Monthly Archives: February 2011

Black Swan composer Clint Mansell has confirmed he is scoring the soundtrack to Mass Effect 3.

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As you’re probably aware, Sony’s been having a hell of a time with hackers lately. Most recently, the console maker hit yet another speed bump on its fast track to court: how can you sue someone if you have no idea who they actually are? Sony’s answer: turn the Internet upside-down and give it a good, hard shake.

There’s just one problem with that, however. Sony’s come up against a type of judge we’re sure it dreads – one that says “no.”

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Reach is great and all, but let’s face it: if you have to go on one more murder-frolic around Swordbase, you’ll hurl your Xbox off an overpass in the middle of rush hour.

Fortunately for you (and your poor, innocent console), it looks like help is on the way.

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Speaking at the DICE summit in Las Vegas yesterday, BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk said World of warcraft is the “touchstone” for MMOs, and that the developer’s own offering, Star Wars: The Old Republic, looks to it for “standards”.

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Not to be outdone by EA, Capcom, Namco and Sega are throwing their own massive iOS sales. Hit up the App Store for stellar savings for your iDevice, including Phoenix Wright, I Love Katamari, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Time Crisis, Dead Rising, Shinobi, Streets of Rage… why are you still here?

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Is it Easter already? I ask because The Dark: Eye Demonicon has apparently risen from the grave, thanks to an agreement between German publisher Kalypso Media and The Dark Eye license holder Chromatrix.

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A pair of Australian programmers have done in three weeks what League of Legends developer Riot Games has found itself incapable of in two whole years: produced a working replay tool for the highly competitive action strategy title.

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Warner Bros. has announced a new way to get your LotR geek on; a community of War in the North fans called the Council of the North. Join the ranks of hardcore fans, and you’ll be rewarded with insider information and exclusive assets – and we have one such trailer, to show you what the plebs miss out on.

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PlayStation Move Heroes is like Super Smash Bros. Brawl, if Nintendo only had six characters, and they didn’t fight. This story trailer offers a better explanation than I’m capable of producing of why three of Sony’s top platforming franchises have been gracelessly mashed together.

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Here’s two obscurely geeky Japanese things rolled into one: Tales of Graces characters in Gods Eater Burst. Somewhere out there, somebody just suffered a massive nosebleed.

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The series formerly known as Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! (later retitled as What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord? and No Heroes Allowed!) may well be on its way to NGP, if we can believe a tweet from, uh, one of the game’s primary characters.

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The long reigning Angry Birds suffered a nasty scare this week, as Smurf’s Village charged the iOS charts with its eye on the catapulting avians’ crown.

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Good Old Games has updated the pre-order page for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, revealing a slew of new bonuses for existing and – dare we hint broadly – new preorders.

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The Game Audio Network Guild has revealed its nominee list for the upcoming GANG Awards, with Red Dead Redemption scooping ten nominations and Dante’s Inferno an impressive seven.

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Activision has posted its annual earnings and earnings forQ4 2010, while confirming earlier reports it has canceled the Guitar Hero series and True Crime: Hong Kong.

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Activision’s just announced it has canned development on True Crime: Hong Kong as well as “disband” the Guitar Hero business unit.

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After a hands-on session with Duke Nukem Forever at a press event this week, we were given the opportunity to sit down with the game’s savior and biggest promoter, Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford.

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Harmoinx wants folks to sing together for Valentine’s Day, and feels the best way to do this is to release a pack of duets for Rock Band 3.

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Digital Extremes has said The Darkness 2 will focus on both story and action this time out, and will have cel-shaded look to it.

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Sony has announced some interesting stats concerning the multiplayer beta for Killzone 3, and looks like participants have racked up quite the amount of kills in just a week’s time.

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