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PopCap today announced that the iPhone port of Plants vs. Zombies is heading to Apple’s handheld on February 15, seemingly aiming for the exact day that it had originally approximated for a delayed release . What’s more, the publisher has also released the first trailer for the game (seen above), showing off the port’s pared down touch-based controls and getting us even more (trepidatiously) pumped for the impending release.

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Plants vs. Zombies shambling to iPhones February 15

With Activision’s holiday fiscal report expected to release this week, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter is predicting that the Call of Duty profit machine may not repeat its fantastic 2009 performance this year. As reported by IndustryGamers , Pachter believes the Call of Duty franchise will generate “sharply lower revenue,” in 2010, to the tune of a $250 million decline. Not to worry, though, as he notes that Activision is likely to more than make up for that amount thanks to Blizzard’s impending releases (hello, StarCraft II )

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Pachter: Call of Duty to decline $250 million in 2010

Square Enix has applied to trademark Deus Ex: Human Revolution in Europe (# 008862153 ). A quick scan of other international trademark bureaus hasn’t revealed anything similar.

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Square Enix applies for ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’ trademark

In a time-honored Peter Moore tradition, the EA Sports head recently opened up for an interview on a variety of subjects in the game industry. This time, the oft fake-tattooed gentleman exposited on the future of OnLive and his company’s investment in the upcoming PlayStation Motion Controller (supposedly named ” Arc “)

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Peter Moore excited about PlayStation ‘Arc,’ unsure about OnLive

We hate to be all Captain Obvious about it, but there’s good reason the Gran Turismo series is still doing laps around the virtual track. People are voting with their cash, as the latest figures from Polyphony Digital show that Gran Turismo PSP has managed to sell 1.8 million copies.

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Gran Turismo PSP helps series top 55 million units sold

You may have assumed this from the climbing PS3 sales Sony reported last week, but a report from Research and Markets provides further confirmation that the system is increasing in popularity around the world.

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Report: Global PS3 market share increasing

David Crane and Garry Kitchen, two of the most well-known game designers of the classic era, have formed a new game publisher named AppStar Games, Wired.com has learned. The pair, known for their work on games like Pitfall! and Bart vs. the Space Mutants , will concentrate on small games for mobile devices like iPhone.

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Classic Gaming Icons Launch New Studio, iPhone App

Danish developer Press Play would like to draw everyone’s attention to Max & the Magic Marke r’s US release on WiiWare this March. The game released late last month on European WiiWare for 1,000 Wii Points. M&TMM is currently available in the US, directly from Press Play and digital distributors, for PC and Mac at a suggested price of $20

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Max & the Magic Marker scribbles down March US WiiWare release

If you’re wondering where Rock Band 3 is, a year and a half after Rock Band 2 and five months after the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band , it seems EA isn’t sure it’s going to get to publish it. During an investor conference call, EA execs revealed that the publisher’s deal with Viacom (the company that owns MTV, Harmonix, Rock Band and maybe you as well) is only active through fiscal year 2010 (which ends March 31).

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EA: Rock Band deal with Viacom only through March 2010