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 The Malaysian Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs’ (MDTCA) raided an illegal pirate game duplication lab in the southern Malaysian city of Johor Bahru earlier this week, resulting in the arrest of seven individuals and confiscation of thousands of pirated computer and video games.
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| Splash Damage, known for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, plans to double the size of its London-based studio, and is currently seeking to fill key positions for its next project – an unannounced multiplatform title - with vacancies in core roles such as art, programming, and design.
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| While the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences inducts Mike Morhaime into the Hall of Fame and bestows Lifetime Achievement Award upon Ken Kutaragi, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, BioShock and The Orange Box each picked up four statues during the awards ceremony.
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| Valve today announced that its digital delivery platform Steam has surpassed 15 million accounts and realized year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday season.
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| During a D.I.C.E. Summit panel discussion, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime revealed a list of titles that got canceled over the past few years, showing they are not afraid to axe titles when they aren't working out. While the most recent Starcraft Ghost is not on the list (maybe it's been revived?) Blizzard mentioned titles like Warcraft Adventures, some fantasy title called Raiko, Nomad featuring two giant zeppelin airships, Games People Play, Crixa, Shattered Nations, Pax Imperia and Denizen (thanks Firingsquad).
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| Activision's conf. call revealed quite a few new titles in the works, most scheduled for fiscal 2009 (anywhere from April 2008 - March 2009). New titles in franchises such as: Spider-Man, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Call of Duty, a makeover for the Tony Hawk franchise, the eagerly awaited James Bond (using an updated Call of Duty 4 engine) and titles based on Dreamworks movies Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar II. Giving credence to yesterday's Guitar Hero IV rumor, Activision confirmed two new Guitar Hero titles are in development, but declined to give details.
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| Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. During a studio visit Vanity Fair witnessed Darth Vader being playable in a prologue mission to the Wookiee home planet Kashyyyk, to hunt down a recalcitrant Jedi.
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| Late January at the Marché international de l'édition musicale trade fair, Activision selected 20 tracks, out of 200 submissions, to be featured on Guitar Hero IV. Music label Albert Productions' UK boss James Cassidy was so excited he issued a press release spilling the beans that British band The Answer's 'Never Too Late' was selected as one of the titles for the next Guitar Hero installment, "This is a tremendous honour and privilege for both The Answer and the Alberts label. With a new album due later this year we look forward to taking the band to a whole new level of international success."
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| Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an online action RPG, mixing a story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game bringing forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan. Over 500,000 gamers from all over the world are now part of the AoC community by either signing up for the beta or joining the ‘Clan of Conan’ official fan club.
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| According to an article in the Gainesville Sun, Florida-based developer Artificial Studios, known for Monster Madness and the free AGEIA PhysX-based FPS CellFactor, has merged with UK-based Ignition Entertainment. Prior to the merger, Artificial Studios was already working on an action game for next-generation systems (thanks Firingsquad). Southpeak Interactive's PS3 version of Monster Madness is under development at Psyonix Studios.
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NCsoft is bringing back one of the most popular in-game events that City of Heroes and City of Villains has ever seen: The Double XP Weekend. For an entire weekend (Feb. 8 to Feb. 10), Hero and Villain characters will receive double the XP, Prestige, Influence, and Infamy when they take on adventures and battle crime or cause mayhem.
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| THQ announced results for fiscal Q3 2008, with net sales of $509.6 million, compared to last year's $475.7 million, driven by Cars: Mater-National, MX vs. ATV Untamed and SmackDown vs. Raw 2008. In the subsequent investors conference call, THQ CEO Brian Farrell revealed that Red Faction III is being developed by Volition for PS3, X360 and PC. Scheduled for fiscal 2009 (Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2009), RF3 will focus on interactive environments and destruction. First details on THQ's UFC-licensed title are expected during a pay-per-view event on Memorial Day weekend.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is an Online Action RPG, mixing a deep, story-driven single-player experience and a massive and brutal multiplayer end-game brings forth the ultimate representation of the Age of Conan. Having received its rating, the North American version will not have nipples, while the German edition has full gore, but will not have decapitation, dismemberment, and over-the-top type fatalities. Everywhere else in Europe the game is un-censored.
UPDATE: Debunking her own previous statement, Funcom community manager Shannon Drake now claims the North American edition will not be censored, nipples included.
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| Rock Band allows you to perform famous rock music with your friends as a virtual band using drum, bass/lead guitar and vocals, as well as online. On Feb. 5, 2008, players can download 3 new tracks, which include "Roam" by the B-52s, "We Care a Lot" by Faith No More and "Calling Dr. Love" by KISS, at 160 Microsoft points ($1.99) each. They're expected on PSN later this week.
