Incredible capabilities of Crytek's CryEngine 2 stuns eyeballs in direct-feed GDC trailer.
The stunning technology that Crytek has developed to power its forthcoming first-person shooter Crysis has been revealed afresh in a new-ish trailer released.

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It's Xbox 360 vs. PC as Capcom unloads comparison screens, plus further shots and first PC trailer released.
In the wake of last week's confirmation that Capcom's Xbox 360 shooter Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is heading to PC, the company's unleashed sever first screenshots along with a gameplay trailer.



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Ten-day early access to the Shadows of Angmar kicks off for gamers who took advantage of pre-order program.
Punters who pre-ordered Turbine's MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar are now currently adventuring in the persistent-world Middle-earth.

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Four new shots and CVG's hands-on impressions!.
CVG's best mate Splash Damage has released four new screenshots of its graphics card-crunching shooter Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

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Preview: Redefining "online crack".
Usually they'd ship us off to Los Angeles or somewhere equally glamorous (there's probably a debate over the use of the word 'glamorous' there), but for our first hands-on with the massive multiplayer shooter Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Activison sent us to Splash Damage's HQ in Bromley, Kent. Next to the kebab shop.

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Game designer Alexander Chulkov talks about the Diablo-style RPG hacking its way onto PC.
How many RPGs have followed the Diablo formula? We don't have enough fingers to count. The latest to do so is Dawn of Magic, a hack 'n' slash role-playing game created by Russian developer SkyFallen which is due to release on these shores on April 27. But while it might echo Blizzard's creation, Dawn of Magic game designer Alexander Chulkov is bold enough to call it "first among equals".



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Feature: Staying out for the summer?.
How are you enjoying the sunshine? Great isn't it? The only reason we ask is that there's really not a lot of reasons to be indoors playing games at the moment. This Friday's release list isn't looking like much to get excited about.

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The Creative Assembly hits us with a ton of details on its first Medieval II expansion.
Sega and The Creative Assembly recently unveiled Kingdoms, the first expansion for RTS Medieval II: Total War, and today we're talking to designer and artist on the project Brendon Rogers.



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Screenshots and details on the faction with the Horus Priest and Throwing Machine of war.
Now that we've had a little peep at the Persian faction in forthcoming PC RTS Ancient Wars: Sparta, it's time to turn attention to the Egyptians. The Bangles once wrote a song about Egyptians, but they're probably not starring in this game.



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Slick Logitech racing wheel and copies of Test Drive Unlimited on PC to win!.
We're giving away a killer Logitech PC racing wheel worth £200 and copies of Test Drive Unlimited on PC courtesy of Atari.



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Xbox 360 alien blaster shoots for PC with DirectX 10 support.
It's been confirmed that Capcom's Xbox 360 shooter Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is PC-bound and due to release on these shores in June.

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Interlude paves way for next MMORPG chapter, includes dinosaurs and new duelling system.
NCSoft's promised Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle - Interlude update for the MMORPG has released in Europe and North America, paving the way the game's next chapter The Chaotic Throne.

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Developer acquires entire Fallout IP, licenses out MMOG rights to Interplay.
Bethesda has acquired the entire Fallout IP from Interplay for $5.75m, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing brought to our attention by Shacknews reveals.

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Bright Side of the Moon to conclude first season in Telltale's episodic adventure series.
Bright Side of the Moon has been revealed as the final episode in season one of Telltale's Sam & Max adventure revival. It'll debut on GameTap on April 26, and then be made available worldwide on May 10.



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Exec producer Jeffrey Steefel fills us in on the nastier denizens of Middle-earth.
Monsters here, monsters there, monster every bleedin' where. You'll be bashing, fireballing - and running away like a screaming girl from - the nastier denizens of Middle-earth a lot in Turbine's MMORPG The Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar and today's new video developer diary dips into the enemies and other beasties that await.

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Tens of thousands pre-order the Tolkien-powered MMORPG.
"Pre-order frenzy hits the UK", Codemasters Online Gaming has declared, as it slaps us with the news that tens of thousands of gamers have taken advantage of the pre-order offer for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar.

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Mask of the Betrayer introducing new campaign, new levels, feats and a lot more.
Neverwinter Nights 2 developer Obsidian Entertainment is working on an expansion for the RPG sequel.



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An MMO that starts with a clean slate.
Drugs are good. Probably. Or maybe they're not. Richard Garriott just can't help making you think about this stuff.



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Internet rumour-mill chucks out details on Blizzard RTS sequel - have that pinch of salt to hand.
Rumours are circulating that Blizzard will be launching a beta for StarCraft 2 at the end of the year, with supposed game details additionally hitting the internet.

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"I'm confident that John [Carmack] is going to be able to deliver that 'Wow' factor in terms of a huge visual and technological difference", says Todd Hollenshead.
We clearly recall the first time we clapped eyes on Doom 3 in motion at E3 2002: its visuals were like nothing we'd seen before, causing jaws to clunk to the floor. id Software is promising to do the same with its mystery game based on a brand new IP that's currently in development.

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Beta patch for PC version of the expansion addresses issue causing objects to disappear in-game.
The Shivering Isles bug that has rendered Oblivion unplayable in many ways has been fixed by Bethesda in a beta patch for the PC version of the RPG expansion.

