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With the completion of Unit 13, the internal development studio has been shuttered.

Since 2006, Zipper Interactive has been a part of the Sony Computer Entertainment World Wide Studios family. After being acquired, the team went on to create SOCOM 4, MAG, and most recently, Unit 13. With that title completed, Sony has now confirmed closure of the studio. This news comes roughly one week after rumors were circulating that the studio was already in the process of being disbanded.

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Two years after its original release window, Inversion is finally coming out.

After two years of multiple delays, Namco Bandai has finally locked in a launch date for Inversion. Saber Interactive's gravity-defying shooter will come to retail shelves for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on June 5, 2012. The title was originally slated for a 2010 release.

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Firaxis states the new title is already in the works.

XCom is a franchise that, until two years ago, many assumed was dead and gone.  In 2010, however, longtime fans rejoiced at headlines that revealed a new title was in the works.  In most cases, though, this excitement only lasted as long as it took to read the article under those headlines, which revealed that this latest entry would actually be a first person shooter instead of an overhead strategy game.  Internet outrage soon followed.

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The Lego based MMO is ending after a little over a year.

The Lego group has announced that Lego Universe will be closing its doors on January 31, 2012. The MMO developed by Play Well Studios has around two million subscribers but has failed to reach enough revenue to make it profitable. This shut down comes after the title was released 15 months ago. The 115 people who work on the game will be laid off come the 2012 end date.

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