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Impressive reviews boost Epic Mickey

Disney Epic Mickey has gone down a storm with the gaming media following a string of high review scores. Various critics praised the Wii adventure game which has gone on to achieve a high average Metacritic review score of 78 per cent. Here’s what several key publications had to say …

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New Tomb Raider revealed next week

Square Enix will officially announce the next full Tomb Raider game next week, according to magazine reports. The title has been previously been teased in Game Informer magazine, and now GamesMaster has said it will publish more information in its next issue out on January 4th, 2011. The news, reported …

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SBK 2011 races to retail in May

Publisher Black Bean Games announced today that SBK 2011 will arrive in May next year on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The newest instalment in the officially licensed SBK motorbike racing franchise is again in development at Milestone Studios. It will feature a new artistic direction, improved gameplay and other …

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Uncharted 3 announcement incoming?

Uncharted 3 is the latest title rumoured to be officially announced around the Spike Video Game Awards next month. The follow-up to Sony’s popular third person action games Uncharted and Uncharted 2 will also be set in the desert, reports suggest. Kotaku claims to have spoken to an informed source …

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THQ working on core motion games

THQ is setting its sights on the motion sensing market after it revealed three new ‘core’ games are in the works. The publisher’s executive VP of core games Danny Bilson made the announcements on Twitter. We will be announcing one core Kinect game soon,” he said. Two core games are …

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Dead Rising: Case West out next month

A fact sheet released by Capcom US has confirmed that upcoming digital-only title Dead Rising: Case West will be released some time in December, VG247 reports. The game is an epilogue to console hit Dead Rising 2. It follows the success of digital prequel Case Zero, which was downloaded half …

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SCE engineer criticises Kinect tech

Having previously questioned Kinect’s ability to pull-off the much hyped lightsaber game that will be released on Microsoft’s console next year, an SCE software engineer has once again gone on the offensive regarding Microsoft’s motion technology. "We’re not necessarily against Kinect or against depth cameras, it’s just we feel like …

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Kinect sales reach 2.5m

Total global sales of Xbox 360 Kinect have now hit 2.5m units, platform holder Microsoft has announced. The device had previously sold 1m units in its first 10 days of availability. These numbers show that an additional 1.5m cameras have sold in the following two weeks. It means that the …

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