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When PEOWW interviewed the CEO of Polish developer Reality Pump about their upcoming sequel to WRPG Two Worlds, one of the questions we didn’t feel the need to ask was, “Will this game actually be coming out in the UK, (you know, the former imperial superpower, permanent member of the UN Security Council and world’s second largest consumer of videogames) or will it keep getting delayed to the point where it isn’t even funny, and eventually just pushed out quietly through Amazon.co.uk and NOWHERE ELSE?” In retrospect, that probably would have been an apt question.Since its release in Europe last year and the US in January, Two Worlds 2 has garnered far more praise than its predecessor and sold over two million copies.

As a fan of the first, I’ve obviously been eager to play it, but a combination of legal troubles for publisher Southpeak, disagreements with co-developer Topware over the release date and at least one act of God have managed to keep it off these shores. It’s finally expected to be released March 1st, exclusively through Amazon (at least they didn’t pick Zavvi).  Adam

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After being announced yonks ago, open-world zombie survival game, Dead Island, has managed to generate substantial hype with a bleak, stylish CG trailer. This, at a time when the public should by rights treat the announcement of yet another zombie game with the same apathy of a George A. Romero fan hearing he’s just started work on Car Insurance of the Dead, goes to show just how easily gamers are impressed with CG trailers.

The lack of gameplay footage can probably be traced to the Polish developers previous works including the blaverage Call of Juarez series. If you’re expecting Valve-quality, L4D-style co-op, you’re a more optimistic man than I. But regardless of quality, at this point I’m so utterly done with the undead that, frankly, if the zombie apocalypse were to happen tomorrow, I’d probably die of boredom before they had chance to eat my brains.  Adam

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We loved The Darkness.  Not the shitty, ironic rock band that idiots took at face value but rather the natty little FPS featuring our boy Alvarez from Oz demonically taking out mobsters in New York.  For an early 360 title it was quite the triumph, although the multiplayer achievements could literally fuck off.

Anyway, whatever.  Darkness 2 has been confirmed.  Different devs this time and apparently less exploration (I don’t remember The Darkness being at all sprawly).  Could be amazing.

Oh… what’s that?  Cell-shaded you say?  FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…

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After greedily exploiting the popular but utterly stupid Guitar Hero craze, Activision have decided to can it, and the pointless DJ Hero series too.  This comes after disappointingly low sales of their Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock title and a similarly poor performance by Rock Band 3 indicating that the age of playing songs you don’t like very much on a Fisher Price guitar are over.

Thank fuck for that.  Still, don’t expect the ridiculous torrent of DLC songs to end any time soon.  Not with unconverted tracks by fucking Fallout Boy still waiting to be sold.

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It is PEOWW’s contention that football games peaked with EA’s Euro 2008 game. It brought in all of the really good stuff that is now part of the main FIFA games and everything since then has just been EA treading water. After all, if you’re simulating a sport nigh-on perfectly, what can you do next?

Player stories.

“It’s about creating a football world you immerse yourself in, thing like, you know, the Rooney story [when he said he want to leave Man Utd and then signed a new contract]. [That’s] definitely interesting to us” says FIFA creative director Gary Paterson.

Just. Fucking. Stop. EA.

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Microsoft’s daily deals continue.  Today we have Hydro Thunder at the stunningly good price of 400M$P.  It’s normally 1200M$P and is a wonderful game as highlighted HERE in our sexy review.

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Today only.  Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is 600M$P (down from 1200M$P).  Tempt-oh?  The game did fairly averagely in our REVIEW but it did seem to keep Peowwsters everywhere entertained with its online mode.

Also, in unrelated news all the DLC for Battlefield BC2 and Burnout Paradise seems to be reduced, possibly permanently.

The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 contents that are discounted are:

• Bad Company 2 VIP – 800 MSP
• Onslaught Mode – 400 MSP
• Assault Kit Short-cut Pack – 400 MSP
• Engineer Kit Short-cut Pack – 400 MSP
• Medic Kit Short-cut Pack – 400 MSP
• Recon Kit Short-cut Pack – 400 MSP
• Kit Short-cut Bundle Pack – 1200 MSP

The Burnout Paradise contents that are discounted are:

• Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island – 560 MSP
• Burnout Paradise Cops & Robbers – 400 MSP
• Burnout Paradise Party – 400 MSP
• Burnout Paradise Toy Car Collection 1 – 400 MSP
• Burnout Paradise Toy Car Collection 2 – 400 MSP
• Burnout Paradise Toy Collection – 400 MSP
• Burnout Paradise Legendary Cars Collection – 400 MSP
• Burnout Paradise Boost Specials Pack – 400 MSP

(news stolen from TrueAchievements)

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Microsoft’s daily deals continue.  Today’s offerings are three films that we can’t even be bothered to list, a ‘countdown to 2011’ theme and the chance to buy Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light for 600M$P (from 1200M$P).

We were lucky and snagged it for free thanks to a tip-off from Savygamer‘s Lewie Procter and to be honest it bored us a bit. But for around a fiver, it’s an okay deal.

What's in the bawwwxx?!

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Xmas isn’t just about families and giving.  It’s also a time for minor reductions on Xbox Live Arcade and this year is no exception with the following titles available for less moon dollaz than usual.

Said games are cheaper from 21st Dec to the 31st.  Also, other daily deals will be occuring which, if they are anything like last year will means excellent games for Japan and shitty film deals for us in the UK.  Dunno about you Americans, do we even get any Americans here?  If so, we think you’ll be trapped in the same ‘rent a shitty movie for 240M$P’ hell as us.

Weekly deals:

Super Meat Boy Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200).  A neat-but-punishing platformer, similar to N+ but disguising its hatefulness behind a cuter exterior.  Our review HERE.

Comic Jumper Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200).  Clever, side-scrolly fighter/shooter with echoes of Comix Zone. Our review HERE.

Toy Soldiers Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200).  Popular twist on the tower defence genre.  If you can be arsed with another one of those.

Banjo Tooie Discounted Price: 600 (from 1200).  Popular N64 title in reasonable port.  Dunno.  Our review HERE.

Castle Crashers Discounted Price: 600 (from 1200).  Overrated dogshit scrolly fighter that tricked everyone with its cute visuals.

The UnderGarden Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  Ignored it when it was released a couple of months back and so did the rest of the world.  Platform/puzzler with echoes of Braid and Limbo.  Possibly.

Risk Factions Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  A lovely reinvention of the old board game with some good power-ups to keep it fresh.  Let down heavily by absolutely rubbish AI. Review-oh.

Afterburner Climax Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  Exciting reinvention of the ancient, and rubbish, ’80s coin-op.  Blistering speed and great visuals can’t hide the limited gameplay.  Plays like a less accurate, less tasteful Rez.  A very easy achievements max though. Reviewage

Borderland’s Claptrap New Revolution Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  Go fuck yourself Borderlands.  A great game ruined by AWFUL downloadble content.  We gave up after the first three, this is the fourth and it got panned by reviewers and loved by idiots.  Would download it for free.  Fact.

Carcassonne Discounted Price: 400 (from 800).  An absolutely charming strategy game that shows its board game roots but takes out the chore of manual scoring.  A steal at 400M$P and our XBLA game of the year back in 2008.