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Originally Posted by wraggster

Atari is bringing a new version of Breakout to iOS devices. Titled Breakout Boost, it adds plenty of modern features to the classic brick-breaker, including power-ups, special bricks and – the most modern feature of all – in-app purchases.

Yes, in addition to grenade balls, exploding bricks and the like, Breakout Boostwill contain five (five) free levels and "over 200 more unique

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Square Enix is hiring for its new Unreal Engine 3-based game, and revealing a bit of information about the project in the process. Most importantly, the hubfor the "New Action RPG" jobs features the above artwork, which we don't actually think is Chakan: The Forever Man, even though it totally looks likeChakan: The Forever Man.

The jobs seek people with experience on PS3 and Xbox 360 games, which isn't

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Originally Posted by wraggster

As promised, EA and DICE are delivering Battlefield 3's first expansion, "Back to Karkand," in December, though today we learned from the Battlefield blog that there's a specific date: December 6. Given that all of Battlefield 3's expansions will arrive one week early on PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and PC versions of said DLC won't arrive until December 13.

If you've

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Originally Posted by wraggster

So, about Bethesda's latest Skyrim patch. There were, you see, some issues. Issues, like, say, dragons that flew backwards (hilarious!), and the game no longer recognizing some folks' active magic powers (significantly less hilarious!). Thankfully, Bethesda is all over it. The publisher today announced on its blog that a patch ... for the 1.2 patch that caused these issues in the first place, will arrive on PC first at some point next week, with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 flavors to follow "later

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Doublesix's All Zombies Must Die!, the "spiritual successor" to Burn Zombie Burn!, will be available later this month on consoles. A representative for Doublesix tells us the XBLA and PSN versions will launch simultaneously, with PC coming "a bit later." This is a slight alteration from the original launch plansin July, which had the XBLA version hitting later.

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