The Public Beta is on! If you pre-ordered your copies of MAG from either GameStop or EB Games, then today is the day you've been waiting for. The Beta access was opened at 10:00AM this morning, thus bringing the new Beta participants to join with the existing Public Beta users.

The midnight launch for Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, and PC) has been confirmed by two retail stores, GameStop and EB Games. If you want to catch it, get yourselves ready for the long lines ahead in just a little over a month.

Well here we go again. With barely one week left before the scheduled launch of PSP Go, Kotaku Australia is reporting that the nation's largest games retailer, EB Games, is refusing to stock the PSP Go. According to the site, several stores in Sydney have confirmed that the PSP Go is not currently listed on their database and EB will not support the new PSP iteration.

Good news to all Canadian PSN fans out there! Kyle Moffatt, Senior PR Specialist for SCE Canada has gone to the PlayStation US Blog to announce that the PSN prepaid cards are finally coming to the territory.

Whether or not you agree with Microsoft and Bungie's decision to turn Halo 3: ODST into a full-priced release, it's definitely resonating with a lot of Halo fans, as indicated by this earlier report. For those who want to make sure that they get a copy on day one, Microsoft has put together a promo that lets those who pre-order at participating retailers play as the tough-as-nails series stalwart Sgt. Avery Junior Johnson in the game's multiplayer Firefight mode.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) is going black. EB Games Australia is reportedly offering at their online store the Assassin'sc Creed 2 Exclusive Black Collector's Edition, and is pegging it for a November 2009 ship-out.

In case you were primping yourself up for a trip to your nearest EB Games or GameStop store to buy yourself a cheap PS3, you should know that the rumored price cut has proven false. There is no price cut today. Our source kaizer_911 also informs us that the rumor of a price cut was just BS in the first place.

As if in consolation for Australia getting Resistance: Retribution later than pretty much everybody else, the Australian branch of EB Games has readied a Retribution-branded PSP bundle for the region. Details in the full article.

Planning to buy a PlayStation 3? Wait until March 22, says website 2old2play. According to some info they managed to get their hands on, Sony will be dropping the price of the 80 GB PlayStation 3 by US$ 99. Well what's there to lose if you wait just a few more days?

Microsoft's gotten itself into another noisy controversy the past week. They've taken quite a beating, with devs calling them a "dumb PC", and activists hounding them for once again banning an XBL user for identifying in her profile information that she's a lesbian. To say that the Xbox 360 blog's week was "interesting" is a grave understatement. Let's get this green carpet rolling, then! We present you the biggest Xbox 360 news this week!

Originally posted on Feb 27, 2009 at 05:25PM