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First of all, a very happy Friday to everyone! This week felt like a long one, but we made it! Today’s TL;DR features a whole plethora of new gaming trailers. But before we get to that, the news today focuses on Sonic 4: Episode 2’s co-op, Mass Effect 3’s early copies getting stuck up a tree, and Mortal Kombat receiving a Capcom-esque ‘Komplete’ edition.

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who provided feedback on Facebook. You’ll notice I’ve taken your feedback into consideration and revamped the major point of contention with the readers: The ungodly titling convention. Hopefully the new format it a little more palatable.

Today was chalk-full of big announcements what with the release date of Borderlands 2 confirmed via a new trailer, and a teaser site promoting a collaboration between Capcom, Namco/Bandai, and Sega. But there were still a couple of other things I wanted to touch on.

Throughout the day, every day, plenty of stories tend to slip through Shogun’s cracks. That’s mainly because we pride ourselves on being a site that spends a little more time digging and going in-depth with the news items of the day that pique our personal interests… However, I want to try something a little different, a little “new.” Instead of inundating our readers with a plethora of short two-sentence news times through-out the day, I’m going to bundle a couple smaller, but still significant stories into a new segment I’m tentatively calling “TL;DNR” or Too Long; Did Not Read.

There may be attention around it for all the wrong reasons, but today Microsoft and LucasArts officially revealed the release date for Kinect Star Wars.  The Kinect centric game that has made gamers shudder with disgust hasn’t exactly had the best showing as of late, but maybe it’s just a case of old footage being shown. Or maybe the game is just as dreadful as it appears to be and will only be valuable for two things: it’ll give us comedy and possibly the most kick ass Limited Edition Xbox 360 console.