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Eurogamer Network has undergone a name change to reflect its recently global expansion into new territories. Say hello to Gamer Network.

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Eurogamer Network has revealed a new site that focuses on all things Xbox.

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Eurogamer Network has announced this morning Rezzed, a new show entirely for a PC-based audience.

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Eurogamer-owned trade site GamesIndustry.Biz has relaunched ahead of GDC this week, showing a brand new design. The site now incorporates IndustryGamers, the US trade site EG Network bought last year. GI editor Matt Martin will look after the European side with Dan Pearson, Matthew Handrahan and Rachel Weber, while IG editor James Brightman will take care of things in the US with IG writers Ben Strauss and Mike Williams.

Big congrats to all those involved!

Trade side GamesIndustry.biz will drop its requirement for registration this month, and is to relaunch with editorial and sales in both the US and UK.

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Eurogamer Network traffic rose 10% year-over-year for November 2011, the company said today, quoting figures from its latest ABC audit.

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Eurogamer Network’s announced this morning its joined forces with Nintendo Life in a deal which will see become the site’s only advertising and business development agent.

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Eurogamer’s announced a climb in November unique users to 4.5 million across its European network, a rise from 3.7 million in November 2008.

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Eurogamer Italy staff revealed via its forum that all Eurogamer networks apart from EG.de will disclose two big, unannounced games later this week.

According to the forum posts by publishing director Alberto “Eldacar” Belli, the official reveal is set to take place at E3 but Eurogamer will publish two hands-on’s this Wednesday or Thursday.

How exciting!

There will be two Eurogamer Expos this year, it was confirmed this morning, another in London and, for the first time, an event in Leeds.

The Leeds show will take place first, running October 27-28. The Expo hits London on October 30-31.

HMV’s sponsoring, and Eurogamer’s expecting 14,000 gamers to turn up.

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are all involved, EG said this morning, and further publishers are to be announced in the “coming months”.

Tickets are on sale at the official site now, priced £6 per day.

Press release after the break.

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VG247 is an official media partner of Eurogamer Expo 2009, it’s been confirmed.

Eurogamer Network said this morning that this year’s event will take place in London and Leeds at the end of October. Get all details here.

Our involvement in the show means you’ll be getting all the action from both events right here this autumn.

Hit up the Expo’s site to see our lovely logo in the sidebar and buy tickets at £6 per day.

Eurogamer Network MD Rupert Loman said today that the now-announced Eurogamer Expo would be a “great place” for publisher announcements, saying the event is unique in terms of getting pre-release games in the hands of British fans.

“It’s going to be a similar format to last year – lots and lots of playable games,” he said. “I’m not sure publishers have many announcements to make at that time of year, generally – but if they did, it’d be a great place for them to do it.

“More important for us is to get some games that are playable at the show that have never been played by the public before.”

The expo will take place on two sites this October, firstly in Leeds and then in London. Last year’s show was a South-only affair.

“When we asked people how far they traveled to come to last year’s event the vast majority said less than 100 miles,” Loman added. “It’s a bit of a stretch to travel for more than two hours each way to come to an event for one day.

“As a result there’s millions of gamers in the north of England that don’t have any kind of event like this, so instead of getting them to come to us, we’re going to them.”

The Expo, as it stands, remains unchallenged in the UK, a fact that hasn’t been lost on the exec.

“The reason we started the Expo is because there was nothing like it in the UK – and that’s still the case,” he said. “So in terms of actually playing the biggest games this Christmas, I’m not sure if there’s anywhere else to go.”

VG247 is an EG Expo media partner. Full details here. Buy tickets from the official official site.

Eurogamer’s confirmed the launch of Eurogamer.it.

The site means Eurogamer Network now has publications in all major European languages.

Luca De Dominicis is the site’s managing director, whilst Alberto Belli, previously of Xbox Magazine, OPM, EDGE Italy and Leader/Black Bean Games, joins as publishing director.

“Our local sites are quickly gaining readers and advertisers across Europe and we expect our Italian venture to follow suit,” said Rupert Loman, managing director of Eurogamer.

“We’ve taken our time to find our partners in each country, but we’re delighted with the choices we have made and we look forward to working with Luca and Alberto.”

Press release after the link.

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Eurogamer Network’s just announced the launch of its Portuguese site – Eurogamer.pt, obviously – to be published in conjunction with local publisher LusoPlay.

The company also claimed it reached more than 2.1 million unique users with the Eurogamer brand in April 2008.

There are now local language Eurogamer sites in place in the UK, France, Germany and Portugal.

“[Lusoplay's] expertise in the Portuguese gaming market and community, combined with the Eurogamer brand, reach, technology and infrastructure, mean Eurogamer.pt will quickly become the leading video game content site in Portugal,” said Eurogamer MD Rupert Loman.

Press release after the link.

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It’s Euro web-war, kids. Gamespot UK today claimed it has 3.5 million unique users (UUs) in the UK, quoting ABCe figures from December.

“The gaming industry has seen explosive growth over the last 12 months, with new game launches such as Halo 3 far outstripping the majority of film openings in terms of first-day sales,” said GameSpot UK site manager Laura Jenner. “The UK gaming community is highly passionate and our experienced editorial team is dedicated to delivering the kind of targeted, in-depth and knowledgeable content that this community has come to expect. This audit confirms GameSpot UK’s position as the interactive gaming community of choice within the UK, and we look forward to building on this success further in 2008.”

The news comes on the back of recent figures from Eurogamer Network (1.8 million UUs across Eurogamer.net, Eurogamer.de and Eurogamer.fr) and Computec (1.39 million UUs across its German network, mainly on PCGames.de and Buffed.de). CVG’s last major figures-release was in last May, which claimed 1.56 million UUs across the CVG Network.