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 As part of Capcom's recent announcement explosion, it has been revealed that Lost Planet 2 will be collaborating with Microsoft to incorporate characters from Gears of War. The strange meeting of minds will see Marcus and Dom from the brawny shooter series appear as playable beefcakes in Capcom's alien-exploding sequel. Isn't that nice? As you know, a release date has also been revealed, with Lost Planet 2 scheduled to hit worldwide consoles on May 18. It'll release for both Xbox 360 and PS3, although it's fair to say that the PS3 version probably won't be welcoming Gears of War characters so wholeheartedly. Perhaps the PS3 will get its own unique characters, but nothing's been said so far. It has also been said that people who pre-order the game in the US get Wesker from RE5, so maybe he will be included as standard as well here in the UK.
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 The development of Star Wars Battlefront III has been rocky, to say the least. Work began at Free Radical before Crytek snapped up the company, then the game was rumored to be in Rebellion's care before it eventually dropped from the face of the earth. Meanwhile Pandemic, the recently shuttered studio behind the first two games, apparently had nothing to do with the title at all. The latest rumor, courtesy of Kotaku, puts development of a brand new Battlefront project, entitled Star Wars Battlefront: Online, in the hands of Slant Six Games and LucasArts. Slant Six is the studio behind several games in the SOCOM tactical-shooter series, making it a reasonable candidate for a Battlefront developer. The game will reportedly arrive in 2011 on PS3 and Xbox 360. It will focus on online play and, presumably, Star Wars. According to Kotaku, Star Wars Battlefront: Online is also the source of the Star Wars Battlefront III casting rumors
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 Lionhead has revealed that footage from the upcoming Fable 3 will be shown at an event in San Francisco next month. Lionhead's Sam Van Tilburgh confirmed the news via his Twitter page.
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Adult film star Ron Jeremy has said that games are a worse influence on children than pornography, reports PC Mag.
Speaking at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo - which took place in Vegas alongside CES - the actor claimed that since his medium only caters for those aged 18 and over, games have a more corrupting influence on today's youth.
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 Final Fantasy XIII has sold more than one million copies since debuting in Japan last week. According to Kotaku, the latest in the Final Fantasy series, which was released in Japan on Thursday, sold approximately 1.1 million copies within 24 hours.
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 The Australian Classification Review Board has overturned its decision to ban Sega's Aliens vs. Predator in the territory. AvP was originally refused classification in the country, which has no adult rating for games. Following an appeal from publisher Sega, the watchdog reconsidered its stance and gave the title a MA15+ rating, passing it uncut.
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 Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello has pledged to challenge the dominance of Call Of Duty with the return of Medal Of Honour. Yesterday, EA revealed that the latest Medal Of Honor game will be set in modern-day Afghanistan.
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 Valve has begun testing new artificial intelligence bots able to replicate real-life player reactions on its multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2. Writing on the Team Fortress 2 blog, Valve developer Mike Booth revealed that the computer-controlled enemies will be unleashed on the game's King Of The Hill maps.
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 The PC beta for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been delayed until 2010.
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 EA global publishing president John Pleasants believes that the PC is fast becoming the world’s largest gaming platform. Speaking at the company's recent investor conference call, the EA exec pointed out that there are currently more than a billion PCs in use across the world, all capable of supporting downloadable flash software.
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 Problems have been experienced by users trying to install the PC version of Fallout 3 expansion Broken Steel. The content will cause errors upon installation, saying that "the cryptographic message is not formatted correctly", according to Eurogamer.
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 Developer DICE has explained why the PC version of Battlefield 1943 has been delayed. The first-person shooter will be released for Xbox 360 and PS3 in June, with a PC version not available until September. Producer Gordon Van Dyke attributed the delay to the fact that Battlefield 1943 is the first PC title to use DICE's Frostbite Engine, which was previously harnessed to to create the console exclusive Battlefield: Bad Company.
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 NCsoft today said that it would distribute its games using Steam. Steam users can now purchase NCsoft games and expansion packs such as Guild wars, City of heroes and lineage. Source gamespot.co.uk
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 Virgin Media users are experiencing issues with World Of Warcraft, with many unable to connect to the game. Since the early hours of this morning players have been unable to connect for long periods of time, cutting off after around two minutes.
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 EA DICE has today launched a multiplayer demo for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Xbox Live, which will remain available until February 25. On February 4, PS3 owners will also get access to the demo after they were given the chance to participate in a beta of the game's multiplayer last year.
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Quote: Datel Design & Development, a maker of memory units for Microsoft's Xbox 360, has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft over its moves to prevent the U.K.-based company's products from working with the game console. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, says Microsoft is unfairly favoring its own Xbox 360 accessories by disabling the functionality of competing technologies.
Microsoft announced last month that a software update would block unauthorized memory units from working with the console. The move was ostensibly meant to crack down on cheating enabled by unauthorized memory units -- including a Datel unit that uses removable MicroSD cards -- but it also drew complaints from gamers over the price that Microsoft charges for its own memory units.
