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The Shadow of Chernobyl lengthens its spell in development as GSC is given more time to polish up its FPS opus by publisher THQ.
PC first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has been delayed for an unspecified period of further development according to a posting on publisher THQ's German website this week.
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Feature | UK Charts: NFSU2 enters the record books
New success for EA's Christmas hit as January drought continued to grind by.
Electronic Arts' street racing title Need for Speed Underground 2 has broken a UK chart record by taking its tenth consecutive week at number one, giving it the longest unbroken run ever at the top of the All Formats chart.
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PlayStation Portable to miss March date in Europe
Sony's PSP production line continues to be hit by component shortages.
Reports this morning indicate that Sony's PlayStation Portable will not launch in Europe until the second quarter of the year, with chip shortages blamed for this fresh delay to the system's arrival.
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Gran Turismo competitor (their hype, not ours) set to arrive in the States this May according to Microsoft US website update.
Microsoft Game Studios' immensely promising competitor to Sony's Gran Turismo series, Forza Motorsport, has been set back to 3rd May in the USA according to Microsoft's official US website.
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New publisher to bring niche Japanese titles to Europe
Rising Star - formed by Marvelous Interactive and Bergsala - aims to help bridge the gap with a line-up including four Harvest Moon games, Evolution on PSP, Taito remakes for the DS and more besides.
A new European publisher has emerged this week with an eclectic portfolio of niche titles including several Harvest Moon games from Natsume - and has stated that its goal is to reduce the period between Japanese and Western releases.
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24 American PSP launch titles named
Well, they're due in the "launch window" apparently. But it's still "a launch library more than triple that of our closest competitor". Handheld Handbags!
Having finally revealed pricing and launch information for the PlayStation Portable in North America ($249.99, 24th March, with a free UMD movie of Spider-Man 2 for the first million - in case you missed yesterday's excitement), Sony has also now taken the wraps off the list of 24 titles to be made available in the North American launch "timeframe". We don't expect them all to be available on day one, but they will all be available shortly after the US launch.
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Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
We wish Dante would shut up, but otherwise this hasn't made us cry too much in the few hours we've spent with it.
"This game contains scenes of violence and gore". Cue a gigantic SMASH as Dante's size tens boot the television screen in. "Sweet dreams!". Talk about setting the tone.
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Microsoft's Gran Turismo killer or a burst radiator on the autobahn's hard shoulder? We take a first look under the bonnet.
When Microsoft first admitted its intentions with Forza Motorsport, it may as well have said, "We're going to fly to Pluto." Translated, Microsoft said publicly and in no uncertain terms that Forza is directly aiming to compete with the absolute giant of console racing games, Gran Turismo. There is no bigger target. GT is PlayStation's biggest game, the fourth version of which hits Europe in March, and with aspirations at this level, the pressure on Forza is absolutely immense. Early code turned up last week.
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PSP priced at $249.99 in North America; launch set for March 24th
Value Pack bundle will be the only version available to American gamers, but the first million consoles will have a free UMD movie disc of Spider-Man 2 thrown in for free.
Sony has revealed its launch plans for the PlayStation Portable in North America, with the console set to arrive on March 24th at a price of $249.99, and a free UMD movie disc of Spider-Man 2 to be bundled with the first million units sold.
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Sony Europe to publish God of War this year
Santa Monica Studios' ambitious Ancient Greek action-adventure dated.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that it will publish God of War, from the Santa Monica Studios subsidiary of its American arm, in the second quarter of 2005 exclusively on PS2.
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Activision making game of third Shrek film
Which prompted more of an "Ooh, they're doing a Shrek 3!" style response than anything else, understandably.
Did you know they'd already agreed to do a Shrek 3 film? We've obviously not been paying close enough attention. But hey, we liked the first two really quite a lot, so we're not that bothered. The news that Activision's already working on a Shrek 3 game for release alongside the film in summer 2007 is, however, slightly less exciting.
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Resident Evil 4 Cube bundle on 18th March
If you need any extra incentive, how about a branded Cube and controller, a copy of the game and an exclusive Making Of disc for not-a-huge-amount-of-money?
When we reviewed Resident Evil 4 recently, we asked whether it was worth buying a GameCube simply to play. Well, whether or not you think so remains to be seen, but Nintendo clearly does because it's launching an £89 Resident Evil 4 GameCube hardware bundle this 18th March alongside the game.
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Rainbow Six: Lockdown multiplayer details
Although the revolution's still to come (apparently), we have details on all the basic game modes in the squad-shooter due this March.
Ubisoft has announced details of the various multiplayer modes its lining up for Rainbow Six: Lockdown on PS2 and Xbox, adding that it plans to unveil more in the coming weeks "that will revolutionise the world of online gaming". And yes, co-op is most definitely in.
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SI and Sega pledge extensive support to War Child
Success of Football Manager and other titles will benefit worthy charity cause.
British developer Sports Interactive and its publishing partner Sega Europe have announced that they will be donating a percentage of all revenues from their titles to international children's charity War Child.
