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Understone unravels beneath Bowerstone.
Understone, the first batch of proper Fable III DLC, will be released on 23rd November, Microsoft has said.
It’ll cost 400 Microsoft Points.
Microsoft’s Live community man Graeme Boyd tweeted that Understone will be set in a secret underworld beneath Bowerstone. Could this be linked to the gargoyles in Fable II?
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The UK videogame PR firm partnered with Codemasters and Eidos enters liquidation after 22 years in operation.
Barrington Harvey had a number of high-profile partners including Codemasters, Eidos and the Edinburgh Interactive Festival and has previously worked with Sony, Nintendo and ELSPA (now UKIE). In its fiscal year ended June 2009 the company made a loss of £258,000, while administrator Portland said of 2010 (for which results are not yet available): “it is apparent that losses were also incurred”.
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Developers form consortium as Microsoft announces potential XNA updates, including support for Achievements and Kinect.
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Latest Call Of Duty‘s record-breaking sales knock Football Manager 2011 from the top spot.FIFA 11, meanwhile, maintained its number two spot, ahead of Just Dance 2 which moved up to three in the UK multiformat chart for the week ending November 13. Kinect Sports debuted at number four, while Medal Of Honor left the top ten althogether.
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But journalists need to get their act together.
Chris Hecker, the developer behind 2007’s infamous “the Wii is sh*t” rant, has for the first time revealed the true extent of the impact his comments have had on his career.
In 2007, while at Maxis working on PC game Spore, Hecker took to the stage at the Game Developer Conference and called Nintendo’s motion sensing console “a piece of sh*t”, labelling it “two Gamecubes duct-taped together”.
His comments, predictably, hit the headlines. The following day Hecker apologised, saying, “I do not think the Wii is a piece of sh*t. Nintendo needs to be applauded for trying to interface on the controller front, the user.”
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COD: no need to fish for compliments.
In one week, Call of Duty: Black Ops has sold an unprecedented two million copies in UK shops.
GfK Chart-Track totted earnings from those sales at £81.9 million.
Black Ops sales were 13 per cent higher than those of Modern Warfare 2 (1.8 million) and the new game made 21 per cent more money (£67.4 million).
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Developers working with "limited game budgets" will be able to license a range of tools at reduced cost.
Middleware producer Havok has announced that it intends to lower the cost of its physics, animation and AI tools for developers with small budgets. Called the Strike Program, studios will be able to license a basic feature set with the option to access additional tools under separate licensing.
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Make Haye in March.
EA Sports’ boxing game Fight Night Champion will release on 1st March 2011.
That’s according to the game’s debut trailer, which you can see below.
1st March is a Tuesday the day games release in the US. We assume it’ll release on Friday 4th March in Europe, but we’re checking with EA now.
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“Amongst the most played online PS3 games.”
Zipper Interactive has insisted large scale first-person shooter MAG is one of the most played online PlayStation 3 games amid accusations that hardly anyone’s playing it.
A user on the game’s official forum (thanks, VG247), dvdpfstr, said: “Look at the numbers of players on MAG for the last week. It would seem to me the writing is on the wall. Socom Confrontation has more players still and that is a game that people have complained about incessantly since its release. It really is sad too, MAG had so much potential only to get worse the longer it was out.”
The comment sparked a response from senior community manager Jeremy Dunham, who hit back at dvdpfstr’s accusation.
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Did someone say PSP2?
Sony’s slashed the price of the embattled PSPgo in the UK once again.
It’s knocked £30 off the RRP of the digital-only handheld. Now, it’ll set you back 129 pounds.
This latest cut follows last month’s price cut, which knocked £65 off the £225 RRP.