According to a report from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts (UK endowment for the maximization of UK's creative and innovative potential">NESTA), the UK games will be dropping down from third position to fifth in 2009's global rankings. Reason why is at the full article.

Emsense, a San Francisco-based technology company, recently conducted a study linking players' emotional response to specific gameplay elements on several popular FPS titles.

Activision Blizzard confirmed during the Massive Inc upfront that they will be making Guitar Hero 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and that the rumors about the upcoming Tony Hawk being "different" were true. Admittedly, nothing terribly surprising, but it's good to know all the same.

Nate Fox, game director of the upcoming sandbox-style superhero game, inFamous, was interviewed by 1up about what he thought the workings of a good superhero game should be. I hope the guys making that upcoming Superman game are listening...

Priority message: According to a post in the PlayStation community forums (UK) from Community Team Leader, MusterBuster, Sony is going to be present at today's special screening of event of "Aliens" (1986) in the VUE Cinema at Leicester Square and they're giving away 30 tickets to the event.

See the full article to see why you should care... or if you just want to see the four Killzone 2 videos promised in the title of this article.

Coming soon to the Xbox Live arcade and the PlayStation Network, 3 on 3 NHL Arcade will feature 40 NHL stars and zero rules. More details in the full article.

As mentioned in a previous article, a playable FLOCK! demo will be available in today's free issue of Qore. The demo will have six playable levels and includes a level editor. Don't know what the FLOCK we're talking about? Check the full article for a couple enlightening videos.

LittleBigPeople, I give you the latest winner of the design-a-Sackboy contest from Japan. This costume is already available for download in the Japanese PlayStation Store. View the full pic in the main article.

You may have already heard that the upcoming Dreamworks movie, "Monsters vs. Aliens," will be getting a game tie-in and that Activision holds the publishing rights. News on this front has been pretty scarce but a recent press release by Activision European Publishing can give us some fresh information. Check it out in the full article.

SingStar developer Paulina Bozek mentioned during the Atari Live event in London that she's currently working on something "brand new" and cross platform.