Wed, Jul 13, 2011 | 09:11 BST

BULLETCAST, July 13 – What you need to know now

EA bought PopCap. Yes, I know I said it was bollocks. Stop looking at me like that. Here are all this morning’s major headlines in video and text form.

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EA confirmed last night that it’s bought Plants Vs Zombies creator PopCap for $750 million. A conference call followed the announcement, and you can find complete coverage here.
Microsoft confirmed to Johnny last night that the Xbox Music story BusinessInsider reported yesterday is false. Steve Ballmer was getting his wires crossed again, apparently.
Square’s put out a 30-minute movie of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This is looking very swish, so check it out now.
All the player progress data from the Uncharted 3 beta’s been permanently lost to a bug. Whoops.
EA’s closing down multiplay servers for 17 old games, including Army of Two.
Ubi’s to release Rayman Origins’ tech to the open source community.
Someone’s pointed “Modernwarfare3.com” at the Battlefield 3 website.
The board game designer clinging to the Trench copyright – and thereby preventing Doublefine’s Trenched from releasing in Europe – has plans to turn his creation into a videogame.
The Catherine demo released for PS3 and 360 in the US yesterday. It’s not for you, filthy Euros: there’s no date on it outside of the US and Japan yet.
Resistance 3 got a new dev diary yesterday. You can take a look at Johnny’s impressions of the single-player demo here.
Christina Norman, lead designer on Mass Effect 2 and 3, has left BioWare to join League of Legends dev Riot Games in the same role.
Codemasters has said it wants to include “historical” race DLC in its F1 games. The company also hinted yesterday that veteran racer TOCA may make a comeback.
MetaCritic co-founder Marc Doyle has admitted that ratings for games on the website are unbalanced.