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Infinity Ward doing Call of Duty 2
Yes, we're shocked. And you'll be able to play its new branching levels in separate soldier-specific campaigns or chronologically, too. More details inside.
Gob-smacking revelation of the day: Infinity Ward is developing Call of Duty 2 for Activision.
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TrackMania motion sickness warning
"It's so fast it could hurt you," seems to be the gist of it. Go on then, have some more publicity you sly devils.
Publisher Digital Jesters has issued a brief missive advising gamers keen to tackle its latest release, TrackMania Sunrise, that the fast-paced puzzle/racing game might cause motion sickness over long periods of play.
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Games don't kill people, rappers do.
Detroit-based rappers D12 have signed up to provide tracks for Konami's new gangbanger, Crime Life: Gang Wars. They've done an exclusive track entitled 'Throw It Up' for the game, and will also lend their likenesses and voices to key characters.
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About release dates for OZ and Goemon, plus the full title for Castlevania DS.
Konami's Japanese office has made a raft of announcements regarding release dates and full titles for its forthcoming games, according to GameSpot.
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It's June over there, and in the States, and July on this side of the pond by the sound of it.
Capcom has finally announced a Japanese release date for Killer 7, the new cel-shaded adventure from Resident Evil and Devil May Cry creator Shinji Mikami.
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Dundee studio shut down; administrators appointed to seek ways to continue work on existing titles in development.
Scottish developer VIS Entertainment has been placed in administration, with the firm's Dundee studio being shut down immediately and a number of staff being made redundant in Edinburgh, making up a loss of 54 jobs in total.
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Nintendo are chucking in a soundtrack CD for the first people to pick it up in Japan.
Fire Emblem will appear on GameCube for the first time on April 20 - but only in Japan, obviously - and those first in the queue will receive a bonus CD and calendar.
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Japanese developer takes time out of his busy schedule designing wacky music-based games to tell us things.
Legendary Japanese developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi has started a blog on 1UP.
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...Games. Five in total, including Pocket Ping Pong 2005 and Virtual Squash.
Finnish developer Fathammer is hard at work on five new titles for the Gizmondo, according to Tiger Telematics.
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Eidos board unanimously recommends SCi's offer
Which is fitting, really, since we're unanimously bored of the whole affair.
The end seems to be in sight for the takeover drama at UK publisher Eidos, with the company's board this morning announcing that it is recommending the offer from British firm SCi to shareholders.
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More gangbanging goodness revealed.
Thanks to the success of GTA: San Andreas, gangbanging is THE must-have theme for every other game released this year.
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Nintendo to open dedicated store
Two floors of Mario, Pokémon, Zelda and the like in New York's Rockefeller Center.
This spring will see the opening of the Nintendo World Store, a two-storey complex in New York's Rockefeller Center.
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Connery signs up for Bond game
Don't worry, we do mean Sean and not Jason.
Sean Connery has agreed to put on his tux, toupee and exploding cufflinks one more time to appear in EA's From Russia With Love, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Trouble on the high seas! Oh alright, at a car boot sale in some place called Wombourne.
In scenes probably not very reminiscent of The Siege or even Beverly Hills Cop, police [winged? -Ed] swooped on software pirates at a Staffordshire car boot sale on Sunday.
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Giz update: 89 titles announced
Meaning, they've announced the fact that there will be 89 titles. But not what most of them are.
The race to be Europe's number one handheld has gotten off to a bumpy start as one contender steams ahead, another still hasn't bothered turning up on the starting line and the third is best known for its associations with Sting and John Lewis.
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Much-hyped title from the late nineties may return to life at E3, says CNN/Money.
Developer 3D Realms, currently working on the long-delayed Duke Nukem Forever, is reported to be preparing to reveal a "new" project at E3 this year - first person shooter title Prey, which was thought to have been cancelled several years ago.
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"The monkeys stand for honesty, giraffes are insincere," sang Simon & Garfunkel in At the Zoo. No idea why. Hippies.
Spring is here and by timely coincidence so is the Spring Scenery Pack for Zoo Tycoon 2.
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Namco serves up a sizzling platter of real time strategy with a side order of touch screen battle plans and wireless multiplayer.
This October will see the release of Shogun Warrior: The Lost Army for Nintendo DS.
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40 per cent of Codemasters sold
Almost half of Codies handed over to VC firm in new funding deal.
Further details have emerged regarding the fresh round of funding announced by British publisher Codemasters earlier this week, with venture capital firm Benchmark revealing that it has acquired 40 per cent of the firm as part of the deal.
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Feature | UK Charts: FIFA Street holds off Splinter Cell
Kicking the balls for Ubisoft's hopes.
Electronic Arts' urban take on the football genre has proved a hit with UK consumers, holding on to the top position in the charts for a second week despite a strong debut from Ubisoft's latest Splinter Cell title, Chaos Theory.
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Just kidding, of course. The Sims 2 Nightlife is due this autumn. Ho-hum.
The gaming world was rocked to its very foundations today as EA confirmed the announcement of an add-on everyone knew they'd make before they even announced it.
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There's going to be a game of the movie of the televison series, don't you know. Starring Charlize Theron.
Futuristic action adventure Aeon Flux will arrive in cinemas this autumn, and wouldn't you know it but there's a videogame tie-in too.
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WipEout Pure downloads explained
You won't have to pay for them, says man who knows about these things. But you will need a bigger Memory Stick. Oh, and a PSP...
Sony's Liverpool Studio has revealed more details of downloadable content for PSP title WipEout Pure, according to a report on gamesradar.com.
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Conspiring to shake up console FPSs?
Although we're generally inclined to 'trust no-one' when it comes to the conspiratorial air of hype that surrounds almost any game likely to score seven or above, Midway has earned itself some deserved applause over the past year or so with some original titles arriving amid the licensed/franchised malaise like a breath of fresh air. With the likes of Psi-Ops and The Suffering gaining decent acclaim last year we were in the somewhat rare position of having a degree of expectation for the US publisher's long overdue entry into the first-person shooter arena. Another sci-fi shooter could have so easily have fallen flat on its face, but you know what? Two hours in we're far from disappointed.
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Latest Splinter Cell adventure encourages you to buy AMD and Nokia. Stealthily.
Last week's biggest new release, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, also represented the latest push towards advertising in videogames, with Ubisoft signing up a number of blue-chip companies to flog their wares through the title.
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Everyone's favourite dhampir gets them out on Sony's new handheld.
She's saucy, she's sexy, she's capable of snapping your spine in two and downing the contents of your carotid artery before you can say "Nice tits" - and now BloodRayne is coming to PSP.
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PSP cases: the spring collection
Still no release date or price. But look! Here's a selection of, er, lovely cases to put the thing you don't own in! Including one that extends battery life.
Okay, so you can't buy a PSP in Europe at the moment, or for some considerable time by all accounts, but those of you who have an import may be interested to know that there is a wide range of fetching cases available. From abroad, obviously.
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EA invites you to "live out your wildest commuter fantasies". Tom's not sure they want to know what he thinks about on the tube. (Zoo Keeper, mostly.)
EA is hoping to get our motors running, again, with an announcement that the next instalment in the Burnout series will go on show at this year's E3.
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Shadow Warrior source code released
3D Realms offers fellow developer types the chance to muck about with its old days ninja-'em-up.
Calling all programmers: the source code for quirky oriental-themed first-person shooter Shadow Warrior is now available on developer 3D Realms' website.
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Why bother with an expensive "PC" or "mobile phone" when you can import a £200 games console to send text messages.
Volksport has come up with a new script which allows you to access Internet Relay Chat (IRC) via the PSP.
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