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July 2010 Archive

July 31, 2010
1. Tech Interview: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
July 30, 2010
1. Magic Playdom
2. Halo: Reach
3. Reaching for the Stars
4. WRC
5. SEGA: Alpha Protocol sales were "slow"
6. Rare responds to fan site closure
7. Earthworm Jim out now on PSN
8. The Jagex Factor
9. New 2D Worms game dated for PC
10. Download Games Roundup
11. Zipper: SOCOM 4 "will be worth the wait"
12. Garriott wins $28m from NCsoft
13. Bethesda: No plans for Wii, iPhone, social
14. Force Unleashed II's main man quits
15. Hardened, Prestige vers for Black Ops?
July 29, 2010
1. Teach Rio Ferdinand how to play Halo
2. EVE fix-squad has "carte blanche" - CCP
3. R4 cart ban: More details emerge
4. Lost Planet 2 "substantially underperformed" - Capcom
5. PC crowd "more open" to weird games
6. Dragon Age Awakening DLC revealed
7. Jagex has third MMO in development
8. Microsoft UK defends Kinect price
9. Sony clarifies UK PS Move pricing
10. Ubisoft's Women's Things
11. 3DS date and price reveal in September
12. Nintendo's Q1 DS sales down 44 per cent
13. L4D2 tweaked in new update
14. Realtime Worlds shows new social game
15. PS3 has sold 38.1m units worldwide
16. Multiplayer mode announced for HAWX 2
17. Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2
18. LA Noire "defeated the uncanny valley"
19. Del Toro about to announce game deal
20. Hydrophobia
July 28, 2010
1. Star Trek Online moves into Season Two
2. DS pirate carts now illegal in UK
3. Konami bringing Castlevania to EG Expo
4. Privates
5. Faery RPG to "immerse" PC, PSN, XBLA
6. Earthworm Jim HD out today on PS3
7. End of Nations
8. THQ making new kind of WWE game
9. Nintendo explains Zelda's new art style
10. "Wii the best console for platformers"
