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Analyst reckons so.

The scandal surrounding golfer Tiger Woods’ personal life might have hurt sales of his golf game, an analyst has said.

According to sales data, first month sales of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 plummeted 68 per cent compared to the launch of last year’s game. The Wii version saw an 86 per cent decline.

Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz told Gamasutra that sales of the Wii version were “particularly catastrophic.”

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Blossoming this September, says PopCap.

PopCap’s trumpeted the “early September” arrival of Plants vs. Zombies on Xbox Live Arcade.

The superb puzzle game will cost 1200 Microsoft Points (£10.20/€14.40). And there will be plenty of extras, such as co-op and versus multiplayer, 12 Achievements and 21 mini-games.

Plus, PVZ on XBLA has “the highest resolution of any adaptation” so far. In other words, full 1080p support.

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Transmedia deal “blazing trails”, says THQ.

THQ and American television network Syfy have announced that a two hour Red Faction live action movie pilot will air in March 2011.

Dubbed Red Faction: Origins, this follows Alec Mason’s son Jake as he tries to find his kidnapped sister and avenge the death of his murdered mother.

Events take place 25 years after Red Faction: Guerrilla and before the sequel, Red Faction: Armageddon.

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Life in black and white.

Limbo, the moody, monochromatic game that kicks off Xbox Live Arcade’s Summer of Arcade this Wednesday, looks gorgeous. Any screenshot will tell you that, and playing the game drives it home. The developers, Playdead, execute their aesthetic – like a gloomy Eastern European animated short seen through misted glass – with beauty and consistency. The game’s real success, however, is in refusing to be satisfied with looks alone.

Creativity thrives in limitations, and Limbo is rigorous in its self-imposed limits. It has no colour, no dialogue, minimal music, no cut-scenes, no on-screen health meters or other clutter. … Continue Reading

Japanese collaborator spills the beans.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is working on an adventure game, says collaborator Chiyomaru Shikura – boss of Japanese media company 5pb.

He told 4Gamer (via Kotaku) that Kojima’s new game will be the third entry in “a conceptual science series”. Which series could he mean?

“The meaning of why I am personally connected to this project is that this is the third entry in a conceptual science series,” said Shikura. “And that it is a project with Kojima.”

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“It’s not a mission pack,” either.

Upcoming stab-em-up Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is not Assassin’s “2.5″, Ubisoft has insisted.

Brotherhood, due out on the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November, comes only a year after Assassin’s Creed II, which we liked very much indeed.

As a result some fans of the successful open world action series are sceptical about the game, which includes multiplayer for the first time.

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Bodycount executive producer already gone.

Stuart Black, the outspoken creator of cult first-person shooter Black, will leave British publisher Codemasters in October, Eurogamer can exclusively reveal.

Black is the creative director of FPS Bodycount, due out for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the first quarter of 2011.

The game’s executive producer Tom Gillo has already left, but has been replaced with a project development director.

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To be shown at the Eurogamer Expo.

The submissions process for the Indie Games Arcade is now open.

The Arcade, supported by digital distribution service Get Games, will run at the third annual Eurogamer Expo, which, I’ve been told to tell you by a man with a gun pointed at my head, is due to take place from 1st to 3rd October this year.

Last year more than 10,000 visitors saw the public reveal of Hello Games’ Joe Danger, and a special build of Terry Cavanagh’s VVVVVV.

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