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Originally Posted by wraggster

The social gaming titan's latest game for Facebook, Adventure World, was revealed last week. Overnight, Zynga got in touch to confirm that the game, which takes no little inspiration from the Indiana Jones films, is now live on Facebook. This is the first game from Zynga's Boston studio, and it claims it's its "most feature-rich" work so far, with a world 40 times the size of FarmVille. "We call this genre social adventure," said Nabeel Hyatt, general manager of Zynga Boston,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

EA has waged a war of words with Activision – but is it really winning? Call of Duty showed no signs of weakness at its first franchise expo last week.
Thousands of fans travelled to LA for Call of Duty XP, getting hands-on time with Modern Warfare 3 and taking part in activities such as paintball and zip lines, proving the strength of the FPS mega franchise. And Activision’s keynote at XP mapped out the publisher’s aggressive plans to dominate Christmas once again, as well as lay the

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Around 1.25m consumers have put down pre-orders for EA’s upcoming FPS Battlefield 3, says CFO Eric Brown.
He announced the milestone at the Citi 2011 Tech Conference yesterday, reports Gamasutra.
"To date we have about 1.25m pre-orders on Battlefield 3, so it's still well ahead of its predecessor title, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, in regards to pre-orders in the same number of weeks until release,” Brown said. “So it's doing very well.”
It wasn’t clear whether this

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The makers of Rock Band and Dance Central have released a new music game on Apple's App Store.
Entitled VidRhythm, the Harmonix title allows players to put together music videos based on short clips they take with their iPhone or iPad camera. These can then be remixed so that sounds from the clips form the rhythm of the video.
TouchArcade reports that the app is easy to use, with VidRhythm suggesting which sounds users should focus on and then automatically creating full video remixes

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Originally Posted by wraggster

One of PSP's unsung heroes, the DJMax series, is headed to PlayStation Vita, according to Siliconera. Korean developer Pentavision is to bring its turntablism game DJMax Technika - first released in Korean arcades in 2008 - to Vita, using both front and rear touch controls

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/djmax-t...announced-vita