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... Shocking Truths Uncovered? Quote: It seems like one of the chaps over at Neowin.net has uncovered a few juicy bits of information coming from http://xbox.sky.com in all the XML data that feeds the Sky Player. To me, that literally means nothing - after all, I'm no techie when it comes to this sort of stuff, but speaking to our coding expert Aleks (AKA Routine), it looks pretty legit.
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Quote: The UK Xbox.com homepage has unofficially let the cat out the bag regarding the release date for the upcoming Twitter and Facebook applications.
The page currently states that the social networking applications will hit the UK on November 17th and we assume that this will pretty much be the same for all the other regions.
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Quote: .... a Console
How much is Project Natal going to cost? Microsoft's still working it out, but Robbie Bach says at the very green roundtable I'm sitting at that it'll follow a price curve "like anything else," meaning, in English, it'll start at a more expensive point and get cheaper as it goes on. In other words, Microsoft's thinking about it more as a 32X-type add-on versus some tack-on motion controller.
So, I won't be surprised if it's $150, or even more, honestly.
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 Major Nelson has revealed the two new titles which will appear on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow. First up is South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play. Does what it says in the title.
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 Valve is hopeful it can find a way to make user-generated content from the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2 available to Xbox 360 users, the company told OXM UK. "One of the things I'd like to do is to allow these modules that are being released on PC to somehow integrate with Microsoft's system," Yasser Mailaka, a "team player" at the developer said. He's talking about custom campaigns made with L4D2's PC-only mod tools, which we're certain will be put to use straight away turning the game's zombies into all manner of famous people and copyrighted characters (ie: Shaun of the Dead). At least Valve won't have a proble-- hold on, what's this? "We'll have to filter them, we can't allow any copyrighted materials, so it's going to have to go through a process," Mailaka pointed out, dashing our dreams of escaping from not one, but hordes of shambling Andy Dicks.
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 Sony has officially confirmed a number of its Q1 releases, including God Of War 3 and Heavy Rain. According to MCV, Sony has dated MMFPS MAG, with God Of War 3 and Heavy Rain to follow in the following months.
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 Sony has announced that God Of War III: Ultimate Trilogy Edition will be released in Europe and other PAL territories in 2010. The bundle will include the upcoming God Of War III, remastered versions of the original and its sequel, bonus DLC content, an official soundtrack, and a book containing artwork from the game.
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 Sony has announced that a playable demo for Gran Turismo 5 will be made available on December 17 as part of a time trial competition. Writing on the European PlayStation blog, Sony brand manager Penrose Tackie confirmed the return of the GT Academy for 2010.
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Quote: Sales of the PSPgo have got off to a slow start, online retailer ShopTo has told GamesIndustry.biz, and the console's lack of physical software has meant consumer incentives in the form of bundles haven't been possible.
"PSPgo has seen a slow start for ShopTo and we have kept stock quite tight in consideration. We remained at the RRP for PSPgo so that we can achieve the maximum margin considering that there will be no further software sales for this format for us as an e-tailer," said the company's CEO Igor Cipolletta.
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 Sales of the PS3 have risen by nearly 1000% following the release of Sony's new slimmer model. According to Chart-Track, week-to-week PS3 sales are up by 999%.
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Just saw this on Twitter. I can´t believe they took back compat away in the first place. http://www.platformnation.com/2009/06/3 ... ompatible/
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 Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed that it will release two new expansion packs for its popular multiplayer online series EverQuest. According to BigDownload, Everquest: Underfoot will be released this November. This will be the game's sixteenth commercial expansion, offering players an underground realm to explore and new enemies to battle.
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 Nintendo has unveiled a new all-black version of its Wii console to be launched into the Japanese market later in the year. Priced at £157, the release of the black Wii will be matched with similar coloured versions of the Wii Remote, Nunchuck and classic controller.
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 Square Enix has revealed that Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days will be released in the UK this autumn. The DS exclusive, which was announced at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show, follows playable character Roxas and is set before the events of Kingdom Hearts 2.
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 Ubisoft has confirmed that its latest collaboration with Olympic Gold medallist Shaun White will be released as a Wii exclusive. Currently under development at Ubisoft Montreal, Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage is slated for a winter release on the Nintendo platform.
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Fallout and Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda has revealed that it has been making a mature game for the Wii. European chairman Sean Brennan said that despite a difficult market to pitch toward, the firm will be announcing a mature title for the console later this year, according to GamesIndustry.biz.
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 Anime fighting mash-up Tatsunoko Vs Capcom will be released in both North America and Europe. Despite previously thought to have been a Japanese exclusive due to licensing issues, Capcom has confirmed that the title will be coming to the west, according to Kotaku.
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 High Voltage Software has revealed that forthcoming Wii-exclusive first-person shooter The Conduit could become a franchise. Featuring single player and online multiplayer action, The Conduit will be released in the UK on June 26.
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 Software security firm Metaforic has unveiled new anti-piracy software to prevent the distribution of illegal Nintendo DS cartridges. Metaforic's MetaFortress technology is said to use code stored in the game to detect the patching used by illegal flash cartridges. When the software detects the patching, the game is disabled.
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That wouldn't be too hard, Halo is over
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