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Originally Posted by wraggster

EA has revealed that Battlefield 3 pre-orders have reached two million units ahead of the game’s launch next Tuesday.

"We're doing very, very well," product manager Kevin O'Leary told Fox Business, citing pre-orders of "a couple of million" copies.

EA chief financial officer Eric Brown said in early September that pre-orders for the shooter had reached 1.25 million units, placing it "well ahead of its predecessor title, Battlefield: Bad Company

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Just over a year ago, Square Enix released Final Fantasy XIV. It was not well received, and to atone for their mistake, the company removed the game's subscription fee, replaced a bunch of the developers, and delayed the PS3 version. Now, they are confident enough in the updates they've brought to the game that they are re-instituting the subscription plan and working again on the PS3 version, though it's still about a year away. They've also explained their roadmap for version 2.0 of the game,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sledgehammer Games general manager Glen Schofield has said Modern Warfare 3 will be the most accessible Call of Duty game yet.

In part one of an interview with the former Visceral Games boss, he told us multiple gameplay innovations will make Modern Warfare 3 a more approachable title for those new to the series.

"... One of the things we did consciously was to use the levels in multiplayer and put them in Survival mode," he said. "That was to try and create

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Gears of War 3 players have hit the Epic forums in complaint of a major bug discovered with the hit shooter.
Specifically, the game appears to be crashing when players attempt to load up a Horde game with two profiles logged in. More crucially, when the glitch occurs it appears to corrupt one of the profiles making it impossible to enter any game mode with that profile.

Epic has

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Originally Posted by wraggster

As one of the biggest new game launches for the 3DS so far, we thought you might want to ogle at this pack shot for Mario Kart 7.
It arrives in EU on December 2, two days before the US launch of December 4 and a few weeks after Super Mario 3D Land which hit US on November 13 and EU November 18.

Nintendo recently released screenshots which confirmed the inclusion of the Tanooki

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