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Earlier this week the Entertainment Software Ratings Board inadvertently exposed the email addresses of nearly 1,000 people in response to Blizzard fans upset, ironically, about the prospect of their real names being used as a requirement to sign into Blizzard's forums. The ESRB has now issued a formal apology to those people who got their email addresses caught in that mess.

According to WoW.com, the ESRB said the problem was, as expected, due to "an unfortunate error by one of our employees" and added that "it was never our intention to reveal this information and for that we are genuinely sorry." The ESRB said the organization is "doing everything we can to ensure it will not happen again in the future." We think that closes the case on this matter.

Team17 Software is prepping up for the release of Alien Breed Impact a bit sooner than first expected. The top down sci-fi shoooter that's also a revamped version of last year's Xbox Live Arcade game Alien Breed Evolution is now set for a June 3 release via Steam. If you pre-order the $14.99 title before its release you get 10 percent off its price. You also get a digital comic book that tells some of the back story of the game's main hero Conrad

Oh, wait. Did we mention the demo? No? Well, there is one and you can download it now via Steam as well. It's a special prologue to the main game and can be played in both single player and co-op.

Last November Wizards of the Coast announced their plans to bring the Xbox Live Arcade game Magic The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers to the PC platform. It's been a while since that reveal but today Wizards of the Coast announced that the online trading card RPG will be available for pre-order soon via Steam.

The PC port looks like it will support Steamworks features like achievements, leaderboards, auto-updating and more. Pre-orders for the game will begin on June 1 for $9.99. The pre-order will include both the core game and its first expansion pack. There's no word when the final game will be released.

While fans of Team Fortress 2 continue to wait for the next free major content update for Valve's multilplayer shooter, the developer continuies to release smaller patches to the game via Steam. This week the newest update to the game is more than just a small bug fix patch. It also adds some new features and content.

One of the additions is a new community map, cp_freight. There are also quite a few fixes in the patch and lots of balance changes for the game's various player classes. There are also a number of changes and improvements for the game's bots. The full change list can be seen at the Steam web site.