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The European Console League has rebranded in style with the help of Arsenal Football Club’s Emirates stadium.

Now known as European Gaming League, the E-sports event organiser will host its next tournament EGL4 at the North London stadium from October 29th to 30th.

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Street Fighter pro Daigo Umehara took home $10,000 after winning the 2011 ReveLAtions game tournament undefeated last month.

It was a sweet victory for Team Mad Catz as Daigo’s team mate TOPANGA.Mago finished in second place with $3,000 winnings.

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The creator of arguably the world’s weirdest game Mr Keita Takahashi has hit out at the Japanese games industry by describing it as a zombie.

He revealed his views in an interview with Games TM after quitting his post at Namco Bandai, where he produced weird and wonderful titles such as those in the Katamari series. Now he is working freelance with his wife on projects like building playgrounds in Nottingham. But where does that leave the Japanese industry? Leet shares its views.

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Sega has released a clever little piece of viral marketing for action shooter Vanquish that puts the viewer’s road in the thick of the action.

It works by integrating Google Street View after the viewer has entered their postcode. It’s a cool touch and caught us completely by surprise when we first watched it. Check it out for yourself and ‘Get Vanquished’ by viewing the official Vanquish trailer. The game is out now on Xbox 360 and PS3.

Leet tested out Dance Central for Xbox 360 Kinect at Harmonix’s headquarters in Massachusetts, ahead of its UK launch on Wednesday November 10th.

But does the motion-based dance game groove like the pros or fall flat on its face? Check out this full report to find out.

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Forget that silly little remote control car with Black Ops or those ambitiously priced Modern Warfare 2 night vision goggles – Chrysler is pulling out the big guns with this CoD-branded Jeep.

It’s out next month to accompany the game’s release on November 9th – and can be yours for around £20k…

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Want to meet the boys who beat the likes of Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand and The Gadget Show’s Jason Bradbury at Halo?

We chatted with Team Slayer captain Jake Lowe after the group’s celebrity match at the Halo: Reach launch event in London.

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For those of you who missed Nintendo’s 3DS reveal video at E3 in June this year, here it is in all its glory.

Odd really isn’t the correct choice of word to describe it.

Now that we’re slap bang in the Summer games drought – how about a bit of topical gaming?

In this DS exclusive action adventure game, you play as Oksana Grigorieva – the beleaguered ex partner of mental-as-anything, drunken bigot, Mel Gibson.

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Following a spout at the recent Develop Awards 2010 in Brighton last week, Epic Games’ Mark Rein has apologised to an indie developer for remarks made about his business processes.

Reign originally entered a conference halfway through and ‘heckled’ the panel of indies – one of which, Cliff Harris of Positech Games, later posted a blog telling Epic to “fuck off.” Rein has since apologised – here’s the full story:

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