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News: Teach Rio Ferdinand how to play Halo

And other celebs.

Microsoft’s launched a competition to find the best Halo: Reach gamers in Britain, one of which will lead five celebs as part of the Elite Spartan Squad.

Halo: Reach matches will be played throughout August to find six Halo players who will form their own team.

Another player will join the Elite Spartan Squad and school the celebs.


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News: EVE fix-squad has "carte blanche" – CCP

Thousand-strong battles are top priority.

CCP has given a “specialised” EVE Online dev-squad “carte blanche” to tackle in-game lag issues that have the community up in arms.

“CCP has invested significant time and resources throughout EVE’s history on increasing the performance of fleet fights. We’ve always had a team of developers devoted to improving our technology and in recent years we made exponential headway through massive server upgrades and initiatives like ‘Stackless IO’,” the developer told CVG.

“Currently, unsurprisingly, this effort is our number-one development priority and we have given the specialised team carte blanche in re-attaining 1000 player fleet battles that EVE … Continue Reading

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News: Lost Planet 2 "substantially underperformed" – Capcom

Monster Hunter Tri sales “sluggish”.

Capcom has revealed that Lost Planet 2 “underperformed its projection substantially”, Monster Hunter Tri “grew at a sluggish pace” and Ghost Trick “struggled”.

The comments come from a miserable financial report for the three month period ended 30th June. In it, Capcom’s net income plummeted by 90.4 per cent to just 213 million yen compared to the same period last year.

Lost Planet 2 sold 1.5 million units globally during those three months, while Super Street Fighter IV sold 1.35 million units (“steady growth”) and Monster Hunter Tri sold 690,00 units.


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Video: First glimpse of Shogun 2: TW gameplay

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News: R4 cart ban: More details emerge

What, exactly, is illegal?

More details have emerged from the High Court ruling that R4 cartridges have been banned in the UK.

Eurogamer has obtained a copy of the High Court of Justice Chancery Division’s judgement in favour of Nintendo against defendants Playables Limited and owner Mr Wai Dat Chan.

The case concerned “a number of different types of devices imported and dealt in” by Playables.


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Video: Halo: Reach campaign trailer unleashed

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News: PC crowd "more open" to weird games

Than 360 owners, says Zeno Clash dev.

Zeno Clash developer ACE Team believes PC owners are “more open” to weird game concepts.

Speaking to Eurogamer, co-founder Carlos Bordeu said that may have been the reason Zeno Clash struggled on Xbox Live Arcade.

“I don’t know whether it was because most people had already played Zeno Clash on PC, or that the console game launched a year later, but we definitely had much stronger sales on PC than on Xbox 360,” Bordeu revealed. “It hasn’t sold nearly as well.”


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News: Jagex has third MMO in development

Besides RuneScape, besides Stellar Dawn.

Mark Gerhard has told Eurogamer that Jagex has a third, fantasy MMO in addition to RuneScape and Stellar Dawn.

“We do, we totally do. We’re working on it as we speak,” he said in an interview published today.

“A lot of what we’ve done to push the boundary for Stellar Dawn will benefit RuneScape and another MMO we’re working on. We’ve got the advantage in that we share the same MMO tech platform. From there it’s really down to the studios to decide how its used.”


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