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The Behemoth may finally be ready to release a patch for the game-breaking online bugs in Castle Crashers soon, reports Xbox 360 Fanboy. Asked about the status of the long-awaited patch, the company stated:

Conventionally speaking, platform holders in the videogames industry tend to lose money on their hardware (at least for the first couple of years) while making money through software. But if we've learned anything about the Wii by now, it's that it's far from conventional. According to an estimate by analysts at Macquarie Securities (via Forbes), Nintendo actually makes $6 in profit for every Wii they sell.

If you were one of the many who adored Indigo Prophecy, then it's probably been a tough three-year (and counting) wait for Quantic Dream's follow up, Heavy Rain. But according to Quantic president and CEO David Cage, we may not have to wait as long between games in the future -- in our exclusive Heavy Rain interview with Cage (who's also the game's writer and director), he revealed that Quantic has reached the stage where they can have multiple games in development at the same time.

Think it's easy to get something trademarked? Nope, seems like the United States Patent and Trademark Office is a stickler for the little details. And it seems that Nintendo found out the hard way.

When 1UP FM co-host Nick Suttner and I shambled into work today, barely functioning after a Thanksgiving weekend overstuffed with food, we didn't expect to immediately be confronted by the living undead. Such are the risks we brave every day for you when entering the haunted grounds of 1UP Manor. We pushed through the brain-devouring hordes to bring you this week's interview with Mike Schmitt, the product manager House of the Dead: Overkill, the light-gun franchise reboot for the Wii.