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Counter-Strike: Source gets bots, de_tides remake
Which makes sense - terrorists are pretty antisocial.
Valve has updated Counter-Strike: Source with AI-controlled bots and a version of de_tides reworked by Turtlerock Studios, giving us yet another reason not to right-click and whack 'Exit' when the inescapable Steam app pops up in the morning.
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Sony warns customers over leaked PSP update
New software promises PDA and office applications for handheld - but not yet.
A software update for the PlayStation Portable which leaked onto the internet over the weekend is genuine, according to Sony, but installing it will stop the console from working and may damage the hardware.
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Roll Call back on track as SCi funds new dev studio
Rising from the ashes of Argonaut Edgware.
Original IP title Roll Call is back on SCi Entertainment's release schedule, after the British publisher agreed to fund a new development studio founded by staff who had worked on the title at the now-defunct Argonaut.
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Feature | UK Charts: Straight eight for NFSU2
EA hold the top spot as Underground 2 cleans up yet again.
Need For Speed Underground 2 maintained a vice-like grip on the UK's No.1 spot this morning, as Electronic Arts' street racing title shook off all comers for an eighth straight week.
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8-bit retro gaming even cheaper than originally announced.
£24.99 will be the price of the C64 Direct to TV device, it has been confirmed, with the computer-in-a-joystick being released later next month at a fiver less than initially announced last week.
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Rare plans more handheld goodness
But which platform is open to speculation as Rareware website news update raises more questions than answers. As usual.
Rare's handheld team is still in gainful employment if this post on the Rare website is anything to go by, but the firm is remaining tight-lipped on what's next in this area of game development.
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End of the line for Take Two and Sega's ESPN range as EA opens its wallet again.
Electronic Arts has struck a further blow against competitors in the sports game market, signing an exclusive 15 year deal with sports broadcaster, and former Take Two / SEGA partner, ESPN.
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Feature | Reader Reviews
Your thoughts on Final Fantasy X-2, Amplitude, Deus Ex and Metroid: Zero Mission.
There will be no review of Mark's Christmas dinner because he doesn't want to offend anybody, which kind of tells its own story in a way. (A story of broken promises and deceit.) Ours though was extremely pleasant, with all the trimmings present and correct and a smashing array of pre-lunch Christmas morning nibbles including carrots with dip, salmon and chorizo bits (there was some sort of biscuit involved in the former, we seem to recall, although the port and brandy kind of fogs that side of our memory), and a Christmas pudding that must have burned for about half a minute before imploding in a manner that gave the lie to an exterior that screamed "richness and plenty!" leaving a saggy old alcoholic lying in the gutter having just coughed up guts its up. Tasted pretty good anyway though. It was certainly better than Halo in our view, which we've never been in the least bit tempted to put in our mouths.
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Play one of this year's most promising RTS contenders.
Atari has released a pretty hefty demo of Eugen Systems' extremely promising real-time strategy title Act of War: Direct Action, which makes battlefields out of the likes of San Francisco, Washington, Moscow and London and sees the player fighting against terrorists funded by a consortium of petrol giants trying to destabilise the economy and profit from rocketing oil prices.
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Ninty talks Star Fox extras, Harvest Moon sequel
According to reports, he says nervously, the Cube Star Fox title will feature some NES unlockables. Also: Harvest Moon details, and news on Donkey Konga 3.
Star Fox Assault will include unlockable versions of Famicom/NES games Xevious, Battle City and Star Luster according to Japanese retail reports, while the next GameCube Harvest Moon title will feature an ensemble cast of characters from past games.
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Japanese DS game dates and details
Tiger Woods, Meteos, Pac-Pix, Harvest Moon and Kirby all dated in Japan. More details, and news of downloadable demos and novelty styluses inside...
Speaking at a retail meeting in Japan last week, Nintendo reportedly discussed release dates and details for a number of its Q1 Japanese DS releases according to those who were in attendance. The platform holder mentioned downloadable demo data, and there's also talk of replacement styluses with game-specific designs.
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Mastertronic, Xplosiv budget updates
Prisoner of War, TOCA Race Driver, Commandos 3, Bad Boys II and Gunbird Special Edition amongst games that will now cost you very little.
As the winter nights continue to draw in like an overzealous pencil with a fondness for punctuality, and the Christmas change jangling around in your pocket threatens to burst the lining and shower your shoes in chilly metal on a busy commuter train, the UK budget labels are poised to take advantage in the next few months with a mixture of high quality and commercially successful relics - and a few you'd probably do best to ignore.
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Street Fighter Anniversary controllers get UK release
SF fans and anybody who needs a bit of motivation to get back into beat-'em-ups would do well to take notice...
Accessories group Wild Things is set to release a range of four official Street Fighter Anniversary for PlayStation 2 developed by Nubytech Inc. in the UK on 1st February.
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Square Enix's Code Age to be manga then game
The mysterious "new concept brand" trailed with Dragon Quest VIII last year will follow a similar path to Fullmetal Alchemist.
Square Enix's "new concept brand" Code Age, trailed in fairly nondescript fashion alongside the release of the Japanese Dragon Quest VIII last November, will be developed as a manga comic series before being developed into a videogame.
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Majesco to publish Planet Moon's first PSP game
Called Infected, it's a third-person shooter which sees you take to the streets of New York to tackle the violent victims of an unnamed virus.
Majesco will publish Planet Moon's debut PlayStation Portable title Infected towards the end of the year, the American publisher announced this week.
