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Looks like we'll be getting some juicy Fallout: New Vegas info after all as OXM confirms, as does their latest mag, that the next issue has it.

Issue 57 has the goods, or will do when it goes on sale. Right now we'll have to make do with the teaser in issue 56, promising "first details".

Oops. A North American server for NCsoft's Aion, Azphel to be precise, accidentally gave out over 34 trillion in-game currency to some players.

Naturally the economy went nuclear and NCsoft was forced to do something horrible. They committed to a server rollback, "as a last option".

Cinemaware co-founder Bob Jacob has told us something we all know well, sadly, that movie tie-in projects are bad and make us cringe.

The "inherent problems" relate to time, as movies take a year to reach cinema once green-lit. Games need much more incubation than that.

Those other FPS games out, with online? They're shallow compared to Battlefield, says Bad Company 2 producer Karl-Magnus Troedsson.

He doesn't "want to judge" others but reckons the Battlefield team has it right when it comes to online play. They got shock paddles and junk!

A survey conducted by MyVoucherCodes.co.uk has shown that a clear chunk of parents don't care for ratings, be they for games or movies.

25 percent play the adult titles with their kids; while 53 percent let the kids watch 18-rated flicks. Music with naughty lyrics? That's 66 percent.

BioWare confirmed today that Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, the first official expansion pack, will be released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on 16th March, 2010.

Designed and written by the same team that brought you Dragon Age: Origins, the Awakening expansion pack offers a brand new area of the world to explore known as Amaranthine, featuring an epic story that will allow players to unravel the secrets of the darkspawn - and their true motivations. Players will face a range of horrific and terrifying creatures including an evolved, intelligent breed of darkspawn and other menacing creatures such as the Inferno Golem and Spectral Dragon.

EA has been very quiet on revealing many specifics about the new and improved Medal of Honor, set in modern day Afghanistan. Too quiet.

Luckily we press types are total blabbermouths, so OXM is teasing what they'll spill next issue. Actual "Tier 1 Ops" were invited to authenticate.

Andrew Reiner of Game Informer has slain rumours that Obsidian developed Fallout: New Vegas will strut its stuff front page next issue.

A forum poster has splashed loads of 'details' about the game, but Reiner casts major doubt on that too. "I'd say fake" he declares.

Wedbush Morgan's top economy-whisperer, Michael Pachter, believes that those ailing videogame cha-chings will pick up this year.

Retailers GameStop and Best Buy will have "solid" performances despite a "weak environment" says Pachter in his notes. Yay.

Sega likes to move fast and has already begun brainstorming some ideas for, "eventually," Alpha Protocol 2. The first game is nearly done.

Bug squishing is all that remains for the spy action-RPG from developer Obsidian. It was due out last year but Sega delayed till Q1 2010.