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From what we've played so far, this Japanese RPG could very well be the next Tales of Symphonia.

You don't often see a mix of turn-based RPG and dating game. This niche title from Atlus pulls it off.

Noel Gallagher believes that games are partly responsible for London knife crime spree

Joe Riedel writes "The alpha version of Tread 3.0, a Quake series map editor, has been released (including source code). Independent game developers and hobbyists who are looking for an editing tool may also want to check it out since it should provide a good starting point for their own tools (and it's free). This latest incarnation of the editor is unrelated source-wise from its predecessors; it is based on an in-house tool I developed a few years ago."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The first Tomb Raider title built specifically for next generation consoles, bringing Lara Croft and her world into life-like detail

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Talking to Gamasutra, Xbox boss of product management Aaron Greenberg has opened a whole can worms, the exec describing Nintendo's best selling system as a novelty that will wear off.

Blu-ray may have won the next-generation DVD format war over rival HD-DVD, but the format wouldn't have got very far were in not for the playstation 3 propping-up drive sales.

Chatting with UK music mag NME Oasis star Noel Gallagher has partially blamed video games for a rise in violent crime in the UK.