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Will you brave the cold, soldier?
GAME will open loads of its stores on midnight 8th November for gamers eager to get their hands on Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Stores open around 11.45pm some earlier to help with trade-ins but tills won’t start ringing until midnight.
And ring they will. Some reckon Black Ops may be the best-selling game of all time.
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Treyarch details MP alterations.
Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer will be different to Modern Warfare 2. How? There won’t be any drop-shotting. Instead, you’ll be diving to prone.
“Another [change] is this whole new core movement mechanic called diving to prone. It’s something that we found was very interesting; it’s used best for evasive defensive manoeuvres, but we needed to make sure we balanced that because we understand that drop-shotting is frustrating for some people,” community manager Josh Olin told Inside Xbox.
“So we wanted to make sure that this thing wasn’t going to be used aggressively to grief – to frustrate players. There is a sort of a recovery time after you land and you’ll have to take a half-second to pull your gun back up, so it’s actually a penalty if you try to use it as an offensive manoeuvre.”
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Who you looking at?
The Collector’s Edition of upcoming PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter Killzone 3 includes Helghast goggles.
That’s according to developer Guerrilla Games the Dutch studio posted the information on its website before tearing it down. Whoops.
The internet, though, never forgets. PlayStation Lifestyle took a screen grab and posted the details.
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Has beat its retreat to 2011.
The Kinect and PlayStation Move versions of Michael Jackson: The Experience have been pushed back to Q1 2011.
We had expected them this autumn. The DS, PSP and Wii versions are coming out on 26th November.
Ubisoft has plenty on its Kinect slate already for 2010: Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Fighters Uncaged and MotionSports.
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Devices supporting Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system hit stores across the UK and Europe today.Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, which launches on devices from manufacturers HTC, Samsung and LG, introduces Xbox Live support for features such as Avatars, friends lists and achievements. Games are purchased via the new Games Hub, Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s App Store.
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Real ID furore “kind of a side thing”.
World of Warcraft and StarCraft II creator Blizzard’s recent kafuffle with its fans over the use of Real ID in its forums has taught it a valuable lesson: gamers like anonymity because it ties into their desire to suspend reality.
“That’s been a very interesting thing for us to wrap our heads around at Blizzard,” Battle.net project director Greg Canessa told Gamasutra.
Weeks before StarCraft II was released Blizzard about-turned on its plan to force gamers to use their real names when posting in its forum.
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Didn’t think Capcom would work with rival.
Keiji Inafune was “80 per cent certain” that the company would refuse Level 5’s request to collaborate on a crossover Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright game, the Capcom producer has revealed in an interview.
“I thought it would be impossible,” he said in an interview in this today’s Weekly Famitsu, translated by Eurogamer, in which he spoke alongside his Level 5 compatriot Akihiro Hino.
Inafune said that he didn’t expect veteran Phoenix Wright director Shu Takumi to agree to the project because “Phoenix Wright is handled very carefully within Capcom” – also joking that he expected it to be difficult since Takumi is someone who “doesn’t listen to what people say”.
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Britain’s Independent newspaper reports that a new study has proven a link between violent imagery in games and movies, and desensitization of teenage boys to actual violence. The study, which has been widely re-reported in news media and gaming sites, is being positioned as the “smoking gun” that links videogame violence and angry young men, which naturally scares a lot of gamers and makes moral grandstanders happy. The problem is that it actually does nothing of the sort… …
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BioShock is a critical darling that continues to be played and adored by roughly all of mankind, whereas Minecraft is a java-based creation game played by a niche cabal of super geniuses with either very boring desk jobs or tons of free time to kill. What happens when these two worlds collide? A fan made video that can only be described as scumtrulescent. Take a look… …
