Somebody's obviously excited! No less than Charles Martinet, the famed voice behind Mario the plumber, has taken to his Twitter to tweet about "a new Mario game". And no, he's apparently not referring to the New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

Stepping up the PS3 charge this year is Uncharted 2: Among Thieves which just went gold officially for North America. Of course, SCEA isn't gonna let the whole thing go by without a bang - they've partnered with Sony Electronics to produce four exclusive "sneak peek" events for ol' Drake's next big gig.

The release was supposed to be for early September, but now that the PS3 Slim is available, retailer supplies aren't even gonna last until then . The newly-announced, slimmed-down model of the PlayStation 3 is apparently selling so hot that retailers' first shipments have already been sold out.

Apple Insider is "independently confirming" that there will be a media event happening on Wednesday, September 9th, hosted by Apple, for them to launch their new lines of iPods, along with a bevy of other music-related announcements.

Uh-oh. Square Enix is in trouble. No, they're not pulling out Final Fantasy XIII, though that alone would cause some major problems for them as well. Rather, they're being sued. Yes, Square Enix is being sued with a federal class action, claiming that Square Enix of America has "deceived 100,000 customers by not being upfront about fees and penalties."

A couple of weeks ago, NIS America announced that they were announcing a "unique and fun" PSP game. The following day, the publisher did good on their promise and announced that they were localizing and publishing Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman: What Did I Do to Deserve This? Well today, they announced that they're not yet done with their surprises, and in fact has got an event lined up. With a possible new PS3 title. Holy Invasion... for the PS3?

Fresh from the press release mailbox is the success from the recently-concluded Game Developers Conference. The press release came with the heading, "2009 Game Developers Conference Once Again Serves As Focal Point For Worldwide Videogame Industry," plus a few stats on this year's events that made the whole thing, in their words, a "week of learning, networking, and inspiration."

Looks like we'll have to wait longer for the next iteration of the Xbox. Blizzard has confirmed that previous rumors stating that they are in talks with Microsoft over a new console is bunk.

We've got an exceptionally news-filled week for issue #65 of the QuickJump QuickPeek, thanks in part (a whole lot) to the recently-concluded GDC that happened in San Francisco. There were a lot of announcements and revelations, both inspiring and jaw-dropping alike. Yep, it's looking like it's gonna be yet another good year for gaming.

The recently-concluded GDC 09 in San Francisco yielded a lot of interesting news about the gaming world. That excitement apparently flowed over to our Xbox 360 blog as we got a fair share of cool news and updates. We've got the people of Halo 3 doing a back-and-forth with whether or not there'll be more content for the franchise, the dismal and disappointing launch of the exclusive XBL DLC for Fallout 3, The Pitt, as well as some mahayjor drama in the MS offices, with an employee suing for homophobic discrimination, BBC pwning MS for the disc-scratching issue, and more.