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French firm acquires SunFlowers and scoops rights to the Anno brand.
Ubisoft has signed a deal to buy German developer SunFlowers, responsible for the Anno line of games.

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Take a trip to the New World as the Americas campaign in the expansion is detailed.
Yesterday, PC Gamer got all patriotic and looked at the British Isles campaign from forthcoming Medieval II: Total war expansion Kingdoms. Today, it's taking a trip across the ocean to the Americas, one of the later campaigns in the expansion and based on the movement of the Spanish and other European nations into the body of the American continents.

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You have to be mad to work here.
My dad, tired of all those "X things to do before you die" lists, is making a list of things he doesn't want to do before he dies. "Go to Ikea ever again," tops his roster.



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"We don't see any major incompatibility issues with strategy games on the console", says the Total War developer.
Total War RTS series developer The Creative Assembly is looking at cross-platform play between Xbox 360 and PC with a favourable eye, CVG can reveal.

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Some of mythology's most famous critters battle heroes in new footage from the MMORPG.
Perpetual Entertainment's MMORPG God & Heroes: Rome Rising is battling away in new footage released, which focuses on battles between heroes and beasts from mythology - like the Minotaur. Check it out in our video player.

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Frogster gives us a sneak peek at the revamped Speedball 2 - but it's keeping gameplay under wraps.
Frogster Interactive has released a trailer for its Speedball 2 revamp project, which is due to release for PC later this year.

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A look inside the British Isles campaign and what it means to English, Welsh, Scottish and Viking/Norwegian factions.
New details on The Creative Assembly's Medieval II: Total War expansion Kingdoms will be dancing before your eyeballs in the latest issue of PC Gamer (on-sale Thursday 12).

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Standalone addition Tribes of the East to conclude the Heroes of Might & Magic V saga.
Heroes of Might & Magic V disciples will be treated to what Ubisoft is describing as "the dramatic evolution and conclusion" to the HOMM V strategy saga in Tribes of the East, due to release this autumn.



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Standalone title introduces two new campaigns, new multiplayer content and is compatible with the original game.
Relic's acclaimed Company of Heroes RTS is to wage war on new WWII fronts in Opposing Fronts, which is due to release in the autumn.

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Rumour suggests the multiplayer shooter is coming to Xbox Live Arcade following an ESRB slip.
The ESRB website is listing Quake 3: Team Arena for release on Xbox 360, and the finger of speculation is pointing to Live Arcade as the culprit.

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Unreal Tournament dev concerned about restrictions placed on developers and gamers by the service.
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney has revealed the studio is sceptical about Microsoft's Games for Windows - Live due to the restrictions it places on developers - and PC gamers.

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Stay cool and nobody gets hurt, as Jon Blyth steals an early look at Codemasters' stylish new bank-robbing caper, Hei$t.
If you were a pensioner, and I said "1960s San Francisco" to you, you'd probably tut and roll your eyes, or else go all misty-eyed and complain that you just can't get decent LSD anymore. It depends what kind of pensioner you are, really.



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"..., the foremost goal of Guild Wars 2 is to make it the ultimate Guild Wars for Guild Wars fans", says ArenaNet.
Guild Wars' heavily instanced-based nature and subscription-free model raised more than a few questioning eyebrows when the MMORPG was initially unveiled, but the game went on to prove itself and ArenaNet's design philosophy reap reward. Now the developer is expanding the Guild Wars horizon and is working on a sequel, and its foremost goal with Guild Wars 2, it says, is "to make it the ultimate Guild Wars for Guild Wars fans".

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Report: Join our band of bold adventurers for... well, you'll see.
Turbine's splendid new MMORPG Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar has been occupying our thoughts and gaming lives over the past few months now. CVG's been intimately involved in the beta, and given you a chance to explore the game yourself with tens of thousands of beta keys given away. Then we organised a special event with publisher Codemasters to meet up with you all in Middle-earth.



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Will Porter chases the dragon. Gets a bit tired. Writes about it for a little while...
You and I both know that BioWare are fundamentally one of the most important development houses in the known world, but despite a small flotilla of amazingly crafted games, they've always been slightly masked behind licenses and console releases.

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In-game casinos checked in the midst of confusion over virtual gambling legalities.
The virtual online PC life simulator, Second Life, which is often compared to Sony's upcoming PS3 Home network, is under investigation by the FBI on the legality of its virtual gambling features.

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"There is one more generation of gaming consoles and that is it," claim industry leaders at Hewlett-Packard launch.
Printer/scanner superstar Hewlett-Packard showed off its plans to enter the PC gaming market last night, and unsurprisingly there was an air of hostility towards those old-fangled games consoles the kids are talking about these days.

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The Persian faction from the RTS showcased - they get cool battle elephants. Wicked.
The latest media blast from forthcoming PC RTS Ancient Wars: Sparta finds the game's Persian faction peering out from beneath the rug. Ahem.



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Limes disease and explosive sneezing infests new PC trailer and shots.
Hospital Tycoon blends managerial gameplay with a hilarious hospital drama in which each episode will have you tackling the comedy antics of the patients and staff as well as finding cures for "bizarre" new diseases.



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