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Originally Posted by wraggster

Seconds out, round whatever: EA's John Riccitiello and Activision's Bobby Kotick are at it again.

"I can't objectively tell you what I think of other products until I see them," Kotick told Reuters at E3. "Battlefield I've only seen on a PC and nobody's seen it on a console yet.

"Most of our consumers play games on a console. Until I see it on a console, I wouldn't be objective on commenting on it."

Riccitiello riposted: "It's

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Developer Capcom Vancouver believes it has now quashed the cynicism surrounding Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, the Dead Rising 2 spin-off that re-imagines the game from Frank West's perspective.

When Off the Record was announced in April many fans complained that it was a cynical cash-in, with some even suggesting it should have been downloadable content for Dead Rising 2.

Two months later, Capcom Vancouver believes those complaints have been addressed with key announcements

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Upcoming Nintendo 3DS game Resident Evil: Revelations is a single-player only experience, Capcom has confirmed.

At E3 last week Capcom announced new playable character Parker Luciani, a Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance member who fights alongside series favourite Jill Valentine.

The announcement sparked speculation that the game would feature co-op play using the Nintendo 3DS Wi-fi connection feature.

This is not the case.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Legendary first-person shooter developer id Software predicts two-thirds of the sales of upcoming game Rage will be for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

That leaves around a third of sales for the PC.

"Roughly," Todd Hollenshead, co-owner and CEO of id Software, told Eurogamer.

"I'm not in the sales forecast business, and I don't want to be making projections for the company on the basis of that. But if we're just going to do napkin math, that's

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Analyst firm Cowen and Company has described EA's MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic as "highly derivative" of World of Warcraft and suggested the game may miss its 2011 release.

"We got hands-on time with the game, and were largely unimpressed," stated Doug Creutz, senior research analyst covering the media and entertainment sector, in the firm's E3 report.

"Despite promises from EA/Bioware that the title represents a major step forward in MMO

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