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Originally Posted by wraggster

Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor will be released for Xbox 360 on June 22, publisher Capcom has confirmed.
First announced by now-departed head of R&D Keiji Inafune in September 2010, Heavy Armor is in development at From Software, supports Kinect and is exclusive to Xbox 360.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/stee...vy-armor-dated

Originally Posted by wraggster

Lionhead has announced Fable Heroes, a fourplayer hack-and-slasher for Xbox Live Arcade.
Revealed at Microsoft's Spring Showcase in San Francisco last week, Fable Heroes has been in development since early last year and is the product of Lionhead's annual Creative Day, which we featured back in E228.
Players cooperate and compete to earn coins, which level up their characters and can be used to unlock content in upcoming Kinect-powered 360 exclusive Fable: The Journey.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/fable-heroes-announced

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Publisher cites connection and lag time issues for game's removal

EA has pulled The Simpsons: Tapped Out from the App store after connection and lag issues blighted the game early on.
The publisher claimed that after an “overwhelmingly positive” response to the title, it had been forced to take the game down in an effort to fix the issues.

It said current customers would be able to carry on playing the game whilst changes are made.
“To make sure you current

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Originally Posted by wraggster

'Our biggest and most ambitious title in the company's history' claims Ubisoft

Assassins Creed III is being developed by seven different Ubisoft studios, the publisher has revealed.
In what it claims is the biggest and most ambitious title in the company’s history, the firm said that as well as Ubisoft Montreal, six other studios took part in the game’s creation, making it one of the largest development efforts ever.

The game is to be powered by the publisher’s

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Originally Posted by wraggster

FPS masters 'hoping to surprise people' with carefree puzzle game

Crytek, the Frankfurt headquartered triple-A studio famous for its work on PC and console, has revealed its first dedicated smartphone title.
The new project, called Fibble Flick ‘n’ Roll, is a physics-based puzzle title that is due for a Spring 2012 release.

Crytek has not yet announced a smartphone edition of its CryEngine, though the company has in the past made several indications that it will

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