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- July 31
- July 30
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- Leonardo DiCaprio up for Creed Of Violence with Todd Field?
- George Lucas-produced WW2 movie Red Tails get a trailer
- Heroes of Newerth goes free to play
- Homefront map pack "The Rock" is now available
- GameStop to begin offering digital PC game pre-orders in-store starting with new Deus Ex
- Brink's Agent of Change DLC arriving August 3rd
- Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker getting 60fps upgrade for HD collection
- Metro: Last Light gameplay demo goes straight for the jugular
- July 29
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- Avengers teaser online
- Kevin Bacon gets R.I.P.D
- Simon Pegg stars in A Fantastic Fear Of Everything
- The first signs that gamers don't want 3D? EA backs away from the TV tech
- HBO Vague But Enthusiastic About Future Of Game Of Thrones
- PlayStation Vita may launch in US and UK territories this fall
- A closer look at 10 of the 20 free games current 3DS owners will receive
- Rage: Watch “The Enemies” trailer
- Sony: PlayStation 3 sales down, profit projections fall by 25%
- Red Dead Redemption “Myths and Mavericks” DLC will be free this September
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation DLC goes live with extra undead
- Is Nintendo in trouble?
- Gervais Jesus photoshoot causes controversy
- Dark Knight Rises and Superman prep US shoots
- Kevin Smith to get his own talk show
- Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 coming late 2011, and yes, those are the official names
- EA: Anything PS3/360 can do, Wii U can do... equally well
- Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One's painfully fun arsenal exposed
- ESPN on Xbox Live receiving major summer update
- Grand Theft Auto IV Superman mods let you wreak havoc on Liberty City
- Madden NFL 12 demo coming August 9th
- Eli Roth designs Hostel ride
- Concept art now online for Fire And Ice
- July 28
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- Nintendo slashing 3DS price tag, offering free games to keep current owners from rioting
- Look everybody! Activision is doing a good thing that is not evil or greedy
- Driver: San Francisco requires constant connection and more marketing time
- Double Dragon II 3D remake headed for XBLA
- THQ giving up on Red Faction after "disappointing" Armageddon
- Resident Evil 4, Code Veronica remakes are $20 each
- Warhammer 40K: Space Marine trailer divulges release date
- Dead Rising 2: Off the Record video covers Frank West's war coverage. Also: Electric Crusher!
- Dragon Age II gets yanked off Steam
- Walking Dead game won't follow the comic's story
- Batman: Arkham City interview tapes go viral, contain clues to the motives of Penguin and Joker
- George Lucas Loses Stormtrooper copyright fight
- Old Spice guy ruins Gears of War 3 ending (kind of, not really)
- Humble Indie Bundle 3 offers gaming for the soul
- First Duke Nukem Forever DLC pack to take aim at shooter legends
- Clooney admits delaying The Ides Of March
- July 27
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- Darabont walks away from The Walking Dead
- Tom Hardy compares Dark Knight Rises to Starbucks
- Man glues together bits of dead animals to make soul-suckingly horrific Mario monster
- Street Fighter X Tekken: Producers fight for the right to appear in-game
- Darksiders II director: We'd have loved to add multiplayer
- Ubisoft's From Dust launch trailer shows what it's like to play God
- New Uncharted director redoing script and cast from scratch
- Miis help recover stolen Wii
- Battlefield 3: Don't worry about 720p and 30 FPS, says DICE
- Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D delayed till 2012? Has 3DS lost another 2011 game?
- Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica HD remakes coming to US in September
- Shadows of the Damned director questions the high price of singleplayer-only games
- Blonde female Commander Shepard wins BioWare's box art competition
- New Xbox 360 Bluetooth headset and media remote coming this November
- Newest Soulcalibur V trailer has Ivy with newcomers Natsu and Zwei in action
- Russian Prime Minister: Why not a Russia-themed WoW?
