been aired on the official Nintendo website, with confirmation of a console that's only slightly bigger than three stacked DVD cases, backwards-compatible, wireless online out of the box, quiet and quick to start up and due out in 2006.

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    Having spent the best part of the last quarter of a century fighting off the alien hordes, today was the day the tables were finally turned and we got to see the war on humanity through bug eyes, and we have two things to report: firstly, having big bulbous eyes doesn't mean you see anything bigger (or, you know, have automatic zoom functions/night vision or anything useful like that), and secondly, yes they can see in colour. If Eurogamer designed aliens they'd have 360-degree vision that doubled up as heat-seeking missile launchers, with missiles that ate their foes. Slowly.

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    Interview | Cold Winter

    Better than Killzone and Rogue Agent! Phew...

    "Anti Social, Anti Normal, Anti Bond, Anti Hero...It's a bitter, cold winter."

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    Feature | 10 Things That'll Probably Happen

    Predictions.

    E3's actually quite predictable in a lot of ways you know. And not just in the sense that everything you saw last year will be back either in "a more advanced stage of development" or with a number 2 or 3 on the end. Or a 360. No. It's predictable in lots of other ways too. Here are some of them.

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    Red Dead and The Warriors delayed, while GTA: San Andreas could miss E3

    Publisher revises forecasts downwards, CEO resigns, and key games slip.

    Take-Two has delayed the release of Red Dead Revolver (PS2/Xbox) and Rockstar North's The Warriors (PS2), and indicated that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2) may not appear at E3 this year after all.

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    The Warriors: first details

    "I'm gonna shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle."

    It's been more than 25 years since The Warriors - Walter Hill's gritty gangland tale of honour, betrayal, and big hair - first hit cinema screens. And almost as long, or at least it feels that way, since Rockstar first announced its videogame version of the movie.

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    The Warriors: first screenshots

    It's GTA meets Manhunt - from the people who made both! And now some pics have come out to play-i-ay...

    Thanks to the mighty success of San Andreas, it often feels like there's not a publisher out there these days who hasn't got a third-person gangland adventure on the go. But there's one such title we're really looking forward to, and not least because it's being brought to us by your actual Rockstar.

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    SEGA's line-up

    X360 stuff, Virtua Tennis PSP.

    CAPSLOCK of America has joined the back of the line of people trooping into our little content system with a list of games scrawled on a piece of paper. [SEGA -slightly worried Ed] plans to show off two next-gen titles - Condemned (Monolith's gritty game about hunting down serial killers) and Full Auto (its "Burnout with POP's rewind function" racer) - and both will be playable at the show.

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    Interview with a Made Man

    Gangster epic on show this week.

    For a while back there it looked as if Interview With a Made Man might never get, well, made, what with developer Acclaim going under, but now not only is the game back on track and confirmed for PC, PS2 and Xbox - it's also about to get a world premiere at E3.

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    Age of Empires for DS

    Ace RTS goes handheld.

    As hinted at a few months back, top PC real-time strategy game Age of Empires is to get an outing on the Nintendo DS, complete with plenty of new features including a turn-based battle system.

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    Namco's first 360 game

    Frame City Killer out by xmas.

    Namco has confirmed support for Xbox 360 by announcing its first game for the console, an action adventure entitled Frame City Killer.

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    Xbox 360 launch night commentary

    We stayed up all night. Recap the fun.

    This page will be updated throughout the evening of May 12th BST, transitioning into May 13th, during the early hours of which the Xbox 360 MTV special airs in the US. Keep refreshing. If you've just arrived, read from the lowest update upward. New stuff will be added near the top.

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    Missing Jean-Michel Jarre? Like watching trippy explosions of colour and light, but too young/broke/sensible to take drugs?

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    LA awash with PS3 promos

    Could launch this year too?

    There are quite literally signs in Los Angeles this weekend that Sony plans to unveil PlayStation 3 at its press conference tomorrow prior to E3.

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    UK X360 trio at launch?

    Gotham 3, Kameo, Perfect Dark.

    Microsoft's Peter Moore has indicated in one of a number of promotional Xbox 360 videos doing the rounds that all three of the company's key UK first party titles, which he identifies as Project Gotham Racing 3 from Bizarre Creations and Kameo: Elements of Power and Perfect Dark Zero from Rare, will be part of the console's "launch portfolio".

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    Drug empire RTS for Xb/PC

    "Snow" will be at E3.

    2K Games (which is Take-Two wearing a special hat) has announced Snow, a real-time strategy game based around building up a criminal empire.

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    Feature | UK Charts: Star Wars won't Lego

    Official tie-in debuts at No.1.

    Both of the top spots in the UK software charts this week are occupied by Star Wars titles, with The Collective's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith knocking last week's No.1, Lego Star Wars, down a single place to No.2.

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    New Unreal Tournament details

    No word on an official title yet, but some rather interesting info regarding the brand new Conquest mode.

    Details of the new Unreal Tournament title have been revealed in the latest issue of US magazine Computer Gaming World.

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    New Unreal Tournament details

    New voice commands, unique characters, millions more polygons and improved online options for the next version.

    Unreal Tournament developer Epic Games has unveiled more details of the next instalment in the series - explaining why it might not be called UT 2006.

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    Unreal Tournament 2007

    Now with added modifiability.

    Midway has confirmed that the latest PC instalment in the UT series will launch next year, revealing that it will carry the title of Unreal Tournament: 2007 - despite rumours to the contrary.

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    Tomb Raider: Legend details

    Lara returns with relatively normal-sized breasts, but tiniest t-shirt ever. Oh and a new game.

    Ah, Lara - how we've missed her athletic exploring and ancient artefact-appropriating antics. But now Eidos has found time in its busy schedule of being taken over by SCi to reveal a few more details about her next adventure.

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    First Tomb Raider: Legend shots

    You've seen what she looks like. Now you can see where she plays.

    Lara Croft's looking very different these days. More human. And she's running around environments much closer in theme and design to those that inspired her huge following in the first place.

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