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TechWeb – InformationWeek – Version 2.41 corrects defects in v2.40, released about a week ago, that caused some PlayStation 3 systems to stop working.

USATODAY.com – If you see your nephew or daughter waving a plastic wand like a crazy person at the TV, rather than calling a shrink, you might want to dial your broker. Novel types of controllers, like the motion sensitive wand used to move on-screen characters on the Nintendo Wii console, have shown investors that video games have burst light years beyond the dark basements of geeks.

AFP – Videogame colossus Electronic Arts has said an online Scrabble game customized for Facebook will be released this month to challenge the popular unauthorized version Scrabulous.

Reuters – “Guitar Hero” won’t be the only music videogame to launch its sequel in time for the holidays.

Reuters – Activision Inc shareholders approved a deal on Tuesday to merge with French telecommunications and media group Vivendi SA’s games unit, creating a public company called Activision Blizzard.

AFP – Ubisoft said Tuesday it has bought Canadian special effects studio Hybride Technologies in a move that will wed the French firm’s hot videogames with Hollywood films.

Reuters – Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc said on Tuesday it has complied with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s request for additional information related to its takeover offer for rival Take-Two Interactive Software .

PC Magazine – PlayStation 3 owners who had to suffer through the long weekend without the perks of the recently released and then pulled 2.40 update can officially end their gnashing of teeth.

AP – Developers of a highly popular but unauthorized version of Scrabble for the online hangout Facebook vowed Tuesday to do just that, now that a video game maker has weighed in with an official version of the word game.

Reuters – Let the games begin.