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Fallout: New Vegas confirmed for 2010

Bethesda just confirmed Fallout: New Vegas for an autumn release this year for PC, 360 and PS3. The first teaser trailer for the title has also been released. Get

X10 fact sheet, Halo Reach Beta and more

Bungie and Microsoft sent over a fact sheet for Halo Reach, and we thought you might be interested in it. The shooter’s multiplayer beta is now confirmed

Fable III to have no HUD

Peter Molyneux’s confirmed at X10 that there will be no health bar and no HUD in Fable III. The news is what the Lionhead boss feared people would

No PS4 until you’ve finished your PS3

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SOCOM 4 out this fall, says Zipper

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X10 fact sheet, Halo Reach Beta and more

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Bungie and Microsoft sent over a fact sheet for Halo Reach, and we thought you might be interested in it. The shooter’s multiplayer beta is now confirmed for a May 3 launch. “Halo: Reach,” developed exclusively for Xbox 360 by acclaimed developer Bungie, is the blockbuster prequel to the best-selling Xbox franchise of all time. It represents the culmination of Bungie’s 10 years of experience crafting groundbreaking “Halo” games that have raised expectations for what can be achieved in a video game. In “Halo: Reach,” players experience the fateful moments that forged the “Halo” legend. It’s the story of Noble Team, a squad of heroic Spartan soldiers, and their...

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Fable III to have no HUD

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Peter Molyneux’s confirmed at X10 that there will be no health bar and no HUD in Fable III. The news is what the Lionhead boss feared people would be “pissed” about. He insisted the RPG would be taking cues from recent action titles, with enviromental graphic changes showing you how close you are to being dead. “Look at the screen! It’s completely clean,” said Molyneux, speaking at a presentation of the game, watched by Wired. “Why do we need the fucking health bar,” he further added. Fable III is due out this holiday season for Xbox 360. 

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PS3 Torne DVR has trophy support

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Sony’s released a fact-sheet on its new DVR for Japan, known as Torne, which reveals it’ll get trophy support. One instance of support for the service, would be if you were to watch the final episode of a long-running season of a TV show – you would get a trophy known as “Master of Final Episodes”, according to this week’s Famitsu. No extra details on how trophy support would work for the DVR, were revealed. In case you haven’t heard, Torne is pretty much what PlayTV is for Europe, only for Japan. • Full High Vision Viewing and Recording • EPG Compatibility • Subtitle Broadcast Compatibility • Dual language...

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Wii sales jump by 60% for Q4

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Nintendo has confirmed that sales for the Wii has jumped by 60% for Q4, also stating that it was the best-selling home console of last week. The company also said it was pleased with how the black Wii, which was released two weeks ago, was performing at retail, with sales doubling week-on-week. “Of course it would be wrong to attribute all of this to Black Wii as we’re all starting to see a natural peak season uplift on all hardware,” said Nintendo’s Rob Lowe. “But we have been really pleased with Wii’s performance over the last couple of weeks and the new Black Wii has certainly contributed to that. In...

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Blizzard says Cataclysm will “shake up” WoW

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Blizzard production director J.Allen Brack has said that those expecting just an update to World of Warcraft with Cataclysm should be prepared for a “shake up”. “We look at game development as an iterative process, and we’re continually polishing World Of Warcraft and building on what we’ve done in the past,” Brack told MCV (via CVG). “Just to give you one example, Cataclysm gave us an opportunity to go back to the game’s original zones and update the dramatically. “Cataclysm is also shaking up the game in other ways, with new features and races added, altered landscapes, new zones, new professions, new dungeons and new raids, to ensure the game...

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Starcraft II players “to get a lot closer'
Written by Skar    Monday, 29 June 2009 10:55    PDF Print E-mail


Blizzard’s Dustin Browder, lead game designer on Starcraft II, no less - has told Destructoid that the team wanted to create a much stronger, single-player experience that allows the player (that’s you) to “get a lot closer to the gameplay experience” than you did in the first game. You’re going to have to expand your mind too, apparently.

“Well, what we’re trying to do is create a game that hearkens back to the legacy of the original,” he said. “We felt the original was such a strong game that we didn’t want to run off and abandon it and do whatever. We wanted it to feel like you were coming home to a game that you knew and loved. “At the same time, we’re trying to create all-new gameplay elements, trying to create a gameplay experience that still has as much learning for you as the original StarCraft and the original Brood War did.

“You feel like you have to expand your mind, try new stuff; you get a chance to be creative, [and] you might be able to discover something no one’s ever seen before, which is clearly not as likely these days with StarCraft and Brood War,” he went on.

“We want to create something that lets players get a lot closer to the gameplay experience, get a lot deeper into the characters, and really gets to be a 21st-century look at storytelling in the StarCraft universe, which a lot of our competitors have been doing - really great stories. “We wanted to do something that we felt matched our quality level and was really out there doing some awesome stuff.”

The gaming internet has published it’s Starcraft II previews this morning and we’ve picked a couple out for you have a look at: Eurogamer (which has some new screens too) and IGN.

Check out this 7 minute clip of Starcraft 2 gameplay footage from Joystiq

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