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    Disney announces Narnia developers

    Griptonite and Traveller's Tales to produce the games of the movie of the book.

    Disney Interactive has announced its chosen developers for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

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    Vietcong add-ons for PC, Xbox

    Time for more jungle warfare with Charlie and chums, courtesy of developer Pterodon.

    Czech developers Pterodon has announced the launch of two new add-ons for jungle shooter Vietcong Purple Haze.

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    Zelda voice talent announced

    Details of Link's next adventure finally start to emerge. Slowly. (And spoiler-ler-ly, if you hadn't guessed who might be back.)

    Nintendo may be keeping details of the new Legend of Zelda title firmly under their minish caps, but a few snippets have emerged on IMDB.com.

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    Xboxes still at risk of frying

    Experts say replacement cables won't save consoles from death by power supply.

    Some of the more than 14 million Xbox owners told to replace their power cables could be left with a damaged console despite Microsoft's attempts to solve a power supply problem, according to IT news website The Register.

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    US retailers sell PSP software early

    And they do work on Japanese units, just in case you were worrying.

    Keen gamers can already get their hands on US PlayStation Portable titles, according to reports from across the pond, with a number of launch titles already openly on sale - although the hardware itself won't be available until Thursday.

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    Stolen developer closes doors

    Blue Monday for studio, but stealth sim still on course for April release.

    London development studio Blue 52 has gone into liquidation, according to a report in trade publication MCV.

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    Advance Wars DS details

    Translated reports from Japanese mag Nintendo Dream shed some more light on what Nintendo and COs are up to.

    Advance Wars is due out on Nintendo DS by the end of the year and will feature an aircraft carrier and stealth fighter amongst its new units, while Commanding Officers will now have a "TAG" stat to show how well they work with other COs during tag battles.

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    Katamari, Age of Empires II for DS?

    Katamari Damacy, Age of Empires II and GoldenEye: Rogue Agent all mooted to join the DS release list.

    Nintendo Power, the Big N's official organ for North America, has revealed a list of forthcoming games for Nintendo DS in its latest issue, and amongst them are unannounced versions of Katamari Damacy, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.

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    Gizmondo launches in the UK

    New handheld set to ship with pre-pay Vodafone SIM already installed.

    Tiger Telematics has announced a deal with Vodafone UK which will see the Gizmondo handheld device, which launched on Saturday, shipping with a pre-pay SIM card.

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    Squenix on FFVII AC, Kingdom Hearts

    The low-down on two of Square Enix's most anticipated titles for 2005.

    Speaking in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Square Enix' Shinji Hashimoto has discussed details of two of the company's biggest upcoming products - CG movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, and Disney crossover Kingdom Hearts 2.

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    Phantasy Star Universe for PC, consoles

    Devotees of the Dreamcast classic to get their phantasies phulphilled. Phinally.

    The long-awaited next instalment in the Dreamcast and GameCube RPG series Phantasy Star Online will be on US and Japanese shelves this winter, according to Famitsu PS2.

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    X2 is dead, long live X3

    Expansion pack morphs into fully-fledged sequel, complete with Xbox conversion. Probably.

    Bad news for those of you eagerly awaiting X2: The Return: Egosoft has officially cancelled the planned expansion pack. But cheer up, cos here's the good news - you can now look forward to a fully-fledged sequel instead.

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    LEGO Star Wars demo released

    [Waves hand] You'll be surprised how much you like it.

    As some of you may have spotted earlier this week, Eidos has released a PC demo of its LEGO Star Wars tie-in game. It weighs in at about 200MB and you can download it from Eurofiles here.

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    GTR to get free expansion pack

    Download new add-on soon and prove you're king of the ring. Well, oval.

    Swedish developer SimBin is hard at work on an expansion pack for GTR, shortly to be available for free download.

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    Spider-Man 2 PSP videos, shots

    For those of you who want even more Spidey than the free UMD movie in the US Value Pack...

    With the PSP set to launch in the US next Thursday, 24th March, Activision has released some promotional vids showing off Spider-Man 2, which will be amongst the launch titles.

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    WoW - lots of subscribers!

    More than 1.5 million, actually.

