Probably upset over the fact that their ads are getting leaked weeks in advance, Circuit City has served Cheap Ass Gamer (CAG) with a subpoena to get CAG member Speedy1961's personal information. Speedy1961, the one responsible for the PlayStation 3 price drop Circuit City ad leakage, has also posted the same ads in another forum, DVDtalk.com - which is rumored to have received the same subpoena as well.

The particular Circuit City ad involves the PS3 price drop, which was posted in the Cheap Ass Gamer forums a few days before the planned official announcement from the Sony bigwigs themselves. The thread wherein the ad leakage was posted also featured discounted game prices at Circuit City, Target, and Best Buy.

In a recent podcast, CAG CEO David Abrams - known in CAG forums and podcast as "CheapyD", clarified that Circuit City is not in any way after CAG itself, but after Speedy1961 (who happens to post weekly Circuit City ads). The subpoena was served to CAG for them to turn over all personal information that they have on Speedy1961. Abrams pointed out that they really didn't have much, as the only information that they require from new members are email addresses and IP addresses.

Abrams also said in the podcast that Circuit City sent him US$ 5 along with the subpoena to reimburse the possible expenses in sending Speedy1961's personal information back to Circuit City. In response to this, Abrams consulted and hired a lawyer, and is working on a way to not submit or turn over anything to Circuit City as legally as possible. "The CAG community's trust and respect is very important to me, so I've hired legal representation to deal with the situation," Abrams said in an interview with Kotaku.

Abrams also ventured to say that one of the reasons why Circuit City is upset about the ad leakage is that they're being pressured by Sony, since the cover page of the subpoena mentioned the PS3 price drop thread in the CAG forums.

Aside from not getting fat easily, having had the chance to get a free classic Wii controller for 5000 Wii points and being able to use the DS in the classroom, there is yet another perk to being a Japanese - faster store downloads of PS3 games.

Although CheapyD, the maker of this video, sure doesn't look Japanese, he claims that the download has been made in Japan. Read this: 586 MB in under two minutes. That, we know, is surely fast. Why it became that speedy, we don't know for sure, but here's the video as proof, lest you think that we jest.

When we think console unboxing, we're usually quick to wonder who's featuring it over at their publication: was it Gizmodo, IGN, QJ, or the other major gaming networks we've grown accustomed to? But, Wall Street Journal?

You heard it - CheapyD over at CAG announced last week that his PS3 unboxing video from November has been featured in this highly influential New York-based business paper as part of an article on unboxing videos. Unfortunately for us, we can't exactly read the words on the fuzzy image, so we can't tell you who else got featured on the article.

In related news, CheapyD also said that his video will be featured this Wednesday as the "Good Morning America" youtube video of the week, so the fans may want to set their calendars to see what's gonna be going down on the said day. Now for the bad news: CheapyD says you can't read the article online unless you're a paid subscriber. Oh well, just wait for the Wednesday vid.

CheapyD is one happy, proud, lucky new owner of Sony's PlayStation 3. And he's taken a video of the (un)ceremonial unpacking of his Japanese PS3 straight from Amazon Japan.

Opening the delivery box, he finds the PS3 box, along with two games: Resistance and one other title which we didn't quite get. But regardless of that, he's got the console, and that's what matters most. He also took the time to compare the PS3 box with the Xbox 360's, and the PS3 definitely is much bigger. Now, it's just a matter of gauging which is actually better.

Included in the PS3 package are the Sixaxis controller, a LAN cable, a USB cable for the controller, some other cable, and the instruction manual. Too bad the video ended with just that. Would have been better if he actually showed us how it runs. Oh well, envious us.

Ha! But not for long. 'Cause we'll be getting our own later this week. And you can bet we'll make sure to keep you posted on every bit of the PS3!