11. Ubi predicts King of Pop will do the biz
12. EverQuest II going free-to-play
13. Linkin Park single debuting in MOH
14. GameStop buys browser gaming hub
15. StarCraft II's bugs, issues listed
16. Jazz leads Transformers WFC DLC
17. Disney buys Playdom for $563m
18. Irrational Games teaser website pops up
19. MAG patch coming
20. Jackson pulled from Plants vs. Zombies
July 27, 2010
1. Fairytale Fights publisher in trouble
2. Nintendo 3DS Roundup
3. R.U.S.E. and H.A.W.X. 2 firmly dated
4. Blizzard "probably very arrogant" - Jagex
5. Resi 5 Move only for Gold Edition
6. Eurogamer.net Podcast #29
7. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
8. FIFA 11 has Street mode on Wii
9. Blizzard on Real ID: "The process worked"
10. Blizzard talks StarCraft II
11. Capcom aims to increase output
12. More GH: Warriors of Rock songs revealed
13. UK tax situation "sucks" - Ninja Theory
14. Bleszinski explains Gears movie hold-up
15. Digital Extremes working on Darkness 2?
16. Game/video recommendations for PS3
17. Valve unbans Steam MW2 players
18. EA: BioWare not involved in Darkspore
19. Kane & Lynch 2 demo available to all
20. OpFlash, DiRT, GRID sequels on way
July 26, 2010
1. Hydro Thunder Hurricane
2. W40K Space Marine heading to PC
3. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
4. Saints Row 3 on track for FY2012
5. Jaffe answers Twisted Metal concerns
6. Rockstar definitely researching Hollywood
7. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable
8. UK chart: Toy Story 3 spinning on top
9. BioWare Mythic hates Real ID
10. New Street Fighter III game announced
11. Street Fighter X Tekken details spill
12. Street Fighter X Tekken announced
13. Space combat confirmed for SWTOR
14. IGN Dragon Age 2 report debunked
15. DC Universe Online given firm date
16. Halo console's custom sounds explained
17. Atari sales down 65 per cent
18. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
July 25, 2010
1. Forge World, Versus Firefight in Reach
2. Eurogamer.net Podcast #28
July 24, 2010
1. Junction Point's Warren Spector
2. Spector: what Ebert thinks is "irrelevant"
3. The Future of PlayStation Move
4. Conflicting Goals
July 23, 2010
1. Dragon Age 2 dialogue choice simplified
2. Warner unveils Green Lantern game
3. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood beta dated
4. inFamous 2's Cole re-redesigned
5. LittleBigPlanet 2 dated
6. EA's John Schappert loves the 3DS
7. Spec Ops: The Line beta invites out
8. GoldenEye 007
9. Hitman 5 out Xmas 2011 "at the earliest"
10. MS shifts 10.3m Xbox 360s in FY2010
11. Game Changers
12. Download Games Roundup
13. Mega Man Universe to "unite" fans
14. UK immune to US Front Mission delay
15. Halo: Reach Xbox 360 bundle announced
16. Medal of Honor devs form new studio
17. FIFA 11
18. FFXIV will have 18 classes at release
19. New Mass Effect 2 DLC stars Liara
20. Boba Fett in Force Unleashed II
21. Ubisoft reveals 2m SC: Conviction sales
22. Dead Rising 2: Case Zero dated
July 22, 2010
1. No StarCraft II reviews before release
2. Michael Jordan mode for NBA 2K11
3. FIFA getting better stats for players
4. Entire PS3 Sly Collection will have 3D
5. Mafia II demo dated
6. Kinect hardware sales boost is "bollocks"
7. DSi LL Japan's best selling hardware
8. Lionhead's Peter Molyneux
9. New Marvel Super Hero Squad revealed
10. Girlfriends Forever on WiiWare tomorrow!
11. Molyneux struggles to get ideas across
12. We Sing Robbie Williams announced
13. H.A.W.X. 2 dated
14. Phantasy Star Universe gets big update
15. Tactics Ogre coming to Europe
16. Govt. to reconsider tax relief for games
17. Mafia II, Civ V will use Steamworks
18. Retail and digital PC sales almost equal
19. US Demon's Souls servers guaranteed
20. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
21. MS "killed" PC/Xbox cross-platform play
22. Appeal of FPS genre is falling - survey
23. Hamill, Conroy to voice DC Universe
24. For Ten Dollars More?
July 21, 2010
1. PES vs. FIFA "a healthy rivalry" - Konami
2. Midnight opening for StarCraft II
3. Kane & Lynch 2 demo on PSN today
4. Four new MVC3 characters revealed
5. New characters for SSFIV?
6. Will Carmine live or die? You decide
7. Red Dead leads US half-year sales
8. Castlevania October date is "speculation"
9. MMA dated for the UK
10. 360 Final Fantasy XIII for Japan?
