After David Jaffe posted a shot of an internal email he sent, details leaked about a new car game he's working on. He may have blurred the pertinent details, but there's always someone with mad photoshop skills out there who could work around it - to some extent at least. What they managed to unfog leads to a car game, now speculated to be a new Twisted Metal game.

SCEA VP of Product Marketing, Scott Steinberg, is a firm believer that Killzone 2 will be that factor strong enough to have the Xbox 360 gamers try out the PlayStation 3 system. In an interview with GameDaily, Steinberg talked about the golden boy of the PS3, the many more great things to expect from the PS3, and why 2009 is really THE YEAR of the said console.

Is your Xbox 360 avatar getting cramps from just standing there all day long? Well it's time to get the Free Your Avatar toolkit from Microsoft, which will let your avatar stand in other places besides your Xbox 360. Customize your avatar and let them represent you in Facebook, Messenger, and even in your iPhone background.

I think most gamers know that screenshots are often doctored to make them snazzier, even if they don't readily admit it to themselves. It was always just a kind of open secret, but that was until Activision posted this particular job listing on Gamasutra.

Perhaps you guys got excited about the announcement made by Electronic Arts on the upcoming Nascar 09. The company has just unleashed details on the Paint Booth Customization feature in the racing game, accompanied by 13 screenshots. Find details and photos at the full article.

We all know and agree how much of an eye-candy Ubisoft Montreal's game producer Jade Raymond is. But you better keep those silly little admirations and fantasies of yours in check because one website got into trouble after hosting an offsite link to a webcomic depicting a rather raunchy cartoon version of Miss Jade Raymond.

Ubisoft sure was furious. Read more about their demands and the response of the site owner in the full article.

The PSPBoy? The Apple iGame? Like many a video game myth we know, names like these went down in the annals of gaming history as some of the more hyped consoles we almost expected to launch. For today's April festivities, the folks from 99lives have provided a top five list of hoax video game consoles that includes other names that many of you may have heard from before. For our first system:

Sega Phoenix:
A rumor started back in 2005, the Sega Phoenix promised, among other things, the computing power of four AMD processors, a 120GB hard-disk drive, and backwards compatibility for all previous Sega gaming systems titles. Rundown: It had the PS3's specs, a Wii-like retro gaming library, and the Xbox 360's looks (with liberal amounts of blue) - imagine the phrase "Looks like pork, smells like fish, tastes like chicken..."

Sony PSPBoy:
The name says it all - a cross between the PSP and a Nintendo Gameboy portable consoles. As it turns out, this faux-portable gaming system was crafted by our very own MaDSouL, who pulled off this project using his computer's trusty Photoshop application. Among other features the PSPBoy was rumored to carry were 2GB memory sticks, LCD screens and dual analog controllers (the PSP's thumb analog, to be accurate).

The complete console hoax list is available at the Full Article

December 11 will go down the history of Amazon.com as its best day ever in terms of sales. The company was able to sell more than 4 million different items, a good number of which had a lot to with video games. And who's the king of this particular videogame hill, you ask? Nintendo's handheld, of course.

The company didn't furnish exact figures for the DS Lite but mentioned that it was indeed the top seller on that day. They also highlighted the record-breaking 1,000 units sold in 29 seconds for Microsoft's Xbox 360 in their Amazon Customers Vote promotion. Mentioned too was the PlayStation 3's predecessor, the PS2, as a big seller.

In software sales, Amazon revealed that their top selling games for a single platform were New Super Mario Bros. and Brain Age, both for the DS. Sports title Madden Football ruled the multiplatform division. The MMO expansion title The Burning Crusade was the major top seller for all pre-orders. The Sims 2: Pets and art package Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 were both given recognition as well.

Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezoz couldn't help but show his appreciation to customers because of this success. "Video games were a customer favorite again this year. We are truly grateful to our customers. Happy holidays and happy new year to all from Amazon.com employees around the globe."

Ah, She's an eight ball,
She's a'rollin faster than a white wall,
She's got an avalanche packed into a snowball,
She's a losin' all the links,
She's like a stonewall,
She's loaded up...

Marcy Playground lyrics aside, guess what nifty little creature of god decides to surface from the labs of Microsoft? In a recent press event of theirs, Plaid Ninja was able to get a little snapshot of the dashboard screen of one of the units. Could it be true? A 70GB HDD to expand your storage?

Here's what Plaid Ninja observed: "From what I could tell this was a standard XBox 360 with what appeared to be the normal HD casing attached to it. I don't know if the dev kits look the same as the consumer units or not. "

Well, what with their recent announcement of the Xbox Live Video Marketplace, the detachable 20GB HD just won't fit all of those movies you'd want to download. An extra 70GB of space is most definitely welcome. Besides, you still have all of those games and demos to download. How could your little box handle all the weight? Heck, iPods can carry more memory! So why shouldn't your 360 do so as well?

Too bad there's no confirmation yet, so... Chalk it up to rumor, folks. Microsoft hasn't officially announced anything yet. Keep your fingers crossed, and we'll keep you posted!

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UPDATE 1: A lot of you, like vietone below, have already voiced out that a 70GB wouldn't actually be the "real" memory. Storage devices would often advertise to be of a specific amount of space, but in actuality, a tiny portion of the total becomes reserved memory.

So, if we take the 70GB example, the actual size you can fit into it would be something like 67.3GB. But, if what is shown as above would be 70GB of free space, then that would mean the actual capacity would be something like 73GB. But that isn't quite possible since there are no hard disks of that size... Now, with regards to an 80GB HD, that's a different story...

Thanks for the clear up, Pranav!

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UPDATE 2: that picture on the left might look identical to the one on top, but look closer. C'mon: click it! Is it just us or did someone obviously Photoshop an extra "0" into the 70GB and called it 700GB?

We smell a rat! This pic has been running around like a chicken with its head cut off on the web.

Clearly, one of these pics is a fake. Which one? Well, considering that if anyone would Photoshop something, it would be to make it a bigger, better version of the real one to make people get excited.

If the first pic (the one on top) were the fake one, and the one on the left we the real one, why would the faker reduce the disk capacity from 700 to just 70? It doesn't make sense. If we were to fool other people, it would make more sense to bring the REAL 70GB to an unbelievable 700GB!

Don't be fooled folks! Someone Photoshop'ed a 700GB HDD a bit too late!

Those folks at the Something Awful forums are geniuses when it comes to the funny. This week for Photoshop Phriday, they've decided to focus on two things that taste great and go well together: video games and food. Nope, they weren't supposed to cook any, or play a cooking game like Majesco's Cooking Mama. It was something different altogether.

The task was to turn your average video game into a food-based parody of itself. Eat, play, and poke fun at games that do sound like they were meant for the frying pan. For instance, turn Dead Rising into Bread Rising, and Starcraft into... StarKraft. Now, imagine what you could do to with Ecco the Dolphin...

Enjoy some of these pics, and you can find more at the source link. Now if you don't mind... eating seems like a good idea right now!