Santa Claus and Jesus ensured that December was a bumper month for the Playstation family. That month saw the PS3 and PSN bringing home more bacon for SCEA than any single month previous. In addition to the 1.7 million PS3’s sold stateside, SCEA has plenty more bragging. Last Updated: January 14, 2010

The US beta of Mario Kart-meets-LittleBigPlanet ModNation Racers ended this Sunday. Its character and car creation tools have already highlighted just how creative people can be, given the opportunity. If you weren’t fortunate enough to get in on the beta using that sneaky US PSN account of yours, there is a second chance. European territories will be getting their very …

Masayuki Chatani, Sony’s technology platform boss has told Nikkei that the company will “face difficulties” if it continues to rely on the “sell-and forget model” that they currently employ. “Servers and the like have running costs… after we sell the hardware, though, we continue to sell products such as content and services,” he said, before continuing “In addition to single-payment …

The GT5 Academy Time Trial demo hits this week and we have just come across some information and details with regards to what you can expect. A forum post on torctalk.com gives us the details. The demo will include two version of one car – The Nissan 370z normal and tuned version The demo will only include one track – …

The Playstation 3 will be seeing a new optional Firmware update very soon, according to the EU Playstation Blog. I know what your first question is, the answer is no. What the update will be including will be a couple of nifty features such as the ability to transfer data between two consoles linked with a network cable as well …

You all know about the MW2 Javelin glitch that has been plaguing gamers over the last week in their nightly sessions of Modern Warfare 2, you also all know that Infinity Ward is working on getting a patch out ASAP. Microsoft have decided to take matters into their own hands for now and have warned that anyone caught using the …

Finding its release roughly half-way between Halloween and Christmas, The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, Borderland’s first DLC is a Halloween-themed gift from Gearbox. A self-contained episode, The Zombie Island of Dr Ned focuses on the over-saturated, clichéd gaming stalwart of the living dead. Zombies really are everywhere these days; it’s getting harder to turn on a game these days …

Good news for fans of classic side-scrolling beat ‘em ups. Capcom is porting two of their most classic to PSN and XBLA; the seminal Final Fight, and the equally awesome Magic Sword. Even better is that they’ll be bundled together and billed as “Final Fight: Double Impact” Ufortunately unlike other Capcom classics like Super Street Fighter 2 and Puzzle fighter …