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December 2010 Archive

Dec. 31, 2010
1. SI's Miles Jacobson appointed OBE
Dec. 30, 2010
1. Mass Effect 2 demo: PS3 vs. Xbox 360
Dec. 28, 2010
1. ND: Uncharted 3 will feel more open
Dec. 25, 2010
1. Get Games' 12 Days of Christmas!
2. Digital Foundry's 2010: Part 1
Dec. 24, 2010
1. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
2. Download Games Roundup
3. Will Activision block Respawn's EA game?
4. Back to the Future Episode 1: It's About Time
Dec. 23, 2010
1. GT5's ?400 official steering wheel
2. Ed's blog: Christmas is cancelled
3. Paul McCartney hits Rock Band 3
4. Final Fantasy XIV Online
5. Multiplayer looks on for Tomb Raider
6. The Last Story is 30 hours long
7. Championship Manager Legends revealed
8. Battle over Fallout Online MMO rages on
9. 360 Final Fantasy XIII flops in Japan
10. Taskmaster, Akuma, Hsien-Ko for MVC3?
11. Def Jam Rapstar works with Kinect
12. Rihanna joins the Dance Central
13. Meaty Meat Boy extras in January
14. HMV considers selling pre-owned online
Dec. 22, 2010
1. Kotick: Treyarch doesn't get its dues
2. New 3D Rayman title outed
3. PlayStation Move ad poster banned
4. PS Plus users get free Spyro download
5. Igarashi prepping Castlevania 3DS?
6. Lara Croft's Kane & Lynch DLC out now
7. Windows 8 to lead new PC gaming push?
8. New iOS Rage update available
9. Kaz talks up PSP2 touch screen potential
10. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow DLC
11. Shogun 2 Collector's Ed has chess set
12. Three massive PSN demos today
13. Dead Space 2 demo showdown
14. PlayStation Move Roundup
15. Fable III: Kingmaker gamers gifted gold
16. Electronic Arts picks up Portal 2
17. PS3 COD: Black Ops patch released
18. Dec PS Plus adds huge BF1943 sale
19. PS3 gets Music Unlimited sub service
20. Eurogamer meets Monty Python
21. Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale revealed
22. Sony: Virtual item sales keep Home free
23. Civilization V leader leaves Firaxis
24. Mass Effect's Citadel "like Manhattan"
25. Miyamoto: New Wii Zelda is half finished
26. EA slams Activision's "PR play"
27. Are Facebook games getting better?
28. DC Universe Online UK pricing confirmed
29. Fingers on the pulse
30. Activision sues EA for $400 million
Dec. 21, 2010
1. StarCraft II finally gets PC demo
2. EA: Acti has made "horrific mistakes"
3. Kojima/Suda collaboration still alive
4. EA: Brand PlayStation beats brand Xbox
5. LittleBigPlanet 2 date confirmed
6. Assassin's Creed strategy title planned?
7. AC: Brotherhood update announced
8. Sony launches GT5 Mercedes comp
9. Black Ops sales top $1 billion
10. PlayStation Phone called Xperia Play?
11. Mario Sports Mix dated
12. Over 1.5m Windows Phone 7s shipped
13. KISS, Linkin Park for Guitar Hero, DJH2
14. The Sims Medieval Limited Edition
15. DC Universe Online gets release date
16. Secret of Mana is on iPhone
17. MS not thrilled by Kinect sex game
18. Player complaints spark Oddboxx patch
19. Rock Band dev suing parent company
20. Not many downloaded free Gears 2 DLC
21. Epic fans to receive special Gears 3 unlocks
22. HD Splinter Cell Trilogy confirmed
23. echochrome ii
24. Rockstar leak clarifies Red Dead rant
25. EA working on Madden Curse: The Movie?
Dec. 20, 2010
1. Retro City Rampage heading to XBLA
2. Codies: real world FPS are not "tasteful"
3. Sony offers MAG for free download
4. Blue Toad Murder Files gets Move support
