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Originally Posted by wraggster

Gaikai Inc, the innovative cloud game streaming service, today announces the signing of an agreement with top Polish publisher CD Projekt to begin streaming a demo of its award-winning, hit game ‘The Witcher 2’ beginning in August 2011 via selected Affiliate sites.
“The Witcher franchise is an excellent example of the high quality games we are adding to the Gaikai portfolio,” said Robert Stevenson, SVP of Interactive Entertainment, Gaikai. “Utilizing the Gaikai cloud, innovative

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Blizzard's internal Defense of the Ancients mod for StarCraft 2, cleverly titled Blizzard Dota, is starting over. Eurogamer reports that Blizzard Dota Senior Game Designer Jonny Ebbert said the title has been "flattened," with what the company showed at BlizzCon last year being "completely rebooted." In May, we were told that the mod had experienced "some massive overhauls."

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Fantasy strategy game Dota 2 won't ship until 2012, Valve boss Gabe Newell has revealed.
Valve plans to launch an invitation beta after the Gamescom tournament ends. After that a public beta will launch. "And then we'll probably start worrying about how we'll monetise it," Newell told Eurogamer.
"We'll just go into progressively wider and wider distribution. I don't think it'll be shipped until next year."
Dota 2 was penned for launch this year.
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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sony Online Entertainment has dropped release date details for three of its upcoming PSN titles. Two of them have some elements in common: they're both Scandinavian; and they're downloadable games built by teams recovering from AAA failures.

First up is Recoil Games' Rochard, the impressive "action-adventure, side-scrolling puzzle platformer" from Finland, which will be available on September 27 for $9.99. The ex-Remedy devs at Recoil Games were working on the ambitious Earth No More,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

This new trailer for Rayman Origins treats us to a release window for the lovingly animated 2D platformer: November 2011. It also treats us to a sweetly serene moment of diegetic music ... followed immediately by a scene of what appears to be Rayman assaulting an angry neighbor with her own husband's head.

The included Ubi fact sheet doesn't specify which platforms will see their version ofRayman in November; Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and 3DS seem like safe assumptions ... but probably not

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