Still busy ooh-ing and aah-ing over the many new features in FW 2.50? Well now, here's a little bit of clarification on the in-game screenshot function: a Sony representative explains that, though the feature is already activated once you upgrade you system to FW 2.50, you actually won't be able to try it out just yet because none of the games out there actually support it yet.

Want to know how to speed up your PlayStation 3 load times in the most impractical way possible? Then go to the full article to find out.

Following the announcement of a Western release for Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, this couldn't come at a better time. Sega has finally confirmed that Phantasy Star Portable will head to North American shores by next year.

You know the political scene's really heating up if a presidential candidate starts wooing video gamers for votes. Reports have come in that Presidential nominee Barack Obama started an advertising campaign in 18 games, so don't be surprised if you suddenly drive by an Obama ad when you're racing in Burnout: Paradise.

This coming after the new anti-piracy law we heard of yesterday? Yeouch. Looks like these guys just got a golden ticket to a life of misery. We hear that SCEA filed a lawsuit against some PSP pirates hawking their wares on Craigslist and offering "to 'mod' or 'unbrick' PSP consoles so as to allow illegal unauthorized copies of SCEA's video game software."

The stint between Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive is the stuff of anticlimactic legends in video gaming. Now that the short-lived love affair's over, EA explains that their attempt to acquire T2 was only an attempt to help them out with holiday sales of Grand Theft Auto IV.

Time to update those nicknames! Pigtailed Girl still remains as Pigtailed Girl, but as for Mr 33cm, it's a different story now. Shonen Jump reveals the formal name of some of the characters in the three Fabula Nova Crystallis games, with an assortment of screens and art littering about.

According to Sony's TGS 2008 line-up Dissidia: Final Fantasy is listed as both a UMD disc and a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store. Let's hope this is true, and that it'll be available for regions other than Japan as well.

While Dissidia took its merry time to reveal its roster of playable characters, Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes is taking a different route. Capcom is clearly doing things by bulk! So far, we've only seen a handful of characters confirmed for the upcoming PSP game. Today, care of the latest Famitsu issue, we see thirty of them!

The Slim TA-088 v3 motherboard may be unhackable for now, but the TA-090 certainly isn't. And guess what? Good news for the PSP community: the PSP-3000 has a TA-090! According to Dark AleX's webmaster Alek, the PSP-3000 has some sort of protection the Slim doesn't, but they're working on it. More details after the link.