Ok, so our previous story about the supposed Nintendo Wii launch date was a bit of a stretch, but at least this time around there's no drunken official involved. Well, not that we know of anyway. The latest news on the matter claims that November 6th is, in fact, the day that Nintendo will release their upcoming console in the US. (...)

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PlayStation 3 Official Website, Specs, Game Prices And Stuff

The official PlayStation 3 website has finally been launched for European and Australian territories, revealing general technical specifications for the two models (20GB and 60GB), both of which will apparently be released in the UK. Which is kind of odd, given the comments made by SCEE UK chief Ray Maguire back in May, when he said (...)

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New Ubisoft Bulgaria Studio Doing PC Rayman Raving Rabbids

Ubisoft just keeps getting bigger and bigger! Their first studio established outside of France in 1992 was the Romanian studio from Bucharest (where Silent Hunter III, King Kong (PC) and Blazing Angels were developed, among others), and now a team from this studio has moved on to set up a new studio in Sofia, Bulgaria. (...)

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More than a year after parting ways with publisher Bad Brain (the same guys who won't be bringing us Sam & Max 2 after all), the Autumn Moon Entertainment team has finally inked a deal with a new publisher, to produce their debut Adventure game - A Vampyre Story. That is, a relative "debut" for their new studio, (...)

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Bugbear's original FlatOut was just one feature short of becoming one of 2004's (few) outstanding racing games - and that missing feature was online multiplayer. But fear not: no longer shall we emulate online LAN races, for FlatOut 2 is here! Once again published by Empire Interactive, the sequel crashed into UK stores (...)

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Aaron Lockard from Eternal Gaming sends word about a teasing update being posted on the Electronic Arts forums, with a tiny detail about their upcoming Need for Speed: Carbon arcade racer. As part of an interview with executive producer Larry LaPierre, which is supposed to be published next week, it's been revealed that (...)

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Funcom's barbaric MMORPG seems to be coming along according to plan. As previously hinted, the beginning of summer also marks the beginning of the first phase of beta testing, which Funcom is currently conducting with the help of a small team of people from their internal Quality Assurance department, as well as (...)

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