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Oh woe is PS3

The US continues to be an unhappy hunting ground for the PlayStation 3. Whilst rival game platforms, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360 continue to increase sales, the PS3...

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75 percent job cuts at Free Radical

TimeSplitters developer Free Radical has been rumoured to be having financial issues for some time. Now the details emerge, who said the video game industry is recession proof?

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Review: The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon

Stop dragon my heart around, Spyro has lost his spark and the Legend must end with this chapter.

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Review: LittleBigPlanet – I just don’t get it

What possible attraction can an old-school 2D platformer have in today’s gaming world of 3D wiz-bangery? And surely the focus of collecting items and reliance on an open...

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PlayStation Home Ho-Hum

It is probably a generational thing, and sure it is still a beta, but why did we really wait so long for PlayStation Home. Well it looks like hackers...

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Review: Call of Duty: World at War – Once more into the breach

Not fair Treyarch, I still haven't found my socks after they were knocked off by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare late last year, and already a new Call of Duty...

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iTWire games of 2008

As mid-December rolls closer, it is time to ponder lists. Gift shopping lists, New Year’s resolution lists and of course, best and worst of the year. So here...

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INTERVIEW: Mary Beth Haggerty – Autodesk

Appearing at the Game Connect Developers conference last month, Mary Beth Haggerty, Autodesks’ Senior industry manager for video games sat down with iTWire to talk all things Autodesk product...

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Video Game Piracy: The widening problem and how to stop it

Studies indicate that around 10 percent of video games in an average household are of the illegally obtained variety. Observationally the practice of video game piracy is on the...

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Review: Mirror’s Edge

Running is the name of the game in this stylish new IP from Electronic Arts. I hope you are fit as you follow Faith as she bounds over the...

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Review: SingStar ABBA, Vol 3 and Singalong With Disney

Lucky this is a typed out review, my throat is somewhat horse from belting out everything from Disney classics to power ballads as Sony bombard the holiday season with SingStar...

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Review: Guitar Hero: World Tour – The family perspective

You guitar heroes, you think it’s all about you. Well now here comes Guitar Hero: World Tour, where a whole band of rhythmically challenged, living room inhabitants can get...

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This week in Nanny State News – F.E.A.R 2 banned

The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) have effectively banned the forthcoming horror/shooter F.E.A.R 2 Project Origin. By not being able to shoehorn the game into the constraints...

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Review: Midnight Club: Los Angeles

It’s hard, it’s tough, and yet a great way to explore Los Angeles, welcome to the club. Midnight Club: Los Angeles will drain the blood from your knuckles, which...

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GCAP08: Keynote - Happy Feet creator ready to do original games

Zareh Nalbandian, Managing Director of Animal Logic has helped open Game Connect Asia Pacific in Brisbane today. The team behind cinema visual effects for titles such as The Matrix,...

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New Xbox Experience just Windows dressing for us

Microsoft has unveiled the new Xbox Dashboard software dubbed ‘The New Xbox Experience’. Whilst the download adds a new gloss of paint to the interface, for many, the full...

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GCAP08: Game Developers discuss Film, TV and Game integration

Reading that headline you will be forgiven for thinking that game developers are about to sell out to the big film studios to suck your soul from your head with...

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Review: Resistance 2 – Nathan Hale vs Marcus Fenix

Both next-gen gaming consoles now have sequels to their most acclaimed exclusive shooters, so how does the first person alternative action of Resistance 2 stack up against Marcus Fenix and...

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Review: LEGO Batman the videogame

What's better than building stuff with LEGO? Destroying the stuff you built, that's what. And when you do it in a video game, there is nothing to clean up!...

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Review: Gears of War 2 – It’s full of grit!

Marcus Fenix and the other Cog's are back to battle the subterranean Locusts once more. And like any Hollywood action film sequel, much of what is on offer in...

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