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Originally Posted by wraggster

Electronic Arts has issued an action claiming First Amendment protection for its use of real-world military helicopters in Battlefield 3.
According to legal documents obtained by Kotaku, EA was contacted on December 21, 2011 by lawyers representing Textron, a US conglomerate that owns the military hardware company Bell Helicopter.
Textron demanded that three models depicting Bell aircraft be removed from Battlefield 3. However, after failing to reach an understanding privately, EA submitted

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Originally Posted by wraggster

PlayStation 3 exclusive Twisted Metal will arrive in the UK on February 17th, Sony has told MCV.
The destructive driving game is the latest in Sony’s long-running franchise, which first arrived on the original PlayStation in 1995.
The new Twisted Metal was previously scheduled to arrive in October last year but was delayed to February. The US version arrives on February 14th.
Buyers of the first batch of copies on PS3 will also receive a voucher that allows them to download

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Warner Bros Interactive has announced a new version of its 2011 fighting game Mortal Kombat.
Called Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition, the SKU includes all of the DLC that has been released for the title since it arrived on consoles.
That means that on the disc gamers will find four new characters – Skarlet, Kenshi, Rain and Nightmare On elm Street’s Freddy Krueger, as well as 15 character skins and three classic fatalities for Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Reptile.
Mortal Kombat Komplete

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The allure of building the perfect skyscraper is stronger than we initially thought. Tiny Tower developer Ian Marsh revealed via his Twitter account that the mobile darling currently has a million users stacking shops each day. And that figure doesn't even take Android into consideration!

Those million people are responsible for over ten million sessions of Tiny Tower each day, which

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Petitions come and petitions go, but when an employee of Namco Bandai suggests Dark Souls could get ported to PC with a few thousand signatures, we take notice. Administrator shoupinou responded to a request for a PC version of Dark Souls with the following advice:

"There is always possibilities to have games adapted on PC and the good news is that Dark Souls is not a 100% typical Console game so

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