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Next stop Europe?
Sega will publish the US version of From Software's Xbox title Otogi - Myth of Demons, the publisher's American arm announced while we slept. As you may recall, excited by From's Xbox debut Murakumo last August, we found some details and unearthed some screenshots of the game - a 3D action title with magical combat set in a fairytale world. The US version of the game is now due out in September from Sega, who may well pick up the publishing rights to any PAL port.
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Baldur's Gate gets second console outing
Proving once and for all that Dark Alliances prosper, Vivendi and Interplay have announced a sequel to the rather excellent Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, due out on PS2 and Xbox in the States before the end of the year.
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Europe to get Zelda/Platinum Cube bundle
Nintendo confirms reports
Nintendo has suspended its informal campaign of neglect in Europe, admitting this afternoon that we'll be getting a Platinum GameCube and Zelda bundle - but refusing to be drawn on further details.
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Expanding
Publisher Cenega has announced its three-pronged line-up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this May. Located at booth 6322 in the Kentia Hall, Cenega will be targeting not just the PC but also the so-called next-generation consoles with its 2003 line-up.
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Xbox Classics unveiled for Europe
Platinum Hits localised
The Xbox budget range is set to launch at €29.99 / £19.99 on April 11th in Europe, Microsoft has today announced. "Xbox Classics", as the range will be known, boasts a slightly different line-up to that of the US' Platinum Hits range.
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Flash games. They're great, aren't they? Two of our favourites are Fly The Copter and a rather excellent keepy-uppy football game with a manic Japanese commentary for which we've misplaced the URL. Flash games being pretty detailed these days, we even have conversions of our old favourites. Like Lost Vikings.
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September release
Hideo Kojima's "other game", the twirly aerial mech-combat title ZOE, is to receive a lick of paint for it European release this September. The PAL version of the game, subtitled The 2nd Runner, will benefit from exclusive stages, added battle sequences, several new game modes, two new difficulty levels (European Hard and European Extreme) and a brand new opening sequence with a remix of the main theme tune.
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Oh, mega
SCEA recently announced Syphon Filter Omega Strain, a single and multiplayer update to the renowned PSX series, and several useful details have made it out in a Game Informer article in the US, dutifully reported on by IGN.
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Help polish this Polish shooter
Techland's tactical sci-fi shooter Chrome is entering the beta stage according to the developer and North American publisher Strategy First. The open beta will begin on April 7th and run until May 9th, and registrations are being accepted via the interweb. All you have to do is fill in a form and articulate why you should be a beta tester.
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Due out this year
City Interactive has unveiled Project Earth 2, the sequel to last year's space-based Homeworld clone, which we weren't so happy with. PE2 promises a new physics engine and an overhauled interface to name but a couple of things.
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Operation Aberdeen. Ach.
EA and DICE have released a free new map for download. Operation Aberdeen is set in North Africa and lets players duke it out in one of the biggest tank battles of World War II. Each team starts with armour-filled control points, and it's a quest to grab outposts and points surrounding the map's central town.
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"A very difficult decision"
A FASA Interactive spokesperson has told the Dropship Command message boards that the long-running MechWarrior series has been put on hold. The last release, Mercenaries, may well become the last release.
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LucasArts is to produce a run of 75,000 special edition versions of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, which will be available when the game launches. Whenever that will be.
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Review | Sega Bass Fishing Duel
Review - go fish!
Despite the attention of an over-zealous father, sitting by a river freezing our nuts off never really appealed. Even worse, sitting in a leaky boat in the middle of the night, fearing for our lives; surely this is as close to madness as you can get? And what's this? Sega's made a third Bass Fishing game? Are we missing something?
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Devastation Euro demo released
Multiplayer for us monkeys
The European multiplayer demo of Devastation has been released today and the 190MB file is available from Jolt here. The demo should be identical in terms of content to the US release, which means it's a two-level demo with Streetwar (DM) and CTF modes.
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But there is no US release, hence the confusion
As reported elsewhere, the GameCube version of V-Rally 3 is still on track for a June 26th release in Europe. Various Internet sites reported the game's cancellation this week, but Infogrames' PR man Simon Callaghan told us earlier this week that "it's not being released in the US, which is where the confusion has arisen."
