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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play Star Wars title is still going strong
Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts have announced that Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures has crossed 10 million registered players since its launch in September of 2010. The game is a family-friendly, free-to-play MMO based on Cartoon Network's Clone Wars animated series.
"Clone Wars Adventures is one of our original free-to-play games and it continues to demonstrate the success of the free-to-play

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Crytek, German developer of the Crysis series, says it will unveil its "fantastic" new console and PC project next month.
Speaking to CVG during GDC last week, GM of games Nick Button-Brown said the studio was preparing to announce "the best of that kind of project we've ever done."
"There are so many things I can't talk about," he said. "A big part of our business is big-budget console and PC games. We are doing all these other things, but they're

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Q-Games, Japanese developer of the Pixeljunk series, showed off upcoming PS Move game Pixeljunk 4am at GDC last week.
Lead designer Rowan Parker explains the system powering 4am, which has been developed with input from Japanese multimedia artist Baiyon, in the below video, posted on the PlayStation Blog.
Using the Move controller, players can sense music in the air, denoted by the controller vibrating, and essentially pick it up and throw it in to the mix. Each of the four tracks can

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Battlefield 3: Close Quarters, the first major paid piece of DLC for the game since last December's "Back to Karkand," is coming this June. The expansion includes four maps, 10 weapons and no vehicles -- it's about close quarters, after all.

There will be two more expansions for the game following the June expansion. "Armored Kill" will focus on additional weapons, larger

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The Xbox Live Indie Games Companion app we first reported earlier this month is now available on Windows Phone. The app allows for easy browsing of Xbox Live Indie Games, including information, screens and links for each game. The app will even point users to Xbox Live Marketplace, where XBLIG demos or even full games can be purchased directly from their phone. Honestly, the XBLIG Companion looks like a much easier way of finding indie games than on Xbox Live Marketplace itself.

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