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Sonic to return this Christmas
SEGA of America announces gun-toting Shadow the Hedgehog, based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, for release in the "holiday season" Stateside.
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Namco swings Warhammer licence
Namco has signed an exclusive deal with Games Workshop and plans to focus its development efforts on PC to start, with the possibility of console and handheld games later on.
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Viewtiful Joe on US TVs, lunchboxes?
Geneon reportedly buys up US merchandising, TV and entertainment rights to the Japanese Viewtiful Joe anime. And wants to "go big" with it.
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Midnight openings for UK DS launch
Five Virgin Megastores will open early with prizes and other promotions for early birds.
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Sammy's US studio saved from closure
A management buyout has saved Sammy Studios, Inc. from closure. Now known as High Moon Studios, it retains all staff and projects including Darkwatch.
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Monday News Roundup
EA to co-publish Dead to Rights II, N-Gage games reduced, 50 Cent game will be at E3, Doom movie "wrapped".
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Capcom confirms Resident Evil 5
"We are going to do a Resident Evil 5, of course," producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi says in an interview with a US gaming mag.
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Total War spin-off targets consoles
Creative Assembly's Spartan: Total Warrior will appear on PS2, Xbox and Cube later this year from SEGA Europe, but it's not a strategy game.
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Square Enix's future in online games
Half of the firm's revenues will come from networked games by 2010, president Yoichi Wada says, also confirming that Final Fantasy XII, Kingdom Hearts II and Dragon Quest VIII will all appear in the West.
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Codies to publish SRS
That's Street Racing Syndicate. On PS2 and Xbox. Hip is handling the PC version, while Nintendo released the Cube one today.
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Jackson sues over LOTR profits
Peter Jackson is suing New Line Cinema over various profit-related problems relating to Fellowship of the Ring, including videogame licensing issues.
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Dogs of War collared
And replaced with a European Assault. What are we on about? Medal of Honor, course, although we're sceptical about its magic invulnerable super soldiers.
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Ubisoft buys Microids Canada
Fifty staff added to the headcount in Canada by means of MC2-Microids buyout.
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New colours for Nintendo DS
Four new versions to launch in Japan by the end of April. None quite as cool as Pepsi Blue though, we'd say.
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Nintendogs dated, three versions
Five dogs per version, and you can swap them with your friends.
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Square Enix launches 'variety' show
Curious new expansion for Squeenix as it plans an idol-hosted TV production in Japan, with a spin-off game to follow.
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Indy Jones to be 'reinvigorated'
LucasArts president Jim Ward argues that Indiana Jones could be as big and recurrent a franchise as James Bond - in game form as well as film.
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50 Cent trails Bulletproof game
Well, he did get shot repeatedly without dying. It's actually surprising it's taken this long...
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UK Charts: Mercenaries holds firm at No.1
Well-received action title sees a sales boost in week two.
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Ubisoft tackles sports genre
French publisher acquires Microsoft sports assets and a Vijay Singh licence for a range of sports titles potentially spanning golf, hockey, American football, basketball and baseball.
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Iwata: DS must attract new gamers
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata wants DS to "expand the definition of games" and offers a few examples in a comment for a Japanese website.
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Monday News Roundup
RPG, IQ-measurer and horse-breeder titles for PSP, ELSPA catches some more pirates, Namco registers Tales trademarks, EA sings its own songs' praises, Day of Defeat source shots.