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Next up: Game Stars - The Rivals
ITV's gaming star search kicks off tomorrow in The Tram Studios, Camden, between 10am and 6pm, as gamers from all over the region flock to the recording of Game Stars.
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The best game of the year so far, and friends
This week in gaming is a bit like the Oscars. There are lots of nominees, but only two real winners - Metroid Prime and Panzer Dragoon Orta. Both are fantastic games, well worthy of the scores we've given them, and both make a worthy swap for that wad of scrounged, bequeathed, purloined, fenced, laundered or perhaps even hard-earned cash.
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Points mean prizes
There were lots of entries this week for our Rally Championship competition - proving once and for all what a significant effect the promise of a free hat and T-shirt has on the average unkempt videogamer.
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City goes after Lara and Derby
Friday treat: gratuitous picture of Lara-alike model inside
Polish development house City Interactive yesterday announced two currently publisher-less games; Nina - Agent Chronicles and Smash Up Derby. Their previous released include Project Earth and Aces of World War I.
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Images, ringtones, that sort of thing - all free
Take-Two is once again giving us lots of ethereal junk for our mobile phones. Last time out we had free Vice City images, ringtones and so forth, and in order to promote Vietcong this week we have much the same; six colour images, a few operator logos and ringtones both normal and polyphonic. We particularly like "Vinyl girl".
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Activision unveils Disney Pro Skater
With Tony Hawk's tech at its heart
Activision and Disney have joined forces to try and woo 6-14 year olds with Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure for PS2 and GameCube. Based on Tony Hawk's fourth Pro Skater engine, the game will feature characters from three animated films; Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and The Lion King - 12 in total - with the usual Create-A-Skater option customised to help build youthful skating representatives. Furthermore, Activision is to hold a nationwide casting call for 10 real kids to become digital skaters in the final game.
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Splinter has viewers in stitches
Yep, that's the best we could come up with. Lurid TV ad inside.
Here at Eurogamer, we don't normally host adverts because, well, they're usually crap. We've made exceptions in the past though, if warranted. We felt that recent pro-peace advert from Sony probably deserved an airing, for example.
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Details and shots from this would-be F-Zero
According to some sources, NDCUBE's next futuristic racing game may well have been F-Zero GC if Nintendo hadn't farmed the work out to Sega/Amusement Vision, but this week sees NEC Interchannel announce plans to publish the game exclusively on GameCube anyway, under the name of Tube Slider.
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Just not on the PC
Jaleco Entertainment is to develop and publish a new Real-Time Strategy title, with the aim of turning it into a successful IP over the next few years. Goblin Commander: Unleash The Horde is set in the war-torn world of Ogriss, where goblins spawned by the hand of the mighty wizard Fraziel have fallen under a corrupt influence and must be put down before they tear the world apart. The player will control armies of specialised goblin warriors and fearsome beasts as they fight the evil goblin surge. Perhaps surprisingly though, the game is due out on all next generation console platforms, with no PC release in sight.
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Adventure Company's 2003 line-up
The other side of the DreamCatcher empire
Yesterday we brought you DreamCatcher's 2003 line-up, and today we have their pseudo-sibling The Adventure Company's offering, riddled with games that we're sure some of you will be interested in.
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Includes news on Advance Wars 2, Mario Golf and Donkey Kong Country
Nintendo of America has clarified the release date information on its website, which last week reportedly showed F-Zero GC and Wario World slippages before a gust of wind kicked up and returned the page to its original state.
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2003 will be the "Year of Sonic", apparently
One of the most famous videogame character franchises of all time, Sonic the Hedgehog, is to be revived by creator Sega in a series of new moves designed at reinvigorating the brand.
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You've seen the shots, now read what it's vaguely about
Although you've been admiring the first screenshots of Jak & Daxter II for a couple of days now, SCEA only confirmed Naughty Dog's latest title in writing while we were asleep.
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Ah good, another pointless war
GOD Games has announced that Illusion Softworks/Pterodon's jungle FPS Vietcong has gone gold, and should hit store shelves in March.
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