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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 […]

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Formula Vroom – F1 2010 Developer Diary

Codemasters have released the first of [insert number here] development diary videos for their upcoming ‘simu-cade’ of the top level of motorsport. Following on from F1 2009 (last years PSP/Wii game) F1 2010 signifies the first official F1 game on a Playstation since 2007, a PC since Grand Prix 4 in 2002 (ah, memories) and […]

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Portal 2 outed – In other news, Cake Lie still popular meme

Valve have been teasing us with an ARG since releasing mysterious new updates to their fantastic 2007 FPP (that’s First Person Puzzler for you in the back who arrived late – yes, I saw you come in) last month. Mysterious Transmissions…  Party Escort Submission Positions…  BSODs during GDC presentations… What could it mean?

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Tier One Beard – Medal of Honor trailer

Now it seems that Activision have culled all respect and/or skill from Call of Duty development, it’s down to EA to give us innovative Modern Warfare titles…  How ironic. A new Medal of Honor trailer, entitled ‘Tier One’ (after the cut) shows us most of what we know, in no particular order: Guns Combat Beards […]

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GDC 2010 – Telltale Games Deluge – Sam & Max 3, Tales DVDs

Like it says on the tin really…

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GDC 2010 – Deus Ex drops ‘3’ – now ‘Human Revolution’

Using ‘3’ in the title was always a silly idea… after all, it was a prequel ffs!  Whatever next, Th4if? Anyway, some marketing bod has obviously come to his/her senses, since GDC 2010 sees a bullshot teaser for the newly christened ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’ released into the wild by Squeidosnix or whatever we’re supposed […]