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Shigeru Miyamoto has explained in the latest issue of the Official Nintendo Magazine that those who plays titles such as Brain Age will eventually move on to more hardcore titles...

Finally! After years of waiting, looks like Home is finally to release to the masses. Version 1.00 of the Home client has been released to beta testers. The new Home moves from the "Game" section of the XMB to the more appropriate "PlayStation Network" area.

Read more after the link

Playstation Underground is coming to an end, and your membership will soon be expired. So what can you do to stay in the loop?

MCV: Platform holder claims victory as it boasts of generating 'double' rival's UK sales since September – and outselling Sony's console in 'key states' across continent.

MCV: 'Rock Star' combo blame rhythm action titles for lack of new US bands

Italian medics diagnosed a 13-year-old boy with Playstation addiction after his desperate father rushed him to hospital.

At first doctors at southern Italy's Lecce hospital thought Lorenzo Amato was suffering from a stroke or a severe brain disorder.

The teenager couldn't speak and didn't seem to understand anything going on around him. Then doctors discovered he'd just finished a marathon session on his new Playstation.

Media Molecule has just released a new 11MB patch for LittleBigPlanet, updating the game to v.1.04.

Details:

- Using Undo in Creator mode requires a network call
- Gluing can be un-glued from the ground

More to be added soon.

MCV: Two million sold since June; Platform holder predicts its 'best ever Christmas'

Chart Get! has translated the latest Japanese Sales data from Media Create for 11/10 - 11/16. DS took 8 out of the top 10 spots, with PS3 taking 2.

01. [NDS] Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (Nintendo) 97,000 / 363,000
02. [PS3] Samuraidou 3 (Spike) 81,000 / NEW
03. [NDS] Tongari Boushi to Mahou no 365 Nichi (Konami) 72,000 / NEW
04. [NDS] Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren DS 2: Sabaku no Majou (SEGA) 45,000 / NEW
05. [PS3] Resistance 2 (SCE) 33,000 / NEW
06. [NDS] DS Nishimura Kyoutarou Suspense 2 Shintantei Series:… (Tecmo) 33,000 / NEW
07. [NDS] Ryuusei no Rockman 3: Black Ace (Capcom) 33,000 / NEW
08. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 30,000 / 1,159,000
09. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (Nintendo) 30,000 / 183,000
10. [NDS] Pokémon Platinum (Pokémon) 27,000 / 1,917,000

This morning, addons.mozilla.org reached a huge milestone: we served our 1 billionth add-on download since we started keeping track of downloads in 2005.

This number only includes downloads from addons.mozilla.org, but as many add-ons are hosted elsewhere, we can be sure the actual number is even higher. This is a very exciting week for Firefox add-ons, with the launch of Fashion Your Firefox yesterday, offering a new way for first-time add-on users to customize their browser.

This amazing feat was made possible by the huge community of add-on users, developers, and enthusiasts, as well as non-Firefox applications that embrace Mozilla add-ons like Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Sunbird, Komodo, Flock, and Songbird, to name a few.

At 1.5 million add-on downloads per day and increasing, I'm confident our next billion will arrive even more quickly than the 3.5 years it took for the first. If you're not using an add-on yet, try one out:
http://www.fashionyourfirefox.com/
They're pretty popular.

SnagWire: EA has shut down its mysterious Blueprint Division though not the projects that were being worked on.

One of these 'projects' that will be allocated elsewhere is the previously unannounced Boom Blox 2.

Apparently, work is already underway on the sequel to the spring's innovative Wii puzzle game that received critical acclaim and generated decent revenue after being briefly considered a sales flop.

Good news for Firefox users who have lusted over Chrome and Safari's option that lets you "tear" away tabs from an open window. The latest build of 3.1 offers it as a standard feature--and it works marvelously.

As in Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari browsers you simply pull away a tab from the interface and it turns into its own window. Likewise you can drag it back into an already opened window, just like you'd do to re-order your existing tabs.

Below is a quick video demo of how the new tear-away feature works, both with dragging tabs and choosing to open them via contextual menu.

Games Are Evil writes, "An article today from the Natural Resource Defense Council discusses the cost of leaving your console online when not actively playing. According to the report, a staggering fifty percent of all gamers leave their consoles on when not in use. This can lead to some pretty extreme costs, as you can see from the chart at right.

Those of you who are folding at home on your PlayStation 3 are taking the worst hit, swallowing an extra $145 worth of energy costs every year..."

Split-Screen writes: "We met Ashim Mathur, the National Marketing Manager of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. Earlier, Microsoft India had said they expected Gears of War 2 to help boost sales of their console, and today Mathur said that while they can't reveal the exact figures, sales for the 360 went up by 30 to 45 per cent in the wake of Gears 2.

"So, the XBox 360 has apparently got a lead in the console wars here, for now anyway."

Quebec has become one of the top regions for video game development, a new study contends. The province, which boasts an estimated 6,200 jobs in the video-game industry, is considered "mature," as it features a high growth rate and complexity of games, said the study by Secor-Taktik, a consulting firm.

Lionhead Studios has updated its blog site with news that the Fable II announcement that was promised this week, has been pushed back until Monday 24th November.

I know what you're thinking, but no, I'm afraid this is not the BIG news that got me (and most of you) so excited last week. The big bods over in Redmond decided that, this week wasn't the time to tell you what that announcement is we have ready here in Guildford. However, there is some good news. To celebrate the launch of the New Xbox Experience, we've created an all-new Fable II theme for your dashboard. Go show your Fable pride!

One of the UK's biggest girl bands, The Sugababes, are all set to push the button on the all-new XboxLIVE! Experience tomorrow night, with a very special performance in central London as they've never been seen before...

Enter the ultimate social entertainment experience. Connect with your favorite people and enjoy more games and entertainment online than with any other device connected to your TV. Welcome to the New Xbox Experience. Jump in.

Sony's head of public relations for the UK, David Wilson, has told GamesIndustry.biz that the company is pleased with LittleBigPlanet's retail performance and expects the title to perform better due to "word of mouth".

The Media Molecule title went on sale on November 5, and entered the UK's All Format chart in fourth place, the same week as the company's MotorStorm: Pacific Rift came in at 29. The following week both titles dropped in the charts to 19 and 35 respectively.

"We're really pleased with the initial reaction to LittleBigPlanet - it has been our highest scoring game ever I believe with a Metacritic score of 95 and a huge list of 10/10s or 100 per cent scores," explained Wilson.

"We are also pleased with its commercial performance. In other times of the year it would be a clear number one - so you have to put the chart in context.

Electronic Arts has apparently closed the doors on the supposedly secret internal Blueprint division in the business cuts that were announced recently.

Although nothing much was said on the record about the division, it was originally initiated to work on new intellectual property and was headed up by Neil Young - but when Young left in June this year to head up his own company an internal email from EA Games president Frank Gibeau handed control over to Louis Castle.