BULLETCAST, July 18 – What you need to know now

Loads happened over the weekend and earlier this morning. Catch up right now.

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Xbox CFO Dennis Durkin believes Microsoft Game Studios’ system is “superior” to Sony or Nintendo’s first-party performance “in terms of quality bars and units per title.”
Modern Warfare 3′s story will “build up on the key themes” started in MW2, Infinity Ward has said. Word to the wise: watch for a lot more MW3 press later this week.
Ubisoft announced Uplay Passport at the end of last week. This is the publisher’s version of EA’s Online Pass.
Stace has taken a look at Call of Juarez: The Cartel ahead of its release later this week. It not looking great.
The Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta has ended with 1.9 billion total kills.
The Witcher 2′s getting a new, free quest as DLC in its next patch.
Capcom’s supposedly going to announce Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at Comic-Con this week.
Activision has filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum against the holders of ModernWarfare3.com: the URL currently points to Battlefield 3′s website.
South Australia Attorney-General John Rau is to drop the state’s current MA15+ ratings category for games in favour of R18+, regardless of national overhauls to the classifications system. This sounds good, but pretty much isn’t.
EA has said “the App Store model is essentially in freefall,” in relation to micro-transactions in mobile games.
Dead Rising 2: Off The Record will feature 30 percent more zombies, apparently.
A lead programmer at Gameloft Auckland is the latest to complain about excessive working hours, saying he was recently putting in “100-120 hours a week”.
Looks as though Batman: Arkham City’s going to get a $99 CE.
Andy McNab’s writing a Battlefield novel.
Here’s another 30 minutes of Resistance 3. There’ll be nothing left to see in the game at this rate.
Making Star Wars Galaxies free-to-play “just isn’t financially viable,” Lucas has said. The MMO’s shutting later this year.
Kojima doesn’t have the bandwidth to do a Snatcher sequel. Let it go, etc.
Women who play online prefer games to sex, according to a new report. Who knew?