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Face it: PlayStation Move sure looks a lot like a Wii remote and nunchuk with a light up ball stuck on the end. Does that mean we can expect a steady diet of soul-crushingly dull, Wii-alike baby game collections strictly crafted to appeal to everyone from grandmothers to chimpanzees – except those of us who already play games?Mostly, yeah. But not entirely. We checked out all the games at Sony’s big announcement bash… …

Sony just unveiled the PlayStation Move to an excited GDC audience and the Déjà vu was absolutely palpable! You’d think with all the time and technology between the Wii’s 2006 launch, Sony would’ve floored the press with something new and exciting… then they rolled the sizzle reel featuring multiracial groups of thin people pretending to have fun and we knew it was all over. …

If you’ve been waiting on tenterhooks for more news of Sony’s enigmatic motion controller, wait no longer. The controller (formerly called Arc) was officially unveiled today as Move during Sony’s press conference at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and shown off alongside a handful of games.

In practice, the Move was more or less exactly what we expected it to be: the PlayStation 3’s answer to the Wii remote and Nunchuk, complete with games that look conceptually similar to Nintendo’s showcase titles. Golfing, archery and, yes, boxing were all represented, albeit with a more clearly “mature” bent than Nintendo’s Mii-infused minigames.

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It’s difficult to talk about the upcoming modern-day Medal of Honor reboot without making comparisons to the Modern Warfare series, so we won’t (we don’t like difficult things). Modern Warfare 2 is immensely polished and popular, but it does suffer from cheap tricks which unbalance the multiplayer modes, a slew of glitches, and a campaign that’s riddled with plot holes and accelerates like a Toyota. Will Medal of Honor restore balance to modern-day combat? Here are a few reasons it might. …

Grand Theft Auto invented the open-world crime epic and, even after a decade filled with countless imitators, Grand Theft Auto is clearly still the king of the genre. So how can you observe any new contender and not notice the differences or similarities? How can you write about any new contender without making the most obvious and interesting comparison?

Answer – you can’t. Or at least I can’t. So that’s exactly what I did …

VG247: The God of War team is currently talking about DLC right now, or at least the possibility of it – so hold your horses there Spartans.

Don’t get too excited just yet.

Speaking with VG247 at the God of War III event tonight in San Francisco, design director Todd Papy told us that while the team is currently on a much needed break, it is still discussing the possibility of more content for the game.

VG247: Sony has said in the past that some of the games already present in the PS3 catalog will get PS Move support.

Will this include the God of War games? Only if it’s not a "hokey" thing to do, says design director Todd Papy.

Speaking with VG247 during the God of War III event in San Francisco, Papy told us that the new motion controller and 3D tech are both something that will be pondered heavily before being incorporated into a God of War title.

EA chief financial officer Eric Brown has revealed an extensive DLC plan over the next half year for DICE’s shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

The big reveal is finally here for Sony’s motion controller, officially dubbed the "Playstation Move". At a press conference at GDC this afternoon, Sony rolled out a whole mess of demo’s and details regarding this PS3 peripheral that will, according to Sony, "appeal to both casual and core gamers." So what are the main points to glean from this fairly lengthy presentation?

If your idea of ‘strategy’ is casting a fire spell on an ice monster, Spectral Force Genesis might come as a bit of a shock. This isn’t an RPG; it’s a game about diplomacy, about careful resource management, and only in part a game about battling. And Spectral Force doesn’t so much throw you in at the deep end of all this tactical twiddling – it hurls you into the sea. …