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Digital Leisure has unveiled a Nintendo DS version of classic arcade and Laserdisc adventure Dragon's Lair, playable either on one screen or holding the DS like a book.

It should be out around the end of the year, a spokesperson told Eurogamer.

It'll be versatile in control terms too, allowing for d-pad and face buttons or touch-screen input, and there's even talk (ha) of voice recognition and rumble support.

In addition to the traditional Arcade mode, there's a Home mode too with additional sequences.

Originally released in the early '80s, Dragon Lair saw Dirk the Daring attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from an evil dragon in a wizard's castle. It had quite fancy animation for the time, largely thanks to the involvement of former Disney man Don Bluth.


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Midway is bringing back its Cruis'n racer series and Nintendo Wii owners will be the exclusive beneficiaries.

The new game, simply called "Cruis'n" at the moment, is due out on Wii in November according to an IGN report confirmed by Midway.

It will feature 12 different street circuits, and the ability to upgrade your car with turbos, neon and all sorts of other jazz.

And, naturally, you'll be able to control it with the Wiimote - presumably gripping it like a steering wheel ala ExciteTruck.

Midway also said it's doing a mini-game package for Wii called "Game Party", which is due out in November as well featuring darts, air hockey and other activities.

Expect those to be fleshed out with more detail in or around E3. ...

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Global servers for Resistance: Fall of Man will go online tomorrow evening, bringing European, American and Japanese players together for the first time.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe explained this morning that Resistance servers will be down between 2am and 6pm BST tomorrow while they are updated.

Also debuting tomorrow are two new maps, which will be sold as "Map Pack 1", both through the PS3 Store and in-game, for GBP 2.99.

The maps are Westmorland (a snowy sniper's paradise, by the sound of it) and Camborn. Click the words to be whisked off to a screenshot for each.

They join a range of new features introduced since the game launched in the US last November and here on 23rd March. ...

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The Eye of Judgement has been probing the gaming landscape for a suitable opening through which to emerge, and now it seems to have found one: er, autumn.

In other words [oh good - Ed], Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has issued a press release backing up what Sony Japan said towards the end of April: that its intriguing PlayStation Eye camera-based card-battling game is due out in the autumn.

How does it work? Well, in real life, remember, you lay out the play mat - a grid of nine fields - and then draw five cards from the 30-card deck. The aim is to control five fields on the mat.

So you lay down a guard with a creature or a spell on it. Over on the TV screen, the PlayStation Eye brings this to light or, as Sony puts it, "the magic starts". "Vibrations and energy waves begin to emanate from the card; before your eyes, the game creature emerges from the flat surface in incredible 3D detail".

You could of course whip out a dragon in response, which then comes to life, again, on-screen, and starts beating up whatever your opponent has. It's sort of when you punch your brother for stealing Community Chest cards in Monopoly but on the next level.

The way it works, if you're interested, is by reading a unique code on each card and then displaying the corresponding monstie.

The full game will come with a starter pack of 30 character and spell cards, plus four function cards. Over 100 cards will be available to buy in shops at launch, with a variety of themed decks promised from major retailers.

All of which should encourage you to swap cards in the playground/by the watercooler/down the pub in order to best your enemies in two-player battles.

Sounds interesting, right? So we'll, er, keep an eye out for more. ...

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The Hironobu Sakaguchi-produced Xbox 360 RPG Blue Dragon will go on sale in Europe on 24th August, publisher Microsoft said today.

The game - the first of a pair overseen by Final Fantasy veteran Sakaguchi, and in this case developed by Blinx scribes Artoon - puts players into the role of Shu, a young boy on a quest to rid the world of evil forces. It also boasts music from Nobuo Uematsu and character design from Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball Z fame.

You can catch up with it in more detail in our Blue Dragon first impressions, published yesterday, where Rob Fahey claimed it was a "pitch perfect" exercise in nostalgia.

Whether that will be enough is something you'll get to assess as we draw in on release and you can scamper all over our review. Alternatively, if you've made your mind up already, you can also do as Microsoft suggests and download a Fan Site Kit. How peculiar. ...

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Rockstar's second public trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV has gone live and we're mirroring it on Eurogamer TV.

Called "Looking For That Special Someone", the one-minute-six-second teaser begins as protagonist Niko Bellic is seen in a variety of scenes trying to track someone down. At one point a woman pleads with him to stop the killing.

The trailer also treats us to a few glimpses of things we've never seen in GTA before: hanging off the back of lorries, kicking in a door and shattering the lock, clinging onto a helicopter as it swoops over the city, and watching from inside a car as bullets impact against the windscreen and leave holes in specific places.

Apart from the gameplay implications, there's the promise of some of the most detailed environments ever witnessed in a Grand Theft Auto game - or any of its clones - with Rockstar taking every opportunity to show off the range of lighting conditions and other special effects its artists have been invited to employ.

We expect you'll be watching it over and over tonight to glean details, so don't be shy about using the comment section to share the things you spot.

GTA IV is due out on PS3 and Xbox 360 on 16th October in the US and 19th October in Europe.


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Codemasters has revealed that the recently released Colin McRae: DIRT sold 500,000 copies worldwide in its first week of release.

The title has also racked up over 500,000 downloads of the PC and Xbox 360 demo

"This success with DIRT is a text-book case of our product development, marketing and distribution efforts all working together to ignite consumer interest and drive sales," said Rod Cousens, CEO of Codemasters.

"Nearly half of our first week's sales are from the US alone, which means momentum behind this series is taking hold in new territories."

The game entered the UK all-formats charts at number four on it's first weekend of sales, and is currently sandwiched between fellow racers Flat Out: Ultimate Carnage and number one seller Forza Motorsport 2 in the Xbox 360 charts. ...

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UK-based repairs specialist Micromart has told GamesIndustry.biz that it has had to refuse to service Xbox 360 consoles that display three red lights, dubbed the Red Ring of Death.

Before it put a stop to the repair service, Micromart says it was seeing around 30 consoles a week over a period of several months.

"We were seeing about 30 a week before we pulled the plug on the service," said Jeff Croft of Micromart.

"We saw it over a period of several months and it was just getting worse. It began towards the end of last year. Once the twelve month warranty finished then we started to see more and more machines being sent in to be looked at.

"The problem with three red lights was there fairly regularly, but over two or three months it became a real issue," he detailed.

Micromart acts for individual retailers who send customer's goods to the specialist. Croft says his company pulled the service after discovering problems with the motherboard, and that that repairing the console wasn't financially feasible. Even after working on a number of machines, the company didn't feel comfortable with the end result.

"The work we had done to the console lead us to believe that basically it was a fault with the motherboard and not something that could be resolved easily. And it wasn't going to go away.

"Rather than lead customers up the garden path we'd walk away from it and tell them to go directly to Microsoft because they have the facility to replace the motherboard. If Microsoft has updated the motherboard for the new consoles that its producing then presumably they've improved the existing model."

Croft said the company had written to Microsoft to inform it of the problems encountered but had received no reply. ...