40w ago - SCE Worldwide Studios Art Director Gavin Moore has officially raised the curtain on a new PS3 adventure game entitled Puppeteer today!

Below are the details and a video, as follows: Let's get the introductions out the way so can get right to the exciting stuff.

My name is Gavin, and for the past nine years I have been living in Tokyo working for Sony's Worldwide Studios.

Recently, I and a small - but incredibly talented - group of game makers have been hard at work on a new PlayStation 3 game called Puppeteer.

I'm excited to be able to talk directly to you guys, the heart of PlayStation, and give you the heads-up on the game first.

Puppeteer takes place in a magical puppet theatre, owned and run by the slightly eccentric but thoroughly charming Professor Gregorious T. Oswald. His latest production is the weirdly titled "The Perilous Journey of a Boy Named Kutaro."

On one dark, moonlit night, the star of the show, a young boy named Kutaro, is carried away by the maleficent Moon Bear King to a black castle, where the unlucky lad is transformed into a puppet.

Kutaro then displeases the terrible tyrant who duly devours the boy's wooden head and casts away his body. But the headless...

179w ago - According to AnalogHype.com (linked above), Sony has secretly raised the PlayStation 3 repair fee on launch consoles this week.

Apparently they used to charge a flat $150 service fee, which has now been quietly increased to $179.

To quote: "Sony Computer Entertainment secretly raised the price for servicing your PlayStation 3 at the beginning of this week. Originally a $150 flat rate fee including shipping has gone up to $179.

Sony is pushing to have the launch consoles replaced with the new 120 gb Playstation 3 Slim. All you have to do is pay $120 and lose your backward compatible console for the new and improved PS3 Slim."