Electronic Arts released the demo version for 2006 FIFA World Cup today, giving football fans a chance to get some training done before the game comes out later this month. Only four national teams have been made available for us to pit against each other, in the first half of a single player match: England, Germany, Mexico and USA. (...)

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Nintendo Revolution To Launch With Around 20 Titles

So far, Nintendo has been boasting that the power of their new Revolution console will be found in innovation and the whole lot of original games it will bring us, and now all of a sudden this "whole lot" suddenly shrinks to around 20 titles. Not that many, I'd say, and from these only a third (six or seven) will be first-party games (...)

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Halo MMO, GTA For Xbox 360, And FF7 For PS3 Rumours

Not only did GameInformer get their hands on the first details about Red Steel (Ubisoft's flagship FPS for Nintendo Revolution), but they're also promoting some rather dubious rumours. The first one claims the existence of a MMO game placed in the Halo universe (...)

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Crysis A PC Exclusive, No Next-Gen Console Version

Who would've thought that during a time when most headlines are firmly held by "next-gen" stories, some developer would actually have the nerve of making a game as visually impressive as Crysis exclusively for the PC, especially since its publisher Electronic Arts (...)

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As if it weren't enough that most of the films based on successful video games have so far been astounding failures, soon enough we might come across a movie based on a game which was anything but "successful": Cold Fear, the mostly-mediocre survival horror adventure released last year by Ubisoft. (...)

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The GameInformer magazine prides itself with the unveiling of the first Nintendo Revolution game developed by Ubisoft: Red Steel, an "incredibly violent" FPS that promises to combine shooting and swordplay elements, thanks to Nintendo's innovative new controller. (...)

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Heroes of Might and Magic V Screenshots, Demo Soon

At last, this week we should be blessed with the release of single-player demo for Nival's Heroes of Might and Magic V TBS, which is said to include three maps, in exchange for 680 MB: the last map from the Haven campaign, the first map from the Hell campaign, as well as a skirmish map (...)

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With only a month left until the opening of the E3 2006 show in Los Angeles (9-12 May), the first company to reveal its line-up finally spills the beans. The Korean MMO masters from NCsoft have announced that they'll be showcasing six games at the expo: Tabula Rasa (the sci-fi MMO [re]developed by Richard Garriott's team (...)

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This week's release of the new Tomb Raider: Legend couldn't have passed without incidents; and it didn't. An overzealous (or simply horny) guy managed to extract some intriguing textures from the game's code, depicting a barenaked nipple - which, even though was not being shown in the actual game, (...)

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What started out as one of, if not the best horror MOD ever made, is steadily turning into a full-fledged horror shooter, based on Valve's Source engine. They Hunger: Lost Souls has just entered the Alpha stage a few days ago, which means that "all level development is finished and refined", (...)

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