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Borderlands gets GOTY edition

2K Games successful action RPG Borderlands is to get a Game of the Year Edition this month. CVG reports that the SKU will contain previously released DLC The Zombie Island of Dr Ned, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot and The Secret Armory of General Knoxx on the disc. In addition, a …

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MAG gets pay-monthly DLC

Publisher Sony has taken the interesting step of offering players the chance to purchase a small piece of extra functionality in online shooter MAG in return for paying a monthly fee. As of yesterday, players are now able to purchase additional character slots for the game that allow them to …

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EA slams Langdell

Publisher Electronic Arts alleges that Tim Langdell intended to deceive” the United States Patent and Trademark Office with his treatment of the Edge trademark. Tim Langdell, the owner of Edge Games so routinely embroiled in trademark disputes, had previously fired accusations at EA over its ambitious 2008 FPS Mirror’s Edge. …

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Digital breathing life into Worms

Team 17’s co-founder and business development director Martyn Brown has told MCV that his company’s shunning of traditional publishing in favour of new digital distribution channels has done wonders for the Worms franchise. The series sold more units last year than any other time in its 15-year history. Given the …

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ANALYSIS: Team 17

Most games firms crossing the line from boxed product to digital distribution tend to keep one foot on the High Street. While publishers like EA and Square Enix experiment with releasing download-only outings for major franchises such as Battlefield and Lara Croft, others have wholeheartedly leapt into the digital realm …

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StarCraft II shifts 3m copies

Blizzard has confirmed that its massively hyped PC strategy title StarCraft II has now sold in excess of 3m copies worldwide in its first month of availability. The game is already the best selling PC title of the year and the fastest selling RTS ever released. Amazingly, StarCraft II shifted …

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Sony readying iTunes rival?

UK broadsheet The Financial Times is claiming that Sony will use its presentation at consumer electronics trade show IFA to unveil a brand new iTunes-rivalling digital sales platform. The service will reportedly be fronted by both the PS3 and PSP though will at a later date roll out onto Vaio …

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MS confirms Kinect voice lockout

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has finally admitted that many countries will not enjoy voice recognition support for Kinect when the device arrives in Europe in November. In August MCV ran a story based on information given to it by Microsoft at Gamescom claiming that voice recognition would not be …

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Atlus lives on

Japanese publisher Atlus has denied reports that it has been dissolved” by parent company Index Holdings. Speaking on the Atlus forums, site administrators claimed: Don’t worry, guys. This is just some corporate organizational maneuvering and won’t affect anything we do. Atlus is not becoming a mobile games company. The original …

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Three languages ready for Kinect launch

After Microsoft dismissed claims last month that Kinect would not support voice recognition at launch, claims have now surfaced that only three languages will be ready for the device’s November arrival. Eurogamer reports that users enrolled in the ongoing Kinect beta test have discovered that only English, Japanese and Mexican …

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