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Originally Posted by wraggster

Production of ambitious MMO The Agency discontinued as Denver, Seattle and Tucson teams shutdown

As expected, Sony Online Entertainment has made deep cuts to its organisation today.
205 developers have been let go as three studios - in Denver, Seattle and Tucson - are shut down.

Spy MMO The Agency has been dropped as part of the shrink, with teams now refocused on erstwhile brands EverQuest and PlanetSide.
Games made at the Denver and Tuscon studios will 'transition'

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Originally Posted by wraggster

DTP's peripheral free music game hitting Wii on April 29th

Nintendo's Wii will get yet another new music game at the end of next month – Musiic Party.
Published by DTP and distributed by PQube, the game will hit retail on April 29th with an SRP of £19.99.

It's twist is that it offers musical instrument based gameplay without the need to for expensive plastic peripherals. Instruments include the guitar and drums. 30 tracks will be included on the discs from artists

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not only that but i put 12 litres of rasberry beer into the barrel tonight, should be ready for may around 6% strentgh, gotta love homebrew beer

Originally Posted by wraggster

A 12-year-old boy by the name of Jacob Barnett is a math genius. Mastering many college level astrophysics courses by the age of 8, he now works on his most ambitious project to date: his own 'expanded version of Einstein's theory of relativity.'"

Originally Posted by wraggster

A 21st-century take on the ancient Apple II classic Choplifter is about to touch down, courtesy of Hunted: The Demon's Forge developer inXile Entertainment.

The game, titled Choplifter HD, will launch in the Autumn on PC and PlayStation Network.
For those too young to remember, the Broderbund-developed original launched on the Apple II way back in 1982 and saw you ferrying hostages between enemy bases and your HQ. It was a huge hit and was later ported to every system under the

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