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Such is the odd cult following of Faming Simulator that it's going to get a release on Xbox 360 and PS3. Giants Software will be unleashing their agriculutral best-seller in the first week of September this year.

The game world is 'doubled' with exclusive land for the console versions, as well as exclusive farming vehicles. Who knew virtual farming could be so fun outside of a Facebook setting?

Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar have been released on €5,000 bail after being detained for four months by Greek authorities, without charge. The Bohemia Interactive devs can return home.

The developers were accused of taking pictures of military installations on a Greek island to undermine national security. Neither are required to remain within Greece, so hopefully it will all go away.

The upper echelons of Czech Republic's government have now entered the fray over the continued imprisonment of Bohemia Interactive's Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar over espionage charges.

Greek authorities have held the pair for over 70 days without trial, alleging they were conducting military espionage. Bohemia says they weren't working for ArmA 3 but on vacation.

Focus Home Interactive has announced that Farming Simulator 2013 is hitting European stores today, the 25th October, for PC. The game will be arriving the following week in the UK, and November in the US.

ArmA's Bohemia Interactive are set to run their own little post office as they offer supporters of Martin Pezlar and Ivan Buchta the chance to send them postcards. The devs were arrested in Greece.

The studio strongly opposes the Greek authorities claim that Pezlar and Buchta were committing acts of espionage. The postcard can have your own design. They'll send a selection at a time.

Harmonix has announced that the instrument-less version of their popular music game, Rock Band Blitz, will be hitting Xbox Live Arcade on the 29th August, and PlayStation Network on the 28th. The game will cost a mere 1200 Microsoft Points / $14.99 USD.

E3 2012 has finally arrived. Throughout the night we'll see many conferences take place at E3, but next up is Ubisoft. You'll be able to watch the livestream on Strategy Informer at 11pm BST.

Rock Band Blitz is Harmonix's latest music game, which is basically the core Rock Band experience but ditches the plastic instruments. Part of the appeal of Blitz is that all of the downloadable content purchased for previous Rock Band titles can be played on the new game.

However, Harmonix plans to release 25 core songs that will come with the game, and 15 of them have been revealed.

With Maxis working on SimCity for Electronic Arts, a surprising trademark application has been made by the publisher. EA has registered a videogame trademark for "SimOcean".

Maxis had released many titles with the "Sim" moniker in the 1980's and 1990's, including such titles as SimEarth, SimLife, SimAnt SimFarm and Sid Meier's SimGolf. It'll be interesting to see if this is the start of a new Sim series of games.

Topware Interactive has announced plans to publish Targem Games' new Planets at War project.