Sadly fans of the Sci-fi epic Blade Runner will be disappointed to know that Gearbox Studios' journey to develop the Ridley Scott classic into game format is now over. Brave software company Gearbox are no strangers when it comes to movie-to game conversions having picked up the rights to blockbuster films in the past such as the already abandoned action classic HEAT starring Al Pacino and Robert Deniro and the endlessly delayed Aliens: Colonial Marines that has also had development problems.

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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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