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New Fable 3 Launch Trailer Released, Does Not Contain Peter Molyneux

Microsoft Xbox 360 Exclusive Fable 3 Gets New Commercial, No Peter Molyneux
By on Wednesday, 13. October 2010

The main advantage that this trailer has over Peter Molyneux right away is that it’s not Peter Molyneux. When people see Fable news of any caliber, from a new entry in the franchise announcement to the font change on their website, they immediately expect to see some rampant soundbyte that [...]

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Playstation Move Moves About 470000 Units In A Month

Sony Sells Almost Half A Million Playstation Move Units In Four Weeks
By on Wednesday, 13. October 2010

Apparently the grand total including bundled controllers is closer to 600000 units, making Move the primary mover and shaker (OK, I’ll stop) in the seizure induced-like controller waggling market space formerly known as the game industry. 380000 Wiis are also probably catching their death of cold out on the curve [...]

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PSP Go Rumoured To Receive Price Cut in the US, Pretty Much Nobody Cares

Rumour Has It Sony Will Drop the PSP Go's Price in US to Sounds of Crickets Snoring
By on Wednesday, 13. October 2010

A new low in the PSP Go’s race with itself to the bottom has been reached, as Joystiq has received a tip that the much maligned handheld’s price is taking a(nother if you live in the UK) dive. While the only surprising portion of this decision is how long it [...]

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Self-titled EA Louse Airs Mythic & Bioware's Dirty Laundry Regarding Impending Lay-offs

EA Employee Anonymously Slams Mythic Management & Warhammer, Star Wars Old Republic Development
By on Wednesday, 13. October 2010

First of all, full disclosure: I used to work as a Designer for Electronic Arts up until September. This September. This is in no way, shape or form a grinding of the axe, or any other form of tool or farm implement. Now that that’s out of the way, there’s [...]

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Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 Demo Out & About

Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 Demo Released, But Only For Xbox Live Gold Subscribers
By on Wednesday, 13. October 2010

If it’s anything like the trailer (and it should be, they’re sort of related), Star Wars Force Unleashed 2: This time it’s personaler is one man’s completely mental quest to bury not one, but two less than badass-looking lightsabers (now that they’re baby blue) to the hilt in various parts [...]

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Early Kinect FPS Implementation Seems Pretty Much Unplayable in Comic Con Video

Deca Sports Freedom Paintball For Kinect & Xbox 360 is a Jittery, Stuttery Mess in Comic Con Video
By on Wednesday, 13. October 2010

An intrepid NeoGAF user posted a video of a few New York Comic Con attendees trying their hand at one of the first implementations of a Kinect FPS we’ve seen in action yet. Seems pretty innocuous so far. The game on display is the Paintball mini-game from Hudson’s Deca Sports [...]

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Nintendo 3DS To Be More Expensive Than Wii Because It Has a Screen

Nintendo 3DS Price Includes Screen, Nintendo Wii's Price Doesn't
By on Tuesday, 12. October 2010

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata delivered several body blows to both logic and common sense during a recent investor Q&A, by surmising that the price difference between the soon to be released Nintendo 3DS portable console and Nintendo’s remarkably successful home console, the Wii, is justifiable by the fact that, like [...]

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