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FC Barcelona Further Strengthens its Partnership with Empire of Sports

  Legendary football club, FC Barcelona today opens its 'VIP Room' inside the virtual world of Empire of Sports. More..

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Galaxy Online: PvP Battlefield in Development

  This summer, the Galaxy Online team will launch a PvP Battlefield. More..

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Myth War II Online: Title System- racial titles

  In Myth War II Online, the innovative title system is more than just words next to a character’s name. More..

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Angels Online: Pet Power!

  In many MMORPGs, pets can be fun and useful to their masters, but in Angels Online, pets are practically indispensible. More..

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Nintendo Buys TV Quiz Show

Nintendo has reportedly spent £2 million to bankroll a primetime quiz show on UK TV channel Five.

Britain’s Best Brain will see contestants compete in memory, co-ordination, numeracy, recognition and risk tasks.

The platform holder will use the show to promote DS titles, with exclusive sponsorship credits around eight one hour long episodes, reports MCV.

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IGDA Names New Executive Director

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has appointed Joshua Caulfield as it new executive director.

Described as an avid gamer who has held a number of senior positions in business management and marketing, Caulfield was most recently executive vice president of the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association.

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Midway Sale Approved By Court

Warner’s bid to purchase Midway has officially been cleared following a court hearing.

The majority of Midway’s US assets will now be transferred to Warner within the next ten days.

"We had a court hearing yesterday and the end result of that is the sale was approved and the closing will occur within the next ten days," a Midway representative told Joystiq.

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Xbox Live Patent Infringement Trial Underway

Microsoft is currently defending itself in an Xbox Live patent infringement case.

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Review: Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Format: PSP
Release: Out now
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: In-house

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Sony: UMD-Free PSP Was Always Planned

Naoya Matsui, the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment"s product planning division, has revealed that the platform holder always planned to release a UMD-free PSP once the digital distribution market had matured.

"We"d planned to release a PSP model without a UMD drive since the very beginning," Matsui told GameBusiness.jp (via Develop).

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Interview: What Makes FIFA Tick? Part 2

  
This is the second part of our interview with Gary Paterson, the creative director of FIFA 10, in which he continues to explain exactly how the football game works, how FIFA finally made its way into the premier league and the technology he"d like the next generation of football games to feature.

Read the first part of our conversation right here

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NBA 2K9 Sales Reach Two Million

Worldwide sales of 2k Sports’ NBA 2K9 have passed the two million mark.

The Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 and PC basketball sim released last October.

As it celebrates a decade of the franchise this year, the company also confirmed plans to release NBA 2K10: Anniversary Edition for Xbox 360 and PS3 this autumn. The limited edition title will feature exclusive items and a DVD looking back on ten years of the series. Each of the 30,000 copies released will be individually numbered.

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Xbox Live Ads Will “Enhance, Not Interfere” With Gaming Experience

Microsoft has moved to assure Xbox Live users that plans to brings adverts to Xbox Live won’t interfere with their gaming experience.

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Sales Down 9.1 Per Cent At Game

Sales for the 21 weeks to June 27 were down by 9.1 per cent at retailer Game, but in line with company expectations.

Like for like (lfl) sales for the same period were down by 15.4 per cent.

In the UK and Ireland, total sales were down by 12.4 per cent and lfl sales were down by 15.8 per cent. In the company’s international business, total sales were down by 1.1 per cent and lfl sales down by 14.4 per cent.

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UK Console Installed Base Hits 24.2 Million

The current generation UK console installed base has hit 24.2 million units, according to GfK Chart-Track data released by retailer Game.

As of June 27, 2009, DS sales were approaching ten million units. In comparison, PSP sales sat at 3.3 million units.

Wii comfortably led the way on the home console front with 5.4 million sales. Xbox 360 sales totaled 3.9 million units and PS3 sales 2.2 million.

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No More Heroes Will “Need A New Platform”

Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goichi Suda says the company will need to look beyond Wii if it is to evolve No More Heroes into a major franchise.

Although Wii commands a greater install base than its rivals, thirdparty games aimed at the core market continue to struggle on the platform, and Suda has aspirations for the franchise he says can’t be satisfied on Nintendo’s console.

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Playfish Games Top 100 Million Installs

In the first 18 months since social game creator Playfish launched, users have installed its games over 100 million times.

Playfish’s seven titles, which include Pet Society, Geo Challenge and Bowling Buddies, are designed for friends to play together over social and mobile platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Google, Bebo, iPhone and Android.

The company says that its games currently have more than 30 million active monthly players, with top title Pet Society played by 12 million people each month.

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THQ Files Suit Against Jakks Over WWE License

Toy maker Jakks Pacific has clashed with publisher THQ over the pair’s joint venture World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) license.

Jakks said in a statement that it had notified WWE of its intention to renew the license, which would otherwise expire on December 31, 2009, for an additional five year term.

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European Net Yaroze Server Closing

Sony is to shut the European Net Yaroze server this month.

Launched in March 1997, the Net Yaroze initiative – a £550 piece of tweaked PlayStation 1 hardware along with dev tools and the means to hook it up to PCs/Macs, together with an online support network – was a vital tool in the birth of the careers of many console programmers.

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Interview: What Makes FIFA Tick? Part 1

  
The FIFA series has long been a commercial darling, and that didn’t much change with Electronic Arts Canada’s FIFA 09 – the most recent instalment and the fastest-selling entry to date. But it was arguably the first modern FIFA to escape the long shadow of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer, and achieve the critical success to complement its chart position.

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Pixel Poster Now Available For New Subscribers

If you coveted the pixel poster we previously only made available to existing subscribers, now"s your chance to get one.

Subscribe now to Edge and receive a copy of the pixel poster we created with illustrator Gary Lucken. To take advantage of the offer, here are the details:

UK and Europe
www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/edg/P138

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Playlogic Launches Digital Distribution Portal

Dutch publisher Playlogic Entertainment has launched a new digital distribution platform titled Gamessence.com.

Launched in conjunction with Metaboli, the site currently features more than 40 titles including Obscure II, Aggression: Reign over Europe and Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales. It will grow to offer hundreds of games from Playlogic and other third party publishers in the coming months.

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Coming Soon: Edge 204

Presenting E204, which contains Edge’s review of E3 2009 and the technology that will define the next generation of games, due in UK shops on July 3.

Subscribers are receiving their copies right now, featuring a spectacular alternative cover of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. We visited Tokyo-based Grasshopper Manufacture to talk with Suda 51 about his plan for Travis Touchdown’s return and the game’s future on Wii.

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Dave Perry Shows Off Gaikai Tech

Dave Perry has shown off his new Gaikai cloud gaming service in video form for the first time publicly.

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Cellphone Offer Guide - Ringtones

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