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Originally Posted by wraggster

Valve has announced that its four year-old team-based shooter, Team Fortress 2, has become a free-to-play title supported entirely via microtransactions.

In-game clothing, weapon and customisation options, already available via Steam's Wallet purchase system, will now fund the game in its entirety.

The announcement follows Valve allowing third-party free-to-play games to be featured on its Steam download service earlier this month, launching with Sega's Spiral Knights,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Blizzard is currently looking into developing for Apple's iOS, and would love to bring World Of Warcraft to iPad and iPhone, according to Greg Street, lead systems designer.

"Everyone I know here has an iPhone or an iPad so we're huge fans of the hardware," Street told Eurogamer when asked about MMO gaming on iOS.

"If we could make the right game changes to make that work, it's something we'd be interested in. It's not something you're going to see in

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Put Just Dance down ladies, because Ubisoft's got more barely functional dancing for you: The Black Eyed Peas Experience.

Like The Michael Jackson Experience, the game will have you waving your arms and legs around to songs from the insanely popular group as you dance along to pre-defined routines with on-screen renditions of the BEP members.

The announcement is light on details, Ubi saying only that its coming to Wii and Kinect for Xbox 360 "soon". But we

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts will pull the plug on the Star Wars Galaxies servers on December 15, they have confirmed.

All services related to the game including MMO play and the Trading Card Game will end on that date, seeing off one Star Wars MMO as Lucas seemingly makes way for another one: Star Wars: The Old Republic from BioWare.

"We are extremely grateful to all of the SWG fans. We have had the rare opportunity to host one of the most dedicated

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Xonoblade Chronicles, the much-request JRPG Nintendo has currently only released in Japan, will "definitely" arrive in shops in North America.

That's according to Destructoid, who reports that a Nintendo customer services rep has confirmed and re-confirmed as much. Although this doesn't server as official confirmation, the rep also reportedly revealed that the US version will go by the name 'Monado: Beginning of the World' - its original title before it was changed to Xenoblade.

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