Rumor has it that Electronic Arts will be adding more people to its list of cut employees. The target? Pandemic Studios.

Dear old Alan Wake has been sleeping in for far longer than originally expected. Last we heard, Remedy was just putting in the finishing touches on Mr. Wake's eponymous Xbox 360 game. Still, the question remains: how far away is Alan Wake's release? MCV says six months from now.

A few months ago, THQ's Brian Farrell claimed that Microsoft's Project Natal will be launching late next year. According to MCV, Farrell's estimation was right on.

The casualty statistics so far of the banned Xbox Live is at an uncool 600,000. Yep, that's 600,000 miserable souls with modded Xbox 360s, and inaccessible XBL accounts. What's more, word has it that Microsoft's out to target another 400,000 more.

It seems IO Interactive is keeping quite busy these days. They already got two games in the pipeline -- Hitman 5 and Kane & Lynch 2 -- and now reports are suggesting that there's another new IO title on the way.

We're still a long way from reaching Halo: Reach's Fall 2010 launch, but apparently someone really wanted to show the game off to others that they've leaked out a few blurry shots of it in action.

It seems Feelplus' Ninety-Nine Nights II is no longer a Japan exclusive, if Gamefly is to be believed. A listing for the game was recently spotted in the online game rental service's database along with two other Xbox 360 titles.

This video here came up on YouTube earlier, and what do you know, it's Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, and PC). Or so the video claims.

Hold on to your hats, folks. There's a chance that Capcom may be gearing up for a late 2009 release for Lost Planet 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360). According to a slide spotted at the Xbox 360 Invitational in Korea, anyway.

Word is that there's a huge rumor running around in the pages of PlayStation: The Official Magazine. How big? Try Killzone 3 big, with a dash of Resistance 3 and a side helping of World at War 2.