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When Plants vs. Zombies launched more than a month before the death of pop artist Michael Jackson’s death, the game included a high-level enemy that appeared to be an homage to Thriller-era Jackson. As of today, that zombie is no longer going to be in PvZ.

It’s been a big day for Apple, what with the new iMacs, Mac Pros, and the Magic-est Trackpad ever to set foot on the Internet. But if you were immersed in specs, you might have missed out on an even bigger deal–Apple changing its boilerplate PR text. Then again, that might not be news given that the company caters to selfish elites. And a court judge hands down a second win against DRM this week, even as Apple maintains its stance on jailbreaking. The remainders for Tuesday July 27, 2010 are a heavy load–remember to lift with your knees.

AT&T says it won’t interfere with a highly anticipated talk on intercepting cell phone calls at the Black Hat conference this week, even though rumors are circulating that it will do just that.

Ask.com hopes it’s found the answer to increasing its market share — and no, the plan doesn’t involve a butler named Jeeves.

Internet infrastructure services specialist VeriSign is offering several new trust enhancements to customers of its secure sockets layer (SSL) products for no extra cost.

In what has to be one of the cleverest ways to describe an expansion, Atari has launched ‘Season Two’ of Star Trek Online with new enemies, missions, an increased level cap, and a new low price for the game — $20.

Sourcefire, best known for its Snort intrusion-prevention technology, Tuesday is unveiling a new open source project called Razorback that’s designed to spot malware and especially zero-day exploits.

VGChartz reports this morning that StarCraft II pre-orders have topped 800,000 units in North America. Blizzard declined to confirm or deny this number, but they expect to announce their own numbers in a couple of days once the game actually hits shelves.

Sony has revealed a swath of details regarding the release of LittleBigPlanet 2 on November 16, including exclusive pre-order bonus characters (some of which include famed Disney characters) as well as the items that will ship with the game’s Collector?s Edition.

The story of Ubisoft’s R.U.S.E. keeps getting longer. First, they delayed the game, then delayed it again after beta feedback revealed some critical areas of improvement. Now, they’re offering a play-for-free weekend — but only to PC users.