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Well, it was a little longer thanwe were originally advised of, but it looks as if Rockstar has finally gotten around to addressing theissues with 360’sBully: Scholarship Edition. It isn’t news of a confirmed patch release just yet, however — what we are expecting is a “progress update”, which could be word that the patch is ready or that it will be ready shortly. Surely some fans will be displeased if today’s announcement is merely waffling, but considering how Rockstar is stressing this is a “worldwide announcement”, I choose to hope for the best....

Uh oh. Someone from Sony may have spilled some big beans.Eurogamer Spainbelieves they have documentation for the next-next PlayStation Portable. We’re not talking about the PSPgo. We’re talking about the PSP 2. According to the documentation, the PSP 2 will use a quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP chip from Imagine Technologies. Eurogamer properhas likened the chip to what is inside Apple’s new iPhone 3GSexcept with more cores. Apparently this bad boy, through either voodoo or science, will be able to crank out Xbox-style visuals and speeds....

Eagle-eyed NeoGAF userTurtleSnatcherdid a little squinting and probably gave himself a wicked headache to find this one: a small “Pay to Play” logo on the corner ofSamba De AmigoWii box art found atGamestop.com. Sure, it’s entirely possible that one of Gamestop.com’s web guys got bored and decided to mess around in Photoshop. But it seems like this may be a hint that Sega will be offering paid downloadable content for the game when it ships this August....

The loot-filledTorchlightwas recently introduced to a new crowd of gamers with its Xbox Live Arcade release. So now is as good of time as any to start pondering aboutTorchlight II, and of course, theTorchlightMMO. Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer has come bearing more details, this time to Charge Shot. “We view the world of MMOs more broadly, I guess, than most,” he starts. “When you say MMO, people always have a very specific picture in their mind of what you’re talking about....

Citing internal statistics that show the PlayStation 3’s install base to be growing much faster than older brother PS2 (at a comparable snapshot in time), SCEE president David Reeves recently told those attending an undisclosed conference that Sony expects the Blu-ray beast to eclipse their previous ventures over the long haul. Not only that, but as far as he can see — there’s nothing but blue skies ahead for all:...

After breaking thehugeEtch A Sketchstory I was all set to sit back, relax, and watch some crazy videos on the Internet. Of course, knowing my luck, I only got about 15 seconds into Two Polar Bears, One Halibut before resident Editor in Chief Nick Chester ran through my cubicle screaming gibberish with a phone in each hand, and a tear-stained notepad in his mouth. Oh yeah, and he wasn’t wearing any pants....

The naming scheme for theCastlevaniaseries has always been rather bizarre, to put it nicely. It’s one of those situations where because we were forced to put up with it for so long, the weirdness eventually wore off. Yeah, the aftertaste is still there, but we have mostly gotten used to it. The upcoming iPhone-bound reimagining ofSymphony of the Nightas a puzzle game,Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night, though — uh, what?...

It’s no rumor— there is two-player co-op inSonic Colors. The way it’s presented ain’t too shabby. See, you aren’t actually playing as Sonic or one of his furry friends. Instead, you assume control of robotic Sonic copies racing through Eggman-designed simulations, sort of like test runs to see if his devious traps are enough or if he needs to return to the drawing board. Doesn’t that just tickle you? These levels, which are unlocked by collecting secret rings in the main game, offer all the same speed and thrills as the single-player mode with the addition of obstacles requiring teamwork to overcome....

It’s a good time to be a Sonic fan. There’s both a solid looking2D Sonic game comingout and a3D oneas well. Of course, if you talk to a Sonic fan it’s all doom and gloom as there are just too many things wrong withSonic 4andSonic Colorsis going to fail. Who can blame them, though? you’re able to only be beaten down so much before you just give up and start to hate the world....

Unsurprisingly, Ubisoft is putting out a Collector’s Edition forSplinter Cell: Conviction. A big-name series alongside a massive publisher? Yep, it was bound to happen. Besides having genuinely cool box art, theConvictionCE is packed full of digital and real-life goodies: All of this together will run you $79.99. Ubisoft says it’s supposed to be a “very limited run,” which may or may not be one-hundred percent accurate, but it’d be wise to pre-order if youmusthave this thing....

Today at BlizzCon, Blizzard dropped the proverbial bombshell. The highly anticipated RTSStarcraft 2will be split into three distinct stand-alone titles, each featuring a different race to keep the “epic” scale ofStarcraft 2’sstoryline intact. It’s a trilogy, except the middle to this one won’t suck as bad asThe Matrix: Reloadeddid. The first title to hit stands is calledTerran: Wings of Liberty. Following that will beZerg: Heart of Swarm, andProtoss: Legend of the Void....

The independent game developers atBombergameshave released their re-imagining of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive classic,Streets of Rage. Streets of Rage Remakefor Windows was built from the ground up to pay homage to the original series. There are dozens of reasons why any fan of old-school style beat ’em ups should stop reading this immediately and go download the game before Sega calls out the legal hounds. We’re talking redrawn sprites; remixes of the original ’90s cornball soundtrack; eight playable characters (with two secretunlockables); customizable sprites; and more....

It’s not much of a secret that EA has enjoyed solidDragon Age: Originssales, but we didn’t have a number on it until this afternoon. In a press release blasted after the jarring EA conference call, it was revealed the old-school RPG has sold over 3.2 million units according to EA estimates. That’s, uh, a lot by most standards. EA and BioWare are releasing afull-featured expansionforOriginsthis March and apparently whipping out some sort of newDAtitle in fiscal 2011....