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Originally Posted by wraggster

Bethesda is rumoured to have pulled the plug on Human Head-developed sci-fi shooter Prey 2.

The firm hasn’t spoken publicly about the game for some time, but Dutch site PS Focus claims Bethesda will confirm next week that it has dropped plans to publish the sequel, which was announced in March 2008, two years after the launch of the well-received original.

Last month Brian Karis, lead graphics programmer at Human Head,said he’d been left “pretty devastated” after

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Minecraft has reached 25 million registered users today, following the registration of over 65,000 players in the past 24 hours.
Of those 25 million, 5.3 million (21 percent) have bought the game - just over 9000 of those in that same 24 hour period.
You can read our feature on just what a day in the life of Mojang is like here.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/mine...gistered-users

Originally Posted by wraggster

Phantasy Star Online 2 will be free-to-play and is heading to smartphones, Sega has revealed.
Confirmed earlier this month for Vita, the RPG will include cross-platform play between Sony's handheld and the PC version, as well microtransactions.
The smartphone versions will be stripped down, but still able to share data with the PC and Vita releases, and are scheduled for release this Christmas.

http://www.edge-online.com/news/phan...rsions-planned

Originally Posted by wraggster

Big weekend for the game that turns Newtonian physics into avian fun.
The long awaited Rovio game launched on Friday on iOS, Android, PC and Mac to immense hype.
Now, Rovio's self-styled Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka has disclosed on Twitter that it's already passed 10m downloads.
He said: "That’s a drop in the ocean of the 700m+ downloads for the Angry Birds franchise as a whole, but is still a good start for the new title."

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...ee-days/017538

Originally Posted by wraggster

How does Microsoft fill the space between "House Party" and "Summer of Arcade?" With a new promotion called "Arcade NEXT," loaded with important XBLA games. How important? Minecraft important.

The promotion kicks off with Trials Evolution on April 18. Bloodforge follows on April 25; then Fable Heroes on May 2. The promotion culminates in the game that has all

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