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I’m sitting at the back of Konami’s E3 booth, getting my first demo of Def Jam Rapstar. There’s me and two geezers from developer 4mm Games. Best way to show the game? Get on the mic and give it a go. So geezer-man asks me what I want to hear.

There’s an impressive set to choose from but I got for Wu-Tang’s era-defining anthem “C.R.E.A.M.” (appropriate for the amount of money spunked at E3 this year). We’re half-way through when the door of the private room opens and in strolls Method Man, giving a pound, spitting a couple of … Continue Reading

Plot thickens.

Play.com’s November 2010 release date for Dragon Ball (3DS), which had suggested the 3DS handheld would be out this year, is “estimated”, the online retailer has told Eurogamer.

According to Play.com, Dragon Ball (3DS) is due out on 19th November 2010 in the UK, which suggests the 3DS console will be released on or before that date.

However, Play.com told Eurogamer the online retailer has only “heard that’s the estimated release date”.

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Enter short story, win visit to HQ.

Blizzard is inviting short story submissions for its 2010 Global Writing Contest.

Stories should be 2500 to 7500 words long, written in English, and set in the Warcraft, StarCraft or Diablo universe. You have until 23rd August to submit your entries.

The grand prize winner will win a trip to the developer’s headquarters in Irvine, southern California to meet the Blizzard writing staff, as well as a rare collectable (either a Diablo III diorama or a Warcraft Frostmourne replica sword).

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“To us the vehicles are the characters.”

Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe has explained the decision not to include unique driver and gunner models in the upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive vehicle smash-em-up.

“We originally wanted drivers and gunners to make the car combat feel more realistic. It became clear very early that since Team MP is key AND since we had so many other things to do, that building 32 characters was probably not the best way to spend resources,” Jaffe said via his Twitter account.

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Public screening of Total War sequel.

A public demo of strategy sequel Shogun 2 will be the highlight of a Total War session at Edinburgh Interactive 2010.

The free screening takes place on Thursday 26th August at the Filmhouse cinema. Mike Simpson of developer The Creative Assembly will take the audience through the history and evolution of the much-loved historical strategy series, which is ten years old this year, before showing its next entry.

Tickets will be available soon from the the Edinburgh Interactive website.

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Rubbish Activision game put him off for ages.

Skateboarding and snowboarding man Shaun White has been talking about how much he hated his first appearance in a videogame.

Speaking to Official Xbox Magazine at E3, White said that appearing in Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder on PS2 was a crushing experience.

“It was the worst experience of my life, ’cause I was so excited, I’m like 13, they’re like you’re going to be in a video game. You start freaking out, you’re getting excited. Then the game came out and I’m like, ‘I don’t look anything like that!’ It was ridiculous,” he said.

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Avatar awards point to two packs.

Crackdown 2 looks set to receive a couple of premium downloadable content packs called Toy Box and Deluge.

That’s according to, well, Crackdown 2, whose Avatar awards screen currently features four unlocks associated with the DLC.

The description for one locked goodie reads “(Toy Box Add-on only) Complete ‘Fly Swat’,” presumably referring to an Achievement, while the adjacent one says “(Toy Box Add-on only) Thank you for buying!”

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Final class overhaul on Thursday.

Valve is finally updating the Engineer, the last character class in its multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 to get an overhaul.

According to the Team Fortress 2 blog, the update will go live this Thursday, 8th July.

The official Engineer update page (via Ripten) currently features a lot of teaser artwork and details of the first new weapon for Engineers: the Frontier Justice.

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Split/Second, Blur, POP fail to perform.

Number crunching firm NPD has revealed that Alan Wake sold just 145,000 units during the month of May in the US.

The heavily marketed Xbox 360 exclusive finished eighth overall on the software chart. The game had been on sale for exactly two weeks when the numbers were collected.

Split/Second: Velocity was released on the same day but missed out on a top 10 finish. Black Rock and Disney’s racer notched just 86,000 sales during the two-week period.

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