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    Posted on August 20th, 2008

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    Heavy Rain trailer

    As revealed during Sony’s Leipzig press conference, a trailer for Heavy Rain, one of PlayStation 3’s flagship games for 2009. Shows in-game engine cutscene footage
     

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    Posted on August 20th, 2008

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    Sony announce new PSP, 160gb PS3 + PS3 keypad

    Everybody’s favourite Sony man David Reeves hosted a press conference today at Leipzig games convention. The key announcements are that the 160gb PS3 will be coming to Europe in “the peak season” priced at €449, no news on a price in Pounds. The announcement comes on the week the 80gb PlayStation 3 gets it’s release [...]

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    Posted on August 20th, 2008

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    FIFA 09 video collection

    EA obviously held off releasing any proper footage of FIFA 09 until this weeks Leipzig games convention. Today sees the release of the official unrealistic footage trailer along with a video showing actual gameplay. Find the trailer and gameplay footage below. A demo of FIFA 09 will released on the usual platforms on September 11th. If anyone is [...]

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    Posted on August 5th, 2008

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    FIFA 09 gameplay video

    Some direct feed footage of FIFA 09 has popped up on Youtube showing Barcelona v Man Utd. The quality is not great with it being youtube but at seven minutes long the video gives us a first look at what to expect from FIFA 09. For some reason official video footage of the game is [...]

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    Posted on August 5th, 2008

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    Guaranteed fun with Asda Story or get paid $30 says publisher

    Gamescampus open up the beta test to their new game Asda Story on the 5th of August and are to pay players $30 if having played for 30 days they don’t feel they have enjoyed the experience. Gamescampus marketing man David Chang says “We are just asking you to invest your time in playing our [...]

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    Posted on August 1st, 2008

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    Sony Europe boss in silly comments gaff

    Everyone’s favourite Sony exec David Reeves managed to make some more comments to annoy European/ PAL PlayStation 3 owners recently. We will refrain from comment and let David do all the Talking.
     
    Commenting on the delay in bringing the recently launched film download service to parts of the world other than the US, David said:
     
    We are [...]

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    Posted on August 1st, 2008

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    Gran Turismo TV to charge UK users for BBC content

    Eurogamer is running and article on the pricing of video downloads within Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. For the first two weeks, videos will be charged at 50p a download, rising to £1 per download after this period.
     
    This is the first we have heard here at ButtonBandits HQ that the content was going to be pay [...]

  • Podcasts

    Posted on August 1st, 2008

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    Podcasts temporarily unavailable

    You may have noticed the lack of updates recently to the site. This is due to some technical problems we are experiencing following a software upgrade. In order to resolve the problems, podcasts have had to be temporarily disabled. They will not be able to return until the technical issues have been resolved. Disabling podcasts will allow [...]

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    Posted on July 29th, 2008

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    Decent games coming to Xbox Live Arcade in August

    Microsoft have announced they are to release a number of anticipated games onto Xbox Live Arcade this summer. Anyone downloading and giving any of the trial versions a go will be entered into a prize draw to win 100,000 Microsoft Points and an Xbox Elite amongst other things. Check out Xbox.com for more detals on the [...]

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    Posted on July 29th, 2008

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    Tom Clancy’s HAWX delayed. Gets 2009 release

    Tom Clancy’s HAWX for 360 and PS3 has been pushed back to a 2009 release. The game is now slated to release sometime between January and March 2009. Tom Clancy’s HAWX is flight sim/arcade game set in the Clancy universe. The game was given an impressive demo over at Gamespot during their live E3 coverage. [...]