11. Medal of Honor 360 beta begins
12. Square Enix remaking Tactics Ogre
13. New Sam & Max ep on PSN today
14. UK Xbox 360 sales up 1000%
15. Rockstar cracks down on RDR cheats
16. EA reveals Maxis' Darkspore for PC
17. EA unveils NFL Training game for Wii
18. EA announces Alice: Madness Returns
July 20, 2010
1. EA dates MMA fighting game
2. The Sims 3 gets late night expansion
3. Shank dated for PSN and XBLA
4. SEGA unveils Thor videogame
5. Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg
6. Microsoft confirms Kinect price
7. Project Milo back on
8. Trials HD: Big Thrills DLC detailed
9. COD to get "opt-in" premium model
10. Mafia II
11. Need for Speed World dated
12. Huge ArmA II Arrowhead PC demo out
13. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning unveiled
14. Moore avoiding Metacritic for FIFA 11
15. DDO to go free-to-play in Europe
16. Uncharted 2 the "pinnacle of its genre"
17. Shogun 2 to appear at Edinburgh festival
18. Kingdom Hearts Re:coded in October
19. Has Tiger damaged EA's golf series?
20. Rock Band 3 out globally in October
21. EA reveals Fight Night Champion
22. Sony patents 3D multiplayer system
23. "You'll never have to pay to play COD"
