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FFXIII PS3 has exclusive FFXIV goodies

March 9th, 2010

Special limited in-game item for PS3 owners, and a chance to access the MMO beta.

If you’re picking up your copy of Final Fantasy XIII today on PS3, you’ll be in for an exclusive bonus treat.

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Vanquish “a brand new kind of shooter”

March 9th, 2010

"I didn’t want the game to be like other third-person action titles," says Mikami.

Platinum Games and Sega’s Vanquish "isn’t a regular shooting game," Resident Evil creator, Shinji Mikami has said.

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PS3 sales up, all others down in US

March 9th, 2010

So predicts them analysts.

Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter and EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich have predicted PS3 to be the only console to have seen a year-on-year rise in sales in February.

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Lost Planet 2 trailer is lengthy

March 9th, 2010

4 minutes of footage for your eyes.

Capcom’s released a new trailer for Lost Planet 2 and It’s a real beast weighing in at just over 4 minutes long.

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Bodycount screens hit the net

March 9th, 2010

The "ultimate shooter" from ex-Black developer.

The first screenshots of ex-Black developer’s "ultimate" FPS, Bodycount have arrived on the Interweb.

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Modern Warfare 2 gets matchmaking patch on 360

March 9th, 2010

Same fix as PS3 received coming before DLC’s release.

Infinity Ward is set to release a patch for the matchmaking mode of Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360.

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Modern Warfare 2 hits 25m unique players

March 9th, 2010

…and there’s DLC news coming this week.

Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling has Tweeted that Modern Warfare 2 has attracted 25 million unique players - and promised new details of the title’s upcoming DLC this week.

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Blizzard thinks about console MMOs “all the time”

March 8th, 2010

Lack of keyboard and quality control major issues.

World of Warcraft’s lead producer J. Allen Brack has said that Blizzard thinks about how to bring an MMO to consoles "all the time".

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Ubisoft: “Our servers are under attack”

March 8th, 2010

Players locked out of games again.

Some players have been locked out of their Ubisoft games again as the publisher’s servers buckle under demand.

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God Of War 3 cost $44m to make

March 8th, 2010

Team expanded to over 130 people by third instalment.

God of War III cost Sony Santa Monica US$44 million to make, according to director of product development John Hight.

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Natal’s Full Lineup to be at E3

March 8th, 2010

Microsoft has said it plans to reveal motion controller games at the event in LA.

Microsoft has announced that it intends to showcase the full lineup of third-party Natal games at this year’s E3.

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Sony Readies PS3 3D

March 8th, 2010

Firmware update to enable 3D TVs.

Sony has announced it is readying a software update that will allow the PlayStation 3 to run 3D games and movies.

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Confirmed: Steam coming to Mac

March 8th, 2010

Portal 2 to be first simultaneous release.

Valve’s confirmed that it’s bringing Steam and Source engine to the Mac.

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Sackings “may impact future success of Call of Duty”

March 8th, 2010

Michael Pachter offers his two cents on Infinity Ward departures.

Activision’s sacking of Infinity Ward bosses, Jason West and Vince Zampella "may impact future success of Call of Duty games," says analyst Michael Pachter.

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Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands gameplay video

March 8th, 2010

First in-game look at PoP’s return to roots.

Ubisoft’s released the first gameplay trailer for Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands.

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God of War 3

March 8th, 2010

Taking no prisoners.

As we fought a giant scorpion in God of War III, we couldn’t help but remember PS3’s first software demonstration, when a similar crab-like foe in Genji: Days of the Blade did "massive damage" to Sony’s reputation. If it was THIS that Sony had shown back in 2006, the massive damage would have been to people’s wallets as PS3 took over the world.

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BlazBlue Calamity Trigger

March 8th, 2010

Hands off the panda.

Like all fighting games, Blazblue hates you.
It hates your stupid hands which can’t keep up with your stupid brain which can’t keep up with the cheese-tastic AI or the bloke sitting alongside you or the sod on Youtube who keeps posting combo videos which make your feeble four-hit efforts look like a half-incher in a big willy contest. It has no tutorial, is loaded with nonsense - Guard Libras, Heat Gauges, Revolver Actions, Barrier Bursts, Distortion Drives, Negative Penalties, Astral Heats, and other impenetrable jargon - and would probably rather you just effed right off.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic - Bioware’s biggest ever game

March 8th, 2010

Title is larger than Mass Effect 1 & 2, Dragon Age and KOTOR combined, says studio.

Bioware has revealed that much-anticipated MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic is its biggest ever game - and contains more content than all of its previous Triple-A titles put together.

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Mafia II and Playboy join forces

March 8th, 2010

Retro centrefolds to feature in open-world effort.

2K’s announced that it’s teamed up with Playboy to include more than 50 "vintage covers and centrefolds" in Mafia II.

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New Gran Turismo 5 screens emerge

March 8th, 2010

From the trailer attached to God of War III.

New Gran Turismo 5 screens have been scattered around the net, via a trailer packaged with God of War III.

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