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Jonathan Blow's indie platformer Braid impressed critics and gamers alike when it launched back in August. Currently, only Xbox Live Arcade users have been able to partake of the game's unique mix of time-mangling and platform jumping - a state of affairs that will change when the PC version is released in the next couple of months. Read more
January 5th, 2009
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My eyes! The goggles.. they do NOTHING. As if zombie cooperate-em-up Left 4 Dead wasn't terrifying enough, a deranged modder has decided that what the world needs now is not love, but skimpy underwear for obese vomiting zombies. Read more
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With its LEGO interpretations of Star Wars, Batman and Indiana Jones proving rather popular, developer Traveller's Tales is rumoured to be thinking outside the self-assembled box in the hunt for a new theme for the franchise to tackle. Read more
January 2nd, 2009
Richard Garriott

Last year was a big one for Ultima creator Richard Garriott. He had a 12 day jaunt in space and he parted company with NCsoft leaving the ashes of MMO Tabula Rasa in his wake. So what’s next for the video game designer cum space adventurer? He’s going back to his roots, telling the Beeb that he’s keen to get back into medieval fantasy, and probably of the online kind.

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Xbox LIVE has been a stunning, benchmark setting, generation defining success. Games for Windows LIVE has so far been, well, somewhat less so, and has been out manoeuvred repeatedly by rival services including Steam and Xfire. But Microsoft hasn’t given up on it yet, and it has big plans for the coming year. The first phase has been an overhaul of the current GfW LIVE front end to match the NXE redesign, and soon it will be adding exclusive DLC content to its arsenal from big titles like Fallout 3 and GTA IV.

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Xbox 360 chosen over Wii and PS3 in survey
Microsoft has drawn inspiration from the likes of Tupperware, Avon and Ann Summers in a fresh bid to boost the Xbox 360’s family-friendly image. The console maker has recently hired around 1,000 women from a broad range of backgrounds to demo the console and its Xbox LIVE service to their friends and family, and generally spread the word to those demographics that are still belligerently buying Wiis.

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December 31st, 2008
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We’re still feeling pretty down about the loss of Free Radical Design which collapsed earlier in the month, closing its doors to employees and shattering our hopes for TimeSplitters 4. The game was clearly quite a bit beyond merely an idea being tossed around; there were already model designs being worked on, which now serve no purpose other than to flesh out one artist’s web portfolio.

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Worlds.com – a company with an expensive web address, a fistful of wide-ranging patents, an expensive lawyer and no discernible product – is suing MMO maker NCsoft, for making MMOs. Welcome to the wacky world of patent lawsuits. Worlds.com believes that NCsoft has violated U.S. Patent 7,181,690, to the detriment of its business, and presumably wants some kind of cash handout justice.

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