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F.E.A.R. 2 Gold – Scares mere days away

Monolith & WBIE have announced that F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin has gone gold for all three formats it’s due to arrive on. The announcement comes via the F.E.A.R. 2 Community site which has the following mini press-release: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is excited to announce that F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin has officially “gone gold” on […]

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Anchorage Ho! – First Fallout 3 DLC pack available for Xbox & GFW:L

Bethesda & Microsoft have released the first Downloadable Content Pack for their post-apocalyptic first-person-role-playing-shooter-game (or FPRPSG as we like to call it round these parts). The pack costs 800 Microsoft points (whatever they are), which roughly translates as £6.80 or the equivalent, and comes bearing a few hours of gameplay, some new weapons, a new […]

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“We can’t wait to drive a flying car” – Burnout Paradise: ‘Ultimate Box’ Trailer

Criterion Games have released the full official trailer for the Burnout Paradise ‘Ultimate Box’. The trailer shows off a shed load of new content for PC gamers who haven’t touched the game before (or a few new tit-bits for console gamers who have had all the loving for a while now) and sumarises the good […]

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Industry News PC

Windows 7 – too game or not too game

Are Windows XP’s days finally numbered?  TechRadar have an article asking such a question as Windows 7 reaches Public Beta and at first glance seems to be the next big thing. After Vista totally failed on almost every level to replace XP as everyone’s favourite Microsoft OS, Redmond were forced back to the drawing board […]

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Employment Crisis – Financial Situation squeezes games companies. *UPDATED*

Earlier in the month, we reported that Crystal Dynamics were downsized and in December, Free Radical & Factor 5 disappeared, amongst others.  Since then, there have been significant rumours of layoffs at larger companies including Microsoft, EA and Sega. Unfortunately, these days, rumours have a habit of coming true. Kotaku are keeping track of all […]

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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin – Demo Impressions

The more astute out there may have noticed that Monolith and WBIE have put out demos of F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin for all 3 launch formats. The Xbox 360 & PS3 versions are available over their respective networks, whilst the PC demo is available at all good download repositories. Impressions after the cut…

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The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Review

Orks on the left of him, Elves on the right…  Andrew Bryant is stuck in the middle with a licensed game.

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Diesel Power: Riddick Dark Athena Intro

Escape from Butcher Bay was really a diamond in the rough – a first person shooter on consoles that did something different from day one & serves nicely as an example of a tie-in game that was a) completely unrelated to its companion movie and b) significantly better than said motion picture too boot! Originally […]

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Barry had a little lamb – new addition to the CNS stable

There’s been a reason why you have been stuck with me, Andrew, for what seems like an eternity now and that’s because Barry only went and conducted a field test too see if his sperms had been damaged by deadly radiation. Lots of things happened that many of you won’t understand and now he has […]

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Dawn of War II Beta – Early Access for Soulstorm owners

Valve have announced that all owners of retail, Steam and rival digital download versions of Iron Lore’s (R.I.P.) Soulstorm expansion pack for the original Dawn of War are entitled to participate in the Dawn of War II Multiplayer Beta test today, one week ahead of the public beta test being opened to the, well, public […]