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Originally Posted by wraggster

Psychedelic shooter designer Jeff Minter has followed Minotaur Rescue and Minitron 2112 with a third iOS game, with no minotaurs in sight. Deflex is a puzzle game in which players set down "bats," left- and right-slanted lines, off of which a ball bounces into on-screen items. Each time the ball connects, the bat changes direction, leading to a complicated strategy for success -- or, if you're like us, a lot of random placement and hoping. It's adapted from a 1982 Llamasoft game called

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Sorcery, the promising Move-enabled action adventure title Sony showed off at E3 last year, is still in development, the publisher has confirmed.

Nothing has been said of the title since its initial announcement and it was noticeable in its absence from Sony's E3 line-up this year, leading to speculation that it might have been canned. Not so, it seems.

When pressed for an update by Dealspwn, Sony PR exec Hugo Bastillos responded, “Yes, Sorcery is still in development.”

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Activision is readying something called GoldenEye Reloaded, according to a set of domain names dug up by Twitter sleuth Superannuation.

The tipster spotted four URL registrations logged by the publisher last week for: goldeneye007gamereloaded.com, goldeneyereloadedgame.com, goldeneyereloaded007.com and goldeneye007reloaded.com.

There's no indication as to what exactly the publisher is up to, but a port of last year's largely excellent Eurocom-developed Wii shooter GoldenEye

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Originally Posted by wraggster

We knew which games were going to be part of this year's XBLA "Summer of Arcade" -- but not when. Today, Microsoft shared that information, allowing you to plan your season around buying video games.

The Summer kicks off with the isometric action-adventure Bastion on July 20, for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15.) Eric Chahi's volcanic god game, From Dust, follows on July 27 for the same price. On August 3, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet will be available, also for 1200 MSP. August

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Young people may choose to rely on new-fangled methods like websites and E3 press conferences for the announcement of new Fable games, but we're far too rooted in tradition for that. No, we learn about the existence of a new Fable game by hearing Peter Molyneux admit there were problems with the last Fable game, the way our grandfathers did it.

In an interview with Gamasutra, Molyneux admitted the game wasn't "all he dreamed it would be" saying "It's hard to be completely

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