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E3 2011 preview: The hottest games to watch out for
FEATURE The top titles and kit to debut next week 3 June 2011 16:18 GMT TweetThe year’s biggest gaming convention, E3 2011, is about to kick off in Los Angeles (on Monday 6 June) and the great and the good of the gaming world will be there, including Pocket-lint.
And while there are still plenty of surprises to...
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Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days review
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Will the dog have his day?
20 August 2010 15:03 GMT
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Were it not for one thing, Kane and Lynch: Dead Men might have been one of 2007's most original and entertaining shooters. Some of us who played it loved it for its brave, gritty storyline, its tense, violent atmosphere, and just the fact that - for...
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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light review
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Got a spare tenner?
17 August 2010 13:18 GMT
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You'd be forgiven for not expecting much from Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. A download-only, arcade spin-off from the Tomb Raider franchise, it's one of those games that's hard to get your head around until you've actually played it.
Thanks...
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Just Cause 2 - Xbox 360 review
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A welcome return for Rico?
26 March 2010 13:25 GMT
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If we were in the business of clinically dissecting games to reach a scientific verdict on their worth, we might end up spending the rest of this review detailing the many flaws of Just Cause 2. We might spend a few paragraphs describing the scrappy...
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Championship Manager 2010 - PC review
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Can this match Football Manager?
21 September 2009 16:00 GMT
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The story of the split of Football Manager developers Sports Interactive, and publishers Eidos has been told more times than Top Gear gets repeated on that daftly-named Dave TV channel. For a fair few years now, Beautiful Game Studios have attempted to...
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Batman: Arkham Asylum - Xbox 360 review
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Pow! Spla-a-t! Blurp! Whack?
7 September 2009 12:00 GMT
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Over the last few years, thanks to a selection of fantastic films, Batman is once again at the forefront of our imagination. Yet in the gaming world, the caped crusader hasn’t truly had a title worthy of his epic name etched on the front cover. At least...
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Championship Manager 2010 on sale for 1p
Pay what you want for your footie action 18 August 2009 0:00 GMT TweetRadiohead tried it, now it seems the video game publisher Eidos is following in the same vein with the "Pay what you want" model for the latest version of Championship Manager.
"This is the first time an initiative like this has been tried... -
Championship Manager 2010 announced
Includes monthly football data downloads 22 June 2009 11:31 GMT TweetChampionship Manager 2010 has been announced by creators Eidos, and will be released in September 2009. The game will have a new feature - the ability to import real-world data every month and play from a certain point.
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Championship Manager now available for iPhone
Girlfriends weep across the nation 11 May 2009 13:12 GMT TweetArguably Championship Manager is up there with World of Warcraft and Tetris in the running for "most addictive game of all time". As we reported would be the case, it's now got a leg-up on its rivals as it's been released for the iPhone.
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Shellshock 2: Blood Trails - Xbox 360 review
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Nam, with zombies
16 March 2009 12:00 GMT
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Horrifically poor FPS titles have never been in short supply. Since it seems to be one of those genres which constantly makes lengthy appearances at the top of he sales charts, you can’t honestly blame publishers for aiming to produce the “next big thing”...
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Lara's Shadow DLC now available
No delay this time 10 March 2009 10:26 GMT TweetAfter the first downloadable episode for Tomb Raider: Underworld was delayed by 2 weeks, we did wonder whether we'd see the second episode, Lara's Shadow, hit Xbox Live Marketplace as scheduled.
Well the good news is that it has. Eidos has... -
Tomb Raider DLC now available on Xbox Live
2 weeks later than scheduled 24 February 2009 20:34 GMT TweetAfter a short delay Beneath the Ashes, the first downloadable episode for Tomb Raider: Underworld, is now available from Xbox Live.
The DLC was supposed to be available from 10 February, but was delayed due to an unspecified "technical issue".... -
Square Enix buys Eidos for £84.3 million
Poor US sales prompt takeover 12 February 2009 11:07 GMT TweetJapanese developer Square Enix has agreed to buy Eidos, the UK company behind famous game franchises like Tomb Raider and Championship Manager, for £84.3 million.
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Championship Manager '09 gears up for April launch
A "new beginning" for the franchise 28 January 2009 11:47 GMT TweetEidos and Beautiful Game Studios are gearing up for the release of Championship Manager 09 in April, which has seen a complete graphical and engine overhaul since its last outing.
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Three new Spore titles unveiled
Coming to Wii in the autumn 26 January 2009 10:16 GMT TweetEarlier in the month we got news of a new Spore expansion pack in the works called Spore Galactic Adventures, and EA has now confirmed a further three new additions to the Spore franchise that are under development.
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