BULLETCAST, August 8 – What you need to know now

By Patrick Garratt

Morning, campers. Here are the weekend’s major headlines in video and text form.

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• It’s being rumored that Mass Effect 3 multiplayer will be announced at gamescom.
• Battlefield 3 won’t be sold on Steam. This is Valve’s fault, according to EA. You’ll have to get you “years’ worth of unlocks and rewards” elsewhere.
• It looks as though used 3DS sales have accelerated in Japan on the back of the recent Nintendo price-cutting announcements.
• Japanese analysts are calling for a Vita price-cut for the same reason.
• Vita’s release date is to be announced at TGS.
• Borderlands 2 will have improved AI, dynamic missions and new characters, according to the latest issue of Game Informer.
• Someone’s beaten 600,000 GamerScore. Well done. We think.
• Here’s the full video of John Carmack’s Quakecon keynote.
• DC Universe Online is heading for its first server-merge. It released in January this year.
• David Jaffe’s the latest developer to mention that $60 is a substantial amount to ask anyone to pay for a game.
• The holiday release crunch is “healthy for the industry,” Bethesda’s Pete Hines has said.
• Minecraft’s sold 3 million units.