Wed, Sep 28, 2011 | 08:36 BST

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BULLETCAST, September 28 – What you need to know now

Battlefield 3! iPhone 5! And some other stuff. Here’s everything you should know this morning in video and text form.

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• The Battlefield 3 beta’s gone live for Origin pre-orderers and those that bought Medal of Honor last year. Check out video and impressions here. We’ll have more on it later.
• EA and Virgin are to offer $1.6 million in an upcoming Battlefield 3 tournament.
• British broadcaster ITV managed to mistake ARMA 2 footage as real video of the IRA shooting down a helicopter.
• Journey’s coming out next spring.
• Weirdy browser MMO Glitch is now out of beta. Read about massaging butterflies here.
• Lionsgate’s making a Dead Island film.
• Apple’s started sending out invites to its iPhone 5 event in October.
• The Final Fantasy brand has been “greatly damaged,” according to Square boss Yoichi Wada.
• Mojang and Bethesda are going to court of Scrolls.
• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s tournaments will be bigger than with previous versions, apparently.
• Football Manager 2012 requires a Steam activation. This is akin to swapping semen with Satan, if fans are to be believed.
• Marcus Fenix may yet appear in Mortal Kombat. It’s a long story.
• CryEngine 3′s SDK has been downloaded 430,000 times, Crytek’s confirmed.
• GAME lost £51 million in the first half of its year.

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