- Entertainment Software Association asks California for its $1.1 million back
- July 26
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- Epic: Movies and cheap apps are killing traditional games
- Wolf Creek sequel finally gets the go ahead
- Insomniac launches free-play Global Resistance promo game
- New Anarchy Reigns trailer tries to make sense of senselessly violent story
- Gears of War 3: New players get exclusive “casual” multiplayer
- Rose McGowan gets her claws into Conan role
- Team Fortress 2 gets Weta weapons
- Trailer reveals Tekken Tag Tournament 2 demo comes with PS3-exclusive Tekken Hybrid
- Resident Evil 6 announcement coming September 15?
- Microsoft: XBLA game prices are going up, but so's quality
- Assassin's Creed Embers trailer offers a glimpse of Ezio's final years
- Zelda boss Aonuma: Don't rule out Majora's Mask 3D
- July 25
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- Ganon(dorf) will not be in Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Does this make you sad?
- PSP Go sold 14 units in Japan last week. No, not thousands - just 14
- Nic Cage has the moves for Ghost Rider 2
- Soulcalibur V: Ivy announced, with cop-out excuse for lack of middle-aged boob-sag
- The super-fast weekend gaming news catch-up video: July 25, 2011
- Chilean Miners' story unearthed on the big screen
- July 24
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- Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star in the In Time trailer
- First images from Snow White And The Huntsman
- Comic-Con 2011: Snow White And The Huntsman debuts
- Comic-Con Day 3: Photo Diary
- Comic-Con 2011: Francis Ford Coppola presents Twixt
- Marvel TV Series News From Comic Con
- GR's weekend giveaway: Comic-Con swag pile
- July 23
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- Enter The SF Gateway
- First trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Haywire drops in
- Gears of War 3 creators describe the ending of the trilogy
- NSFW: The House of the Dead: OVERKILL Extended Cut Comic-Con trailer
- Starhawk: Comic-Con trailer shows how cutscenes bleed into gameplay
- Halo Anniversary video demonstrates how classic campaign stage Silent Cartographer was updated
- X-Men: Destiny's Comic-Con trailers detail voice talent, confirm September 27 release
- Comic-Con 2011: Mass Effect movie hopes to prove that videogames can be valid source for film
- Street Fighter X Tekken gets serious as franchise creators square-off in comical video
- Comic-Con 2011: New Tintin footage unveiled
- Batman: Arkham City's Comic-Con trailer has Penguin and suprise guest Solomon Grundy
- July 22
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- First Silent Hill HD Collection footage is in from Comic Con, made even scarier by wonky shaky-cam angles
- Gordon Freeman to return in 2012 (in small plastic toy form). Also, replica portal guns for all!
- Hitchhikers Guide Live Tour
- Comic-Con 2011: First look at Prometheus
- Comic-Con 2011: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes footage debuts
- Comic-Con 2011: Aardman present Pirates! Band Of Misfits
- Comic-Con 2011: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart on Breaking Dawn
- Meet Batman: Arkham City's newest resident, Talia al Ghul
- Nintendo announces LA launch for Zelda symphony concerts
- NBA 2K12 gets Bird/Jordan/Johnson covers
- Mortal Kombat breaks our brains by announcing Freddy Krueger as DLC fighter
- Angry Birds launching in China, Rovio hoping for a billion fans
- Gotham City Impostors video shows the cartoony violence happening when Batman's not looking
- Possible Darkstalkers sequel, SF Alpha remakes further teased by Capcom
- Prototype 2 gets release date and new trailer
- Street Fighter X Tekken gets shot of femininity with Poison (among others) joining the roster
- Comic-Con 2011: First Twilight: Breaking Dawn footage unveiled
- Spider-Man: Edge of Time Comic-Con trailer has time travel, webs, Oct 4 release date
- July 21
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- Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online release dates, plus new trailer with big letters and lots of lens flare
- Daniel Craig & Rachel Weisz get spooked in Dream House trailer
- Comic-Con 2011: Shark Night 3D swims into San Diego
- Final Fantasy Type-0 gets Japanese release date
- The Darkness II delayed from fall 2011 until February 2012
- Rumor: Wii U to offer downloadable GameCube games?
- Cthulhu Saves the World: 6 days on Steam outsells 18 months on 360’s Indie Games channel
- GoldenEye 007: Reloaded officially announced for PS3/360 as another Wii game goes HD
- Aliens: Infestation coming to DS, so you can kill xenomorphs in lovely 2D
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 complete character roster leaked
- The Darkness movie confirmed
- Sonic's 'Through the Ages' trailer is pure joy. Bonus: TAILS!
- Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 revealed, adds 12 new characters and other tweaks
- July 20
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- The Amazing Spider-Man teaser trailer swings online
- Cheerleaders, chainsaws and glitter-spewing zombies: Yes, Lollipop Chainsaw is a Suda51 game
- Helena Bonham Carter and more on for The Lone Ranger
- Exclusive! First trailer for five-star British thriller Kill List
- History of Online Gaming infographic full of surprises
- Val Kilmer added to Spider-Man: Edge of Time cast
- Carmack defends Call of Duty, calls out “snooty” devs and critics
- Atlus releases its own Catherine unboxing video
- Darksiders II gets extended trailer and new screens
- First Pokemon game for 3DS, Pokemon Rumble Blast, announced for Oct 24
- Modern Warfare 3 headset only costs $299.95
- Batman: Arkham City Collector's Edition features custom statue and Dark Knight Returns costume
- Comic-Con 2011: Exclusives you can’t buy anywhere else
- Mega Man Legends 3 cancelled, crushing dreams of community developers everywhere
- Comic-Con: Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo announce lineups
- New Steam update makes downloading games faster
- Halo Anniversary video showcases shift between new and old graphics in-game
- Cliff Bleszinski: If Gears 3 succeeds, maybe we'll do a prequel
- July 19
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- Ubisoft realises errors with 360, makes big changes to actually sell copies of Child of Eden on PS3
- David Tennant talks Pirates, plasticine and secret projects
- John Lasseter responds to Toy Story 4 rumours
- 100% unlicensed Chinese Blizzard theme park Godzilla-stomps copyright, is in "general decay"
- Sony's testing 3D Virtual Reality games, with headsets and everything. Early '90s, here we come
- SFX Writer Guest Stars In New Book Series
- Glee Creator Horror TV Show Gets Green Light
- Respawn hires artist from Private Ryan and 12 Monkeys
- Mass Effect 3 first image of squadmate James Vega released via Twitter
- Ubisoft announces Uplay Passport
- Exclusive Halo Anniversary pre-order bonuses revealed
- See what you've been missing in this Saints Row: The Third 'Deconstructed' trailer
- RUMOR: Namco Bandai site's mysterious countdown refers to Digimon
- The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer is online
- July 18
- July 16
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- SFX.co.uk Prepares For Relaunch
- Tom Hardy attached to play Al Capone in a David Yates' Cicero
- Tom Cruise officially signs on to play Jack Reacher in One Shot
- First gameplay video for Metro: Last Light, the sequel to one of 2010’s best overlooked games
- Supertrailer - Extra Booty Edition
- New Mortal Kombat DLC trailer highlights Rain and the purple one's history
- Sad but true: Just Dance 2 best-selling third party Wii game of all time
- Rumor: Microsoft preparing new OS that works on PCs, phones and (maybe) next console
- Shadows of the Damned and Child of Eden flop in US (and you wonder why we can't have nice things)
- Prototype 2 looks strung out in "The Power of Tendrils" video
- Hard Reset, new, PC-exclusive FPS announced
- Duke Nukem Forever comes second to one in June's NPD results
- July 15
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- Deux Ex: Human Revolution - Exclusive walkthrough shows 'lovely gluey cover' and 'kinda hot' cyborgs
- Martin Scorseses magical Hugo gets a trailer
- The Thing prequel gets a slime-free first trailer
- John Carter teaser trailer crash lands online
- Computer learns meaning of words with Civilization II and wins
- Tomb Raider: Crystal Dynamics takes you behind the scenes of debut trailer
- X-Men Destiny and Spider-Man: Edge of Time: Pre-order costumes revealed
- Microsoft says Xbox Live TV will help cable companies, not destroy them
- July 14
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- Final Fantasy XIII-2: Shut up and look at these amazing screenshots
- Apple raises price of UK Apps across the board meaning 59 is now 69, dudes
- Meet these writers and artists on the SFX stand at Comic-Con
- San Diego Comic-Con SFX Signing Schedule
- Diablo Cody to script Evil Dead reboot
- Playable Tribes: Ascend preview to debut at QuakeCon
- Rumors of discontinued support for PlayStation 3 component cables (mostly) false
- 2K defends XCOM's first-person shooter reboot
- Sony invests $20 million in exclusive PSN titles
- Forza 4 E3 trailer featuring Kanye West is all in-game footage
- July 13
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- Rejected Super Mario Bros. movie drafts deserve a second reading
- EA to 'retire' online support for Army of Two and 16 other games past their prime
- Nintendo realises that making 3D games is hard, reconsiders plans
- Batman Year One Animated Trailer
- Edward Norton to play The Bourne Legacys villain?