24. Rumour: Capcom vs. Namco in the works
25. Wada unsure of Final Fantasy's future
26. JAW's Gravity Crash on PSP tomorrow
27. DC Universe beta sign-ups open
28. New Ghost Recon game coming to PSP
29. The Ivory Tower
July 19, 2010
1. Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3: Round 26
2. Indie devs to spice up PlayStation Home
3. Stuart Black to leave Codies in Oct
4. Plants vs. Zombies dated for XBLA
5. Red Faction Syfy film for March 2011
6. Kojima's making an adventure game
7. Ubi: Brotherhood is not "Assassin's 2.5"
8. UK chart: Crackdown 2 still top
9. Indie Games Arcade open for submissions
10. Xbox 360 S UK launch does business
11. Discounted Xbox 360s outsell new model
12. Why Sony mandates 720p for PS3 3D
13. 3D will affect game performance
14. Free DLC for Valkyria Chronicles II
15. Cashman on 1 vs. 100 cancellation
16. Valve releases Alien Swarm for free
17. PS3 secures exclusive Mafia II DLC
18. No F1 2010 demo, says Codemasters
19. Dragon Age patched on PC today
20. Kane & Lynch 2 PS3 Plus demo today
21. Sakaguchi not retiring after all?
22. More Priceless Victories
23. Battle.net's social goals are "no secret"
July 17, 2010
1. Guerrilla cuts Killzone pad lag
2. Red Dead Redemption: World in Motion
3. Joss Stone on new Bond game role
July 16, 2010
1. Mega Man Universe confirmed
2. Alex Garland "intimidating" - Ninja Theory
3. Sony: 3D gives you "competitive edge"
4. Bleszinski responds to Rein furore
5. Download Games Roundup
6. Eurogamer.net Podcast #27
7. Aion Balaurea expansion dated
8. Steam BFBC2 grants MOH beta access
9. COD sub-based by end of the year?
10. Nintendo: Wii and DS demand "declined"
11. Blizzard reveals StarCraft II requirements
12. "Amazing demand" for new Xbox 360
13. Lara Croft a four-week Xbox 360 exclusive
14. NPD June: MS, Nintendo, Sony respond
15. Crystal Dynamics talks Lara
16. Download Games Roundup: Remake Special
17. Sony Online announces layoffs
18. Just Add Water working with Oddworld
19. No new ratings system until April 2011
20. NPD June: New Xbox 360 overtakes Wii
July 15, 2010
1. Free Realms is "insipid" - Jagex
2. Activision announces Apache: Air Assault
3. Molyneux: Fable II was "rushed"
4. Double Fine has four games on the go
5. Activision reveals DJ Hero 2 artist list
6. Microsoft cans 1 vs. 100 on Xbox Live
7. BioWare boss "blown away" by 3DS
8. BioWare's Dr. Greg Zeschuk
9. Schafer: "I need to keep my mouth shut"
10. BioWare's Zeschuk defends paid DLC
11. Everybody's Tennis
12. Sniper GW patch targets review criticisms
13. AVP console patches "scrapped"
14. Rockstar lays off staff at Red Dead studio
15. Zombie already working on Blacklight 2
16. Ready At Dawn lays off 13 staff
17. Zelda: Skyward Sword in "early 2011"
18. Batman, Heavy Rain win Develop Awards
19. Activision responds to Tim Schafer
July 14, 2010
1. Schafer calls Bobby Kotick "a total prick"
2. Double Fine's Tim Schafer
3. Vaizey: Games must make tax case again
4. Lionhead loves BioShock and Portal
5. Blur demo and DeathSpank on PSN
6. PSP/PS3 minis hit 1m downloads
7. Namco polls PSone suggestions for PSN
8. WiiWare gets kung fu and air combat
9. Toy Story 3
10. Rare researching GoldenEye for Kinect?
11. BioWare working on "small scale MMO"
12. Sakaguchi sounds ready to retire
13. Limited edition Medal of Honor coming
14. Jagex reveals Stellar Dawn MMO
15. Nintendo reveals Wii, DS Q3 line-up
16. Sony announces huge Eurogamer Expo line-up
17. New Xbox 360 Arcade this August?
18. New Harry Potter supports Kinect
19. BBC: Milo & Kate is a tech demo after all
20. "Copious" APB to-do list being addressed
July 13, 2010
1. DeathSpank
2. Eurogamer.net Podcast #26
3. Eyecare Trust: "3D not causing problems"
4. Kane & Lynch 2 here a week early
5. XBLA a "slaughterhouse" for small devs
6. Cage exploring "very different universes"
7. Black Ops playable through a browser?
8. ModNation Racers to get casual mode
9. InstantAction's Louis Castle
10. APB dev Realtime Worlds restructures
11. Inazuma 11, Ni no Kuni heading West
12. Showtime!
13. Crysis 2 special edition to cost ?130?
14. Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect announced
15. Remedy defends poor Alan Wake sales
16. 3DS screen could be bigger, says Konno
17. UK "sure to start buzzing" about 3DS
18. Enhanced Western God Eater for 2011
19. Sony advises against kids using 3D
20. Ubi lets Assassin's dev know who's boss
21. Nail'd
July 12, 2010
1. Ubisoft delays new Driver game
2. 1-in-10 can't see 3D properly - report
3. XBLA's Destination Arcade next week
4. Nintendo "not conscious" of any rivals
5. Assassin's will be as big as GTA – Ubi
6. 3DTV in every home in 3 years – Ubisoft
7. Respawn working on "Halo-killer"?
8. SFIV dev's new game at Comic-Con
9. Get your name in GT5 credits
10. Horii: Attitudes to games have changed
11. Google invests up to $200m in Zynga
12. The Beast wins fighting game World Cup
13. China censors online game ads
14. Spore action RPG due at Comic-Con
July 11, 2010
1. Mabinogi
July 9, 2010
1. Community Chest
2. Blizzard scraps Real ID for its forums
3. Tech Interview: Crackdown 2
4. PlayStation 3D: Performance Analysis
5. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
6. Eurogamer DQIX review inbound
7. Civilization V Special Ed outed
8. Naka doesn't want to work on Sonic
9. Download Games Roundup
10. Winning UK is FIFA Manager's "goal"
11. FFXIV goes into beta this weekend
12. Blacklight gets World Cup weapon tags