5. Out This Week
6. Meat Boy, Bad Company 2 lead Steam sale
7. 1.3 billion Halo: Reach games logged
8. January launch for DC Universe?
9. Sony takes stock of PS3 3D slate
10. Dragon Quest VI remake heads west
11. Huge festive PlayStation Store sale now
12. New 3DS Professor Layton footage
13. Rockstar dev recalls "deception", "abuse"
14. Gran Turismo 5 gets 608MB patch
15. Super Mario All-Stars
16. Mobile Games Roundup
17. Is a 3DS cart bigger than a DVD?
18. See PSP's Final Fantasy IV Collection
19. Hydrophobia: We did get a few things wrong
20. Hydrophobia revamp announced
21. UK chart: Christmas number one is...
22. What is Capcom's fastest-selling game?
23. First accessible games suite opened
24. LittleBigPlanet 2 spreading to PSP?
25. PS3 Tomb Raider Trilogy HD confirmed
26. First COD: Black Ops map pack announced
Dec. 19, 2010
1. Mob violence victim calls for Mafia II ban
2. The Making of God of War III
Dec. 18, 2010
1. Source: MS quadrupling Kinect accuracy
2. The Future for Dummies
Dec. 17, 2010
1. Secret of Mana hits App Store this month
2. Shadow the Hedgehog designed for US
3. EA, not Treyarch, heir to Infinity Ward?
4. Witcher 2's insane difficulty revealed
5. Worms Reloaded gets TF2-themed DLC
6. Square offers Lord of Arcana PSP demo
7. Demon's Souls servers to stay online
8. Fan plays Cataclysm 149 hours a week
9. SNK announces classic NeoGeo PS3 pad
10. Move support spreading "like wildfire"
11. Take-Two schedule forgets Max Payne 3
12. Game of the Week
13. BioWare Docs videogame Hall of Famers
14. NFS World gets dynamic day/night cycle
15. Eurogamer content in PEGI iPhone app
16. Bulletstorm Epic Ed grants Gears 3 beta
17. Download Games Roundup
18. UK shops: Order today or miss Christmas
19. Just Cause movie is an origin story
20. BioWare: PC Dragon Age 2 is strategic
21. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
22. Bloodline Champions beta opens up
23. BF Heroes raises ?2.5k for Child's Play
24. Doctor Jean-Pierre Lautrec is familiar
25. iPhone Riven so big it carries a warning
26. Just Dance 2 DLC tracks announced
27. Sequel Section 8: Prejudice just ?10
28. EA: $99 Wii would "explode" at retail
29. XBLIG Winter Uprising campaign stalls
30. Sonic, Battlefield lead iOS games rush
Dec. 16, 2010
1. Red Dead Redemption ships 8 million
2. Microsoft announces Christmas XBL sale
3. Blizzard confirms Titan MMO project
4. New LittleBigPlanet portal links with PSN
5. Fallout: NV 360 patch goes live
6. Sony announces Android-friendly PS app
7. Shogun 2 Collector's Ed has bamboo box
8. Killzone 3
9. Panorama criticised by friend of "addict"
10. Transform your Fable III dog
11. Sony hides free PS3s and PSPs in Dublin
12. Shift 2: Unleashed Limited Edition treats
13. iOS Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 out
14. iPhone Football Manager 2011 released
15. Back to the Future: The Game dated
16. Free PES 2011 DLC out on Tuesday
17. PS3 Mass Effect 2 uses ME3 engine
18. Europe getting "ultimate" Deathsmiles
19. The Conduit 2: The long road back
20. High Voltage compares The Conduit to GTA
21. Deus Ex: Human Revolution delayed
22. UK games may get pricier next year
23. Broken Sword 2 Remastered out now
24. Hydrophobia dev teases revamp
25. What happened to Xbox 360 faceplates?
26. Bodycount
27. Treyarch answers Black Ops PS3 mob
28. Study looks at console user habits
29. Why did Gears of War miss the VGAs?