- First trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows arrives
- The Arcade lives on at California Extreme 2011
- Game of Thrones: Genesis screenshots stick us with the pointy end
- July 12
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- King of Kong director keen on mockumentary remake
- Nintendo hasn't lied to you about the Wii U's future game library, but it has let you assume A LOT...
- Star Trek Fan Gets Dream TV Presenting Job
- 'Modern Warfare 3' URL points towards Battlefield 3's official site. Awkward...
- First Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows footage revealed
- Arnold Schwarzenegger saddles up for The Last Stand
- Square Enix offers new details on Theatrythm Final Fantasy
- Low-scoring Super Mario Bros run carries hope of humanity through bleak days
- First DC Universe Online DLC shines bright with Green Lantern's light
- New Final Fantasy XIII-2 screens show proof of PS3 bias!
- Saints Row: The Third has brain-melting trailer for Professor Genki's Hyper Ordinary Preorder Pack
- Rain brings the pain in new Mortal Kombat trailer
- Kojima, Yamaoka and Suda51 team up for Snatcher sequel! (In radio-play form)
- Space Invaders movie on the way, because Hollywood is where dreams are made
- New Dark Souls screens to make you sweat
- Capcom promises big Marvel vs Capcom news at Comic-Con 2011
- Tekken: Blood Vengeance 3D getting one-day U.S. screening July 26th
- New Dodgeball game released for Magnavox Odyssey
- Batman: Arkham City's Riddler trailer shows he isn't playing games anymore
- July 11
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- Dubious of the Wii U? Yeah? Well you'll buy one anyway. Cliffy B says so
- CCP charging transferable 'cover fee' for Dust 514
- Are you happy with Nintendo games, or would you prefer something more *strokes beard* intellectual?
- UK set to get limited edition Metal Sonic figurine this autumn. But £154.99 with no glowing eyes? Bah
- GamesRadar's Monday morning catch-up video: July 11, 2011
- July 10
- July 9
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- The Hobbit Production Video #2 arrives online
- Limbo confirmed for PSN, coming July 19
- Burnout Crash! hands-on preview
- Modern Warfare 3 to include Color Blind Assist
- PlanetSide 2 officially announced with amygdala-stroking trailer
- New Sonic Generations 'City Escape' trailer is incredibly important
- First Dragon Age II DLC “Legacy” launching July 26
- Xenoblade and The Last Story already being localized for North America, claims inside source
- Civilization World beta opens up to all users
- From Dust coming to PC July 27th, mad god-like skillz displayed in new dev diary
- Carmack: Mobile tech will eclipse current consoles "within a very short time"
- EA: It's never been about Origin vs Steam
- July 8
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- Rupert Grint feels "empty and lost" now Potter's over
- Let the hopeful self-delusion recommence! The Uncharted movie is back on, and these are the details
- Activision looks to be readying a new James Bond game. Expect a studio closure within the year
- Super-rare Metal Gear collectible to be given away on Facebook
- Jesse Eisenberg "not sure what's happening" with Zombieland 2
- Another Final Destination 5 trailer crashes online
- Aliens: Colonial Marines is a true sequel to Aliens
- Valve rewarding Left 4 Dead 2 playtesters (and everyone else) with early-release DLC
- Rosario Dawson calls comedians "dark, negative people"
- Soulcalibur V "Behind the Game" trailer invites you to meet Project Soul
- NBA Jam: On Fire Edition announced for PSN/XBLA
- Wii U improves on current gen, says Gearbox, but system isn't next generation
- Mass Effect movie comes to Comic-Con
- Burnout Crash! officially coming to XBLA, PSN this fall
- Street Fighter X Tekken video teases two new character reveals
- Wanna see every PlayStation 2 game ever released in the US?
