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Rumours of our website breaking for like a whole day are not greatly exaggerated.
As you've probably realised by now, we've been having a bit of a problem over the last 24 hours.
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Surprise surprise: Porn on the PSP
Except, you know, pre-packaged porn. Not just the stuff you've been converting yourself. You are filthy and hellbound, you know.
Cuh, the things we have to do for this website...
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Developer attempts to break record for most enemies on screen. Roy Castle to supervise.
Good news for those who like their FPS games fast, furious and featuring more enemies on-screen than there are third-person gangland adventures in development - Sam "Serious" Stone is back.
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Take Two confirms Prey, E3 showing
Take Two confirms PC shooter will finally get a release this year following an E3 showing next month.
Following 3D Realms' announcement that Prey is back in development, Take Two has confirmed that it will publish the first-person PC shooter later this year.
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Feature | UK Charts: FIFA remains Streets ahead
Midnight Club 3 can't unseat FIFA Street from the top spot; WOW re-enters the top ten.
Electronic Arts' urban take on the football genre has racked up a fourth consecutive week at number one in the UK software chart, holding off major new release Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition which debuts at number two.
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EverQuest II auction site planned
Sony sets up a virtual eBay for selling mystical swords, magical potions, helmets of doom and all that kind of nonsense.
Sony Online Entertainment is to offer a new service that allows EverQuest II players to buy and sell items, coins and characters securely.
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Gizmondo: European street date
New handheld is 'best thing since colour TV', says some Italian bloke.
May 19 has been announced as the launch day for Gizmondo in France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the Nordic regions.
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Bandai combines DVD/UMD titles
Anime releases to include media for home players and PSPs alike.
Japanese media giant Bandai has announced the first movie titles to feature both a DVD and a UMD version in the same box, a trend which was widely predicted when Sony first announced the PSP's movie capabilities but has until now failed to materialise.
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US Namco Museum doubles in size
Not literally, of course. The PSP explodes often enough without that sort of thing.
The US version of Namco's PSP arcade compendium Namco Museum will feature ten more games than the Japanese original, the publisher revealed this week.
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He's not just working on that Xbox thingum, you know.
Yoshiki Okamoto may have been in the news a lot lately because of his involvement with Xbox 360, but it was Sony who brought him to our attention again this morning with the announcement of Genji for PS2, developed by his Game Republic studio.
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Including handhelds. And mobile phones. And it'll feature new content, too.
EA has announced that The Sims 2 is currently in development for PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA, DS, PSP, mobile phones and fax machines. All right, maybe not the last one.
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Old days gaming is the future and we're putting on a show to prove it, say beardy longhairs.
The UK games industry's event calendar is looking a little empty at the moment, what with the recent cancellation of ECTS, GDCE and SCoRE. But the good news announced today is that the Classic Gaming Expo will go ahead after all. (In the games world, for those who don't know, "Classic" means "Old", just like "Urban" means "Black".)
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Evil Dead star confirms involvement with Regeneration and takes piss out of Coppola at same time.
Following the announcement last week that Evil Dead Regeneration is coming to Xbox, PC and PS2 this summer, actor Bruce Campbell has reaffirmed his support for the project with a cheeky dig at a fellow Hollywood legend.
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Sony says a UK retailer's price and release info is speculative and urges us to wait for an official announcement.
Sony has denied that a PlayStation Portable pre-order campaign run by UK retailer Dixons is using anything other than speculative release and pricing information as its basis.
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Angry men sabotage everyone else's fun.
Square-Enix has released a statement via PlayOnline revealing that the Final Fantasy XI server has been the victim of targeted attacks, resulting in service problems for hundreds of thousands of users.
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Chaos Theory competition winner!
Who won? We could tell you, but then we'd have to, you know, find other ways to get you to give us page impressions.
And so, like a counter terrorist operative with green lights on his head, our massive Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory giveaway is now over, and, once we found it, our special covert hat revealed the winner.
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Reports of CEX closure 'nonsense'
Leading UK independent retail chain still going strong despite reports to the contrary.
One of the UK's longest-established independent retail chains, Computer Exchange, has dismissed as "nonsense" reports in the British trade press today alleging that it is set to shut its doors in the near future.
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EA's plans for its next James Bond game become more apparent.
Details have emerged of Electronic Arts' From Russia With Love courtesy of a short preview update in the UK edition of Official PlayStation 2 Magazine.
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Interview | NCsoft on the divergence of RPGs
NCsoft's Stephen Reid considers the growth of MMOs in relation to their single-player equivalents, and how the genre's shaping up overall.
As the line between massively-multiplayer online games and their single-player equivalents becomes increasingly blurred, and developers like BioWare who've traditionally focused on turn-based affairs strike out in other areas, NCsoft's Stephen Reid considers the genre's progress in a number of areas.
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Battlefront 2 forced into the open
Death Star levels, space battles, a proper story mode and more according to a preview in Official PS2 Magazine UK.
As some of you may have spotted already, the May issue of Official PlayStation 2 Magazine UK features an extensive overview of Star Wars: Battlefront 2, the sequel to last year's squad-based online shooter, shedding light on a number of details that ought to leave even previously abstinent Star Wars aficionados salivating like Jabba the Hut in front of a pick-and-mix counter.
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HL2 Aftermath teaser, CS details
Valve releases a screenshot and some minor details about Half-Life 2: Aftermath, and talks up the next CS: Source update.
Valve has released a teaser shot of Half-Life 2: Aftermath, the forthcoming expansion to last year's top-rated PC first-person shooter, and says it intends to release it "later this summer". You can find the shot here.
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Masters of Doom movie confirmed
Story of id Software to get small screen adaptation. The author said so and everything.
Author David Kushner has confirmed that a film adaption of his 2003 book Masters of Doom is in the works.
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Microsoft confirms a European release date of April 22 as American gamers go mad for it and sequel talk emerges.
Despite odd rumour that's been knocking about lately, Microsoft has confirmed that Jade Empire, its martial arts-based Xbox RPG, will indeed go on European release next Friday.
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Euro PSP announcement very soon
September still being considered, say publishing sources, as SCEE announcement looms.
Sony Europe boss Chris Deering has confirmed that the company's plans for the PlayStation Portable will be revealed in "the next few weeks" - supporting reports that the firm plans to announce a European launch date at E3.
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To teach schoolchildren about global hunger. Because kids don't even know what a book IS these days.
The United Nations has released a new videogame to teach children about the problems of food distribution and global hunger.
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New Pac-Man DS title to feature ghosts, pills, power-ups 'N everything.
Ageing pill-popper Pac-Man is to star in another new title for the Nintendo DS.
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It's a trick. Get an axe.
Not unlike like the Deadites who cause Ash so much pain in the films, Evil Dead games keep popping back up for another go no matter how much we savage them.
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POP3, Ghost Recon 3 head Ubi's E3
With Brothers In Arms: New Chapter, King Kong, Myst V and various others appearing; King Kong and Ghost Recon 3 on next-gen, too.
Ubisoft has become the first major publisher to announce its software line-up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles next month, and revealed that two of its titles will be demonstrated on at least one next-generation platform.
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Group of chirpy American singers performs "a bunch" of classic game ditties. Seriously, check this out.
US a capella group Redefined has come up with a medley of classic tunes from old days Nintendo games - and Mortal Kombat.
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No, it's not cancelled; it's just "ready when it's ready," says Codemasters.
It's been almost exactly two years since Codemasters first announced military shooter Operation Flashpoint 2 for PC.
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