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Blizzard speaks on WOW development challenges
First part of gi.biz's exclusive Blizzard interview available on the site today.
Creating MMORPG title World of Warcraft has been "a Herculean type of effort", according to Blizzard VP Paul Sams and creative director Chris Metzen, speaking in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
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Sony ordered to pay Dual Shock license fees
Court ruling could end up costing Sony $27 million a year in licensing charges to Immersion.
A new ruling in the ongoing legal battle between Sony and US firm Immersion Corp has ordered the Japanese giant to pay a quarterly license fee for its use of force feedback technology in PlayStation hardware and games.
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Murdoch's News Corp considers gaming acquisitions
Another media giant sets its sights on the videogames industry.
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch may be about to make a move into the videogames industry, with the COO of his giant News Corporation group confirming that the company is seeking an acquisition in the sector.
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Feature | DS Games To Watch in 2005
Part One: The Stuff That's Finished. With so many DS games to get through, we've split this one in two. First up, the games we've played. Join us this afternoon for all the rest.
In looking forward to the highlights of the 2005 calendar year on the Nintendo DS, it's not just the games that European fans have to get excited about; it's the console itself. Following an extremely popular launch in the US in late November and a similarly encouraging lift-off in Japan under a fortnight later, those of us waiting patiently in the middle can mark a couple of key dates on the novelty calendars we got for Christmas before starting to worry about which games to buy. First there's the end of January, when Nintendo is expected to announce European launch details including a £129.99 price point at a press event in France, and then there's late March (possibly the 25th), when the system is finally expected to go on sale.
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Nintendo plans to expand its R&D budget in 2005
Spending on the rise at Nintendo as Revolution looms and DS development grows.
Research and development spending at Nintendo will top 22 billion Yen (163 million Euro) this year, according to a report in the Japanese business press, with the company also planning to boost capital and marketing spend.
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DS adventure games dated in Japan
Another Code: Futatsu no Kioku and Tantei Kibukawa Ryosuke Jiken Dan: The Masquerade Lullaby on their way in the next two months.
Promising Nintendo DS adventure title Another Code: Futatsu no Kioku has been given a Japanese release date of 24th February according to reports from the region. There's currently no word on an American or European release.
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Myst V: End of Ages due this autumn
The "final episode" according to publisher Ubisoft.
The Myst series is to come to an end this autumn, by the sound of it, when Ubisoft publishes Myst V: End of Ages, described as the final episode. Cyan Worlds is once again hard at work on the PC/Mac title, and Myst co-creator Rand Miller is leading the team on End of Ages, "bringing closure to the Myst storyline via its most dramatic and immersive experience to date".
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Feature | DS Games To Watch in 2005
Part Two: The Ones We Know Things About and the Wow-Them-With-Names Brigade. In other words, virtually every other DS game of any note...
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C64 Direct-to-TV gadget to get UK release
Competition Pro joystick bundles Winter Games, Impossible Mission and more as part of 30 game package.
The Commodore 64 is to become the latest retro gaming machine to be repackaged as a plug and play joystick, with the "Direct to TV" system being issued with 30 all-time classics later this year.
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FBI, Secret Service to track America's Army cheaters
"The Army is angry, and we're coming for you."
America's Army executive producer Phil DeLuca has issued a hilariously thuggish warning to players of the US Army's action game / recruitment tool on the game's official forum this week. In a post seemingly removed after the attention it drew, DeLuca threatened that cheaters and those tampering with the game were "misusing Army property" and guilty of "cyber crime", before appearing to liken players guilty of such crimes to those in Japan who decided to bomb Pearl Harbour in the 1940s. The missive went on to threaten that the Department of Justice, the Secret Service and even the FBI could be involved in tracking people down, and concluded in cringeworthy fashion by declaring, "The Army is angry, and we're coming for you."
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Worms 4 signals return to traditional approach
Team 17 goes back to the drawing board after Forts Under Siege and discovers a perfectly workable blueprint rather hastily discarded in the first place...
After failing somewhat in its attempts to push the series in a new direction with Forts Under Siege last year, Worms developer Team 17 has dropped its RTS experiment completely and decided to return to the traditional turn-based cosiness of a typical Worms outing for this year's effort. Hence Worms 4: Mayhem, which ought to be out on the PS2, Xbox and PC in Q2 2005, with Codemasters handling publication this time rather than SEGA. It's all a bit New Coke/Classic Coke to our eyes.
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Original Tekken to be included in Tekken 5?
At least according to Japanese retailers. It'd certainly be a nice bonus.
The original Tekken will be included as a bonus item in the console version of Namco's Tekken 5, according to numerous reports citing sources at Japanese retailers.
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Dragon Quest to retain 3D look in ninth instalment
Creator Yuji Horii wants more 3D in Dragon Quest IX, and it looks like Level 5 could be developing it again.
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii intends to retain the 3D approach utilised by Level 5 for the series' recent eighth instalment, the veteran developer revealed at a recent seminar in Japan dealing with the game's production.
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EA continues sports assault with exclusive AFL deal
More football exclusivity as EA ties up with fast-growing league.
Leading publisher Electronic Arts has announced an exclusive deal to develop games based on the Arena Football League, which sees the company sewing up the rights to the popular and fast-growing American sport.
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City of Heroes Euro date, subs costs announced
European Deluxe edition to contain various exclusive extras.
NCsoft Europe has revealed that one of the best MMORPGs we're aware of at the moment, City of Heroes, will get its official European release on 4th February with an SRP of £29.99 / €39.99.
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