30. MotorStorm: Apocalypse out spring 2011
31. THQ has 8-10 year plan for inSANE
32. Acti's negative rep not based in "reality"
Dec. 15, 2010
1. Infinity Blade started life as Kinect game
2. Huge Civ 5 patch released
3. AC: Brotherhood scrapes into Japan charts
4. Xbox Live gets Gray Matter demo
5. Lara Croft gets App Store release
6. GT5 gets free Christmas DLC
7. Sackboy, Lara DLC head PS Store update
8. Star Wars: The Old Republic
9. Jonathan Blow in his own words
10. PS3 gamers outraged at Black Ops
11. Dead Space Ignition
12. Professor Layton and the Lost Future
13. God of War: Ghost of Sparta
14. Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland
15. Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Pack
16. The Fight: Lights Out
17. Ivy the Kiwi?
18. GoldenEye 007 review
19. SingStar Dance
20. Guwange
21. The Lord of the Rings Online
22. Drawn: Dark Flight
23. Super Mario 3D All-Stars review - three great games in one lacklustre compilation
24. Trials HD: Big Thrills
25. Infinity Blade
26. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
27. Kung Fu LIVE!
28. Who's making the Ico/SOTC remasters?
29. 3rd Birthday's shower scene is steamy
30. id Software's first game is 20-years-old
31. Yamauchi to upgrade GT5 standard cars
32. Chrono Cross coming to Japanese PSN
33. Irish PlayStation 3s get RTE Player
34. Infinity Blade dev's Ender's Game tabled
Dec. 14, 2010
1. Ex-Capcom boss starts new company
2. Acti: "Still a lot of talent" at Infinity Ward
3. No BAFTA for Red Dead Redemption
4. First Infinity Blade DLC detailed
5. Black Ops 360/PS3 updates go live
6. More Final Fantasy XIV updates ready
7. Epic releases Unreal Engine iOS tools
8. Monday Night Combat heading to PC
9. More free AC: Brotherhood DLC coming
10. Sheffield Hallam builds own game studio
11. Killzone 3 split-screen co-op confirmed
12. PS Plus exclusive DC Universe beta access
13. SimCity Deluxe, Risk out now on iPad
14. Free Kinect Joy Ride Chevrolet Car Pack
15. Dreamcast Collection confirmed
16. Sony: Discs "strong" for "years to come"
17. Kinect Sports DLC revealed
18. PS3 ITV player and 4oD out now
19. Splinter Cell: Conviction's lost features
20. Aliens: Colonial Marines reveal soon
21. Bayonetta dev doing another SEGA game
22. Does Uncharted 3 have campaign co-op?
23. Rumour: MS to show iPad killers at CES
24. UFC suing Ubisoft over Fighters Uncaged
Dec. 13, 2010
1. Ex-Sony man rails against "foreigner" CEO
2. Minecraft enters beta, gets storyline
3. Out This Week
4. Tetris slots into 2011 PSN line-up
5. Mobile Games Roundup
6. Miyamoto hoped to "destroy" his past
7. Final Fantasy IV heading to PSP
8. Mortal Kombat reboot out in April
9. Dead Rising 2: Case West dated
10. 2m sales of original justify Prototype 2
11. Sony unconvinced by Kinect marketing
12. Mikami: What Vanquish might have been
13. Infinity Blade makes $1.64m in 5 days
14. Cataclysm sales are wow
15. Free NFS cars despite YouTube video fail
16. PS3 Mass Effect 2 demo announced
17. PC Need for Speed denied paid DLC
18. Thor: God of Thunder release date
19. SSD halves GT5 loading times
20. Guillermo del Toro's inSANE a trilogy
21. In Theory: Can CPU co-processor boost PS3 power?
22. Kratos confirmed for Mortal Kombat
23. Face-Off: BioShock 2
24. Resistance 3 multiplayer "more focused"
25. UK chart: Black Ops survives Cataclysm
26. SSX: Deadly Descents details revealed
