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  DualShock, The Concept Table

  Designer Stephane Perruchon has always liked the DualShock controller’s design, its “excellent ergonomics”. Perruchon didn’t own a PS3 until the cheaper and slimmer model hit and had been spending the last few years playing his Xbox 360. The PS3 reminded him how much he liked the DualShock design, which inspired this table. No word whether…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2009
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  PAL PlayStation Store Update: Blood, Sweat & Pooh

  This weeks PAL PlayStation Store update is a small one, but despite dire warnings on the European PlayStation site, things aren’t as bad as you’d think. While genuinely new content is thin on the ground, there are plenty of sales to make up for it, like substantial savings on Siren: Blood Curse and a range…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2009
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  Life-Sized NES Made From LEGO

  More than that actually — the NES has two LEGO controllers, a LEGO Tetris game cartridge and a LEGO TV. “So why did I decide to build an NES?,” writes Dave Sterling. “I think mainly just to see if I could. I’ve never done something I would consider ‘art’ or ‘sculpture’ in LEGO and I…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2009
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  iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?

  The fact the iPhone is a veritable wild west for developers can often be a good thing. Then again, when shadier outfits start releasing shadier apps, it can also be a bad thing. Take iPhone game developer Storm8, for example. A class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleges that the company, who are behind…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2009
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  Fresh Mass Effect 2 Trailers Show The Darker, Boozier Side Of The Galaxy

  In between all the developer blah blah blah, you’ll see in this first clip a bunch of new footage for Mass Effect 2, primarily focusing on the game’s enemies, both new and old. Click to view And in this second, some long stretches of gameplay punctuated by strippers, hard liquor and an old war buddy.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2009
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  Mass Effect 2 Impressions: Looks Better, Shoots Differently, Doesn’t Overheat

  Freeze-bullets. Framerates. Interactive cut-scenes. Even old friends from other Mass Effect games (yes, plural). These are some of the things, new or improved, that I recently saw in Mass Effect 2. Just three months before the January 2010 release of BioWare’s second Mass Effect, there is an intriguing bit of, well, intrigue about what’s going…

  By Stephen Totilo Published November 6, 2009
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  Global Game Sales Down 6%

  While the worst of it seems to be behind us, 2009 will still be remembered as the year of the global economic crisis. And when people are in times of economic crisis, well, they buy less video games. A joint report issued by Enterbrain, the NPD Group and GfK Chart-Track has revealed that video game…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2009
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  NSFW: Surely This Should Have Been Rated Adults Only?

  Too cute cat-eared game Tayutama -Kiss On My Diety- was released today in Japan. The Xbox 360 visual novel was given Japan’s 17-years-old-and-up CERO D — the equivalent of the ESRB Mature rating. Should it have been rated higher? This image here is raising eyebrows (raising cat ears?), and making some on the Japanese internet…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2009
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  New Prince Of Persia Trailer, New Footage

  The British trailer for the upcoming Prince of Persia movie is quite different to the American one, as it comes complete with not just new footage, but a handy voice-over as well.

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2009
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  Konami Might Buy Music Label

  Game maker Konami is currently in talks with JVC Kenwood over the sale of music subsidiary Victor Entertainment Inc., reports Japanese newspaper The Daily Yomiuri. According to analysts, the music industry will realign itself better with online distribution and “pick up speed”. Universal Music LLC is also on the table as a potential buyer, but…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2009
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  Two Minutes Of God Of War III Gameplay

  If you’re one of the lucky people who have already played the God of War III demo, great! Good for you. The rest of us will have to watch this gameplay clip and just wait a little harder. Pro tip: don’t watch this at work. Or in front of small children.

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2009
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  Milla Jovovich Twittering Her Brains Out About New Movie

  Milla Jovovich might be new to Twitter, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a twittering fiend, dropping bits and bops about the upcoming Resident Evil: Afterlife. Spoilers, ahoy! Don’t believe us that Jovovich is a serious twit. Check out her updates from the last 24 hours or so, which provide all sorts of details about…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2009
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  2010 Will Bring Us More Call Of Duty, More Guitar Hero

  During an earnings Q&A earlier today, Activision spoke a little of their 2010 product line-up. A line-up that you may be stunned to hear includes new Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and Spider Man games. You can no doubt imagine the kind of shambling corpse that’ll be trotted out as Guitar Hero 6 (or whatever…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 6, 2009
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  Nintendo President: Majority Of Video Games Digital In 20 Years

  The clock is ticking on bricks and mortar game retailers. But according to Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata, the clock will be ticking for another 20 years before digital distribution takes over and rules the school. “Most radical people even dare to say that retailers will be replaced by digital distribution in no time,” Iwata said…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2009
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  Street Fighter IV: Smash Car, Smash Barrels

  Super Street Fighter IV is bringing back some old Street Fighter favourites: bonus stages. Towards the end of this trailer, you’ll get a good look at the new additions in action. Poor car. Poor barrels. Click to view

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2009
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  International Edition of FFXIII *Could* Be Out Before April 2010

  This December, the PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII is going to be released in Japan — and if we are lucky, it might be out in The West before next April. At a recent financial briefing in which Square Enix announced that sales were up 33.2 percent and profits dropped 55.7 percent, Square Enix…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2009
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  Resonance of Fate Won’t Have Tiny Text

  Tiny text — readable on HDTVs, but it’s plagued gamers who own Standard Definition televisions for years. SEGA and tri-Ace are sensitive to those who haven’t yet joined the hi-def revolution. In upcoming tri-Ace developed, SEGA published role-playing-game Resonance of Fate, the game’s models are designed to take advantage of HDTVs, but the text is…

  By Brian Ashcraft Published November 5, 2009
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  Media Molecule: LBP Sequel Would “Fragment” Its Community

  Media Molecule leaves little doubt it has no plans for any kind of a sequel to LittleBigPlanet, with a designer calling it “the most counterproductive thing you could do,” in an interview with Critical Gamer. “We’d never want to do that,” said Danny Leaver, adding that a sequel would fragment the game’s community. Producer Martin…

  By Owen Good Published November 5, 2009
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  Online Retailers Refusing To Sell Modern Warfare 2

  Major online retailer Direct2Drive have announced today that the year’s biggest game – Modern Warfare 2 – won’t be made available on their PC digital delivery service. Why? Because of rival platform Steam, of course! Activision’s shooter includes mandatory installation of Valve’s Steamworks, which the game uses for stuff like installation, DRM and save-game management.…

  By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2009
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  id: Probably No Dedicated Servers for Rage

  id Software’s John Carmack is mindful of the anger over Modern Warfare 2 dropping dedicated server support. That’s why he’s glad Infinity Ward is going first, because he plans to do the same thing with Rage. “It’s not cast in stone yet, but at this point no, we don’t think we will have dedicated servers,”…

  By Owen Good Published November 5, 2009