Yes you might be thinking that E3 is still quite awhile away and that we have GDC on the gaming calendar next but Shane Bettenhausen of Ignition Entertainment (previously of EGM) hypothesized on this week’s 4 Guys 1UP podcast that Sony and Nintendo’s portable follow ups will be revealed at this year’s E3 event:

“I think the big story of E3 is DS 2 and PSP 2. I’m really excited to see that,” he further commented that the“DS and PSP both existed in completely different sides [...] if those two put out similar products at the same time, it really evens the playing field.”

You might be thinking that this is some guy just trying to start off some new rumours, but this guy is usually spot on when it comes to rumours and if his sources are correct, this almost certainly could be true.

It’s great news too the ears of PSP and DS fans atleast, however i doubt we will hear any confirmation any time soon. Still, it still gets you handheld gamers excited, huh?

A very short post for now, but I thought i’d just let you all know that iTunes have just claimed to of had their 10,000,000,000th (10 billion) song downloaded from the music store!

Not only that, but the lucky person who downloaded the 10,000,000,000th song will be winning a $10,000 iTunes gift card courtesy of Apple! The winner of the giftcard has not been announced yet, but we will know shortly, hopefully in a couple of days.

So to finish off. Congratulation to Apple for selling so many downloads, and also congratulations to the lucky downloader who bought the 10,000,000,000th song!

Following on from the recent post about Apple removing 5,000 apps from the App store because of adult content that doesn’t follow the stores guidelines, Apple seemed to have altered the App Store so many of the removed apps could be making a reappearance!

Cult of Mac has confirmed that when you go to submit an app to the App Store through iTunes, Apple have added ‘Explicit’ to the list of categories for your app to be added to! Explicit has been added alongside other categories such as Entertainment, books and games; so choose carefully when submitting an app as you don’t want the wrong people downloading your app!

As of now, Apple haven’t given a reason behind adding the new category to the App Submission, although we believe it could be due to the amount of negative press surrounding this topic and have therefore decided to create the category to try and please everyone!

What do you think? Are Apple doing the right thing by adding an Explicit category, or perhaps they should consider a parental content filter on the iPhone and iPod Touch? Leave your comments below.

Hello and welcome to the monthy game round-up, where I will be taking a look at what’s to look forward to this month in gaming. Both Xbox 360 and the PS3 titles will be covered here plus downloadable content that is scheduled for release (Arcade games not included). Up first are the Xbox 360 titles: Read more »

Yesterday Microsoft held a secret Project Natal event, showing off the upcoming technology to various people from the technology industry and celebrities, one of whom was TV presenter Jonathan Ross who leaked a possible release date for Natal via his Twitter Status:

“OK. Before bed. Natal on X Box impressive. Not quite there yet i think but tye have til october and if they get it right…skys the limit.”

Of course, Ross’ twitter status could be refering to Microsoft’s development schedule. An October goal could be in preparation for a November launch.

Microsoft replied to the speculation stating “There have been no further announcements on the release date of Project Natal – it remains scheduled for Christmas 2010.” Read more »

Thanks to the Playstation Blog, DigiLounge are able to give you access to a free theme for the PS3 and the PSP!

The guys over at the Playstation Blog have created a free Kahoots theme thats available to download as part of Mini’s month!

Be aware though there are only 5,000 copies available and if you’re one of the lucky 5,000 then make sure to download before the 28th of February as this great giveaway ends at the end of this month!

To get this great theme use the following codes:

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Has The Official PlayStation Magazine revealed something they did not intend to? A recent article in December 2009′s edition of the popular magazine has seemed to of caught many people’s eyes!

The article, titled “The Secret Games of 2010?, mentions many big games but one in particular has grabbed the most attention. Killzone 3! The article in question says:

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Thanks to Major Nelson from Xbox Live for releasing the latest dates for content on the Xbox Live Marketplace!

The current schedule is as follows:

Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week:

March 1: Gears of War Avatar COG Armor (male) (female) 240 points & Helmet (male) (female) 80 points

March 8: Call of Duty: WaW: Map Pack Bundle, 1600 Points

Xbox LIVE Games on Demand:

March 2: Fallout 3, North America and Asia (except Japan, Korea and India)
March 2: Street Fighter IV, Europe, Australia and New Zealand

Xbox LIVE Arcade:

As part of the Block Party promotion, here is the Arcade schedule for March.

March 3: Toy Soldiers -1200 points
March 10: Scrap Metal – 1200 points

March 17: Perfect Dark – 800 points

March 24: Game Room – Free to download. Individual games will cost 240 to 400 points

Xbox Avatar Marketplace:

These are just a few of the collections scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace.

March 2: Street Fighter IV
March 4: Major League Baseball 2K10

Also, the following Xbox 360 Game Add-Ons are scheduled to be available:

Feb 23: Star Wars The Force Unleashed,  Hoth Bonus Level – 800 Microsoft Points
Feb 25: FIFA 10, Ultimate Team Game Add-on  – 400 Microsoft Points
March 2: Resident Evil 5, Desperate Escape Episode – 400 Microsoft Points

Anything there you’ll be downloading, or perhaps something you wish was coming to the Marketplace but isn’t in the list above. Leave your comments below!

You will have more than likely read our article earlier this week about our first impressions of Windows Series’ 7 however we didn’t really go into much details about Microsoft’s answer to the Apple AppStore.. the “Marketplace“.

Well, as you can see from the image above, the first screen you will see when you enter the Marketplace Hub is a page containing categories for various applications on the marketplace and a selection of featured applications, which at a guess will be used as an advertising space for applications. This may function in a number of ways; for example like the music hub showing your most recent accessed content or perhaps applications similar to that you’ve already downloaded? Read more »

I strongly suspect that the majority of Digilounge users and visitors who are currently interested in sites with HTML5-powered stuff run browsers like Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome. Still, if you happen to be saddled with Internet Explorer like me and want to experiment with HTML5 sites, you’re in luck because Christian Adams has created a new plugin that brings this video tag to IE.

Of course, it’s still a preview release at this point (there are no playback controls and you need to specify an attribute within the <video> tag to enable IE playback), but who knows, maybe Microsoft will bolt on support with an IE update at some point in the future. Internet Explorer 9 is a possibility.