Nintendo has spruced up the Wii shop channel this year already. On Wii Ware we now have Sandy Beach available and on Virtual Console we have Kirby's Dream Land 3 available. Each title is available for 500 and 800 points respectively.

A vulnerability has been found which apparently crashes the PSP 3000 on firmware v4.20. It certainly is not an exploit just yet and more tests have shown that the crash does not occur on firmware 5.00.

VG Chartz is reportedly denoting that Wii Sports has surpassed Super Mario Bros and is now the world's most popular video game. It is claimed that Wii Sports has gone better than the 1985 hit NES version of Super Marios Bros.

EA Sports president Peter Moore has revealed that the soccer sim FIFA 09 is set to sell through 2009 units. The revelation comes via a recent posting on his official blog.

Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios has been quoted by the BBC as stating that things look dry for exciting games in 2009. He noted that all the triple A titles come out over Christmas and at the top of his head, he can not think of anything that really excites him. I don't know Molyneux, I can think of a few like KillZone 2, Street Fighter IV, Fight Night Round 4, and the Resident Evil...

Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of videogames, has today confirmed that seven of its upcoming titles will be released within the first half of 2009. Full details inside.

Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of one of the most influential pioneers of rock and roll, Roy Orbison, to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content.

The auditions from a banned Xbox commercial way back in 2005 have surfaced. The final advert was pulled due to its encouragement of violent behaviour, and the auditions for the advert are more than a little creepy!

Editors from Variety have named their most overrated games of 2008. Two out of the four editors mention GTA IV, while three out of the four mention Little Big Planet. Elsewhere, Braid, Fallout 3, Professor Layton and the Curious Village and Castle Crashers all get a mention.

Research from MarketShare denotes that PS3 users are far more likely to use their console for internet browsing than those with a Wii. The gap between the PS3 and Wii is pretty big, as the Wii has 0.01% of the internet browser market share, while the PS3 has 0.04%.

XCMLive has unleashed some rather snazzy new pictures of their upcoming XCM dominator joystick for the PS3. This innovation allows you to program combo attacks into the joystick, so you can perform them just by pushing one button. It also has a rapid fire feature!

Rick White has revealed that the upcoming Red Faction game truly maxes out the Xbox 360. The team is at a point where even if they put an extra vehicle into the virtual world, the game could actually blow the system's memory.

According to reports, Victoria Beckham got a Wii for Christmas and Wii Fit. And she reportedly loves Wii Fit and enjoys its double benefit of helping her to keep fit as well as letting her kids get involved. Yet another celeb endorsement for the Wii.

TV executives have revealed their worries regarding the upcoming Wii video service. The reason being is that if the channel is successful, it could lead to a reduction in traditional viewing figures.

The UK Tabloid The Sun is cheekily running a title which denotes that the new Lara Croft has 'bared all' on video. What they actually mean is, that she 'bares all' regarding her exciting lifestyle! Although, they do have some new and quite revealing shots of the new Tombraider girl. More at TheSun.co.uk.

Many of you may remember a kid going crazy when he received a N64 Xmas, and now a more modern video shows a modern kid going absolutely nuts as he receives a Wii for Xmas. Be prepared for some very LOUD screams.

A new book called the Race for a New Game Machine reveals how a designer of the Cell chip as used in the PS3 felt 'contaminated' by Xbox. The reason for this is that it seems that Sony accidentally helped out MS with game consoles!

It's nearly the new year, so MS has rolled out some new Avatar clothes for free. Some of the guys clothes include a rave baseball cap and dark purple jeans, while for the girls we have zebra print pumps and yellow fingerless gloves.

In an attempt to reduce costs and carbon emissions, a number of UK financial businesses including Ernst and Young are to trial holding business conferences through Playstation Home on the PS3.

Zune boards are full of hundreds of complaints from owners of the Microsoft Zune (in particular the 30GB). At about midnight last night, loads just began to freeze and became unresponsive. Looks like MS is potentially facing another consumer product crisis. More complaints can be seen at Zune.net.

Things have gone back to normal as Call of Duty: World at War replaces FIFA 09 at the top of UK charts for the week ending December 27th (Gfk data). Elsewhere, Need for Speed: Undercover, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Play made up the top five.

According to Reisinger of Cnet, Sony needs to cut the price of the PS3 but just can't do it. Sony's apparently unwilling to admit it, but with all the financial trouble, Sony is trying to turn a profit and limit losses in order to ensure shareholders happy. Thus, Sony is keeping is the prices high but its not selling as many units as it wants, but Sony is now finding out that it's not a good time to be a value leader instead of a cost leader in this difficult economic climate.

Matt Peckham from PC World presents to us fifteen reasons why PC gaming beats all else. And here we go: 1) PCs are scalable, 2) PC games are endlessly manipulable, 3) PCs ape consoles in emulation, 4) PCs can be anywhere, 5) keyboard and mouse beats all, 6) PCs do gamepads, 7) Consoles go kaplooey too, 8) Consoles could vanish, but PCs will be around forever, 9) PC games are stylistically unbounded, 10) N/A, 11) PC games cost less, 12) online PC matchmaking is free, 13) piracy ain't just a PC problem, 14) PCs excel at family-hotseat-group-play, too, and 15) PC displays trump living room displays.

A number of gamers are complaining about an annoying glitch in Little Big Planet which affects save data in regards to the game. The effects include progression disappearing in level packs and even the deletion of user created content! More at Littlebigworkshop.

Someone has gone and shoved an Xbox 360 into the PS3's casing. But critics believe they haven't done it so well, poor soldering, loose hard drive placement and no solid way to hold the internal components in place are some of the reasons they denote.