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Yesterday, PS3 owners worldwide suddenly found themselves locked out of the PlayStation Network, with trophy and game functionality severely compromised. No-one knows why, but it appears that a calendar bug within older PlayStation3s has wreaked havoc with the PS3's DRM and authentication systems with a far-reaching impact on the system.

King's Quest fan project The Silver Lining is being wiped from the face of the internet at the insistence of Activision's lawyers.

Intensively playing two real-time strategy games with the initials SC2 in the same week is bad enough. Given that Supreme Commander 2 and StarCraft II are entirely different strategy animals, it tears the brain asunder. StarCraft is like some rare breed of exquisite tropical fish which requires constant care and attention else it'll perish, while SupCom 2's more like an average moggy. It might be less of a talking point, but chuck some food in a bowl a couple of times a day and that's about all it needs to show you love. Supreme Commander 2 can yield great rewards for minimal investment.

Official Activision blogger Dan Amrich has confirmed that Blur's multiplayer beta will start next week, on Monday 8th March.

The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has outlined what you can expect from Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - and the news is it's pretty much what you would expect.

Turbine's free-to-play relaunch of Dungeons & Dragons Online - Eberron Unlimited - has attracted one million players and boosted revenues by a whopping 500 per cent.

The organisers of the Tokyo Game Show have announced the dates for this year's event.

Square Enix used its VanaFest 2010 convention in Tokyo yesterday to announce the beginning of closed public testing for its next MMO, Final Fantasy XIV. It's not quite beta yet, however, rather the opening of alpha testing to players from the Final Fantasy XI fanbase.

Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid, has offered the first images of his new game The Witness.

It's been a week where Microsoft's PR efforts in promoting Natal to the mainstream press and celebs alike have been met with mixed fortunes. While Peter Molyneux soldiers on with good work evangelising the tech to both consumer and specialist press alike, puzzlingly the hands-on demos continue to run on the aged E3 2009 platform. Nobody outside selected, NDA-respecting developers knows the quality of the production version.

This year's E3 conferences were all about motion control. Apart from Nintendo's, of course, as they'd done an E3 conference about motion control several years previously and showed off Women's Murder Club instead. But Microsoft unveiled Project Natal for the first time while Sony revealed its very own motion-sensing controller, complete with PS Eye functionality and glowy coloured ball.

Tecmo's told Eurogamer that Dead or Alive: Paradise will be released on 2nd April in Europe.

GamesIndustry.biz, the trade arm of the Eurogamer Network, recently completed the next step in its evolution toward greater support for the videogames business with the implementation of a full registration system.

Dead or Alive: Paradise director Yoshinori Ueda has told Eurogamer that his PSP game is not supposed to be softcore pornography nor degrading towards women, despite titillating promotional videos and a marketing slogan that reads, "Paradise in the palm of your hand."

Five minutes into Metroid: Other M, Samus Aran already has a new skill. She's talking, and as is often the case when introducing a new mechanic, Team Ninja - the series' latest custodian - has gone a little bit overboard with it.

Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition - the re-release with added DLC - has shambled to the top of the Japanese software chart this week.

Square Enix has released versions of its classic late-eighties RPGs Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II for the iPhone and iPod Touch. They cost £5.49 / €6.99 apiece.

Update: Panau Island now reports that the demo will be released for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 next Thursday, 4th March.

EVE Online developer CCP has told GamesIndustry.biz that it has opened a new studio in Newcastle in the UK.

Lionhead Studios is asking fans to come up with ideas for Fable III merchandise.

EA has detailed the free unlockable content that will be provided with next week's launch of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as part of the company's Project Ten Dollar initiative to make pre-owned sales less attractive.

Update: Sony Europe has told Eurogamer: "We are aware of the reported issue and are investigating the situation." More when we hear more.

PopCap's tour de force Plants vs. Zombies has beaten App Store records by selling over 300,000 copies in just nine days.

From EA's Redwood Shores Sims Studio will emerge a new development team in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hideo Kojima's shift to PSP development raised questions about what platform the Metal Gear Solid series will continue on. Thankfully, the man himself has signed up to Twitter in order to provide an answer.

High street retailer GAME plans to close down 43 of its UK stores, with 247 members of staff set to lose their jobs.

So, Napoleon finally gave me the battle I wanted from Empire.

A lot of people think that Nintendo loves America more than it loves Europe. Thankfully, it only appears to love America by about 16 hours more. 16 or so hours is the gap between Nintendo's latest media summit in the US, where it let loose with quite a lot of exciting information, and its media summit in the UK, where it did the whole thing all over again, except we mostly knew what was coming.

Sony America boss Jack Tretton has said that PlayStation 3's position now proves what the company was saying all along about a 10-year console cycle.

Zipper has released a big patch for MAG.