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Not long now.
The long-awaited patch for F1 2010 is in submission with Microsoft and Sony, Codemasters has revealed.
Once the approval process is completed it’ll be released into the wild for gamers to download, community manager Ian ‘Helios’ Webster said on the official forum.
“Keep an eye out on the forums, facebook, and Twitter, as we’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready to download,” he said.
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Social games giant’s estimated stock value has doubled since March.US-based analyst SharesPost has valued FarmVille maker Zynga at $5.51 billion on its index for privately held companies. In March SharesPost valued the company at $2.61 billion. The new valuation puts Zynga ahead of Electronic Arts’ Nasdaq stock market value of $5.16 billion.
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London-based studio remains open despite threat of closure and rumours surrounding cancellation of ambitious action game.
Develop is reporting that Ignition Entertainment’s London development studio has survived the closure threat made last month.
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“All the Trappings” free for 30 days.
The first downloadable add-on for the wonderful Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is called All the Trappings, Square Enix has announced.
The add-on, to be released on Xbox Live tomorrow, “offers a brand new area to conquer and features a combination of puzzle, exploration and combat experiences,” Square Enix said.
As revealed last week, it’ll be free to download for 30 days. This is a “thank you to the patient Xbox gamers” who have had to wait for the promised online co-op functionality to be added to the game.
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“Breathtaking” game’s breath taken.
WarDevil, the “Xbox 2” game we thought was “breathtaking” in 2004, has been terminated.
Ignition London worked on the project for five years, but mounting costs became unsustainable.
Around 30 staff have been laid off as a result, Develop reports.
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Analysts want “more aggressive price cuts”.
Sony will slash the price of the disc-less PSPgo on 1st November by £65, but analysts are doubtful the move will reverse the embattled console’s fortunes.
The PSPgo currently has an RRP of £225 in the UK. From 1st November it’ll go for £159.99. The download-only handheld has also seen a price cut in Japan (now ¥16,800) and in the US (now $199).
“Sony’s fifty US dollar price cut on the PSPgo is too meagre and too late,” M2 Research’s Billy Pidgeon told Eurogamer.
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“It keeps on growing,” says Pardo.
World of Warcraft, Diablo 3 and StarCraft 2 creator Blizzard has rebuffed the suggestion that PC gaming is dead.
In fact, PC gaming is in rude health, Blizzard executive vice president Rob Pardo insisted in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
“The industry is as healthy as ever,” he said. “From our experience our games continue to sell better than the last ones. I always laugh because as long as I’ve been in the games industry, every year I’m asked ‘is PC gaming dead?’ But it keeps on growing despite the fact it’s been pronounced dead 20 times.”
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Claims it has “different vision”.
Microsoft has said that its relaunch of the Games for Windows Marketplace next month will be distinct from existing services and will be flexible about publishers’ DRM requirements.
“We have a different vision that runs parallel to what [Steam] is doing,” group product manager Peter Orullian told Kotaku, describing PC games as “a place where we are doubling down”, whatever that means.
Microsoft also said that it would allow publishers to offer games with a choice of DRM (or not) depending on their own requirements.
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EyeToy’s dad critical of Move competitor.
Sony’s Dr Richard Marks has reiterated his belief that using controller-free input to manipulate complex interfaces is a novelty that doesn’t last.
“I totally agree that there is this magical feeling with using your hands to select something,” Marks, who was one of the senior architects on PlayStation Move, told the New York Times in a feature about Microsoft’s Kinect.
“But that feeling wears off pretty quickly, and it becomes a pretty cumbersome way to do things.”
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British Academy Of Film And Television Arts recognises the rise of social games.Independent charity BAFTA has revealed a new Social Network Game category in its forthcoming awards, to be presented next year.
The new category has been introduced to identify and reward excellence and innovation in the area of social games.