- Rage story dissected in "The Dawn" developer diary
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked release date revealed via trailer
- New Secret World trailer previews combat in “Savage Coast” area
- Chinese firm introduces 'virtual property' insurance
- July 7
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- Bethesda announces “Dishonored,” a first-person action title under direction of Deus Ex lead designer
- Shia LaBeouf turned down The Social Network
- Mass Effect movie to be officially announced
- Confirmed: First-party Sony games getting online pass system. Also confirmed: There is no point moaning about it
- Sean Penn drama Gangster Squad adds Giovanni Ribisi
- Nintendo isn’t supporting iOS in spite of a Pokemon game coming to smart phones in Japan
- Catherine: Play the PS3/360 demo on July 12 OR watch it right now
- King of Fighters XIII coming to consoles, and don’t worry, Mai Shiranui is back
- EA says Mirror's Edge isn’t dead, new project exists
- LucasArts creative head calls for more women in industry, warns against ‘Viking’ game dev culture
- Batman: Arkham City's Robin design explained with first color art
- Adam Sandler to voice Dracula in Hotel Transylvania
- Fan-made "Want You Gone" Portal 2 video is an upgrade from the original
- Theatrythm: Final Fantasy to put musical spring in 3DS' step
- Panasonic says "Hollywood damaged 3D"
- July 6
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- Christopher Walken is Zeus in Gods Behaving Badly
- Your Chance To Sit On The Iron Throne From Game Of Thrones
- Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction To Be Published Online Free!
- Conan The Barbarian gets a UK trailer
- Ms Splosion Man will cost a very reasonable $10
- Kojima: LA Noire's tech changes direction of genre, but won't be used in his next game
- Nintendo: Wii U Zelda might not look like E3 demo
- Japanese HD Ico and Shadow of the Colossus trailers are unsurprisingly gorgeous
- Report: Rockstar won't publish Team Bondi's follow-up to LA Noire
- Fallout: New Vegas' Old World Blues DLC looks painful in new screenshots
- Official Pokemon game coming to iPhone and Android this summer
- Professor Layton film finally coming to North America
- LittleBigPlanet 2: Final Fantasy VII, inFamous 2, and Killzone 3 characters incoming
- Jamie Foxx confirms Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained
- July 5
- July 4
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- Tom Felton talks Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes CGI leap
- Apparently Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D save data CAN be erased. If you think it's really worth it...
- Snow White And The Huntsman to be a trilogy
- Sony extends PSN Welcome Back package by a day for all the moaners
- Black-Eyed Peas Kinect dance game apparently revolutionary, sounds like potential body-horror nightmare
- Thor 2 will be scripted by Don Payne
- Snow White And The Huntsman Planned As A Trilogy
- July 3
- July 2
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- Studio Ghibli's Borrowers adaption Arrietty gets a UK trailer
- Xfire: Free2Play is the future, League of Legends' player base skyrockets while WoW's declines
- Zynga about to harvest $1 billion in public offering
- Sony: Hardcore gamers use Home
- Must-watch Batman: Arkham City video has 12 minutes of gameplay to drool over
- Blade Runner game would have ruined Gearbox Software, says CEO
- Sony: Virtual reality gaming we wanted in the '80s coming soon
- July 1
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- Deathspank cures evil in 'The Baconing' story trailer
- BioShock Infinite: Two-minute teaser for E3 press only demo
- The Walking Dead Season Two: The Producers Speak
- Resident Evil Revival Collection HD footage looks just like Resi 4 and Code Veronica in HD. What else did you want?
- Full line-up for FrightFest 2011 is announced
- Camelot Cancelled
- Sorry fans, Nintendo has 'no plans' to release Xenoblade, Last Story or Pandora's Tower in US
- Dead Island trailer takes gold at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
- Star Wars Galaxies fans strike back
- Capcom defends Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D perma-save feature
