The Wall Street Journal, one of America’s most popular newspapers for financial and political updates have recently announced that Apple have started ordering components for the next generation of mobile tablets the i-pad 3 due for release early 2012.

After a fantastic year for Apple with sales of the i-pad 2 surpassing sales of the original i-pad and with profits increasing every financial quarter, it is clear that Apple’s intentions to flood the market with high quality simplistic products is not going to end any time soon. The famous American tabloid went on to state that vital components have been ordered by the company for construction of the next generation i-pad due for release early next year. When they officially approached one of Apples major suppliers and assembly company Hon-Hai Precision Industry they declined to comment on any orders made and the future release of the i-pad 3.

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Battle, ambush and race your way to leaderboard domination in bigger and improved challenge mode.

The latest news from Rocksteady Studios is that Batman Arkham City will be five times bigger than Arkhum Asylum, so no suprises to fans that the roaming areas have been expanded to give more character freedom and cure one of the few faults of the original game Arkham Asylum, one of the best gaming titles to be released to date.

Great news is the return of the challenge mode, after you complete the campaign mode and collect all the Riddler trophies, a more expansive and competitive challenge mode awaits to play as either the Batman, Catwoman or Robin and we all give thanks to the developers for including these playable characters free of charge and resisting the temptation to charge us for the extra content. I wouldn’t be surprised if a villains pack was available to download some time after release to compete in challenge mode but that’s just me thinking of how they’re going to hit our pockets and keep the game fresh during some really major release titles in the months after this baby hits shelves, pure speculation on my behalf.

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Back to business as usual following last week's Royal Wedding special, with a round-up of the week's happenings in short bursts. And what a week! For the full rules of GONZO Blast go here.

This week we've got a phoenix-like MMO, more famous Gameboys and a whole load on the Playstation Network hack, disruption, failure or whatever you want to call it.

This week's blast is brought to you by those kind people at Gamesradar, Xboxer 360, Wii Chat and BBC Technology News.

Anything can happen in the next half hour!

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Ok news-hounds! Here it is... This week's GONZO Blast! Go here for the rules. The first one of which is to, of course, not talk about GONZO Blast.

A quiter one this week in terms of volume, but there are some pearls in here... Wii 2, more cyber-terror and Michael Jackson's Gameboy.

Many thanks to Kotaku (with some added Game Informer), Nintendo Wolrd Report, Team Xbox, Playstation Universe and Foo Fighters - whilst they didn't contribute any news, they did contribute a great album, Wasting Light, to write this post too. I love you Dave!!

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Stand by folks! GONZO Blast heading right for your face! Click here to see how it works.

What's in this inaugural GONZO Blast then? Mouthy EA executives, Capcom's Captivate event, cyber-terrorists and money. Lots and lots of money.

This week's blast is brought to you by the kind folks at Xbox360Acheivments, PS3Trophies, Official Nintendo Magazine, Computer and Videogames, Game Kudos and Edge Online.

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Welcome, Sidekicks, to a new feature for the Sidekickcast...

GONZO Blast is a weekly (yeah, sure!) update on big news stories in the world of videogames. The idea is that you come here, read a headline and news snippet and then, when you inevitably something you are interested in, you Google the frak out of that sonovabitch!

The point is that GONZO Blast is just like bumping into your well informed pal who takes a few seconds to tell you a bunch of news - if you're interested, you enquire! If you're not, you smile politely, look at your watch and back slowly towards the door...

Here's how it'll pan out...

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