Fri, Aug 26, 2011 | 09:23 BST

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BULLETCAST, August 25 – What you need to know now

Friday. You made it, Ringo. Catch up on all the news from the past 24 hours below, in both video and text form.

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Johnny saw Borderlands 2 at gamescom. It was only amazing, and everything.

• Is the HP Touchpad worth getting for games? In a word, no.
• Here’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s first trailer.
• The PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is getting a patch to reduce load-times.
• In other Deus Ex news, the Square actioner’s bumped up OnLive figures.
• The latest Dark Souls movie. This one’s the first in a prologue series.
• If a Walmart flyer is any indication, the 4Gb Xbox 360 with Kinect bundled in will drop from $299 to $249 next week.
• Lonesome Road, the fourth add-on pack for Fallout: New Vegas, will be available for download on Steam, PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 20.
• Twisted Metal will release in the US on February 14.
• “Watch Nolan North unbox the Uncharted 3 Collector’s Edition.” Why would you not want to do that?
• Skyrim has vampires!
• Skyrim has same-sex marriage!
• Peggle’s moved 30 million units.
• Battlefield 3 will have “thousands” of custom weapons.
• Atlus is teasing something new to do with Persona.
• The Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Ultimate bundle is a thing. It costs $100.
• Funcom’s The Secret World’s opening beta sign-ups today.
• Kim Swift’s new game is a puzzler called Quantum Conundrum.
• Rift is six months old. Play for free, buy it for $5 in celebration.
• Final Fantasy XIII-2′s got a new cinematic trailer for PAX.

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