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Originally Posted by wraggster

Microsoft clearly has no care for the silly paramaters we call "seasons," as its launching Microsoft Flight on February 29, bucking the original "spring" launch window. Microsoft Flight's official site will be hosting downloads of the free application starting that Wednesday -- no other distribution channels are named, but we suspect it'll also be up on Games for Windows Live's Marketplace as well.

That guess' accuracy is bolstered by the news that the "Hawaiian

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Ubisoft Reflections' next effort will be aimed at Kinect, it seems. Artist Joss Scouler's LinkedIn account reportedly listed an unannounced Kinect title in the works, but it has since been removed from the profile. Scouler has been with Ubisoft Reflections for over five years and and helped ship the studio's most recent console game, Driver: San Francisco.

"After just finishing Driver Wii as

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Only 13,000 of the 30,000 gamers who signed up fulfilled a pledge to spend the weekend playing Half-Life 2 in protest at Valve's lack of communication about Half-Life 3.
Kotaku reports that, while the number of those playing Valve's classic FPS fell far short of what was expected, it still exceeded the game's normal Steam activity by 10,000 players.
"I am personally impressed with what we've achieved today," the protest's organiser said. "We're nowhere near done - in fact,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

24MAS has added to its growing roster of games with this iOS title, which features the former Formula One World Champion, Kimi Räikkönen. His nickname was the Ice Man, by the way.
The free app takes the player through Kimi’s racing career from carts through to rally, with four race vehicles and 16 different tracks.
Users get the chance to race head to head with the multiplayer match up mode along with the chance to race in arcade and career modes. There are also new tracks to unlock.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

So this is how Cannon Fodder 3 turned out.Trailers for the game show an... interesting take on the much-loved retro strategy series. One is below.Eurogamer reported on Cannon Fodder 3, from unknown Russian developer GFI, in January 2011.At the time Codemasters, which licensed the Cannon Fodder IP to GFI for a one-title project in 2008, distanced itself from from the game, confirming it was only set for release in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).Now we know how it turned out,

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