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  Eurogamer's favourite Halloween games

  Which grim grinning greats should keep you company on the scariest night of the year? 70

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  The Lost Worlds of Lionhead and Bullfrog

  From prehistoric savannahs to alien seabeds, these cancelled projects offer a rich insight into the ambitions of two great developers. 57

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  Nintendo's History of Hardware Revisions

  Variations on a theme. 52

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  Retrospective: Virtua Striker 3 ver. 2002

  "Rainbow! Fantastic! Wonderful goal!" 41

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  Retrospective: P.N.03

  Schneider house rules. 43

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  Retrospective: Second Sight

  Look again. 44

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  Free Radical vs. the Monsters

  The dark LucasArts: What drove the legend behind GoldenEye out of games, and the publishers who had a hand in the studio's demise. 150

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  Retrospective: Killer7

  Try it, you might hate it. 58

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  Retrospective: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

  "The wind… it is blowing…" 121

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  Who Killed Rare?

  Did Microsoft ruin Britain's greatest game studio? 183

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  Feature: A Hero's Journey

  Zelda: 25 years of music and magic with Nintendo's legendary fairytale. 10

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  Retrospective: Animal Crossing

  DO NOT ESCAP. 81

December 2006

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  Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2006: 30 - 21

  Justice is served. 88

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  Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2006: 40 - 31

  Gyps that pass in the night. 109

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  Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2006: 50 - 41

  Oh, my, dear, god, FIFTY, FIFTY, FIFTY. 42

• GamesIndustry.biz: The Phoney War

  2006: A year of sabre-rattling and uncertainty. 26

• GamesIndustry.biz: Nintendo Difference

  Why the patriarch of gaming will never follow SEGA's path. 19

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  GamesIndustry.biz: Emergent Problem

  The promise of user-generated content is beset by fears of litigation. 7

• GamesIndustry.biz: State of the Art

  Failure to acknowledge talent is suffocating creativity. 8

November 2006

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  The History of Zelda - Part 2

  Gratuitous Linkage. 63

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  The History of Zelda - Part 1

  A link to the past. 93

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  GamesIndustry.biz: The Mainstream Myth

  Is the industry chasing rainbows in its pursuit of the mass-market? 41

October 2006

• GamesIndustry.biz: Full Steam ahead

  From one game to some of the industry's finest. 26

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  Flight of Fantasy

  A history of the recurring dream. 63

• GamesIndustry.biz: Currying Favour

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• GI.biz: They'll miss you, Clover

  Rolled over. 32

• UK Charts: FIFA blocks Lego

  07 edition of EA's football series maintains grip on top slot. 9

• GamesIndustry.biz: Graduate Future

  Nurturing new talent must become core to every game company's business. 20

• UK Charts: Star Wars forced out by FIFA

  Power in numbers for multiformat football favourite. 9

September 2006

• UK Charts: Return of the Jedi

  Lego Star Wars still on top. 5

• Tokyo Game Show 2006: Show Preview

  How it'll play out, and what we'll play out there. 17

• UK Charts: Lego blocks number one spot

  Star Wars fights its way to the top of the heap. 14

• UK Charts: Xbox 360 dominates top five

  Dead Rising on top, Saints Row, Test Drive in close pursuit. 25

• UK Charts: Saints Row over Cars

  THQ knocks one off. 24

• GamesIndustry.biz: Weapon of Revolution

  Looking past the hype, Yamauchi may have a point. 8

August 2006

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  The best of YouTube

  10 clips you should see. 63

• UK Charts: Top ten in gridlock

  Only two new entries this week. 4

• Quotes of the Week ending August 25th

  No we didn't forget it last week: Tom forgot it last week. 3

• UK Charts: Cars still in the lead

  Liberty City Stories still in second. 6

• GC 2006: Show Preview

  We're off to Germany. Here's what to expect. 26

• The television will not be televised

  GI.biz: Robert Florence and Johnny Minkley talk games TV. 13

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  GC 06: Eurogamer's planned coverage

