Do you remember last year when I went to the Gamecamp “unconference”. Go read about it. It was a lot of fun. They’re doing another one this year on May 8th at Whittaker House (Ebay/PayPal/Gumtree.com’s headquarters) in Richmond, London, and the first bunch of (free) tickets for the event go live at Midday today. As in, noon. They’ll disappear pretty quickly, so consider this your advance warning. You’ll be able to get them from here.

• The Guardian GameCamp

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Rumours are afoot that Fable III may be making its way to the PC. During Lionhead head Peter Molyneux’s GDC chat with Gamespot yesterday, he referred to “platforms” for the new game in the plural, and that doesn’t really leave a lot of options. The Microsoft-owned developer is not particularly likely to aid their competition with a PS3 or Wii version (although you’d have to think a Wii port of the Fable series would be a 400ft golden egg-laying goose made of diamonds), which leaves the PC as the only viable Microsoft-supported place for the game to be. The original Fable made it to the PC after a lengthy delay, although Fable II stayed exclusively on the wheezing white crate. You can see him drop the hint on the video we’ve tucked in below. And even more clues too.

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• Chicken-Chaser
• Retro: Fable
• Peter Molyneux In Bold Claim Shocker
• The Guardian: Peter Molyneux Interview

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• IGF Factor 2010: Super Meat Boy
• Indieyeahosity: IGF 2010 Finalists Announced
• IGF Watch: More Closure
• IGF Winners Announced

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Hello, lovelies – a word in your shell-like, if you wouldn’t mind awfully. Our dear spam filter silently removes thousands of comments unfit for your delicate eyes each week. As our readership grows (hooray!), so does the spam count (boo!) Alas, Spam-o-Tron is not a perfect immortal machine – some stuff still gets through, even despite the captcha check we introduced recently.

We’re working on a larger-scale defence against these unwanted pill’n'handbag’n'essay’n'WoW-gold bot-marketeers, but in the short-term we’ve had to turn up the severity of our spam filter. Though the vast majority of posters make it through without a hitch, this has meant that more legitimate comments than we’d like are getting snared in its digi-nets. Unfortunately, it is now getting to the point where manually retrieving all of them is becoming impossible. So, here are a few comment-preserving tidbits to keep in mind if you’ve lately found yourself suffering spam-o-tron’s sporadic wrath.
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I’ve only had passing interest in the upcoming Transformers shooty-mcthumpy game War For Cybertron until now, but something about the previews that hit various sites earlier this week, and especially the below video – the first significant chunk of in-game footage to date – has awakened NERD-HUNGER in me. The environments look big and detailed, the robots are an excellent hybrid of 80s blocks’n'colours and intricate machinery and the combat looks varied… oh, who am I kidding? The reason I’m excited is because I recognise all the damned characters. Optimus! Ironhide! Ratchet! Megatron! Soundwave! Trypticon! Omega Supreme! I could go on. I did, in fact, but it started to look a bit scary, so I deleted half the names I’d written. You must not peek inside my brain of shame. Especially the bit that thought “the DLC for this game is going to be awesome.” (more…)

• War For Cybertron – First Footage
• Transformers Transforming Into Not-Rubbish?
• The War For Cybertron Trailer

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We mentioned Primal Carnage last month, the mod-gone-commercial multiplayer FPS that pits humans versus dinosaurs. Which is awesome even just to type. At the time we had a couple of videos of dinosaur movement, and some impressive screenshots. We all got appropriately excited about it. And now, crikey. You really should watch the video below. Twice.

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• A Fold In Space & Time: PaperWorld
• Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
• Fragging With Dinosaurs: Primal Carnage
• RPS Rule #234: Silly Name=Linkage

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Read on for the second part of the battle, where there is no love to be made: only war.
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• Pride And Falls: Neptune’s Pride Diary Part 1
• Irrational Pride: Neptune’s Pride Beta
• Battle Klaxon: Neptune’s Pride Before A Fall

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It seems that the Secret Of Monkey Island Special Edition must have been enough of a success for LucasArts to pursue the idea further. It’s been announced that the sequel is receiving the same treatment, now called Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: Le Chuck’s Revenge. And it’s arriving in the Summer.

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• Hooray For Piracy: Free’n'Cheap Monkey Isles
• I Am Rubber, You Are Shoe: Monkey Island Sneakers
• LeChuck Me: Monkey Island Returns
• It’s a Trap? Lucasarts Tease X-Wing Special Edition.

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the slightly slipped Disney racer, Split/Second. But it’s reappeared at GDC ahead of what’s now a May release. It’s a trailer that asks that all-important question one should always raise at the car dealership: can it outrun a building?

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• Split/Second Off-Screen Video
• Carmageddon Too? Armageddon Riders
• Actually, That’s Quite Clever: Split/Second
• Entire Seconds Of Split/Second

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In preparation for the impending Chaos Rising expandaspansionlone due later this week, there’s just been a hunka hunka burning patch for the original Dawn of War II. While the price of Chaos Rising might seem a little unfair, given it’s primarily an expansion hiding in self-contained form, Relic are going to extreme lengths to not split the player base. The update that’s just hit allows DoW2-plain players to battle against Chaos Rising players (and Dow2+Chaos Rising players), essentially patching the entire Chaos Faction into the original game. You can’t play as ‘em if you don’t own Chaos Rising, but you can play against them. Better still, the shiny new units for the four existing DoW2 races are now yours to play with, for free – including Genestealers. Genestealers! Dance-dance-happy-dance. Also thrown in are a clutch of new maps – the net result being that, whichever configuration of DoW2 you own, you’re not locked out of playing with anyone else. It’s an incredibly generous update, and I’ve a sneaking feeling it’ll shift a lot of copies of the expansion as a result. Full patch notes are hiding below – but you’ll get the whole lot if you update your copy of DoW2 on Steam now.
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• Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising Announced
• Dawn Of War II, Big Update
• Unitology: Chaos Rising’s Fresh Troopers
• Redawn Of War: Hands On With Chaos Rising

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Demo! Demo! Demo! Demo of a strategy game! Being a gentleman who tends towards robots and explosions in his real-time strategy games and turn-based in his historical strategy games, I remain a little unclear as to whether Napoleon: Total War is a brand new game, or a cleverly-marketed standalone expansion. Or both. All I know is that Quinns quite liked it. There’s a demo out now via Steam, which means you can ascertain for yourself whether it’s a new age or a repeat of Empire. The AI’s much better, I hear. And it’s important to always mention the AI in any discussion of recent Total War games, apparently. Oh- the demo contains a tutorial and the France vs Prussia Battle of Ligny scenario. Fight!

• Napoleon Dynamite: EG Napoleon Review
• Napoleon: Total Trailer
• Empire: Total War Campaign Multiplayer
• A Grander Armée: Napoleon: Total War Announced

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• PCGA President Randy Stude Talks Methodology
• PCGA on “The Piracy Challenge”
• Status Update: Jim at GDC

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