Friday shorts: Cave Story, Dead or Alive Dimensions, Zynga

It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday. Sorry. Here's the shorts.

• Nicallis has shown off the first images of Cave Story 3D. Here they are.
• There's a new book there detailing the creation of some of the biggest games and franchises ever. It even has John Madden telling EA "f**k you" with the first version of the game.
• Speak of the devil, Madden NFL '12 will feature a superstar mode. Ta-da. More details at IGN.
• Trials HD devs Redlynx has detailed 1000 Heroz in further detail to GSW.
• IGN has an interview live with Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi on Dead or Alive Dimensions.
• Here's a new RIFT trailer, in case you still need convincing of it.
• Zynga's hired John Blakely as the general manager of its Austin branch. He used to be VP of development at SOE.

Again, I'm sorry.