27. PS3 gets ITV and Channel 4 on demand
28. Mass Effect 3 a simultaneous release
Dec. 12, 2010
1. Bulletstorm
2. Polyphony Digital Masters 1080p240 Gameplay
Dec. 11, 2010
1. Game of the Week
2. Rewriting the Rules
3. Tech Interview: Halo: Reach
Dec. 10, 2010
1. Cut the Rope gets free Christmas levels
2. EA Store confirms Mass Effect 3
3. Black promises "rock and roll" WWII FPS
4. First glimpse of X-Men Destiny
5. Rock Band 3 keys up Billy Joel DLC
6. Quake Arena Arcade dated for XBLA
7. Kinect bundles outsell Move bundles 5-1
8. Open-source Kinect drivers released
9. Massive Fallout: NV patch out now
10. PlayStation Home played by 17 million
11. MGS Peace Walker in VGA teaser
12. Dara O'Briain jokes about videogames
13. Forza 3 goes Back to the Eighties
14. Amazon buying second-hand games
15. Which Gran Turismo game sold most?
16. More iPad 2 details revealed
17. Need for Speed's Super Sports pack
18. Download Games Roundup
19. New Lara: "We wanted a bit of baby fat"
20. UK teen arrested for Call of Duty DDOS
21. Rumour: Mass Effect 3 set for VGA reveal
22. November US sales: Microsoft's spin
23. The 3rd Birthday has a shower scene
24. November US sales: Sony's spin
25. Gran Turismo 5 ships 5.5 million
26. PlayStation 3 Mass Effect 2 release date
27. PS3 Final Fantasy XIV delayed
28. Harvest Moon DS: Grand Bazaar
29. Infinity Blade cuts down Angry Birds
30. NPD: Black Ops is 7th biggest game ever
Dec. 9, 2010
1. Sony reveals Move Sharp Shooter add-on
2. Imminent PlanetSide 2 reveal hinted
3. Dead Rising shuffles onto App Store
4. New Civ V DLC announced
5. Jong-Il's son is a gamer, will never rule
6. The Witcher: Versus coming to iPhone
7. Uncharted 3 will be in 3D
8. World of Goo dated for iPad
9. PS3 waits for new Costume Quest DLC
10. Storm and C. Viper confirmed for MVC3
11. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception revealed
12. The 54 boxers of Fight Night Champion
13. Who's on the Fight Night Champion cover?
14. Boll: "Actors know I'm a real filmmaker"
15. Cypress Hill singer: I'm the real CJ
16. Broken Sword 2 – Remastered announced
17. Animated Dead Space Aftermath detailed
18. Halo Wars fan-passion saves stats
19. Jaffe: Kratos shouldn't rape MK victims
20. FIFA Ultimate Team makes EA ?28.5m
21. SCII: Heart of the Swarm ending leaks
22. Gratuitous Space Battles
Dec. 8, 2010
1. Strong Bad confirmed for PSN
2. Acti feels "nothing but love" for Harmonix
3. Namco dates Knight's Contract, God Eater
4. What is Square Enix's Clover E@rth?
5. The Settlers 7 gets update, new DLC
6. New Lara Croft DLC hits XBL
7. Dead Space 2 demo confirmed
8. Smash Bros. Melee was "too difficult"
9. Big Cup Cricket hits the App Store
10. March 2011 launch for PS Phone?
11. Blizzard mulling 5-man Molten Core
12. X-Men Arcade a timed XBLA exclusive
13. EA: Single-player only games "finished"
14. Condom campaign loves Mario, Mega Man
15. Suzuki: "Concept for Shenmue 3 exists"
16. PS3 gets Kinect-like Kung-Fu game
17. Dissidia, 3rd Birthday for spring 2011
18. Bulletstorm: We're misunderstood
19. MJ anti-piracy vuvuzela was for laughs
20. EA marketing the f*** out of Bulletstorm
21. Total UK console installed base is...
22. Acti insists Tony Hawk is still relevant
23. Jeff Minter has made a new game!
24. PS Plus subs get LBP spin-off free
25. SingStar Guitar
26. Splatterhouse
27. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West – Pigsy's Perfect 10
