Saturday shorts: Minecraft things, Kinect hacks, Zelda, other minutiae

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All those little pieces of weekend news. OCD sufferers could go spare. We’re here, luckily.

You can now buy the PC version of Battlestations: Pacific half price at $15.
Some dude’s made the first two levels of Dark Descent in Minecraft.
And someone else has made a really sketchy Minecraft version of Halo.
A man called roboczar has hacked Kinect to make a virtual musical instrument based on a piece of paper.
A chap who was publishing old Activision games on Sarien.net was told to stop it, then allowed to do it again.
EverQuest II’s getting a mobile app, allowing you to access in-game mail, look at a map of Norrath and more from wherever you happen to be.
This week’s Left 4 Dead 2 Mutation is Nightmare. “This Survival Mutation was inspired by Karma Jockey.” You may know what this means. We don’t.
ESA’s confirmed to Gamasutra that SVP and general counsel Kenneth Doroshow has left the trade group.
SEE Virtual World has bought MMO Planet Calypso for $6 million.
Monty Python’s Cow Tossing is to be made available for iPad and iPhone at the end of the month. In it, you’re a French knight. Watch a video here.
An add-on for Patrician IV has been announced. Called Rise of a Dynasty, it’s out March 31. Screens are here.
David Jaffe has compared NGP to the excitement one feels over getting some “new p***y,” but his studio will stick with PS3 for while longer yet. Jesus.
CrimeCraft is getting a new update on Monday called Bleedout. Get the patch notes through the link.
There’s some shots of the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time actually running on 3DS through the link. It’s pretty, obviously.
Watch to watch a cinematic into to a game you can’t play unless in Japan? Here’s one for The Last Story, then.
Here’s a handy dandy spec chart comparing Nintendo 3DS, NGP, iPhone, the Xperia Play (PSP Phone), and more. Granted there’s tons of these out there, but this one is rather good.
There’s a screenshot over on Cubed3 for Pokemon Typing’s DS bluetooth wireless keyboard. It looks like a keyboard, obviously.
1C Company announced that on March 15, multiplayer support for NecroVisioN will be canceled. However multiplayer support for NecroVisioN: Lost Company will continue.
The first World of Warcraft: Cataclysm patch of the year is in development and now available for testing on the Public Test Realms. It’s minor, but contains class balance changes.