Not long now Japan, and you’ll finally be getting your hands on Final Fantasy XIII.

In case you needed one final push, however, check out the last trailer for the JRPG before the title actually hits Japanese shelves in twelve days time.

As if SquareEnix even needed to advertise the game. It’s going to sell like hot-cakes and everyone knows it.

Never ones to shy away from new technology, or probably because we’re suckers for trying new things and watching as they combust around our ears in the process, today marked the inaugural PS3 Attitude Twitter interview.

Or “Twitterview” – if you’re down with that whole brevity thing.

The subject of our maiden experiment in social tomfoolery was one Dylan Cuthbert, producer extraordinaire of Kyoto based Q-Games and all round great guy for signing up to be our guinea pig.

We hate plug-pullers*. Really, if there was one practice we’d like to abolish from online gaming, this would be it.

Many studios are now implementing “penalties” for leaving a game early, the latest being Naughty Dog who are dishing out hefty 40,000 fines for players who mysteriously vanish from the fray.

Replying to comments over on the official Naughty Dog forums from players who deem this penalty to be “unfair” and “excessive”, Naughty Dog’s Arne Meyer believes the studio are following the correct path in order to keep the game honest for everyone.

We did already mention it, but now it appears there’s been a delay.

Originally planned for a release today (PSN will be updated today and not on Thursday due to Thanksgiving), producer Luis Romero has chimed back in to confirm an unexpected delay but promises the game will be available “soon.”

As if you needed another sign of the approaching MMO apocalypse, look no further than Undead Lab’s recent announcement that a MMO featuring everybody’s favourite member of the non-living genus – Bella be damned, we’re talking zombies here – is currently in development. And, furthermore, it’s just for consoles.

Not prepared to wait on previously attached screenwriter Kyle Ward and his other game-to-screen adaptations, LatinoReview have reported that the producers of the upcoming Uncharted movie are now circling new writers.

Favourites for the gig are Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer who are in talks to pen the first of what will surely be many Drake adventures on the big screen.

Getting your marching orders is never a pleasant experience at the best of times. (Unless you wanted to get fired and were planning to travel around the world anyway … or something …)

Spare a thought for the guys and gals at Pandemic Studios though, who, after being told by parent company EA last week that their merry tribe was to be disbanded, then had to go back to work and finish up WWII action title The Saboteur.

Chronicling recent events at the former Los Angeles studio as being “very difficult”, Sledgehammer70 posted on the official forums last Friday stating that the developer’s final game, the aforementioned The Saboteur, has gone gold.

As it’s still some months away from the release of United Front Games’ “LittleBigPlanet meets Mario Kart” content creation nirvana, ModNation Racers, we thought we’d proffer a refresher as to just why this quirky sandbox title rates so highly on our Most Wanted list.

The footage within depicts some new racing footage along with an insight into the creation of some customised characters and vehicles.

We’re not sure about you, but we’re definitely excited about the upcoming No More Heroes port coming to the PS3 and 360 next March.

If we were Japanese we’d be even more excited, however, as it would appear Ubisoft will not be publishing the port in North America or Europe.

They keep making them, we keep enjoying them.

Showing no sign of floundering in either the awesomeness or the comedy stakes, Sony have released a new “It Only Does …” ad.

This time: Grandmas and their penchant for hogging your favourite Blu-ray player.

For those of you enjoying the fast-paced squad-based online experience in MAG and were upset that the current beta has expired, rejoice! Zipper have extended the current beta deadline.

Popping up over on the Official MAG Developer blog, Jeremy Dunham has announced that the current beta, originally scheduled to end on November 20th, will now be officially extended into next week.

The recent Sony presentation delivered to investors has been a veritable treasure trove of new information regarding Sony’s plans for the future.

33 million PSN users, a firmware update planned to make all PS3s 3D compatible, not to mention new avenues for premium content to expand on to the PSN – the list goes on.

One thing that we almost missed on our first pass through the document, however, was the image accompanying the section where Sony rattle off the “5 Key Advantages of the PS3.”

Number #1 is the new Motion Controller but, if you look closely, have they actually gone and shown the final design of the new device?

Recently announced, and highly anticipated around this parts, Destructoid have posted up some new spangled images of what the HD version of No More Heroes looks like.

Gaining the subtitle Eiyuuichi no Rakuen (Heroes’ Paradise) for its Japanese release next year, the gallery show Travis and co. in all their cel-shaded glory – albeit with a few more cels and a lot more glory.

Always a bountiful source for new and currently unannounced titles, the ESRB have once again provided a portentous glimpse into what gratuitously violent and sexually suggestive games we’ll be playing in the near future.

This time it’s WET developer A2M’s new side-scrolling vengeance smack-a-thon “Revenge of the Wounded Dragons”.

It’s that time of the year again when people reflect on the gaming year gone by and start declaring their unending love for certain titles. Yes, the award season is upon is.

We’ve already documented what’s in the new 3.10 firmware update.

Better Photo Album layout, a repentant re-look at the butchery Sony performed on your Friends list back in 3.00 and, oh you know, that stalker tool everyone seems so attached to.

But when is it all going to happen we hear you ask.

Readers of Japanese gaming mag Famitsu got a surprise this month when, flicking through the popular periodical, they found one of the Wii’s best games staring back at them with updated graphics and the words …

It’s looking like it might be a big week for Sony’s new Digital Comics service.

Announced at this year’s E3, and due to be a major digital cog in the PSP’s wheel going forward, comic fans are eagerly awaiting to see how the new service will actually pan out.

Of course, we’re still holding out for Digital Comic to make an appearance on our beloved PS3. And it would appear that Sony, too, are at least listening.

Contrary to popular belief (also known as: the Internet), Modern Warfare 2 is currently not banned in Russia.

After a media storm over that scene in Infinity Ward’s latest blockbuster, reports of recalls and ban-hammers falling akimbo in the Motherland are, according to Activision when speaking to Eurogamer, spurious to say the least.