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Originally Posted by wraggster

EVE Online's substantial Crucible expansion launches on 29th November, developer CCP has announced.The update brings with it over three dozen new features and tweaks, apparently largely based on user-submitted feedback.CCP's announcement promised "a melting pot of improvements to match as CCP laser focuses on getting back to basics with its infamous internet spaceships."A full list of new content is due next week but, for now, here are the highlights:

• Four fan-designed battlecruisers

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Double Fine's recent Kinect effort Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster gets a DLC expansion next week.Titled Unidentified Furry Objects, it's a new chapter that follows Cookie Monster, Elmo and Shelby as they come face to face with the titular extraterrestrials, while Grover chances upon a mysterious glowing egg-like device.It's priced at 400 Points and is up for download from 22nd November.Double Fine's Sesame Street tie-in launched on Xbox 360 last month, picking up a solid 7/10 from Eurogamer.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

PlayStation 3 RPG Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland gets a European release in Spring 2012, publisher Nippon Ichi Software has announced.The 13th game in the Atelier series, it's a sequel to 2010's Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland and this year's Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland.The game, developed by Gust, follows Princess Meruru as she attempts to use the power of alchemy to strengthen her kingdom.Expect classic turn-based battles, a dynamic development system that changes

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Originally Posted by wraggster

In the future, machines will be the least of our worries -- it's the humans with advanced machines in their bodies we'll have to watch out for. Advanced chips, to be exact, will unlock seemingly limitless potential in human beings. This is the world of Syndicate.

Governments of tomorrow will play second fiddle to massive corporations, and the game's four-player co-op mode

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Stardock and Ironclad Games' Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, the bundled collection of the epic space armada RTS and its mini-expansions, is available now on Steam. After selling over 2 million units, mostly through Stardock's Impulse digital distribution system, the game is finally warping over to Valve's service.

"With the sale of our former PC digital download technology to GameStopearlier

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