Thu, Apr 21, 2011 | 22:42 BST

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Thursday Shorts evening edition: Deus Ex music, Crytek SDK, Donations, Sims Royal Wedding fun, more

Some things in life are hard to explain. This post isn’t one of them. It’s just more shorts. .

• Golden Axe 2 and Streets of Rage 2 are both now available on the App Store.
• Two Worlds II has a spin-off game called Castle Defense coming on May 17. BigDownload has a Mac and PC demo for it.
• Crytek has revealed details on its Crysis 2 Editor and Software Development Kit which is slated for August.
• A new heavy weapons-based archetype is coming to Champions Online, and Cryptic has released a trailer for it.
• The standalone ArmA II expansion Reinforcements is out and has a trailer.
• The Sims 3 is making fun of William and Kate’s impeding nuptials in a new trailer.
• GameFly has prevailed in its two-year dispute with the United States Postal Service over preferential treatment given to by-mail movie services like Netflix and Blockbuster.
• Electronic Arts has raised more than $1 million for Japan earthquake and tsunami aid thanks to gamer’s donations.
• The US PS Blog has a write up on how the music and soundtrack for Deus Ex: Human Revolution was conceived as well as something about Trent Reznor.

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