Slant Six Games has released a brand new dev diary of SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo 3. This time, the developers discuss the graphics and in-game cinematics of the upcoming SOCOM iteration for the PlaysStation Portable. Watch it after the jump.

Homebrew coder tombot has recently released a new version of The 15th Floor, an excellent looking homebrew adventure/puzzle game for the Nintendo DS inspired by titles like Myst, Crimson Room, and Hotel Dusk. The latest update is mostly a bug fix release.

Download: The 15th Floor v1.1

Head's up PS3 owners. In case you were not aware, today, United Front Games and SCEA has let loose the much awaited public beta of ModNation Racers for everyone who were lucky enough to grab the voucher codes.

A new version of PMPlayer Advance has been released courtesy of homebrew coder cooleyes. If your not familiar with the app, PMPlayer Advance is an alternative media player for the PSP that can play PMP format movies. The latest update is a bug fix release.

Download: PMPlayer Advance v3.0.7

Homebrew coder Total_Noob is back once again to release a new version of DayViewer, a handy homebrew plugin that displays the day of the week, battery percentage, month name and year on your XMB. The latest update has added some more nifty features and now supports all custom firmwares.

Download: DayViewer v6.1

Despite her being a digital entity and physically non-existent, Kasumi still has a lot of gawking fans. Are you one of them? If you are, bet you were thrilled with the announcement of Dead or Alive: Paradise. Well, you might like this even more - you can finally get your hands on Kasumi's sexy figure. But before you drop trou and fill your heads with ideas, read the article first.

Let's face it - if you're not so much of a gamer, QJ-reading and regular checkups on the gaming news may not be among your daily to-do list. Perhaps not even monthly. Nintendo understands that little reality and decides to put a little more contact into their consuimer contact point. They're sending info stations into stores in Japan to help would-be buyers with info and trailers about their prospecitve Wii and DS game purchases.

With the holidays now ever-so-close, SCEA whips up a little something-something to bid for your holiday splurge. Now that this announcementhas come by, Heavy Rain game just got heavier - both figuratively and literally.

Another round of tracks coming to Rock Band next week, but it's not the Christmas batch that you may have been looking for. Worry not, they may be no Bob Marley, but there are some positive vibrations coming from this list. Or that might just be me.

Japan might be going a little FF crazy right now, but let's not forget that the next installment is also in the works. Square Enix has just updated the Final Fantasy XIV official site with three shiny new screens for the new online game - feast yer eyes mateys.