13. 505 Games reveals Deep Black
14. DQIX inspired by Oblivion, Diablo
15. Borderlands GOTY Edition spotted
16. Guild Wars 2 has no healers or tanks
17. iPad owners less likely to buy consoles
18. Racquet Sports gets Move support
19. Tsunoda: Kinect goes way past rumble
20. Dead Rising 2 CE has bloody figurine
21. PS3 getting 3D PlayTV and photo content
22. "Young Japan is losing," says Kojima
23. 38 Studios' first game at Comic-Con
24. Full-strength FIFA returns to PC platform
25. Blacklight: Tango Down
July 8, 2010
1. Dragon Age 2 dated
2. SEGA dates Vanquish for Europe
3. Disciples III demo out now
4. Red Dead DLC announced
5. Ubi: Transition to next-gen in 2-3 years
6. Disney converting Split/Second to PSP
7. First Dragon Age 2 details hit
8. Monkey Island 2 leads PSN Store update
9. Phase two of StarCraft II beta imminent
10. "Many apologies" for MotoGP bug
11. No Assassin's Creed in 2011 - Ubisoft
12. FreeStyle happier with DJ Hero 2 price
13. Def Jam Rapstar
14. Dev time, co-op shaped Crackdown 2
15. Robot's Spartan game revealed
16. Ubisoft's Michael Jackson game detailed
17. Metroid: Other M dated
18. Activision: Blur was not a failure
19. Blizzard "listening to feedback" on Real ID
20. WSJ: Sony developing ambitious handheld
21. MS insists you can sit with Kinect
22. Videogames linked to ADHD
23. Hirai: PS3 was built with Move in mind
24. BioWare confirms Dragon Age 2
July 7, 2010
1. Moonbase Alpha
2. BioWare takes WAR servers from GOA
3. Crackdown 2
4. Brink
5. Driver: San Francisco dated for the UK
6. You spend $1.2bn annually on Xbox Live
7. R.U.S.E. PS Move support confirmed
8. Carpenter: "I don't buy Ebert's argument"
9. XBL Summer of Arcade dated
10. Sony working on "future platforms"
11. Castlevania: HOD gets release date
12. MS reveals XBLA interface overhaul
13. EA puts final date on FIFA 11
14. New Lara Croft coming next month
15. Mass Effect 2 DLC released
16. Blizzard forums to require real names
17. EEDAR: reviews influence gamers' opinions
18. Development on Z.O.E. 3 pushed back
19. Nintendo wants Miis on more than just Wii
July 6, 2010
1. Sniper Ghost Warrior
2. Monkey Island 2 on iPhone/iPad tomorrow
3. Driver Collector's Ed has yellow toy car
4. MW2 Resurgence Pack out now on PC
5. Alpha Protocol will only live once
6. "The controller is just a means" - Cage
7. Eurogamer.net Podcast #25
8. MGS 3DS "just testing the grounds"
9. BlackLight: Tango Down out tomorrow
10. Will Sony bring new PS3s to Europe?
11. Street Fighter dev hypes new game
12. "I was born to make DeathSpank!"
13. Ron Gilbert doesn't like 3D glasses
14. Rayman Origins for 3DS and Wii?
15. N64 videos simulate 3DS screen
16. Play.com's Nov 3DS date an "estimate"
17. Alan Wake has a US sales nightmare
18. Jaffe explains Twisted Metal decisions
19. Blizzard opens writing competition
20. Crackdown 2 premium DLC outed
21. Valve updating TF2 Engineer
22. White PS3 Slim out in Japan this month
23. PS Move Japanese launch line-up
24. Senko no Ronde DUO: Dis-United Order
July 5, 2010
1. Kane & Lynch 2 targets 60FPS
2. The 3rd Birthday confirmed for Europe
3. Kotick: 60% of XBL subs exist for COD
4. GT5 Ultimate Edition costs €190 - Amazon
5. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
6. Fable III demo in Brighton next week
7. LEGO Potter tops UK chart again
8. 64% prefer game discs to download
9. One RDR murder every six minutes
10. Patapon 3 demo out this week
11. Rock Band designer quits Harmonix
12. Interplay teases Fallout Online
13. Nintendo plans "serious" 3DS games
14. Skate 3 Hawaiian Dream DLC tomorrow
15. Ruffian planning "disruptive" openworld
16. R-Type confirmed for iPhone
July 4, 2010
1. Defending APB
2. RTW needs partner to do console APB
July 3, 2010
1. Sony "keen to look into" ICO/Shadow HD
July 2, 2010
1. Dark Glasses
2. Realtime's Dave Jones defends APB
3. Quantic Dream working on next-gen now
4. Japanese turned off by 3D glasses
5. Fable III
6. Online Wii and DSi shops refreshed
7. Tournament of Legends
8. Game prices unaffected by VAT rise
9. Perfect Dark has Crackdown 2 treat
10. Download Games Roundup
11. EA reveals FIFA Manager 11
12. Ed Boon talks Mortal Kombat in 3D
13. Warhawk dev to reveal new game "soon"
14. Big three respond to May US sales
15. Mark Rein: "We're still a PC company"
16. Sony: "Home has been a huge success"
17. NFS World open beta this weekend
18. Xbox 360 MMO tops Japanese charts
19. Mythic becomes BioWare Mythic
20. 343 ramping up Halo game recruitment
21. Red Dead romps May US sales
July 1, 2010
1. Eye of Judgement online play terminated
2. Cage: Heavy Rain DLC will never be made
3. Milo & Kate tech isn't in Kinectimals
4. BioShock 2 single-player DLC announced
5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
6. Metroid: Other M UK date narrowed
7. Ebert: "I was a fool for mentioning games"
8. Square Enix announces Lord of Arcana
9. Need for Speed: SHIFT 2 in the works?
10. Kinect will have "negligible impact"
11. Miyamoto: world beats story in games
12. Bleszinski: Gamers wary of trilogies
13. Sony defends 3D glasses
14. BioShock film bill "extraordinarily high"
15. Farmville, WOW named in divorce suit
16. Retailer admits to 3DS date/price guess
17. Miyamoto: new characters next year?
18. THQ talked to West and Zampella
19. Medal of Honor 360 beta "coming soon"
20. LA Noire rumoured for spring 2011
21. Second AVP map pack next week
22. International Cricket 2010
23. WOW Cataclysm closed beta begins