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Feature | Final Fantasy XI
With the game due out in Europe this week, we consider whether it's the MMORPG-shaped timesink we've been looking for.
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Interview | Going Online With Square Enix
We chat to Square Enix senior vice president and FFXI producer Hiromichi Tanaka and lead translator and localisation director Richard Honeywood about the European launch, the new expansion and Square Enix's future online plans.
With Final Fantasy XI due out in Europe this week, we sat down with Square Enix senior vice president and Final Fantasy XI producer Hiromichi Tanaka and the company's lead translator and localisation director, Richard Honeywood, to discuss the European launch of the game, the new expansion pack Chains of Promathia, and Square Enix's future online plans.
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Half-Life 2 on track for 2004 release says Valve
"We're hoping they will put out a release date soon" says Doug Lombardi.
A release date for Half-Life 2 could be coming "soon" Valve's marketing director Doug Lombardi told Eurogamer last night.
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Matrix Online slips to next year
Simultaneous US/European release set for Jan 18th.
The massively multiplayer Matrix Online (the MMMORPG?) has been pushed back from the crowded confines of its November release slot to the relative wasteland of early next year it was announced yesterday, with a simultaneous Europe and US release now planned for January 18th, 2005.
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Football Manager demo available via official mag
Second issue available on September 23rd with cover mounted CD featuring beta demo.
The second issue of The Official Football Manager Magazine is to include an exclusive cover-mounted beta demo of Sports Interactive's keenly-awaited Football Manager, it was announced this morning.
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Nintendo drops GBA SP price, launches new bundles.
Now yours for just £69.99, or slightly more with a game.
Following on the heels of a similar price cut in the United States earlier this month, Nintendo of Europe has today announced that the GBA SP is set to drop to UKP 69 from September 24th, giving the handheld a pre-season boost.
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Go to hell. Oh, well, to Mars anyway.
Death to you. Here. What we mean is you can now download the single-player demo of id Software's Doom III, which was released the other month to the whinnying satisfaction of thousands of underused and overpriced graphics card cooling fans the world over, from Eurofiles.
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GTA: San Andreas UK exclusive shots
More of CJ's countryside antics. Lorries, camper vans and a nice bike ride up a hill. Sadly no frolicking in meadows.
Having given us a taste of CJ's countryside adventures recently - with the news that players will be able to drive lorries and bull dozers, take part in downhill mountain bike races and chew tobaccah - Rockstar has now given us a glimpse of one of the "RU Haul" trucks we'll be jack-knifing vigorously at the end of next month, along with a couple of other new sights.
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First PStwo details next week?
Kutaragi's expected to reveal all on PStwo and PSP at Sony conference next Tuesday...
The first details of the remodelled PStwo console are expected to emerge at Sony Computer Entertainment's strategy conference in Tokyo next Tuesday, where division president Ken Kutaragi will outline the firm's plans for the second half of the fiscal year which runs to March '05.
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All-new BioWare title to use Unreal 3 tech
Another reason to upgrade your creaking PC...
BioWare Corp's next all-new title will use Epic's stunning Unreal 3 technology, it was confirmed today.
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Expansion pack earmarked for November 16th release...
Novalogic's 'record breaking' online FPS Joint Ops is to receive the expansion pack treatment in time for Christmas, the company has announced.
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Valve delivers Half-Life 2 release candidate
It's not gold, but it's pretty close.
Valve Software has delivered a Half-Life 2 release candidate to publisher Vivendi-Universal Games, head honcho Gabe Newell has announced in a forum post on H2fallout.com.
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Prince of Persia 2 reveals its true colours
He's leaping, he's puzzling - it's what we wanted to see. Download the latest Warrior Within trailer from Eurofiles now.
Someone listens! Having voiced our concerns recently over Ubisoft's rather combat-heavy promotional efforts and the tonal shift in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within evidenced in the E3/Game Stars demo version, today we've gotten our hands on a trailer that goes some way to restoring our faith - and excitement - about this year's follow-up to The Sands of Time.
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So says Famitsu, anyway. Now with screenshots.
SEGA is working on a brand new SEGA Rally title for PlayStation 2, according to reports based on a story in Japanese magazine Famitsu Weekly. Called SEGA Rally 2005, it's due out in Japan sometime in 2005.
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Review | Crimson Sea 2
Could well be the game to fill that hackandslashing hole in your life.
Ever seen those hateful adverts that encourage idiots to take legal action if they’ve ever had an accident that wasn't their fault? ("I got struck by lightning! I'm suing God!"). KOEI had better watch out for rabidly litigious gamers slapping in writs as they slap their withered RSI-wracked wrists, blaming the company for getting them hooked on a succession of button-mashing hackandslashers. The latest in its long line of these repetitive, but entertaining and action packed games has just caused our carpal tunnels some consternation, so we'd better make this quick before those shooting pains go to our head and get us started on the problems with Premier League referees.
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Bungie addresses Halo 2 rumours
"We never mentioned bots. Not once. Except when we were saying, 'No, there's really not bots.'" More like that. Quite amusing.
Bungie has updated its official website with an amusing page that debunks a whole host of different Halo 2 related rumours, some of which are vaguely plausible but sadly untrue, and many of which are so obviously not true that the developer's tongue-in-cheek reactions more or less say it all.
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Square Enix working on new MMORPG
Fantasy Earth details, movie, shots.
Square Enix is working on a new massively multiplayer PC title called Fantasy Earth: The Ring of Dominion it emerged yesterday after the publisher snuck promotional leaflets about the game into copies of Final Fantasy XI expansion Chains of Promathia as they went on sale in Japan.
