http://www.computerandvideogames.com/?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS Providing the latest news, previews, reviews, features, tips and cheats for UK gamers en-gn Copyright 2007 Future Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:22:33 +0000 Eden v2.0 http://backend.userland.com/rss Keep your infernal Tweets away from my consoles.
So now we can update Facebook and tweet on our Xbox 360s and PS3s. Forgive me if, instead of jumping up and down with glee, I fail to stifle a plaintive moan.



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Nvidia's mightily impressive 3D Vision ecosystem is swaggering into PC Notebooks, ensuring PC games will look a lot crisper on your portable.

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We know that Modern Warfare 2 is selling like the proverbial hotcakes, so it's perhaps not too surprising to learn that the PC version has bettered the first week sales for predecessor Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

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Get ready to pull your jaw back off the floor. It seems the recent dramatic headlines of 'One-Million Xbox Live Users Banned' may have been over-dramatic, according to Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten.

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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers has been dated for Wii for February 5, 2010.

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While it's pretty much impossible to give exact sales figures for digital distribution (no-one's willing to fess up to their own figures), publisher and Impulse owner Stardock has estimated Valve's Steam controls a whopping 70 per cent of the market.

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Sony platforms dominated hardware sales in Japan during the week ended November 15.

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Following on from yesterday's story regarding the hacking of several new Modern Warfare 2 gameplay modes, a video has been posted on YouTube to supposedly back the hackers' discoveries.

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THQ and its studio Vigil are seem to be on an apocalyptic roll these last few days, unleashing one brutal Darksiders video after another.

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Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is available to buy and take home from Monday, November 23, which sounds like a perfect excuse to give away a PlayStation 3 and a copy of the film on Blu-ray, if you ask us.



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There are six new releases awaiting you in the Wii and DS shops this week, headed up by Pokemon Rumble and ably backed by the quirky poo-throwing jungle sim Shootanto: Evolutionary Mayhem...

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Bayonetta's received a stunning ten out of ten verdict in the latest issue of Edge Magazine. We can't say we were expecting that.

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Team 17 has just unleashed a Worms 2: Armageddon update on Xbox Live Arcade for those who get a kick out of blowing up cute little invertebrates.

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You know all those first-person shooter games and war thrillers you've been indulging in over the last six months or so? Well be warned: it could be that the government has been grooming you for something a bit more, um, real.

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Sony head honcho Kaz Hirai has told the press that he is confident that the PlayStation 3 will hit its official target of 13 million sales by the end of the financial year in March 2010.

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A flood of new job adverts on Develop has revealed that Microsoft Game Studios is looking for new talent to "help breathe a fresh vision into a new Halo experience" and "to drive the success of Gears Of War and Shadow Complex".

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Zelda mastermind Eiji Aonuma has told our colleagues over at Official Nintendo Magazine, that some of the internet speculation surrounding the Zelda Wii artwork released at E3 was spot on - but the Zelda overlord wouldn't confirm which bits the net had got right.



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Anyone who's ever played the original Blood Bowl tabletop game will know that the Dark Elves were one of the best races in it (basically, callous gits with tons of agility). The good news is that THQ, Cyanide and Focus has released them as a brand new playable race in its virtual spin-off for PC.

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BioWare yesterday teased ardent Dragon Agers with the announcement that "something cool" was on the horizon. Well, we can finally reveal that that piece of impending coolness is - it's a new downloadable add-on, set to release over the winter period.

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Microsoft's detailed some of the upcoming Xbox Live content, including next week's Live Arcade and Games on Demand releases.

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Blizzard's updated the StarCraft II website with a whole lot of goodies, including these new screenshots.



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When we quizzed Aliens vs. Predator developer, Rebellion about its third-party dedicated server support last month, it was more than a little cagey with the answer. In fact, we had to ask three times.

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Modern Warfare 2 is a mostly serious, mostly reality-grounded first-person shooter. You might be surprised to hear then, that there could've been aliens and zombies in it.

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The first proper Kane & Lynch info has emerged, via a Square Enix fact sheet.

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2K's detailed the $99 BioShock 2 Special Edition. We hope you like game tat.



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The Star Trek Online open beta will kick off on January 12, 2010 and run to January 26, developer Cryptic has confirmed.

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EA has released a video showing weapon customisation in the forthcoming Army Of Two: The 40th Day.

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Microsoft has announced that it will hold another Xtival "online party weekender" between 27 and 29 November.

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Capcom's detailed its download content plans for Resident Evil 5, which includes two new episodes, costumes, and the 'Mercenaries Reunion' mode.



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Hackers have uncovered a number of secret Modern Warfare 2 gameplay modes hidden in the source code.

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