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Originally Posted by wraggster

Big name studios and publishers sign up to this year's show in Cologne

The organisers of Gamescom have announced a number of key exhibitors that have already signed up for the increasingly prominent show's 2011 iteration.
EA, THQ, Konami, Capcom, Namco Bandai, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are to have a presence at the event, which last year attracted over quarter of a million guests, as are Ubisoft, Warner, Take 2, Sega and Bethesda.

The consumer and business show,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

You've shot a man in every place, but you've run out of locations in which to shoot him. Fortunately, there's no greater marriage of domains and bullet-riddled defeat than in Killzone 3, which is set to receive a downloadable map pack after tomorrow's European PSN update. North American PSN users can expect it on Tuesday, April 12.

The "Steel Rain" DLC contains "Junkyard,"

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Originally Posted by wraggster

What's up, World of Warcraft? You think you're so big and bad with your 12-million-strong-and-then-some player base? You won't be quite so intimidating if Sony Online Entertainment head John Smedley's vision for Free Realms comes to fruition. In a recent interview withGamesIndustry, Smedley said, "I think it could take five or six years - that should give you some idea [of the time frame

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Namco Bandai sent out new screenshots of the two new games in Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions: "Pac-Man Tilt" and "Galaga 3D Impact." We've placed the screens in separate galleries in case, for some reason, you have trouble distinguishing Pac-Man from Galaga.

The 3DS collection, which also includes the original Pac-Man and Galaga arcade games, along with Championship Edition and Galaga Legions

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Amazon has enacted a one-day discount on Yakuza 4, allowing you to take the entire Kamurocho neighborhood and its residents home for $39.99. That's a great deal for a game that lasts anywhere from 30 to hundreds of hours.

Think of it this way: If you earn your money in the way the game's heroes do -- by picking it up from hapless, idiotic gang members who dare to challenge you -- you won't have to beat up as

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