    More than 1.5 million subscribers have signed up for MMORPG World of Warcraft, according to a statement issued by Blizzard Entertainment.

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    Matrix Online hires actors for key roles

    Real live people to take on major character roles.

    With less than a month to go until the game's European launch, Sega has announced that professionals have been hired to take on major roles in The Matrix Online.

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    Feature | What's New?

    Resi 4, Brothers In Arms, Act of War, CM5… I may actually have to write about games this week.

    You can tell it's getting warmer when you look out the window and the house opposite is literally ON FIRE.

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    DAOC Catacombs launch day looms

    Expansion pack to be in the shops by the end of this month.

    The latest instalment in the Dark Age of Camelot series will launch in Europe by the end of March, according to publishers Hip Interactive.

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    UK publisher Liquid Games is re-releasing a dozen Oxygen Interactive PC titles with a brand new price of just £3.99 each.

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    Atari announces military shooter

    Enemy in Sight prepares to declare war on your PC.

    Czech developer Illusion Softworks is currently hard at work on Enemy in Sight, a PC shooter to be published by Atari.

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    City of Heroes legal battle continues

    Both sides quickly claim victory as the first round of judgements is announced.

    With the legal battle between Marvel Enterprises and NCsoft well underway, both sides still say they're confident of success following the announcement of a preliminary judgement by the LA court last week.

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    Quantic Dream considers Omikron II

    Developer struggles to make up its mind over sequel to The Nomad Soul.

    French developer Quantic Dream has denied reports suggesting that Omikron II is currently in the design phase of development.

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    SCi reveals Total Overdose

    Sort of like Samba de Amigo, only with less maracas and more drug-fuelled gun rampages.

    Calling all fans of guns, drugs, fighting and tequila - SCi has announced the release of Total Overdose for PS2, Xbox and PC, a third-person adventure with a distinctly Latin flavour. Screenshots here.

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    Sony fights mod chips down under

    US Free Trade Agreement opens the door for another attack on chips from SCE.

    Changes to copyright laws in Australia have opened the door for a fresh legal challenge to mod chips, according to Sony Computer Entertainment Australia, which has instructed its lawyers to prepare a new case against the devices.

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    Datel reveals first PSP peripheral

    Tool for managing MP3, photo, video and save files between PC and PSP due out at launch.

    Datel has announced the launch of 'Get Connected', a new product described as "the ultimate media management utitilty for the PSP".

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    THUG 2 Remix PSP trailer, shots

    New shots, trailer and details of Tony Hawk's PSP debut.

    Activision has released new details, screenshots and a trailer for PlayStation Portable title Tony Hawk's Underground 2: Remix, which is due out alongside the handheld hardware in the US on 24th March and should also be a launch title in Europe later this year. Screenshots here, trailer there.

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    TOCA is back, more comprehensive

    TOCA Race Driver 3 to feature sim and arcade oriented game modes, and simulate things right down to the effects of fuel consumption.

    Codemasters has revealed that TOCA Race Driver 3 is due out on PS2, Xbox and PC this winter - and reckons it's going to look better, simulate things more completely and offer the most comprehensive array of options for the mixture of speed freaks and sim fiends who call its tracks home. Screenshots here.

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    New PSX with PSP compatibility

    Rumours of the hybrid console's death have been greatly exaggerated.

    Following last month's announcement that production of the PSX was to be halted - widely interpreted at the time as the death knell for the PS2-based media centre - Sony has announced the launch of two new versions of the hardware.

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    Wednesday News Roundup

    Aquanox PS2 dated, Brian Lara International Cricket gets ICC backing, Kasabian to play PES4 on Xbox Live.

    Massive Development's undersea shoot-'em-up Aquanox will make an appearance on PlayStation 2 this autumn, publisher JoWooD sends word in a bottle. Aquanox - The Angels Tears doesn't make any bold claims about additions since the PC version, which was reasonably well received when it quietly released on the PC a long time ago. Indeed, if anything it's lost an apostrophe. But we have absolutely no doubt that, in addition to the more-than-40 story-driven missions, "phantastically staged underwater cities" and vast undersea battles, it will be significantly deeper. Glug.

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