Star Wars action title appears on Amazon ahead of E3.
The next instalment in LucasArts' extremely popular Star Wars: Battlefront series, which CVG exclusively revealed in 2006 if you remember could be about to go all official.

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The $18.9 billion gets the green light.
During a special meeting on Tuesday, stockholders approved the $18.9 billion Activision Blizzard deal.

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This way for a chance to win a quad-core CPU.
Do you wish you had a rig with a Q6600 Quad-Core CPU, an nVidia 98000GT card, 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard-drive? PC Gamer might be the answer...

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Developers answer fan questions and spill a bunch of details.
Bethesda has claimed that Fallout 3 will have over 40,000 lines of dialogue in the game, dwarfing the amount in the original game by about 20 times.



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Earthworm Jim and MDK man David Perry has called for Asia-style free game releases.
Shiny mastermind David Perry says free PC game releases will help stamp out PC game piracy in the US and Europe.

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Pre-cursors, typing was trickier.
You could call it the Mass Effect effect if you were willing to bend history a little to make your theory fit. After a few fallow years, it seems that Epic Space Games are no longer an endangered species. Precursors, for example, heads off and explores a galaxy that's been ignored pretty much since - ooh - Mercenary III circa 1992.



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Interview: Designer talks about the Beta.
We've never met somebody who gesticulates as enthusiastically and vigorously as Paul Barnett. His hands are often a blur of activity, and his mouth a frothing kiosk of amazing sound effects.

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PC-inspired Wii title looking good inside.
EA has revealed that MySims, the Wii version of The Sims, will be coming to PC this autumn.



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Is a multiplayer game a stupid place to look for love?.
End cow? Fund cave? Food core? We all sat round trying to work out what was written next to my name on the office whiteboard, my task for the week. Wait, I remember: 'Find love'. That's it. I have to find love in a videogame. This actually makes sense. Not many girls play videogames, which makes them an incredibly efficient social filter: you instantly cut out the majority of girls who have little interest in games and would only get sick of you talking about them all the time.



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WoW players can now "opt-in" to participate in upcoming beta.
World of Warcraft players can now "opt-in" for the chance to participate in the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King beta, which Blizzard is getting ready to break the internet with.

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Konami legend names most influential gaming works.
Mario's platforming adventures were named by Hideo Kojima as one of his five most influential gaming creations.

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More time needed to turn it into a triple-A title.
Midway has revealed that freeroaming action game This is Vegas won't be released until 2009, in order to give the development team enough time to make it a triple-A title.

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Outfit designed by Sims 2 player goes on sale in H&M.
You can't make this stuff up. An outfit designed by a Sims 2 player will be made available in nearly 1,000 H&M stores around the world from July 6.



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World first in latest PC Gamer UK - four exclusive shots inside.
Codemasters' elusive war sequel, Operation Flashpoint 2, has reared its head and is looking rather stunning in the pages of the latest PC Gamer UK, on shelves now.



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Gearbox shooter to head up publisher's Los Angeles line-up, while sports games fill the gap.
Publisher 2K Games has revealed its line-up for this month's E3, with Gearbox '500'000 guns' FPS Borderlands dancing at centre stage.

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Graphical style not dark and gritty enough...
Diablo fans are petitioning Blizzard to goth up Diablo III, claiming that it deviates too much from the art direction of the original titles.

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Valve details the process behind new Heavy class pack.
The third class to get class specific achievements and unlockable weapons in Team Fortress 2 will be the Heavy, director Robin Walker has revealed.

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It's a bit like Match of the Day 2...
Electronic Arts has released two new screenshots for the 360/PS3 version of FIFA 09.



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Preview: Where a head shot isn't enough.
A distress call. A gigantic space ship that excavates dead planets for minerals, and its crew of 1,000 souls, are silent. Even before Isaac Clarke steps onto the ship to investigate what's happened, the situation's grim.



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Customer support team says something it probably shouldn't...
We'll warn you to take this with a pinch of salt right now as Rockstar won't comment on it at all. But it wouldn't surprise us at all to see the game coming to PC, it's been heavily rumoured already, but to get the news out of a customer support team? That's just silly...

