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IGN.com have reported:

IGN AU just came out of interviews with Lars Bakken (Multiplayer Designer) and Frank O’Connor (Writing Lead) at Bungie. Straight from Lars, here’s the description of the newest map, ‘Narrows’:

“It’s a Forerunner structure. It’s embedded in this cliff wall and it’s a bridge. Imagine the - if you’re familiar with Halo 1 - imagine the bridge from Assault on the Control Room, expanded, and made for multiplayer, so it’s got multiple levels and each side has kind of a dug in section, and it’s mirrored so on one side of each of the bases there’s actually a Man Cannon, and if both sides take it at the same time they’ll actually meet in mid-air, which is pretty cool.

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This years WWE: Smackdown VS Raw 2008 (SvR) is promising to be better than last years PS2 port… I mean come on you had a hard drive there what you could of used your own Music files as intros; also the online part of SvR2007 was abominable. You couldn’t play a decent game due to the lag.

Anyhow onto 2008 … New Animations which should be more Fluid, new roster, More of the using the analogue sticks to pull off moves (such as the submissions) and well a nicer looking game. What remains to be seen though is the gameplay itself.

Just announced roster update has 7 new superstars:

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 Gamespot have reported that:

Unreal Engine creator says Too Human developer is trying to steal its technology, asks judge to dismiss original suit.

The troubled development of Too Human was partially chronicled last month in a Silicon Knights lawsuit against Epic Games over a licensing agreement to use the latest Unreal Engine in the game. Silicon Knights claimed that Epic breached its contract and failed to deliver a workable version of the engine on time, forcing the developer to start building its own engine for Too Human, and delaying the game in the process.

Epic has returned fire: Yesterday the company filed a motion to dismiss the original suit, and then filed its own countersuit against Silicon Knights. In its defense, Epic said that Silicon Knights failed to show that the company misrepresented the truth or ever intended to deceive the developer.

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IGN.com report: 

“Over on the 360, Map Pack #3 (which currently includes the Lost Technology, Ruins, and Ice Drop levels) will be made available for free on August 16, as well. In the next few weeks, a patch addressing connectivity concerns for 360 players will be arriving.”

Is it just me or are the DDP now realising that Free content (after so long since Microsoft is greedy) is the best way to attract more gamers into their games?