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| While we're all waiting for a new installment in the Max Payne franchise, we might have to settle for a movie first. Starring Mark Wahlberg (known for The Departed, Planet of the Apes or The Perfect Storm) and directed by John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines, Flight of the Phoenix) shooting will commence on March 2 in Toronto. Max Payne tells the story of a cop who wages a one-man war on crime when his wife and child are killed by thugs, but it is unclear whether the movie will follow the game plot.
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| What would a Bully movie be about? Or a flick based on the controversial Manhunt series? We might never know. According to Variety's gaming blog, Take Two has been declining Hollywood offers for a Grand Theft Auto movie deal for many years, until it nearly materialized last year, with Eminem rumored as the protagonist. Just when everybody though the deal was sealed, something derailed, and the project with one of the major movie studios was scrapped.
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| NVIDIA announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AGEIA Technologies. More details will be revealed during NVIDIA's quarterly results next week Wednesday.
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| American McGee, known for American McGee's Alice, revealed that, apart from working on the "Grimm" project, his China-based Spicy Horse studio has just started working on a second project. While details were not provided, it was revealed that it will be powered by Epic's Unreal Engine 3 and be a "multi-platform, twisted tale project." An update on "Grimm" indicates the title is at the halfway point, with 12 of 24 episodes finished.
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| Looks like Bill Gates might want to go out with a bang as Microsoft announced that it has offered to acquire Yahoo for $31 per share, 62 % above the current trading price on Wall Street, making for a total of $44.6 billion in cash and stock.
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| Sony has rolled out new PlayStation Store content, starting with two new Folklore add-on packs ($3.99 each/$5.99 bundle), Nightmares and Visions of the Tower, both offering 4 side quests, new folk and new costumes. Rock Band is getting three new songs (Siva / Smashing Pumpkins, Working Man / Rush, and Ten Speed (of God’s Blood…) / Coheed and Cambria, for $1.99 each. Eidos' Conflict: Denied Ops demo is now also available, as well as various game/movie trailers, PS3 themes and wallpapers.
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| Based on simulations using Madden NFL 08, EA Sports revealed their prediction for the outcome of the Super Bowl XLII game, the New England Patriots were victorious over the New York Giants by a narrow margin of eight points with a final score of 38-30.
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| EA announced preliminary financial results for its fiscal Q3 revealing net revenue was up 17% ($1.5 billion compared to $1.3 billion for 2006) driven by FIFA 08, Madden 08, NBA Live 08, Need for Speed Pro Street, Rock Band (1.5 million sold), The Simpsons Game and The Sims 2 Castaway. EA expects Battlefield: Bad Company and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames to ship in fiscal 2009 (Apr. 1, 2008 - Mar. 31, 2009), confirming the latter's previously revealed delay.
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| Take on the challenge of leading one of over 50 European national teams and play as your favorite country from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the European Soccer Championship tournament with UEFA EURO 2008.
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| Infogrames announces that during its meeting on Jan. 30, 2008, the Board accepted the resignation of its Chairman and CEO Patrick Leleu, who will be replaced by former EA executive David Gardner, effective immediately.
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| Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will bring Games Workshop's fantasy world to life in a way that will allow players to create characters destined for great deeds and glory on the field of battle. EA has signed an agreement with GigaMedia to launch and operate Warhammer Online in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
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| Kuju America, led by Eidos veteran John Kavanagh, is the newest addition to Kuju’s existing 5 game development studios and the first to be located outside of the UK. It's first project already in development, Kuju America will initially focus on the rapidly growing casual games sector.
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| Valve, known for Half-Life, Counter-Strike and its digital delivery system Steam, announces that Steamworks, a complete suite of publishing and development tools - ranging from copy protection to social networking services to server browsing - is now available free of charge to developers and publishers worldwide.
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| Chair Entertainment and bestselling author Orson Scott Card announced their partnership to create the first-ever video games inspired by the legendary "Battle Room," featured in the popular science fiction novel, Ender's Game.
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| Futuremark, known for its 3DMark benchmarking software, announces the formation of the Futuremark Games Studio. With its first project already in development, Futuremark is committed to developing original IP games with the highest quality game play combined with blow-your-socks-off visuals.
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| Featuring all new authentic tricks, FIFA Street 3 provides new gameplay experiences by making over-the-top moves and skills even bigger in this fast-paced sequel, now on the next-gen platforms. Producer Justin Sheffield tell us more about motion capturing the moves
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Trainz Railway Simulator 2006, the most realistic Train Sim ever to grace PC.
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