28. Michael Jackson: The Experience
29. Bejeweled 3
30. Kinect Roundup
31. Footage of Raven's stealth Bond game
32. Two Worlds II finally gets UK date
33. 3DS Resi Mercs lets you move and shoot
34. PSP2 has "early PS3 game quality visuals"
35. New SSX takes series "back to its roots"
36. Kratos in PS3 Mortal Kombat – report
37. Play GT5 on PC "early next year"
Dec. 7, 2010
1. Guitar Hero gets '90s rock DLC
2. Star Wars: TOR is a "10 year opportunity"
3. Spector defends Epic Mickey camera
4. New MAG update inbound
5. Super Meat Boy gets PC boxed edition
6. New Monster Hunter sells 2m in a week
7. Resistance 3 gets split-screen co-op
8. Rolando dev reveals next project
9. Star Wars: Imperial Academy announced
10. iPad 2 rumoured for February 2011
11. Rebellion announces Evil Genius: WMD
12. Sniper developer making four FPS games
13. WOW voice chat needs a "revamp"
14. Codies seeks Jumpgate delay damages
15. The Remaking of World of Warcraft
16. Smaller WOW expansions, more often?
17. Blitz plans indie gaming hub
18. PS3's Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll dated
19. Sony's spy MMO The Agency delayed
20. Second RIFT beta event detailed
21. Ghostbusters gameplay details revealed
22. What's in the new PS3 firmware?
23. Fallout: New Vegas patch coming soon
24. Damage patch for Gran Turismo 5
25. DanceEvolution
26. Your Shape DLC limbers up
27. The new Lara Croft is how old?
Dec. 6, 2010
1. New BioWare clue is a red herring
2. Raven back on new Bond game?
3. echochrome ii dated for PSN
4. PSP2 will be "dead on arrival"
5. Sony adds Quests to PlayStation Rewards
6. Move protoype had trackball, thumbstick
7. Oddworld collection heading to Steam
8. Nintendo employees get ?11k bonus
9. New console Black Ops patch detailed
10. Out This Week
11. UK game industry hits back at Panorama
12. Super-fast broadband planned for UK
13. Just one more go...
14. Tomb Raider reboot announced
15. Are pre-owned sales killing gaming?
16. New PlayStation Phone videos emerge
17. Mobile Games Roundup
18. ?300 Gran Turismo 5 driving wheel outed
19. Killzone 3 split-screen co-op sighted
20. Darkstalkers 4, CVS3 "a ways off"
21. UK chart: Black Ops back on top
22. Dead Space 2 demo for Christmas?
23. MS: PlayStation Home "a nice chat room"
24. Prototype 2 all but confirmed
25. Red Faction Syfy film in May 2011
26. MS denies engineering Kinect shortages
27. I'm just browsing
Dec. 4, 2010
1. Ghostbusters fix out a year after release
2. Download Games Roundup
3. EuroLAN #2 coverage
4. Half of Xbox Live subs are Gold
5. Blowing the Candles
Dec. 3, 2010
1. Ghost Trick gets free Flash demo
2. THQ moving away from kids' games
3. EA plans to slash game output
4. Assassin's Creed 3 features hinted at
5. EA reveals strategy to beat COD
6. EverQuest II to get its own Cataclysm?
7. Alien Breed 2 hits PSN next week
8. Queen DLC for Rock Band 3
9. Civilization IV nominated for a Grammy
10. Harrison: browser gaming is the future
11. UK getting Rock Band 3 MIDI Pro-Adapter
12. Game of the Week
13. Total War: Shogun 2
14. Unlock fifth Bad Company 2 map together
15. Golden Sun developer "excited" by 3DS
16. Monty Python stars push Facebook game
