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Originally Posted by wraggster

The London Oxford Street branch of Game and the Birmingham New Street Gamestation outlet both stay open for a midnight launch of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim this Thursday night.You'll be able to pick up the game from 00.01am on Friday morning at either store.The first 100 people in the queue at both locations get a complimentary strategy guide and soundtrack CD, while the first 250 are promised a goodie bag (no word on what's included).There'll also be a Skyrim cosplay competition, with one winner

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Originally Posted by wraggster

NBA Jam: On Fire was the best-selling title on PlayStation Network in North America during the month of October, Sony has announced.As detailed on the PlayStation Blog, multiplayer shooter Payday: The Heist took second place, ahead of Crysis, Chrono Trigger and Resident Evil 4.Infamous 2: Festival of Blood missed out on the top 20 - detailed in full below - though was only on sale for the last six days of the month.Alas, we can't tell you how this compares to the European chart as Sony's HQ here

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Animal rights group PETA has accused Battlefield 3 developer DICE of encouraging sadistic violence towards animals.A press release issued by the organisation's German office and translated byBattlefield3blog, condemns a sequence in the game's third single player mission where players can nonchalantly impale a rat with a knife."The realistic computer game Battlefield 3 treats animals in a sadistic manner. The game gives players the option to kill a rat with a combat knife in the back in order

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Despite claims to the contrary, the developers of Call of Duty say that they do not see the use of shocking content as a marketing tool for their games.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is released worldwide tomorrow, and while the mainstream media has yet to “go big” on a COD related controversy, leaked content suggests it may only be a matter of time.
And it wouldn’t be the first time a Call of Duty title has won national newspaper headlines for the wrong reasons. The infamous

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Originally Posted by wraggster

"We are still investigating, but it appears that some internal story files have been leaked," Mass Effect 3 producer Jesse Houston admitted on the company's forums. Apparently said story files aren't representative of "the final story experience," but Houston's urging fans nonetheless to skip reading them, "if they want to experience the purest form of the story in Mass

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