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Bodycount officially confirmed

Following yesterday’s teaser reveal from OXM, Codemasters has officially announced its brand new FPS IP Bodycount. Under development at Codies’ Guilford Studio, the game is being built using the EGO Game Technology platform which is the tech behind many of Codemasters’ recent chart successes such as Race Driver: Grid and …

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Valve talks Portal 2

Following its reveal last week, developer Valve has for the first spoke about its long-anticipated FPS puzzle sequel Portal 2 – and it doesn’t seem shy of raising expectations as high as it possibly can. US mag Game Informer reports that the game is set hundreds of years after the …

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PS3 Motion Control details incoming

With much of the world’s games industry gearing up for GDC in San Francisco this week, the number of rumours doing the rounds is rapidly increasing – and there’s plenty being said about Sony’s Motion Controller. Chief amongst the talk, VG247 claims to have word that Sony will tomorrow go …

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US: iPad finally dated

Apple has announced that its iPad tablet will go on sale in the US on Saturday 3rd April. That’s the Wi-Fi-only model – the Wi-Fi + 3G model will go on sale there in late April. That’s a slight delay – the Wi-Fi version was expected to go on sale …

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Vanquish set for winter release

Upcoming third-person shooter Vanquish has been scheduled for a winter release in Japan. The Xbox 360 and PS3 title, produced by Platinum Games of Bayonetta and Mad World fame, should hit the UK in December or the first few months of 2011. Vanquish’s director Shinji Mikami said it will not …

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Six Days in Fallujah resurfaces

Having presumably been left for dead after publisher Konami cut its ties to the title in April last year, it has emerged that Iraq War themed shooter Six Days in Fallujah is still potentially heading for a retail release. The assertion comes from developer Atomic Games, which told IGN that …

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Dont hold your breath for PS4

The five-year console lifecycle is over – so anyone already turning their attentions to the possible features of PS4 can forget it, according to SCEA CEO Jack Tretton. In the old days it was ‘this thing is dead as a door nail in five years’, Tretton told Fast Company. Year …

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Aliens: Colonial Marines resurfaces

Having missed its 2009 release date, Sega’s Aliens: Colonial Marines has been TBC on the publisher’s release schedule for some time now – but Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has once again began hyping the upcoming licensed title. We have an Aliens game with Sega and 20th Century Fox which we’re …

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Nintendo calms Wii 2 talk

At its media summit in America yesterday Nintendo once again reiterated Nintendo’s stance that either a Wii HD or Wii 2 is nearing release. I don’t think it will be any time soon,” Nintendo of America’s executive VP of sales and marketing Cammie Dunaway told Gamespot when asked about the …

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Mario Galaxy 2 UK date revealed

Further to its confirmation of a North American release date yesterday, Nintendo has just this moment confirmed a UK release date of June 11th for Super Mario Galaxy 2. The release date is even earlier than the mid-summer prediction muttered earlier today and will delight the platform holder’s legion of …

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