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Spore (PC)Will Wright's evolution revolution arrives with a (big) bang.

Some new renders including Piazza San Marco, the Doges Palace and the Arsenal

Distribution deal agreed for Australia and New Zealand

Twelve new screens uploaded in our gallery

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It will include all content available previously only by download, including Napoleon's Ambition and In Nomine.

With PS3 owners consuming Blu-ray movies, we look at the next step in Blu-ray entertainment: D-BOX.

Chris wonders why hardcore PC gamers deserve an exclusive Bill of Rights. Casual gamers need one too.

Edge Magazine is running a piece about Heavy Rain, a thriller by Quantic Dream that's been in development for a few years now. Edge spoke with David Cage, the game's writer and director, about using graphics technology not simply for breathtaking landscapes or realistic lighting, but to bring the characters to life and make them more believable. Cage walked the folks at Kotaku through a demo, and they provided details on how the controls will work. From Edge: "'We worked very hard on motion capture, especially facial motion capture,' explains Cage. 'As you know, eyes are incredibly hard to do: the minute movements they constantly make mean you can tell whether something is human or not. We created a technology to motion-capture that from actors.' The shaders applied to the lead character's eyes and the skin that surrounds them also conspire to nudge Heavy Rain's characters closer to believability. The 'deadness' that so often afflicts such digital mannequins has been significantly chip