  What to expect, including live-text timings. 27

• UK Charts: Cars refuses to brake

  Race leaders pile up behind THQ's animated movie tie-in. 9

• Quotes of the Week ending August 11th

  Jabbering of the august. 2

• UK Charts: Cars still in pole position

  Cars takes the lead on five different formats 6

• Quotes of the Week ending August 4th

  It's the end of the week as we know it. 4

• Remembering E3

  The stuff we're leaving behind. Sniff. 31

• UK Charts: Cars overtake GTA

  THQ scores first all-formats No. 1 of the year. 4

• Last Stop, E3

  Reflecting on the end of the industry's greatest folly. 34

July 2006

• Quotes of the Week ending July 28th

  Speak now and forever be on the Internet. 17

• UK Charts: Grand Theft Auto bad news for Cars

  As in: GTA's on top, Cars is second. 4

• Quotes of the Week ending July 21st

  The best of the industry's brightest and loudest. 14

• UK Charts: Top ten receives Preys

  But GTA remains the UK's best-selling game 14

• UK Charts: Mafia takes bigger cut than Mario

  Three weeks at the top for Rockstar. 6

• UK Charts: Liberty City Stories holds off Mario

  Strong performance for the DS with four titles in the top ten. 15

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  It Really Is All Over

  And we're sick of PES and FIFA. So what are our other footballing options? 74

June 2006

• UK Charts: Rockstar muscles in on top-spot

  DS Lite launch shakes up the top 40

• UK Charts: Football's coming home

  It's five a side and FIFA's in the lead 6

• UK Charts: FIFA tops the table again

  World Cup boosts sales further. 8

• UK Charts: Hitman gets second shot at the top

  Hitman: Blood Money marks the third top ten entry for the Britsoft publisher. 5

May 2006

• UK Charts: Hitman makes a killing

  Eidos title knocks FIFA off the all-formats top spot. 11

• UK Charts: You'd think it was World Cup year

  Konami on the attack with Pro Evolution Soccer 5. 21

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  Wii: The name of the game

  Post-E3: Nintendo convinces. 85

• E3 2006: Konami

  Metal Gear Solid 4, Castlevania, Coded Arms, and more… 25

• E3 2006: Activision

  Tony Hawk, Quake Wars, Marvel and more... 17

• E3: Iwata shows off Wii

  But when and how much? 27

• EG.net's E3 Coverage Schedule and details

  I won't need a passport, right? 22

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  E3 2006: Show Preview

  It's time. (Well, nearly.) 52

• UK Charts: World Cup lifts World Cup

  Lara gracefully steps aside for the fans. 6

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  2005 UK Sales Review

  Part One: How current-gen consoles did in 2005. 90

April 2006

• Animal Crossing closes gap on Lara

  Vivendi still chilling out in second place. 21

• Tomb Raider stays ahead of Ice Age

  "Thawed I had ya!" 8

• UK Charts: Eidos hails the return of a legend

  Ladies first as Lara shifts three times more units than The Godfather. 15

• Character Study

  Yoshitaka Amano and Michel Ancel discuss design. 14

March 2006

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  UK Charts: Elder's finally shown respect

  Fourth Elder Scrolls keeps EA from the top spot. 63

• UK Charts: EA kicks and punches to the top

  GRAW sticks with them. 4

• UK Charts: Streets too tough for GRAW

  Strong single-format debut unable to shift EA's soccer sim. 15

• UK Charts: FIFA Street's ahead

  FIFA Street 2 becomes EA's third number one debut of the year. 18

February 2006

• UK Charts: EA's Black in first

  Publisher secures first all-formats hit with original IP since 1997. 12

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  UK Charts: Shadow cast over NFS success

  Sony's first number one since Ridge Racer PSP. 43

• UK Charts: Ten weeks at the top for EA

  NFS: MW refuses to relinquish the lead. 14