Featuring Japanese punk band and zombies rocking out.
Capcom's released a new video for upcoming zombie title Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, featuring Japanese band Gagaga SP and a bunch of in-engine zombies rocking out.

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Prepare to sample new tricks, handplants and hippy jumps.
EA's planning to release a Skate 2 demo via Xbox Live Marketplace later this week.

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Might want to spend the money on joystick lessons instead.
PC kids moaning about the lack of mouse and keyboard support on Xbox have finally got their wish - but it's going to cost them.



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Sales jump 100 percent during the holidays, says MS.
Despite the much-touted crunching of credits, Microsoft is patting itself on the back after having had the "biggest sales period ever" in the history of the Xbox this Christmas.

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MS rubbishes reports it's set to hold business meetings in PS3's virtual world.
Microsoft has dismissed reports that it's planning to use Sony's PS3 virtual world Home to host business meetings.

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Metal Gear studio revamps to help penetrate North America and Europe.
Metal Gear Solid house Kojima Productions is undergoing a thorough "structure, tools and staff" revamp so that it can further penetrate the Western market, Hideo Kojima himself has revealed.



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Radical restructuring imminent, says report.
Sony's on the brink of radically restructuring core elements of its worldwide operations.



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Official US PlayStation mag gives Guerrilla's shooter 5/5.
Killzone 2 has snagged a perfect 5/5 score in the latest issue of the US Official PlayStation Magazine.

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Company prepares to take legal action.
Big name companies including Microsoft and EMI are preparing legal action against Woolworths' administrators in a bid to reclaim millions of pounds of stock.



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Street Fighter IV, Resident Evil 5 and others reaffirmed.
Capcom has confirmed the release dates for seven of its upcoming titles in the first half of 2009, including that fighting game you may have heard of.

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And PS3 had a "disappointing" 2008, says Lionhead boss in column.
Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has expressed his disappointment with the 2009 games line-up, stating that this year's release list is "looking a bit dry".

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Despite Wii more than doubling PS3's userbase, Sony's machine is more active online.
It may come as a surprise that, as Nintendo continues to dominate the TV console market, Sony's PS3 is more widely used for internet browsing.

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Overtakes Super Mario Bros, according to report.
Wii Sports has become the best-selling game in history, according to stat cruncher VGChartz.

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Castle Crashers and Braid top the list.
Following on from the most played Xbox Live games of 2008, Microsoft mouth piece Major Nelson has listed the best selling Xbox Live Arcade games of last year.

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PSP's game of 2009?.
We're secretly hoping PSP will see a return to form in 2009, so we're looking forward to seeing one of the biggest-name titles for the portable - Resistance Retribution.



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So was it Halo 3 or CoD4?.
Microsoft's official Xbox Live mouthpiece, Major Nelson, has coughed up the final word on what was the most played game on Xbox Live in 2008.

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So was it Halo 3 or CoD4?.
Microsoft's official Xbox Live mouthpiece, Major Nelson, has coughed up the definitive word on what the most played game on Xbox Live was in 2008.

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New screenshots of the now-destined-for-2009 jumpy shooter.
One of the forgotten casualties of the Activision-Vivendi merger is Wet, the action shooter where jumping and shooting is the order of the day.



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Home Entertainment industry "alive and kicking", says British Video Association.
Credit crunch? What credit crunch? Sales of Blu-ray films are up by a whopping 400 percent in the UK, according to the BVA (British Video Association) - probably as people stop spending all their cash on booze and strippers.

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Competitive pricing is the way forward.
Beautiful Game Studios general manager Roy Meredith has told CVG that there's a 90 percent piracy rate for the developer's Championship Manager series.

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Preview: New season, new features.
In a recent visit to our headquarters, Beautiful Game Studios general manager Roy Meredith admitted that Championship Manager had "fallen on rough times" when he assumed his post at the developer last year.



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"Western studios are making great games" as Japanese devs feel the squeeze.
Capcom's Jun Takeuchi, currently producer on Resident Evil 5, has voiced his concern over the impact of Western developers in Japan.

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Feature: Operation Flashpoint 2 versus ArmA 2. Fight.
Love your war brutal and realistic? 2009 is your year. Two open-world soldier simulations are coming, both of them with serious heritage.

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Feature: Five free, and brilliant, war games.
Will the smart-arse who said, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it," please go and stand in the corner with a dunce hat on (It was poet and philosopher George Santayana, actually - Culture Ed). 'Doomed' to repeat it? 'Privileged' more like. Being in the position to repeat history is a genuine joy, especially when the history in question is pin-cushioned with arrows or wreathed in gun smoke and the reliving is done via the medium of electro-digital personal computing.



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Preview: Much more than just ArmA in a greener locale.
Will Operation Flashpoint 2 turn out to be a war hero or a disgrace to the regiment? After a day spent discussing and playing rival soldier sim ArmA 2 at Bohemia Interactive Studios' forest-hemmed Czech HQ, it's tempting to answer: who cares?



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