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Five charities will receive £20,000 each courtesy of the scheme funded by the UK game industry.GamesAid, a UK-based children and young people’s charity that acts as a middleman for the game industry, has named five charities that will receive donations this year.
This year’s grants, of £20,000 each, will go to Action For Kids, Families Need Fathers, SpecialEffect, The Willow Foundation and Volunteer Centre Sutton: MAPS.
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And this is how you get them.
For one week only three The Doors songs will be given to anyone who buys Rock Band 3 and plays online for free, MTV Games has announced.
From 26th October to 1st November you’ll be able to download “Light My Fire,” “Riders on the Storm” and “Touch Me,” along with the Pro Guitar and Pro Bass add-ons for each song, from the Rock Band 3 in-game music store.
12 The Doors tracks will be added to the Rock Band music store to coincide with the launch of the third game in the series on 29th October.
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Interplay President Eric Caen confirms that MMOG development is in progress and scheduled for a 2012 release.
Eric Caen, president of Interplay, has stressed that the Fallout MMOG (previously known as PV13) is not vapourware. While the publisher is still not ready to reveal specifics on the game, it claims the MMOG has a dedicated team of 90 people working on it, and is scheduled for a 2012 release.
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Technology will be integrated into Xbox Live and MSN as thirdparty in-game ad business is shut down.Following speculation earlier this month, Microsoft has confirmed it is to close its thirdparty in-game ad division, Massive.
Massive allows companies to advertise in games equipped with its technology, updating in-game billboards and posters when users log-in to Xbox Live, for example.
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ArenaNet won’t force money from you.
Paid-for dungeon content in Guild Wars 2 isn’t a done deal; the feature may not happen. It depends what you lot want, developer ArenaNet has said.
“We haven’t decided on what exactly we are or aren’t going to offer for money post release,” lead designer Eric Flannum commented, in a post written by community manager Regina Beunaobra on the GW2 Guru forum.
“My answer to the dungeons question was meant to say, ‘We’re open to whatever our players seem most interested in.’ If after release you guys would like more story content, more dungeons, more events, more maps or whatever, it’s something that we have to consider because ultimately making you happy is what makes us successful. Whether we release that in DLC (like the bonus mission packs in GW1) or whether we do it through expansions (Like Eye of the North) is yet to be determined.
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Bethesda “miss a lot of the humour”.
Long-in development MMO Fallout Online will launch in the second half of 2012, Interplay has promised.
In an interview with Edge magazine Interplay president Eric Caen said 2012 will also see a Fallout Online beta.
Caen’s comments will no doubt reassure fans troubled by the legal dispute between Interplay and Fallout 3 creator Bethesda over the game.
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Improved PSP and PS3 sales can’t keep Nintendo’s handheld line off the top in Japan.Combined sales of the DS line, comprised of DSi LL, DSi and DS Lite, moved 47,101 units for the week ending October 17. It is a drop on the previous week’s total of 50,038, but still keeps Nintendo at the head of the pack.
For individual models, Sony’s PSP and PS3 took the top two positions. PS3 sales jumped from 19,948 units in the previous week to 22,201 units.
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He who dares wins.
Atlus, the publisher that brought Demon’s Souls West, has posted a profit. And the two events are entirely linked.
Last year’s operating income loss of $1.2 million transformed into a positive $5 million this year (1st September 2009 to 31st August 2010), according to Siliconera.
Index Holdings, the parent company of Atlus, picked out Demon’s Souls as the reason why. A slide of Atlus’ released games was half filled by the box-art of From Software’s celebrated action-RPG; on the other half, nine titles struggled to be seen.
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Microsoft aims to reboot its PC gaming platform on November 15.
Peter Orullian, who previously worked on digital distribution planning for Xbox Live, is heading up the overhaul. He told us that Microsoft has worked to reduce the number of steps to purchase in response to user feedback, and confirmed that the store will accept both Live points and, for the first time, credit and debit card transactions. Users will be able to sign-in to the service using any Live ID, including their Xbox Live account.
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A strong debut for Kirby’s Epic Yarn can’t knock the handheld RPG off the top of the latest chart.Pokemon Black/White held the number one spot in the Japanese software charts for a fifth consecutive week. Nintendo’s DS game sold 168, 541 units in the week ending October 17.