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New Ninja Gaiden download features new episode
The second Hurricane Pack will feature a whole new scenario "that can be completed in 30-40 minutes" according to Tomonobu Itagaki.
Tecmo's Team NINJA is planning to unveil the second Hurricane Pack of free downloadable content for Ninja Gaiden later today for release in late September, but Tomonobu Itagaki has already indicated that the second volume of content will provide a smaller self-contained adventure rather than rejigging the original game once more.
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Vincent to star in Final Fantasy VII spin-off
Reports in the Japanese press point to another Final Fantasy VII spin-off, and this time it's a game. Say hello to Dirge of Cerberus.
Square Enix is developing a Final Fantasy VII spin-off title with Vincent Valentine as the lead character, according to stories that reportedly originated in Japanese magazine Shonen Jump. The game is apparently called Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII ("Dirge of Cerberus" being one of the many enigmatic trademarks attributed to Square Enix this year), and will be released exclusively on PS2 in 2005.
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Review | Future Tactics: The Uprising
Cheap and cheerful turn-based console strategy, but is it enough to steal a few quid out of your Christmas budget?
Having spent many a happy handheld hour hiding in the corner with an Advance War in progress, or steering our ragtag band of oddly named Fire Emblemeers towards their goal, we've long kept an eye open for a turn-based strategy title to play on our consoles under the TV. And with Kuju's Advance Wars offering still some way off, and surprisingly few similar titles in the PS2, Xbox or Cube's back catalogue, Zed Two's Future Tactics has swallowed up a fair bit of our curiosity ever since we first heard about it - the subsequent downfall of the UK-based developer notwithstanding [Zed's dead - dead Ed]. It's been out for a few months in the States, as you may know, but now it's on its way to Europe, and should be with us by the end of October courtesy of the good folks at the questionably capitalised JoWooD. We couldn't be bothered to wait any longer.
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Conflict: Vietnam demo released
Rumble in the Jungle. That's not our pun, by the way, that's the name of the level.
SCi has released a playable demo of Pivotal Games' chart-topping squad-based Conflict: Vietnam title, which you can get hold of on Eurofiles this morning if you fancy seeing what all the fuss is about.
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Advance Wars Cube will not support microphone
Nintendo scotches rumours that the microphone peripheral could be used to order around troops in Kuju's Advance Wars title.
Nintendo has rebuffed suggestions on a Japanese website that Advance Wars: Under Fire, under development at UK-based Kuju, will support the GameCube microphone.
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Things And Stuff: Thursday News Roundup
(Updated throughout the day.) Counter-Strike: Source updated, Predator: Concrete Jungle delayed, Suikoden director working on one-shot-kill PS2 action title, first PC EyeToy style game due for Christmas.
Valve has updated Counter-Strike: Source again through Steam. The changes should download themselves and take effect when you next restart the content download service wotsit. Amongst the changes this time are fixes to the spectator cameras and support for Windows 98 and Millennium. The Terrorists will also now win if all the hostages are dead and the round timer expires. (Which surely doesn't affect too many people at the moment, given that the beta focuses on de_dust, and there are no hostages on that map?)
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Feature | UK Chart: Burnout 3 storms in at number one
Criterion's high octane racer smashes into UK retail.
Electronic Arts' hugely anticipated arcade racer Burnout 3: Takedown has gone straight in at number one in the UK leisure software chart, with the Xbox SKU becoming the fourth fastest selling Xbox title ever in the process.
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Tomb Raider 7 to be unveiled this autumn
It's due out before next June, and from what we've heard it's shaping up to be a lot better than previous sequels.
Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider game "will be unveiled this autumn and is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of the current financial year," Eidos told the City today, as insiders claimed that the version they had seen was a lot more responsive and closer to the series' original ideology than previous sequels.
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Exclusive Half-Life 2 'Coast' video
Valve's latest high resolution Half-Life 2 trailer debuts on Eurogamer this weekend. Get it from Eurofiles now. Plus, the third phase of the Steam/HL2 preload gets underway.
With Half-Life 2 drawing ever closer, Valve Software has released the latest in a long line of high resolution trailers drawn from its extensive E3 presentation this year, and has been kind enough to let us debut it exclusively on Eurogamer this weekend.
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Interview | Building on TrackMania
We talk to TrackMania Sunrise developer Nadeo about the original game's success, and its plans for making the sequel even better.
TrackMania is one of the most unusual and engaging driving games of recent years - so much so that it seems rather pointless to describe it as a driving game. It almost defies description. You may drive, and race online, but the real fun of the game comes from building new tracks and sharing them with your friends - and the many thousands of gamers that make up the TrackMania online community clearly agree.
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In the second part of the developer diary series, designer Chris Degnan at Relic Entertainment ruminates on "The Creative Process of Gameplay".
Hey there! I'm Chris Degnan, one of the designers on Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, and today I get to do a designer diary! As part of the Dawn of War design team I work closely with Jay [Wilson], the lead, and the other designers and get to poke my nose into a lot of cool stuff! For me, one of the most exciting aspects of the game development process has always been the creative process that goes into developing the game and all of its many bits and details. And that's what I'll be delving into in this here diary.
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Rez creator to unveil new game at TGS
Tetsuya Mizuguchi prepares to unveil his first new title since leaving SEGA last year.
Rez and Space Channel 5 creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi plans to unveil his first project since leaving SEGA at next week's Tokyo Game Show, according to an update on the developer's blog.
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Guns, planes, lorries - more San Andreas details
Another load of screenshots and info from Rockstar.
In keeping with its dripfeed approach to promoting Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Rockstar has this month detailed the intricacies of the game's firearms system, and given us a look at some of the many activities that CJ can get up to in the vast Californian countryside that separates the cities of Los Santos, San Feirro and Las Venturra.
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