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Splatterhouse! Bizarre! GT5 embargoes!
Welcome to the FORTY SIXTH instalment of the podcast they said probably wouldn’t last 46 minutes. It’s the Eurogamer.net Podcast #46.
To be fair, this one doesn’t last 46 minutes, but host Tom Champion is joined for however long it actually is by Tom Bramwell and Martin Taylor to discuss the issues of the day, which include the Gran Turismo 5 review embargo.
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Market research company consolidates best-selling charts for Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.According to GfK, the Nordic region ranks among the top five regions in Europe.
"The industry has been open to the idea of a unified tracking for quite sometime, but this didn’t come into fruition until we began our research into Norway and an international compilation quickly followed," says GfK games market research project manager, Magdalena Jönsson.
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Need for Speed! Faxanadu! DoDoGo!
Nintendo has an online shop too don’t you know – so what’s on it this week?
A demo! Remember, these are still relatively new here. It’s for RoxBox, a game about crash landing on a planet and not knowing what’s going on. Sounds authentic.
On WiiWare you’ll find ugly iPhone port Blood Bleach, a World War II game where you’ll gun down Japanese forces in a duck-hunt style manner.
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“Unlikely,” says a new report.
Both Microsoft and Sony reckon motion sensing add-ons Kinect and Move will significantly boost sales of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 respectively, but a new survey from a respected analyst reckons that’s “unlikely”.
Firm Cowen’s Fall 2010 Video Game Survey chatted to 1300 individuals and 1001 videogame players from the US, and, according to analyst Doug Creutz, the results suggest price cuts “would have been better”.
“Although our survey results show strong demand for the two new motion sensing peripherals among current Xbox 360 and PS3 owners, demand among non-owners and prospective buyers appears tepid,” Creutz said in a note.
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Pictures and video within.
Sony’s PlayStation Move lacks games – at least it does compared to Kinect. Thank goodness for Beat Sketcher, then.
Available on the US PlayStation Store today, according to the US PS blog, Beat Sketcher is a musical drawing game.
There are various modes, but at it’s simplest Beat Sketcher lets you doodle freely to music – calling on a palette of colours and painting tools to make a picture.
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Platform holder doing 20 in-house.
Over 50 stereoscopic 3D-enabled PlayStation 3 games are in the works, Sony’s revealed.
3D is being applied to 20 of them in-house at Sony.
“It’s a very positive thing to see the great level of interest in 3D from our development studios,” SCEE studio director Mick Hocking told Develop.
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Black Ops spikes Rolling Stones song sales.
If you were to suggest to The Rolling Stones circa 1975 that one day sales of their songs would spike because of a videogame, they would no doubt have laughed you out of the recording studio.
But that’s exactly what’s happened following the release of videogame phenomenon Call of Duty: Black Ops.
The ageing rockers enjoyed a “notable bump” in digital single sales for a pair of songs thanks to Black Ops, Billboard.com reports.
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iOS 4.2 update brings Apple’s tablet in line with iPhones and adds a range of additional functionality to both devices.
Apple has released its 4.2 update for iOS devices, bringing Game Center to iPad users for the first time. The social gaming platform adds achievements, leaderboards and multiplayer matchmaking to a growing list of supported games.
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As the company continues to restructure, the long-term head of games announces that he is set to depart.
According to the the L.A. Times, Hopper announced his departure via an internal email, saying,"the time has come for me to move on from the company and set my sights on new horizons."
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GT5 “takes your breath away”.
Has the gaming world left Gran Turismo behind? Is the simulation racer still relevant in today’s fragmented, socially networked word? For Sony, the answer is, unequivocally, yes.
Not only that, but the gargantuan Gran Turismo 5 can do for PlayStation 3 what Gran Turismo 3 and 4 did for the PlayStation 2.
“I didn’t know until I saw it,” Sony UK boss Ray Maguire told Eurogamer.