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World of Warcraft due on 11th February
In two different versions. Full details of pricing, packaging, subscriptions, support, sales and all the rest.
Blizzard Entertainment has revealed that World of Warcraft will make its highly anticipated European debut next Friday, 11th February, in regular and special collector's edition versions.
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Star Wars: Republic Commando demo
Rescue 431MB's worth of Wookiees in jungles.
LucasArts has released a chunky PC demo of its forthcoming PC and Xbox squad-based shooter Star Wars: Republic Commando, which you can download today from a variety of locations including 3D Gamers and GameSpot.
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Ghosts, gambling and Freelancer join Xplosiv range
Xplosiv announces its March line-up of PC titles for £4.99 and £9.99.
Xplosiv has announced its first batch of new budget PC releases for 2005 set to go on sale in the UK this March at £4.99 and £9.99 price points.
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Incredible success prompts Incredibles sequel
THQ says it's working on a new Incredibles title for [deep breath] PS2, Xbox, Cube, PC, Mac, GBA, PSP and DS. Simply... oh what's the word we're looking for?
Some of us haven't even seen the film yet, and the original game is still fourth in the UK charts, but that hasn't stopped publisher THQ from announcing this week that it plans to release a second game based on Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles this autumn.
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We guide Frosty the Snowblind man through the first half of his chilly sci-fi adventures in the PS2 version of Crystal Dynamics' shooter.
As promising as Snowblind has looked and sounded over the past nine months or so, you'd have to be Timmy Mallet after a particularly severe Tartrazine overdose on the sunniest day of the year not to be slightly suspicious at the presence of another videogame prefixed with the word 'Project'. Eden, Gotham, Zero, Rub, X, Nomads, Entropia, Earth, Justice have all Projected upon us, and now it's Snowblind's turn to join the merry throng. But even though most of those have served the Project word just fine, we'll just settle for Snowblind, thanks.
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EA founder Hawkins joins AIAS Hall of Fame
Joins Molyneux, Suzuki, Miyamoto, Carmack et al at DICE Summit presentation.
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced the latest addition to its "Hall of Fame", with Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins being inducted into the elite group at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas.
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Are you a friendly pirate?
Ubisoft is planning to publish a pacifistic pirate MMO this April as it aims to expand its range of massively-multiplayer titles. Developed by Three Rings Design, Puzzle Pirates is already available to trial and play online.
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Konami unveils MGS3 Euro additions
Duel Mode and Demo Theatre backed up by a new difficulty level and camo/face paint designs. But is that enough?
Konami has finally outlined the full extent of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater's European additions ahead of the game's release in PAL territories on 4th March.
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Rainbow Six 4 'immersion' trailer
Ubisoft's RS4 dev-team discusses their goal with the game over a nice montage of video clips. Get the file from us here. (You know. If you like.)
Ubisoft has released a 10MB video of Rainbow Six 4: Lockdown in action (mirrored on Eurofiles here) featuring members of the development team discussing the sense of immersion they were striving for and how they went about that.
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Gran Turismo 4 dated in Europe
An early March release with 10 new cars for Europeans.
Sony has declared that Gran Turismo 4 is complete and will be released across Europe on 9th March after four years in development. What's more, the PAL version will feature 10 additional cars on top of the 700 or so that made it in to the Japanese version.
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Bandai outlines Eureka Seven anime/PS2 project
50-episode TV series to be accompanied by PS2 game.
Bandai has teamed up with Bones animation studio and Hakuhoudou DY Media Partners to launch a new anime series and PlayStation 2 game pairing called Eureka Seven. The anime series will debut on Japanese television this 17th April and run for a total of 50 episodes, while the game is due out in the summer.
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Konami adds multiplayer to Metal Gear Acid
Snake showdown on the horizon.
Konami has added a two-player wireless multiplayer mode to its PlayStation Portable title Metal Gear Acid, the company revealed at a recent press event in the States, having had to leave it out of the Japanese version released on 16th December last year due to time constraints.
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Ascaron's empire-building PC title has you setting up plantations to fund the recovery of your uncle's art collection.
Ascaron is preparing to publish The Great Art Race, a game that sees you building up an empire to fund art acquisitions, in the first few months of 2005. TGAR is being angled at the family market and supports a five-player hot-seating multiplayer mode.
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Feature | City of Heroes Diary #2
Life and death of the superfolk.
My main activity in City of Heroes this week has been dying.
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Half-Life 2 sells 1.7 million units through retail
Boxed copies fly off the shelves - but what of the elusive Steam figures?
Valve's critically acclaimed first-person shooter Half-Life 2 has clocked up almost 1.7 million retail sales since its launch less than two months ago, according to the latest information from publisher Vivendi Universal Games.
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That's €149 to most of you. 15 games at launch, 650,000 units on day one, and so on, with WarioWare amongst the launch titles.
Nintendo DS will launch in Europe on 11th March priced £99.99 or €149, Nintendo has revealed at a press conference in Paris this afternoon, and the platform holder is planning to ship more than 650,000 in the initial run.
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