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hey what's going on everybody it is Thursday March 22nd 2012 I'm Jeff Bakalar from cnet.com and it is time to get loaded mobile social gaming giant Zynga has acquired the company behind the insanely popular game Draw Something for a reported 180 million dollars plus 30 million dollars in employee retention the irritatingly named OMG pop studio will join the zynga family which puts out titles like words with friends and farmville now are you ready for this hours apple rumor according to a report from Reuters the next iPhone will boast a 4.6 inch Retina display which is of course more than an inch bigger than the current screen on the 4s however Mac enthusiast site macrumors still thinks that a 4-inch screen is much more likely so is Google rethinking its Google Wallet strategy according to Bloomberg the company is eyeing changes to improve its mobile payment system due to slow adoption and push back from some carriers Google on the app that makes your phone your wallet Google is considering sharing wallet revenue with carriers like Verizon and AT&T in order to get them to endorse the technology even though it sounds like those companies are readying their own competing systems a new verizon study suggests that 2011 was in fact the year of the activist and vigilante groups like anonymous with more than 100 million users data being breached hacktivists make their present felt more worldwide in 2011 than financial criminals that usually heavily outweighed incidents like data breaches and finally we're following up on the ongoing controversial Mass Effect 3 ending gate saga this war has brought you here today the next few hours will decide the fate everyone in the galaxy there will be no second chances and no room for mistakes one way or another this war ends today the company's developer Bioware says that they're actually considering giving in to players complaints and will offer some sort of downloadable content that would according to the company's co-founder help answer questions so if this is how it's going to work now I'm actually going to go call up Robert Zemeckis because i don't like out back to the future three ended i'll see how that works out those are your headlines for today i'm jeff bakalar for cnet com you have just been loaded