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Sony has reiterated that "no plans for a PSP2 are underway" in an interview with Silicon Valley Insider.

The shops sounded confused when we called up earlier asking what they had for release tomorrow, or perhaps it wasn't confusion; perhaps they were just surprised that in a four-month period that's produced around 50 high-profile games across all formats, we still want for more.

Variety reports that Universal Studios and Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski are to make a film about a man who loses his life to an online virtual world.

Nexon's free-to-play first-person shooter Combat Arms has begun open beta testing in Europe, making it available to all players.

Take-Two's president Ben Feder has told investors the the company will no longer publish Cryptic's superhero MMO, Champions Online.

So here it is, merry Christmas, everybody's having fun. Except me, because I've been given yet another pile of pisspoor old tat for the Wii to plough through. Thanks, Santa, try not to catch your beard on the barbed wire I left up the chimney.

First things first, thanks for all the comments and questions on the end of the last blog - there's enough good stuff there to keep these going for at least a few more hours! As mentioned in the first post, I'll try to deal with complicated or contentious issues in lengthy posts that give you as much information as possible, but in the meantime I thought I would address some of the easier stuff in a sort of Editor's mailbag. Let's see how we do!

Vin Diesel's Tigon Studios has said it sees upcoming Riddick title Assault on Dark Athena as an "episodic expansion", revealing that work on a true sequel to the 2004 Xbox classic is already underway.

After the enduring majesty of the first three Silent Hill games, it's now more than five years since Konami's survival-horror lynchpin stood shoulder to shoulder with the most vital, relevant brands in gaming. With the slight disappointment of The Room, followed by the curious and controversial decision to farm out the development of the underwhelmingOrigins to UK studio Climax, expectations for Homecoming have been dampened for some time. Again farmed out, this time to the US-based Double Helix, fans were expecting another frustrating compromise. And so it proves.

Peter Molyneux is set to deliver a keynote speech at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next year.

The Telegraph is reporting that Sony's PS3 virtual world, Home, has already been hacked.

According to a post on the F13 forums, employers are specifically requesting recruitment consultants not to send them World of Warcraft players.

Microsoft has update the Xbox 360 frontend with some free new clothes for Avatars. The theme is snappy formal wear. Major Nelson has the list and we've just checked, it's all in there.

A demo for new independent PC game Buccaneer: The Pursuit of Infamy is now available on Steam.

The Advertising Standards Authority has put Electronic Arts on the naughty step, branding a recent advert for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 as "misleading".

Rockstar has patched Grand Theft Auto IV for PC to deal with "known issues including, but not limited to, performance, input functionality, and overall stability".

Kotaku has spotted that the Asian PSN website has details of the Metal Gear Solid Sackboy costumes for LittleBigPlanet up, and there are a couple of surprises.

Konami has announced Metal Gear Solid Touch for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Konami has konfirmed that the next instalment in the Silent Hill series will be released on 27th February.

Sony will patch PlayStation Home this Thursday, according to Home Community Manager "TedTheDog", whose real name we did know once but now can't remember.

Midway Games has announced plans to axe 25 per cent of staff, cancel some of the projects it currently has in development and close its Austin studio.

DICE and Electronic Arts have unlocked the Time Trial mode in the recent demo version of Mirror's Edge for PS3 and Xbox 360.

In the 80s and 90s, gaming was the frontline in the pop-culture clash of East and West. Japanese games came on chunky plastic cartridges, and were played on games consoles that were probably orange, and they were simple and stylised and surreal and featured things that were a lot bigger than they were supposed to be, and things that flew and talked and had eyes that shouldn't. Western games came in huge cardboard boxes full of floppy disks, and had paintings of monsters on them, and were played on beige computers, and were dark and complex and long and full of menus and blood and lore and things that tried very hard to be exactly like they were in real life.

Xbox 360 currently has a combined lead over PlayStation 3 of around one million lifetime sales across five key European territories - the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine has made a number of staff redundant at both its Massachusetts and California studios.

Ryzom's had a difficult life; launched in the same year as WOW, the French science-fantasy MMO went ignored, except in reviews that tipped the thermostat somewhere between tepid and lukewarm. Since then, it's been killed, resurrected, gone from subscription-based to free, and the single server is now populated by a bunch of dedicated players and - if the chat is anything to go by - lots of people who come for a couple of weeks before leaving.

Nintendo is set to launch the new DSi Ware game download service in Japan this month.

EVE Online is a serious business. You can tell this by the fact that developer CCP has an internal affairs division. Also by the way the uncovering of an exploit leads to calls for "transparency", concerns for the economy, and a summit between developers and elected player leaders, rather than just whining on forums.

Capcom has released an embeddable single-player Flash demo of Neopets Puzzle Adventure (apparently this is how it's written), which is due out on DS, Wii and PC on 23rd January in Europe.

Sony plans to refresh the PlayStation Portable product line with a PSP-4000 model in late 2009 and launch a true successor - a PSP2, if you like - later.