Tue, Jul 26, 2011 | 09:11 BST
BULLETCAST, July 26 – What you need to know now
The major headlines from the last 24 hours in video and text form. Look at this. Be informed.

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- Battlefield 3 play-testing is in full swing. Learn how to get involved here. Watch lengthy videos of weapon customisation features here.
- Sony’s gone into extensive detail on Vita’s online modes. The public will get a first hands-on with the machine at TGS.
- Square Enix worldwide technology director Julien Merceron has said we’re going to “see a big leap in graphics” with the next console generation. Shock o’ the century.
- Epic’s really, really interested in Wii U. I think we get it.
- Michael Pachter reckons working long hours is just part of the deal if you’re a developer. He was speaking in relation to the recent Team Bondi working conditions spat.
- EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich reckons PlayStation 3 has sold 10 percent more than Xbox 360 in the first half of 2011.
- Shadows of the Damned director Massimo Guarini has said “single-player-only games are nowhere close to being doomed,” but that their business model needs to change.
- The PC version of From Dust’s been pushed back to August.
- Avatar Kinect released last night.
- The Houser brothers made the MediaGuardian top 100 this year.
- Zumba fitness is still top of the UK chart.
- Amazon US has apparently stopped stocking 3DS over screen-scratching issues.
- BioWare’s said it expects The Old Republic to last for “decades,” and that the game’s starting play area of 19 worlds could extend to 500 by 2025.
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2′s releasing on PS3 next year.


8 comments
#1
tenthousandgothsonacid
26/07/11, 9:30 am
At this rate I’ll have grown a new beard
#2
Patrick Garratt
26/07/11, 9:31 am
I am going to do it. Must remain focused on the shaving.
#3
OrphanageExplosion
26/07/11, 9:52 am
Not sure about the beard Pat. Were you replaced by your evil Mirror Universe twin?
#4
Patrick Garratt
26/07/11, 10:11 am
I flip between Pat and Evil Pat, it’s true. The beard is the evil signifier.
#5
mojo
26/07/11, 10:47 am
what happened to your head?
#6
Patrick Garratt
26/07/11, 10:58 am
It’s collapsing.
#7
Deacon
26/07/11, 11:10 am
Either you’ve got the heating up too high or you were out on the razz last night.
Gave me quite a fright with your overzealous outburst at the end.
GOOD SHOW!
#8
Telepathic.Geometry
26/07/11, 1:31 pm
You mean Evil Pat and More Evil Pat, Shirley. It must be hot there by the looks of things. I’m sweating my nuts off here round the fucking clock so you have my sympathy. Advice: Eat eels.