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M0th3r = Exp3ct1ng – F.3.A.R. 4nn0unc3d 4 PS3, PC n Xb0x

Don’t worry…  It’s actually officially F.E.A.R. 3…  F.3.A.R. is just on the box art. Still, when will ‘marketing’ learn that putting txtsp34k in our titles doesn’t make the game more ‘hip’ or ‘cool’…  It just makes the people who made the decision look like fucking tools! Anyway, F.E.A.R. 3 has been announced for Xbox 360, […]

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Vietnam(?) Black – Call of Duty: Black Ops announced, teased

Despite the debacle at Infinity Ward (26 employees and counting), Activision have pushed on with Call of Duty: Black Ops, in development at Treyarch. The seventh entry in the astronomic series ‘could’ be set in Vietnam, the Cold War or somewhere else – We’re honestly not sure and the trailer doesn’t really give enough away […]

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Play The Secret of Monkey Island SE… RIGHT NOW!!!

We kid you not…  For the low, low price of absolutely nothing, you too can play the first 20 minutes* of The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition RIGHT NOW, in YOUR BROWSER of all places. Seriously, we’re cutting our own throats! (oh, wait, wrong game).

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Retro Fangasm – XCOM coming back

XCOM is coming back *happyface* There is no hyphen in the name *sadface* 2K Marin are developing it with assistance from Irrational 2K Australia *curiousface* There’s a strange (almost retro) screenshot below and a press release after the cut *happyface* It’s a FPS.  *over-reactingface* More as we know it!

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SOS New York – Crysis 2 Teaser Trailer *UPDATED*

EA premièred a teaser for Crysis 2 in Time Square meaning, predictably, at least one of the Internet’s vast contingent was available to film it and post it to YouTube. The trailer currently links to www.sosnewyork.com, which just has a timer (presumably counting down to some HD/expanded trailer goodness), but watch this space! Lets just […]

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Knock Knock – BBC announces episodic Dr. Who games

A decent Doctor Who game has been a long time coming, not least because until ~2005 the licenses owners considered it a lost cause. Out to rectify that, the BBC have announced that 4 episodic adventures will be released free* as companions to the new series starring Matt Smith. Developed by perennial British development house […]

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Corruptus in Extremis – UK Digital Economy Bill pushed through

Westwood had the best idea!

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Pink Robots – War for Cybertron Multiplayer Footage/Release Date

Well it seems the multi-player component of Transformers: War for Cybertron is doing what we really want of the game – allowing us to make our own shooty robots that specialise in shooting other shooty robots. Purists may scoff at the classes being generic ‘Scientist’, ‘Leader’ and ‘Scout’ rather than stuff like ‘Seeker’, ‘The One […]

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Duty-Free : UK Game Industry to receive tax breaks

Allistair Darling, that funny guy who lives in #11 and allegedly cultivates weevils in his eyebrows, has set out plans for tax breaks for British entertainment industries, of which the computertronic amusement industry is part.

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Witching Hour – The Witcher 2 Debut

CDProjekt RED have released the debut trailer for their ‘mysterious new project’…  So mysterious, they even refused to acknowledge its existence despite a shareholder video demonstration leaking to the internet. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is coming to PC (and possible console) sometime late 2010/early 2011 and is the sequel to one of the […]