Thu, Jun 23, 2011 | 21:53 BST

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Thursday Shorts II: Gears in Japan, Monkey Island, SWTOR, classic Lit games

Get more bang for your shorts below.

• Turns out Pottermore is not a game. Just an virtual online web-based world.
• Monkey Island Tales is coming to iPad. Get the first episode free for a limited time.
• Wanna see one, lonesome shot of FIFA 12 on PC? Sure ya do!
• Watch an early version of Super Mario 3 here.
• DDO and LOTRO are getting XP bumps this weekend. Yay.
• The Japanese release for Gears of War 3 has been detailed.
• Check out these two screenshots from FFXIII-2.
• Ubisoft has announced a new batch of tracks for Just Dance 2.
• Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik seems to have liked his playtime with SWTOR.
• Classic spy novel The Thirty-Nine Steps is to become a videogame and more classics such as Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, 1984, Treasure Island, and Jekyll and Hyde are being considered. Nooooo!
• Mark Rein has said “the idea of having full Steam support on WiiU excites me quite a bit! Valve rocks!” Indeed they do, Mark. Indeed they do.

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