A college student from Cal State Fullerton was arrested by federal agents on Monday by illegally running a home business of modifying Xbox, Playstation, Wii and other video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.

He's a future astrophysicist, a martial artist, a College Degree holder at the age of 11, and he doesn't like video games. Child prodigy Moshe Kai Cavalin graduated with honors from East Los Angeles Community College just last week, and made it known to the world that he thinks video games are "a waste of time."

The Swine Flu (now officially known as the H1N1 virus) is proving to cause a huge damper on the upcoming E3 festivities. With just literally a couple of weeks before the curtains rise to start what could be the biggest games show of the year, we have attendees going over the list and checking it twice, for fear of the said virus. Capcom Japan would be one such attendee.

Big day today for aspiring LittleBigPlanet creators. There's a new free pack containing some creation tutorials on the US PlayStation Store. Should be useful for those who want to learn more about creating their own stages in LittleBigPlanet. The PSP version of the PlayStation Store still continues to be sparse, but at least there's a new downloadable game there in the form of Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters. A full list is available after the jump.

Got any plans to attend this year's E3? In that case, you might wanna book another day for your trip 'cause you're in for a treat. A special Video Games Live concert's gonna wrap the whole thing up, with special performances from guests from Japan and Europe. More info's just a click away.

So, any of you want to place bets on what the big three will announce/reveal during E3 2009? A new PSP model, perhaps? More exclusive games for the Xbox 360? The new Zelda game for the Wii? Will the new Team ICO game finally be unveiled? Will there be pricecuts? Synchronize your clocks, folks! Here we have the press conference schedules of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo!

As rumors would have it, Electronic Arts has shut down the Brisbane, Australia office of Pandemic Studios. Says a "reliable source", the shut down was more of a "find a new publisher" thing, rather than a "sorry, we'll have to kill you off" scenario.

Things are looking up for Eidos, which had a very tough year. The owner of the Tomb Raider franchise is being courted by several big names, including the titan studio Square Enix, who's looking to expand with more titles that appeal to Western tastes.

Well if Lara doesn't appeal to Western tastes I don't know what does.

Big things up for Square Enix! They've just set up shop in LA, and in an interview, SE US president John Yamamoto has confided their plans: the LA studio is going digital. He also revealed the general direction the corporation is going - global markets and what not. But in what could be called as one of the boldest statements ever made in the industry, he's already declaring the exclusivity war officially over. Like whoa.

A US-based Square Enix Studio is to be erected in El Segundo, Los Angeles. Naturally, they're going to need to staff it and Xbox and Wii dev teams are at the top their list. (After product managers, of course. You really need those guys too.)