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Lionhead’s regal sequel makes number one in its first week; Rock Band 3 fails to make the top 20.
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Plus, Windows Phone 7 spin-off detailed.
New multiplayer modes are on the way for Crackdown 2, along with a new Windows Phone 7 spin-off, developer Ruffian Games has announced,
The Deluge DLC pack adds a new co-op arcade mode which pits up to four players against increasingly more challenging waves of enemies. You’ll also get Capture the Orb which is a standard capture-the-flag mode for up to 16 players.
A trial version of the DLC will be available giving you the complete Capture the Orb mode and a single player version of Deluge for free.
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Series “can spark a phenomenon”.
Guitar Hero creator Harmonix is already fleshing out Dance Central 2 for Kinect.
The first game will be a launch title for Microsoft’s motion-sensing camera on 4th November in the US and 10th November here in Europe.
“We’re looking at basic pre-production for Dance Central 2 but are mostly working on DLC right now,” project lead Kasson Crooker told MCV.
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Creepy sketches show up on dev blog.
Looking for a clue as to what Shinji Mikami might be up to at Zenimax? Well, look no further than these spooky doodles that popped up on Tango Gameworks’ blog.
Spotted by Siliconera and credited to ‘O-sensei’, there’s no clue as to what exactly they represent or whether they pertain to a future game. Maybe they’re just early ideas for Shinji’s annual Christmas card?
Bethesda and id Software owner Zenimax last week announced that it had bought the Vanquish director’s Tango Gameworks studio.
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Nintendo boss says Wii “never” lost momentum.
Satoru Iwata has used a bunch of his favourite graphs to prove that Nintendo’s Wii and DS are not doing badly in shops, despite posting a six-month profit loss of $25 million (£15 million) recently.
“I hope each and all of these charts will convince you that Wii, as a machine set to welcome its fifth holiday sales season, can never be considered to have lost momentum,” Iwata said, splashing them liberally in investor’s chops (as reported by Gamasutra).
His slides depicted impressive stuff such as Wii sales outpacing PS2 over a similar time-frame; Wii games having tremendously long sales tails; and phenomenal and unpredictable Christmas demand for Wii – 3.8 million were sold in the US last December (“The fact is, such unexpected things can happen when the seasonality throws its weight around.”).
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Forgot to include Return to Ostagar DLC.
European copies of Dragon Age: Ultimate Edition for the PlayStation 3 were shipped with the wrong content, developer BioWare has admitted.
Although the Return to Ostagar DLC is listed in menus, when you try to boot it up you’ll be treated to other content instead. That’s not quite what we’d describe as ‘Ultimate’.
Worry not – publisher EA has got its customer support team on the job. If you’re one of those affected drop them a line and they’ll be able to manually add the Ostagar campaign to your EA account.
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Sticking with chum Suda51.
Resident Evil 4 and Vanquish director Shinji Mikami will continue to develop Shadows of the Damned with Suda51 for EA despite his studio being bought by the parent company of rival publisher Bethesda.
Last week ZeniMax sent shockwaves through the game industry when it announced it had bought Mikami’s Tango Gamework.
The Vanquish director joined id Software and Bethesda in the cash-rich company’s impressive portfolio of developers.
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Nintendo Store Update: 3-on-3 basketball title from 1994 hits nostalgic download hub; WiiWare welcomes Robox, Gene Labs; DSiWare adds Paul’s Shooting Adventure, Peg Solitaire.
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“Street Slam dunks Virtual Console” was posted by Eddie Makuch on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:33:22 -0700 -
ViGaMus to be unveiled in Rome at the Italian Videogame Developer Conference.The first museum for games outside of Japan and the US, ViGaMus, will be detailed at the IVDC 2010 on December 3-4. The museum will focus on the history of videogames along with current trends, and will host industry exhibitions and seminars.
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Microsoft unleashes annual user interface revision; ESPN on-demand programming now available, voice chat voice quality improved, search functionality added to Netflix app.
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“Xbox 360 fall dashboard update goes live” was posted by Eddie Makuch on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:19:39 -0700