Over at the EU playstation website, they have a variety of quotes from leading game industry figures asking them what they are looking forward to in 2009. Shuhei Yoshida, the president of SCEE worldwide studios commented \"2009 will be the year of big, exclusive PS3 titles. On PSP, we have new titles and innovations that will connect and expand the PlayStation experiences.\" The Sony camp seems confident!

A teenager has been arrested in South Korea after he admitted that he torched a warehouse as he wasn't performing too well on his computer games. Police have identified him as a high school student although little else was revealed.

A quality video showing Michael Jackson's 'Beat It' in true Little Big Planet style...

According to internet reports, the latest Playstation: Official Magazine has the world first exclusive review of Killzone 2. As expected, they awarded the title a 5/5 citing that any shooter fan will instantly tag the game as a strong contender for best game of 2009!

According to 'Stars and Stripes', the army is forking out nearly $18 million in order to acquire a new training simulator that will allow soldiers to virtual drive vehicles, fire weapons and pilot aerial vehicles in combat scenes.

In rather frustrating news, it has been revealed that the Killzone 2 demo will be exclusive to GameStop's pre-order campaign. A public demo will follow after the final release of the game.

PlaystationgamerUK has spotted that it looks very like that Killzone 2 DLC will be available sometime after release. Obviously map packs look like a sure fire bet.

A free downloadable texture pack for the PC version of Left 4 Dead is available which puts thongs on Zombies. Check it out at fpsbanana.

An 18 year old gamer believes Sony is discriminating as they have banned words such as gay, lesbian and bisexual from names of clubs or in postings in club forums as part of Playstation Home.

The Official Playstation Magazine (DUTCH) indicates that a 'huge' PS3 exclusive is due to be revealed 'soon'. Guess away!

Electronic Arts Inc. today announced that spring fever has arrived early with work underway to launch LITTLEST PET SHOP Spring for the Nintendo DS in March 2009.

We're not sure what was so special about these specific laptops, but it seems they had something super special about them as they sparked an in-store brawl in Russia...

AP has gone through some of the biggest upcoming titles in 2009. So here it goes - FEAR 2, Resident Evil 5, Brutal Legend, Harmonix Beatles game, GTA: Chinatown Wars, Infamous, Prototype, Champions Online, Alpha Protocol, Heavy Rain, MadWorld, KillZone 2, God of War III, Halo Wars, Street Fighter IV and Pokemon Platinum.

According to GS, resale prices for pre owned video games were down considerably - by 23.7 percent in 2008 compared to the previous year. They point to reasons such as the current economic conditions and disappointing sales numbers for the general retail industry.

Lenovo is set to sell PCs that come with an optional hand held motion based controller which enable users to interact with a computer in the same fashion as they do with a Wii console.

Hideo Kojima, the designer and producer of the Metal Gear franchise has revealed that he is re-evaluating all aspects of Kojima productions in order to better challenge foreign studios. He noted that the studio will 'start from zero' in order to compete better globally in 2009.

According to general manager Roy Meredith, the Championship Manager series suffers from a 90 percent piracy rate. Roy added that that this isn't just some random number, its something that they can measure and definitely know that their are a large amount of pirated copies of the series floating around.

Valve's Chet Faliszek has revealed in a podcast that if it was not for the Christmas break, we would have had an announcement regarding the Left 4 Dead DLC already. Obviously this suggests that it should pop up sometime soon.

Worlds.com is reportedly suing NCSoft, claiming that they own patents for a \"system and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual spaced\" and a \"Scalable virtual world chat client-server system.\" Interesting stuff indeed, and if they are successful, they could put the whole MMO industry at risk perhaps.

According to reports, a teenager pretended to be suicidal after he became frustrated with World of Warcraft. However, the juvenile joked that he done that in order to get what he wanted from the game.

GameStop, the world's largest video game and entertainment software retailer, encourages would-be fitness enthusiasts to embrace video games in their effort to shape up in 2009. By highlighting popular gaming titles that burn calories and exercise the brain, GameStop can show anyone dreading the prospect of the gym these alternative fitness methods that are both easy to follow and fun.

MS has confirmed that eight million Xbox 360's have been sold across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) up until the end of 2008 and apparently having a lead of over one million over the PS3. It was also the best Christmas that the Xbox brand experienced!

A gamer has gone and done something about the 360's poor dpad to make things more accurate. Some of his materials include a total of eight new tact switches and Schkottky diodes all of which contributed to his budget of under $15. More pictures are available at Talryyngames.

According to QUESTIONABLE research by Neilson, the original Xbox was used more than the PS3 in 2008. Overall the PS2 led the way by quite some margin, while the Xbox 360 was ranked second.

Fed up of clueless politicians making poor decisions, Positech has gone and made an offer that many couldn't possibly refuse - a free copy of Democracy 2 for all those politicians to practice on! To claim a copy, any valid politician just has to shoot Positech an e-mail!