17. Jon Hare remaking Speedball 2 for iPhone
18. People buy ?45 Donkey Kong with bananas
19. 1080p PS Move Top Darts revealed
20. Valve launches Team Fortress 2 open beta
21. GT5 Prologue secret options revealed
22. UK game dev tax breaks on "hiatus"
23. Riccitiello's EA not afraid of risks
24. Ace Attorney Investigations 2 details
25. LittleBigPlanet 2 won't have 3D - Sony
26. Evil Ryu and Oni Akuma in SSFIV
27. Sony puts PS2 in telly and sells it
28. Rock Band 3 pause scoring exploit fixed
29. Ms. Splosion Man announced
30. Anomaly: Warzone Earth
31. Army of Two, BFBC2 for Games on Demand
32. Retro Studios talks Donkey Kong pressure
Dec. 2, 2010
1. Gameloft wanders into Uncharted territory
2. Judge loses cool at 360 hacker trial
3. Ubisoft assaults Jacko DS pirates
4. Dead Nation voice chat patch incoming
5. Team Meat skewers PETA spoof
6. Reader Review of the Month
7. Rock Band Reloaded hits App Store
8. Diablo III
9. More new BioWare game info teased
10. Third VGA zombie teaser spotted
11. Are you the best FIFA player on PS3?
12. Can Wii slow Parkinson's disease?
13. UK shops promise to freeze game prices
14. Take-Two won't annualise GTA, Red Dead
15. Thor's Thor to be Thor in SEGA's Thor
16. Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime unveiled
17. Def Jam Rapstar does an X-Factor
18. Kirby's Epic Yarn gets EU release date
19. Christmas Angry Birds swoops in
20. Cradle of Civilization (V) maps released
21. Videogame Lifer
22. Eidos: Kane & Lynch "will not disappear"
23. Home gets Plus exclusive Members Club
24. Street legal Tron bike costs ?32k
25. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow patched
26. Fight Night Champion's "wow" mode
27. Xbox 360 celebrates 5th birthday in UK
28. EA: There will be an MMA 2
Dec. 1, 2010
1. Buy two XBLA games, get 400 Points
2. PETA serves up Super Tofu Boy
3. Crysis 2 novel in the works
4. Uncharted movie wanders off the map
5. Lara Croft gets Kane & Lynch DLC
6. 'Splosion Man blasts to top of XBLA chart
7. Treyarch explains COD patch procedure
8. Activision not excited by App Store
9. Last call for Marvel Ultimate Alliance DLC
10. EU gets Deus Ex: HR Augmented Edition
11. GT5 tops Japan charts
12. Microsoft announces Xbox Live Rewards
13. Can you keep PlayStation Plus DLC?
14. Buy Donkey Kong Country with bananas
15. Enslaved Pigsy problems swill stop now
16. PlayStation Phone videoed for internet?
17. ChampMan dev turns to cricket
18. Dead Nation
19. FM Handheld for ?36 on PS Store
20. PS3's Explodemon! delayed
21. PlayStation Plus' Dec & Jan deals
22. Battlefield Heroes Xmas event launched
23. MS responds to Halo 1 HD remake rumour
24. Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
25. Chunky Fable III title update deployed
26. Out This Week
27. The Old Republic not before April 2011
28. Bomberman Battlefest XBLA release date
29. Move and Kinect sales "neck and neck"
30. Blizzard brass ban StarCraft II cheaters
31. Mega Man creator committed to games
32. GoldenEye creator aims to invent a genre
33. Gran Turismo 5 updates detailed
34. Music To Play Games By
35. The man who made GoldenEye
36. EA: Tiger Woods needs to start winning