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New studio to develop mobile and online games rather than big-budget titles.In an interview with Canadian newspaper LaPresseAffaires, Martin Carrier, head of Warner Bros. Montreal, has outlined a new direction for the studio.
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Available at 3DS launch.
EA’s announced a 3DS Madden NFL game it’s first game for Nintendo’s exciting new handheld console.
Madden NFL Football is due out in the first half of 2011 at the 3DS launch, said EA. The 3DS will be released in Europe and the US in March, so we expect the game then.
It’ll feature 11-on-11 football, as you’d expect, all 32 NFL teams and stadiums, a more fast-paced five-on-five mode and a Season Mode.
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Two million downloads in two weeks.
The demo of Criterion’s superb racing game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit was downloaded more than two million times within two weeks, EA’s shouted from the rooftops.
The mega publisher said it’s the fastest downloaded Need for Speed demo in history.
Other fun facts: more than 700,000 posts have been made to the Speed Wall, which is part of the game’s Autolog network feature. More than five million Autolog Recommendations were sent from friend-to-friend.
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Shortages? What shortages?
With Kinect going on sale across Europe today amid concerns over hardware shortages, Microsoft UK boss Neil Thompson last night insisted new stock would be coming in “more or less every week”.
Thompson, speaking to Eurogamer at the official London launch event, added that the company was in the process of hiring more planes to ensure units could be delivered in greater numbers.
The exec’s words were backed by Xbox marketing head Stephen McGill, who said: “Our responsibility and our plan is to keep on replenishing our stock. The team are working 24/7 to build it, ship it, get it on the planes, and get it on the trucks.
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Plus: £32 for WWE SmackDown on PSP.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood – the one what did multiplayer – arrives next week, and Ubisoft is banging its drums by discounting AC2 downloadable content.
Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities have been squashed to £2 apiece, and the Secret Locations-plus-Bonfire of the Vanities double-pack costs just over three quid.
New games on the European PlayStation Store this week are Crescent Pale Mist and side-scrolling shmup bundle Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype & The Last Chapter, according to the European PlayStation blog.
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“Women the gatekeepers of the living room.”
Microsoft’s motion sensor Kinect is “incredibly liberating” for women.
That’s according to Belinda Parmar of ladygeek.com, who was interviewed as part of a piece on Channel 4 News to coincide with the launch of the Xbox 360 add-on.
“For women, that’s incredibly liberating,” she said. “Why it’s important that it appeals to women is women control the living room. There’s a real battle going on for the living room. Women are the gatekeepers of that. They decide what’s coming in, what’s coming out.”
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F##k yeah!
A sequel to 2009 Wii-exclusive on-rails shooter is in the works, a new report has claimed.
Development is “well underway” and the game should be released “sometime early or mid-2011”, sources have told Nintendolife.
“Details on the game are still undisclosed, but what we’ve been told is that a title codenamed House of the Dead: Overkill 2 is being worked on, which we assume is for Wii and potentially PSMove,” said the site.
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Legs consider the evidence.
Who would you trust – an analyst or an octopus? Because Ollie the psychic octopus reckons Move will outsell Kinect this Christmas.
That’s Ollie, not Paul. Paul was the octopus that correctly predicted the outcome of Germany’s (and other teams’) World Cup matches this summer. He died.
Ollie is Paul’s cousin, and therefore psychic by association – although it’s unclear what Ollie’s track record is in predictions. Mind you, Ollie and Paul shared a tank when they were young. But Paul left Weymouth Sea Life Centre and his cousin behind when he dared to dream big and shipped out to Germany in search of fame and fortune. Alone, Ollie went to Blackpool.
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Publisher and developer receives finances ahead of Marvel MMOG release.US-based MMOG publisher, developer and operator Gazillion Entertainment has announced that Singapore-based investment firm Temasek Holdings will provide $60 million in funding for the company.
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Lads miss out.
Activision is giving away codes to download Call of Duty: Black Ops Avatar clothes for free but only for female characters.
Why? Because the printed codes in the Hardened and Prestige edition packages of the game only included male Avatar gear. How sexist.
Inputting the code GYVF8-PF7RY-28D7V-VGWV8-CFGRM gets you the SR 71 Flight Suit. Smashing in R76BQ-CR3MF-G2TTF-9G36R-BQWJD turns up the Woods Outfit (thanks, Cheapassgamer). Go! Go! Go!