With the updates for the PlayStation Store getting an early start this week, Senior Manager Grace Chen polished off and completed the list with the arrival of one of the most anticipated downloadable titles for the PlayStation 3 with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (as if some of you guys needed reminding). Several other notable DLC made it on the list, making this week's update one of the more significant ones in a while. In case some of you guys glossed over the other updates available this week, you can check out the complete list in our full article.

As we all know, events such as the Game Developers Conference are vital to improving the state of the video game in general. With that in mind, you may want to take a peek at the speakers featured by the Parisian GDC organizers. The event is scheduled to take place this June. More details after the jump!

Things are definitely taking shape with the upcoming Nordic Game conference 2008 which is set to happen in two months time in Malmö, Sweden. It's been revealed that producers of Lego Star Wars and Rock Band will be the Keynote speakers in this event. Find out the details after the jump!

Those who live in the UK may have been left out of the recent GDC 2008 action action, but there's one big event coming your way. Play.com Live will be held on UK's Wembley Stadium, where visitors can get first-hand experiences of new games such as LittleBigPlanet. More about this big event in the full article!

It's a new week once again and Senior Manager for the PlayStation Store Grace Chen has posted the new list of downloadable goodies for everyone to enjoy. For the week of February 28, we've got more Rock Band (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) songs, a couple of new trailers, and some neat game videos for some of the upcoming titles on the PS3 and PSP. For the complete list of new content, check out the full article.

Harmonix's iPod rhythm game called Phase has been getting a lot of coverage lately. Why wouldn't it considering that it allows users to use music from their own personal collection. Well, did you know that this was originally designed for the PlayStation Portable? Check out the full article to find out more about this.

Heads up! We got the latest news regarding the rumor spreading that Viacom's out to buy Take-Two Interactive. Apparently the media conglomerate is has not talked with the game developer about this so-called purchase.

Both companies have offered "no comment" regarding this matter. More information on this event in the full article.

After Activision and Vivendi's announcement of the Activision Blizzard merger, will other gaming companies follow suit? At the very least, EA is open to the acquisition of other development studios, since there's a lot of talent to tap into that's not within EA's in-house studios. Check out more details in the full article.

With the latest numbers from NPD finally in for the month of October, the console race is once again in full swing as it gets ready for its holiday storm of releases. Overall, last month was a very productive month for game publishers as revenues hit an astounding US$ 1.1 billion.

Check out the breakdown of the numbers right after the jump!

Through the years, Harmonix Music Systems) Independent Video Game Developer">Harmonix has established itself as one of the main proponents of the rhythm-based genre of today's video game titles. After conquering the next-gen consoles, one has to wonder what other things are up the company's sleeves.

Well, the published session list for Game Developers Conference 2008 might give us a clue. According to the official site of GDC 2008, Harmonix will hold a session titled "Your Music Is the Game: Designing the OTHER Project at Harmonix" with lead designer Chris Foster as the designated speaker.

Some interesting points of the planned session include:

• Their new title faced unique challenges: beats would not be authored by tech-savvy musicians, but would instead be algorithmically generated, and the game would lack the dedicated peripherals that were critical to the success of the Guitar Hero series
• Special attention is devoted to: the development of procedural gameplay algorithms; unique input mechanics; and triaging unexpected changes in scope and schedule.
  

We highlighted one of the above statements for a reason. We are not certain if you are aware of this, but Harmonix applied for a trademark back in 2002 for Beat Boy. Quite interestingly, the trademark had the description of "an electronic video game software for portable listening devices".

What do you think guys? This could fit well with the Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, and other "next-gen" mobile phones. We guess we'll never know for certain until GDC kicks off on February 18. We hope an official announcement will come after that.