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The handheld's first major firmware update hits later this week with a few new features and some minor changes.

Set 20 years after a fungal zombie outbreak, The Last of Us will tell a decidedly human story with a post-apocalyptic backdrop.

A 29 year old man died in an internet cafe in Taipei, and was discovered dead by a waitress hours later. The man was still sitting rigidly in his seat with his hands stretched out when he was discovered.

Milhouse, Mary and Joseph. 4chan has come together to hold its own video game awards. This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not a drill.

Everyone makes mistakes every now and then, it’s why pencils have erasers, right? What about when that pencil is a printing machine, though? When you make a mistake like this on the packaging of a game (and then proceed to ship it,) it’s a little bit harder to correct, however.

Michael Gamble talks about his experience with Mass Effect 3 and what we can expect with the upcoming title.

I’m no novelist, but I can assume that having an entire community pick up on canonical inconsistencies in your new book would be more awkward than watching Michael Cera play Shaft. Such is the case for the author of Mass Effect: Deception.

Reddit poster mercenary-games posted an IAmA thread along with a separation letter he claims to have received when he quit his job as an engineer at Zynga after 8 months, as well as some pretty alarming claims about ‘creepy stuff’ that went on.

Gets an 'M' rating by the ESRB.

SSX gets a couple of cool new features that set it apart from other online games.

Beachhead announced that the Clan Operations add-on for COD Elite is almost done.

Speaking in an interview, Tim Schafer explained the difficulty in getting new IPs published.

The release date for the Wii-bound The Last Story has finally been announced.

Skin your PlayStation Vita with one of these licensed stickers.

There's rarely smoke without fire and it turns out that the PlayStation Network is getting a name change this week.

For the fans of downloadable titles, you can now pick up Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition whenever you want on Xbox Live.

When the Metal Gear Solid HD collection was first announced, a Vita version was on the cards. It hasn't been mentioned for a little while, but is definitely still on its way.

The Last of Us is what the second development team ended up working on at Naughty Dog, although original plans were quite different...

Locate the 8 secret monsters in Final Fantasy XIII-2 with this helpful guide.

Rumours that Final Fantasy X HD would be a complete remake in the Final Fantasy XIII engine may have been a little off the mark.

A new game mode has been added to Modern Warfare 3, finally it's not against the rules to get into an Infected match.

Find out how to acquire secret weapons in this Final Fantasy XIII-2 guide.

The video guide shows you how to capture all the rare monsters in Final Fantasy XIII-2.

If this email that turned up on Neogaf is anything to go by, the PSN is receiving a name change over the coming week.