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Originally Posted by wraggster

Work had begun on a sequel to People Can Fly’s Bulletstorm but the project has since been cancelled, it has been revealed.
Bulletstorm came out in early 2011 and was well received by critics.
And now the president of People Can Fly owners Epic, Mike Capps, has said that the studio has moved onto pastures new.
"We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," he

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Almost three quarters of all Metal Gear Solid gamers play the titles on the PlayStation family of consoles.
Last month the Metal Gear Solid franchise went into three dimensions with Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D. The series receives consistently high praise and celebrates its 25th birthday this year. This week we look at the franchise using the GameVision brand map.
We asked 6,756 gamers about Metal Gear Solid, 738 of which played the game in the last six months. We sought further

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Guild Wars 2's biggest fans can play the game early by buying the title in advance.

Fans who pre-purchase one of the upcoming MMO's three editions (Standard, Digital Deluxe or Collector's) from today, will be able to access all Beta weekends and will gain access to the product three days before the title officially goes on sales.

The Collector's Edition has an RRP of £129.99 and features a hand-painted statue, art prints and a makeing-of guide.

As a bonus,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

PSN and XBLA platformer Joe Danger is in development for iOS, Hello Games has revealed.
The Guildford-based studio unveiled the project at last weekend's PAX East conference in Boston. Speaking to Gamasutra, Hello Games MD Sean Murray said that, far from being a shoe-horned port, the game had been built from the ground up for its target platform.
"I hate that word, 'port'," he said. "Simply porting a game is never something I could get excited about, it's soulless work.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Capcom has announced a third entry in its Lost Planet series, due in early 2013 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Players are cast as Jim, a rig pilot who takes on a dangerous, but lucrative, contract on EDN III, the snowy planet on which the first game was set and the absence of which Keiji Inafune blamed forLost Planet 2's poor reception.
Development duties have been passed to California studio Spark Unlimited, an odd choice given the studio's recent pedigree, withTurning Point: Fall Of Liberty

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