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Originally Posted by wraggster

Have you been playing Forza Motorsport 4 and thinking to yourself, "Man, I like Forza, but there just aren't enough cars in it." This news is for you then, because the August Playseat Car Pack has just been released. This baby comes packing 10 new cars, ranging from Chevy to Ford to Peugeot to Scion. There's also a 60s era Lincoln Continental with suicide doors, which you might recognize as the ride Morpheus picked up Neo in before The Matrix went sour. The movie, not the Toyota

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Ubisoft is bringing Beyond Good & Evil HD to the High Street as part of a new digital triple pack.
The publisher's Xbox Live Hits Collection features the acclaimed Michel Ancel adventure, as well as popular 2011 XBLA hits From Dust and Outland.
Now if all that sounds familiar, it's because the compilation wasoriginally outed back in January by Play.com.
The triple pack was meant to be released for both Xbox 360 and PS3 in March, but it never arrived.
This Xbox Live

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Zynga has revealed a new browser title which it has labelled as the first in the next generation of social games.
ChefVille allows players to run their own restaurants and learn new recipes as they expand their business.
Recipes learnt in game can be uploaded to Facebook with players able to use more than 50 of them in reali life. It is this feature that Zynga general manager Jonathan Knight claims makes the title a next generation social game.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/zynga...fville/0100821

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Originally Posted by wraggster

265,839 users in first full month for UK gaming site
PCGamesN, launched last month by Future veterans James Binns and Tim Edwards, will launch 10 new channels in the next month.
It celebrated its first full month since launch by revealing stats for that period, including 265,839 unique users, 1,690 friends on Facebook and 18,812 Twitter followers. The editorial team produced 350 stories, while 443 articles were contributed by the community.
"The audience has accelerated faster

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Were you among those who jumped for joy when Windows Explorergot its new moniker? Good news, nomenclature fans, for Redmond has decided to label its new OS' built-in games and titles obtained from the Windows Store as "Xbox Windows." Along with the new branding, venerable Windows titles like Minesweeper, Solitaire and Mahjong will also offer Xbox Achievements, so you can bulk up your Gamerscore while wasting time at work. Full details of the achievement and point totals can be found at

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