Wednesday Shorts - announces, trailers, and bad news for fighter fans

Lots of little bits and bobs through the break - many of them incongruously interesting! Has the world gone mad? MOAR STUPID VIDEOS.

• Here's a trailer for Rift's 1.5 update.
• Falcom is making a new Legends of Heroes game for the Vita in addition to its Ys game.
• Starhawk takes a lot of cues from cinema because Warhawk felt "hollow", apparently.
• Capcom Mobile - which has had amazing success with titles like The Smurfs on iPhone - is expanding to Android.
• A strange new MMO called The Repopulation has been announced, featuring a blend of andbox and theme park mechanics. Wut?
• There's a sequel coming for indie hit AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!
• If you enjoy talk about how sweet your GPU's on-card physics is, you'll like this discussion of how set Batman: Arkham City will be on PC.
• Funcom's Craig Morrison has written an interesting blog on the state of the MMO scene.
• Microsoft has filed a patent for a gaming phone which comes apart into several pieces.
• A hattrick of bad news for fighter fans now. The new features found in Viata update BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend will not be released as DLC for the standard version.
• Atlus has delayed King of Fighters XIII into November - but there's a new trailer through the link.
• Meanwhile, craking indie effort Skullgirls has been pushed back into next year!
• Nintendo's being sued over the tech used in the WiiMote. Again.
• Creepy iOS title The Dark Meadow is due in October - check out the new trailer.
• A new publisher has been launched with a plan to target Middle Eastern markets. That's good news as gamers in the region are pretty underserved.

Today's unrelated street art.