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Thousands stung for the sum of £2,750 for Dream Pinball 3D.
PC develop Topware Interactive, known for titles such as Emergency - Fighters for Life, Earth 2150 and Jagged Alliance 2, have won a court ruling against four people who uploaded Dream Pinball 3D to the torrents.

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*cough* World of Starcraft *cough*.
Blizzard has confirmed that it is working on one more unannounced game and that game is another MMO.

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CEOs Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk say console MMOs are inevitable.
Details on BioWare's first MMO are rarer than finding money on the floor. But company CEOs Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have expressed their interest for bringing a MMO to console systems. And that's like finding £14 scattered on the floor outside the chippy.

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See gymnasts in action.
Sega has released new bunch of screenshots and details for the Gymnastics events in the Beijing 2008 Olympics videogame.



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Sci-fi countdown appears.
Cryptic Studios looks set to unveil its own version of Star Trek Online on July 27, if a countdown clock on its official website is anything to go by.

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The first shots for Activision's new Bond game, Quantum of Solace, are in.
We recently reported, via GamesMaster, the game will feature levels and sets from both Casino Royale and the Quantum of Solace films.



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MGS4 and GTA IV still clinging in there also.
Nintendo gets its fourth No1 of the year as Super Smash Bros. Brawl becomes the UK's third largest Wii launch title

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Also, staff would like to be in a city rather than in Slough, says Bobby Kotick.
So the massive Activision Blizzard / Vivendi deal is supposed to go through next month and what's one of the first questions Kotick is faced with?

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COO wants greater emphasis on Windows operating system.
Blizzard COO Paul Sams has pleaded for Microsoft to devote more energy to Games for Windows instead of focusing on Xbox 360.

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Thief who stole 13m euros from credit cards gets busted.
A man who hacked into a third party Valve file server and stole the credit card numbers of Steam Cyber Café users has been caught by Dutch police.

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Step up to management this autumn.
EA Sports has given out the first shots and details on FIFA Manager 09, due out this autumn on PC only.



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No longer kill-30-of-this-number, according to PC Zone.
The much criticised 'boar-killing' quests that plague World of Warcraft are on their way out, according to our friends on PC Zone.

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Note to teenage girls: Picking up guys in WoW not wise.
A man who sent sexual messages to a 15-year-old girl, and bought her a plane ticket from Tasmania to Melbourne, has been convicted of child stealing.

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Ours too.
Id Software's legendary programmer John Carmack has been speaking to PC Gamer about Quake Live (Zero), the free to play FPS powered by in-game advertising.

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Update: Gameplay trailer and details!.
We've tracked down the Diablo III teaser trailer shown at Blizzard's Paris Worldwide Invitational over the weekend and found a batch of in-game screens for you to have a look at too.



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Blistering speed and stunts worthy of Cupid.
Seconds don't count. A second is an eternity. It's the ticks in the middle that make the difference. Every corner in TM, every slight twitch of the controls, can potentially drop a perfect run into a searing abyss of failure and humiliation, leaving you tearing off your clothes, smearing the blood of a freshly killed sacrificial hamster across your chest, and leaping out in front of traffic in penitence for your crime. Or maybe that's just me.



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Internet rumours shot down.
Valve marketing boss Doug Lombardi said that the next installment in the Half-Life franchise would not be showing up at E3 2008, shooting down rumors that began circulating the Internet yesterday.

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Dev sees no reason to show it off in LA next month.
3D Realms chief Scott Miller tells Next-Gen that development on the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever is moving right along, but he sees no reason to show it off at an "irrelevant" E3.

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PC Zone brings you first word on the RPG sequel.
You heard it here, right from the floor, as it's announced, Diablo 3 is coming to the PC at an as-yet unannounced time. Announced by a man playing the theme on acoustic guitar, a man with a marvellous beard, no less.

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Preview: Bigger. Badder. And cockney.
I'd spent half-an-hour back in the frosted glades of Korean-patrolled paradise when the Wizard of Oz's curtain was pulled back on the PC I was using.



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