The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) sent in a press release informing QJ.NET about a successful court battle against businessman Neil Stanley Higgs known online as "Mr. Modchips".

He was charged in UK for distributing and selling the "illegal technology" that enables gamers play backup DVD and CD copies. The decision was granted a couple of days ago and charged Higgs of three counts of advertising, supplying, and selling modchips.

Aside from that, the businessman was also found guilty of 12 counts of possessing 19 chipped games consoles as well as 11 counts of possessing Executor and Viper GC modchips. Higgs argued that all the possessions in question found during one of ELSPA's investigations were owned by family members and friends.

Unfortunately for him, Judge Carole Hagen didn't believe his defense. Reports said that since starting business in 2002, Higgins has accumulated a total of one million GBP (US$ 2.05 million) in revenue. ELSPA Managing Director Michael Rawlinson said:

This case today sets a major precedent which marks a milestone in the fight against piracy, protecting the games industry's investment in fantastic games. It sends a clear message to anyone tempted to become involved in "chipping" consoles that this is a criminal offence and will be dealt in the strongest possible way.

Neil Stanley Higgs' attorneys filed for an appeal which the judge granted.

We all know Konami never holds anything back when it comes to big video game events, and this year's E3 is no different. Just now, the gaming giant announced nine games that will be showing off some flair under Konami's belt during the party.

Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party for the Wii is sure to dominate the dance floor, along with Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 22 for the PS2 to revitalize the arcade hit that made players get off their comfortable couch to do some dancing and break some sweat. Featuring crowd favorite songs and new innovative game modes, we expect buckets of sweat and tons of fun.

A couple more titles will be hitting the Wii: cutesy water droplet action Dewy's Adventure, and a fishing game Fishing Master developed by Hudson Entertainment. This new bait for angler orgy will feature the use of the Wiimote and Nunchuck as rod and reel, as players utilize different baits to hook up more than 100 fish in their quest to be the Fishing Master.

Konami's PSP offering during E3 will include much anticipated Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles from the undying, vampire slaying franchise. We have seen so much from this game that depriving people on E3 of a hands-on experience would be criminal.

The mini-sized installment on what is arguably the best psychological horror series there is, Silent Hill, will be hitting Sony's handheld with Silent Hill Origins. Talks of Travis O'Grady trucking over the DS came up a few ways back, but it doesn't look like it'll happen this E3.

More on this after the jump!

PSP Nikos is at it again! This time, he has updated his Custom PSP Theme Pack with his buddy PSP Viper, to the B Edition. We were informed by the devs that they have done a major update on the Custom PSP Theme Pack 4: B Edition. The new things you'd find in this updated package are the following:

• New topmenu_plugin.rco files [including freaky 7th icon]
• Cool custom game_plugin.rco, savedata_plugin.rco and photo_plugin.rco files [Made by me]
• New Ultra Sexy XMB Wave pack
• New PSPtm Logo Remover
• New Ultra Cool XMB busy circle mod!
• Original 2.50 firmware vsh folder
• Flash Agent F3 Devhook screen capture for 2.71se-? custom firmware and above!
• New TGAwave Editor

They also mentioned that if you want to use this, there are a couple of warnings that you have to bear in mind. Just what those warnings are? Well, you have to read the readme file that comes with the download. The download is about 31MB and it includes all of the files in the previous theme packs, so if the older versions is taking too much memory, you're free to delete them.

In closing, the guys would want to give their props to ALL of the PSP programmers and to QJ.net (again, you're always welcome!). On our part, we thank PSP Nikos, PSP Viper, and PSP Tis for the heads-up and for a job well done.

Download: [Custom PSP Theme Pack 4: B Edition]