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Originally Posted by wraggster

LA Noire's original response tree was markedly different to the one in the final game, former Team Bondi head Brendan McNamara has revealed, with the "doubt" option originally labelled "force".
Speaking at the Bradford Animation Festival earlier this week, McNamara explained why protagonist Cole Phelps often took a hard line when questioning witnesses when players had expected him to strike a softer, inquisitive tone and tease out further information.
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Originally Posted by wraggster

"The Universe is ending in the eyes of LEGO. (Cheap pun, I know.) From the announcement: 'We are very sad to announce that LEGO Universe will be closing on January 31, 2012. This was a very difficult decision to make, but unfortunately LEGO Universe has not been able to attract the number of members needed to keep the game open.' It's too bad; I enjoyed playing this game with my kids. Open sourcing the game would be nice.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/1...e-to-shut-down

Originally Posted by wraggster

Today marks the release of Skyrim, the fifth installment of Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls series. The game is set about 200 years after the events of Oblivion, at which point the province of Skyrim is embroiled in a civil war, and dragons roam the skies. Early reviews for the game have been largely complimentary — one at Rock, Paper, Shotgun artfully details all the things the reviewer hasn't yet done, despite playing the game for over 30 hours. Quoting: "I seriously worried Skyrim would,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has confirmed that GT5 players are set for regular DLC updates, and that Gran Turismo 6 is in development.
"Of course we're working on GT6 already," he told IGN, as he had previously confirmed in an interviewwith AutoWeek way back last year.IGN asked him how he will decide what separates content that will go into GT5 as DLC or held back for GT6.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Whatever Star Wars: Identities turns out to be, Eurogamer can tell you this - it's definitely not a video game."I can't comment on rumours or speculation," a LucasArts spokesperson told Eurogamer."However, I can confirm that this is not a video game."Lucasfilm was spotted registering website domains for Star Wars: Identities this week.With video games ruled out, speculation will turn to films or animated television shows.Identities may not be the name of a Star Wars video game,

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