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Michael Jordan in da house.

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We’ll play it the same time you do.

There will be no reviews of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty before its launch on Tuesday next week, Eurogamer can reveal. All press will be experiencing it for the first time alongside the rest of you.

Blizzard was unable to offer an official comment at time of writing. However, we understand from our conversations with the developer-publisher that the new Battle.net service and its online features are so integral to the game that it would be both impractical and undesirable for press to review it before servers go live.

That, and designer Dustin Browder has … Continue Reading

Called The Jordan Challenge.

Upcoming basketball game NBA 2K11 has a mode devoted entirely to the most famous basketball player of them all: Michael Jordan.

It’s called The Jordan Challenge, and allows players to relive 10 different legendary games from Jordan’s career and challenges them to replicate what he did on the court.

Eurogamer has received unconfirmed reports that that bit at the end of Space Jam is one of said legendary games.

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Player Performance Index to be used.

The distance real life footballers jump and the speed they hit shots will be incorporated into future versions of EA’s monster football game series FIFA under a new partnership with the Premier League.

EA Sports will sponsor the Premier League Player Performance Index, which will include new performance data such as time and distance measurements.

It’ll track shot speed, the force of a ball as a keeper makes a key save, the height of a jump, the speed at which a penalty is struck and more, we’re told.

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Bird of a feather?

Ubisoft tells us to meet at Hammersmith tube station, but once we do we’re taken around the corner to a car park and a waiting Land Rover. There a slightly embarrassed man dressed as a ‘Future Soldier’ ™ stands shiftily, plastic rifle in hand.

Soon we’re rushing off to a ‘secret location’ outside London. It turns out to be a fully functioning airport somewhere past Slough.

Which is all very well, but it does mean that all of my recordings suffer from the echo and bounce of being taped in an aircraft hangar, and are occasionally obliterated completely … Continue Reading

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As well as new Move mini-games.

3D support has been extended to the entire Blu-ray Sly Collection, not just Sly 3, Sony’s Jefferson Dong has revealed.

What’s more, developer Sanzaru Games has added PlayStation Move mini-games to each title. We’ll hear more about those “soon”, said Dong on the US PlayStation blog.

Included in the Sly Collection are Blu-ray remasters of Sly Cooper and Thievius Raccoonus, Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves. Each of those originally PS2 games now has HD graphics and Trophies.

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Try before you buy.

A demo for upcoming gangster fest Mafia II will be available from 10th August, an advert in videogame trade magazine MCV has revealed.

The demo will be available on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. We’re trying to find out what’ll be in it.

The game’s out 17 days later, on the 27th.

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Microsoft “missed the boat”, says CHIPS.

Don McCabe, the outspoken manager of UK independent retailer CHIPS, firmly believes that Kinect won’t boost hardware sales for Microsoft.

“In some ways Microsoft has missed the boat,” he told GamesIndustry.biz. “Over the last two years the casual market has been declining rapidly.”

“I don’t think it’s going to add any new hardware sales. I spotted in their last response to a survey, they said it would lift hardware sales by 5 to 15 percent.

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As Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest top chart.

Nintendo’s DSi LL was the best selling game console this week in Japan, having shifted 28,916 units.

Combined, DS sales were 51,264 (DSi LL 28,916, DSi 17,356, DS Lite 4992) and miles ahead of everything else, according to Media Create data.

A joint PSP and PSPgo total of 25,467 (PSP 24,421, PSPgo 1046) sales was just enough to edge past Wii – with 24,604 sales – to second.

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