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Originally Posted by wraggster

Japanese developer Level-5 has revealed that a new entry in itsProfessor Layton series - up until now a Nintendo exclusive - will be making its way to iOS.
The game will be called Layton Brothers: Mystery Room and will star Layton's son, Alfendy Layton, not Layton himself. The game will, of course, use the touch screen for navigation and puzzle-solving, and Alfendy will be aided by his assistant, Lucy Grey.
There's no news yet on a western release, though.
The announcement makes

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Facebook has changed the way it calculates the total monthly and daily active users (MAU and DAU) for apps on the social network, sending figures plummeting.
The adjustment means that users who choose not to authenticate after a permission dialog box is clicked, and those who visit an app but do not log in, will no longer be contribute towards active user counts.
As a result of the changes, some games have seen more than half of their previously reported user figures drop away (though

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Originally Posted by wraggster

DICE has revealed 8,125,310 players played the Battlefield 3 open beta.
The figure was released as part of a series of stats published on the game's blog. According to the data, those eight million people fired 47 billion bullets while killing 1.5 billion other players.
The morbidly curious can delve further to find out how many players were killed by knives and what the longest sniper kill distance was by following the source link below.
The game is due to be released on October

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Originally Posted by wraggster

A leaked version of DICE's upcoming war shooter Battlefield 3 has found its way on to illegal torrent sites, according to MCV.

The 9.96GB download contains the entire single player mode from the PC version of the game.

It's an occurance that is becoming increasingly more common. Leaks of high-profile games ahead of release this year have included Gears Of War 3, Crysis 2 and The Sims 3. And extensive details on Modern Warfare 3, but not the game, were also leaked this year.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

EA has revealed that Battlefield 3 pre-orders have reached two million units ahead of the game’s launch next Tuesday.

"We're doing very, very well," product manager Kevin O'Leary told Fox Business, citing pre-orders of "a couple of million" copies.

EA chief financial officer Eric Brown said in early September that pre-orders for the shooter had reached 1.25 million units, placing it "well ahead of its predecessor title, Battlefield: Bad Company

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