The Public Beta is on! If you pre-ordered your copies of MAG from either GameStop or EB Games, then today is the day you've been waiting for. The Beta access was opened at 10:00AM this morning, thus bringing the new Beta participants to join with the existing Public Beta users.

The midnight launch for Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, and PC) has been confirmed by two retail stores, GameStop and EB Games. If you want to catch it, get yourselves ready for the long lines ahead in just a little over a month.

Good news to all Canadian PSN fans out there! Kyle Moffatt, Senior PR Specialist for SCE Canada has gone to the PlayStation US Blog to announce that the PSN prepaid cards are finally coming to the territory.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed 2 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) is going black. EB Games Australia is reportedly offering at their online store the Assassin'sc Creed 2 Exclusive Black Collector's Edition, and is pegging it for a November 2009 ship-out.

In case you were primping yourself up for a trip to your nearest EB Games or GameStop store to buy yourself a cheap PS3, you should know that the rumored price cut has proven false. There is no price cut today. Our source kaizer_911 also informs us that the rumor of a price cut was just BS in the first place.

Planning to buy a PlayStation 3? Wait until March 22, says website 2old2play. According to some info they managed to get their hands on, Sony will be dropping the price of the 80 GB PlayStation 3 by US$ 99. Well what's there to lose if you wait just a few more days?

All you LittleBigPlanet fans out there now have a chance to get your hands on the Nariko SackGirl special costume. The official LittleBigPlanet site has just announced that gamers can now get a redeemable promotional code voucher for the Nariko SackGirl when they pre-order the game from Best Buy.

Here's some news on an upcoming game that can surely make jaw drops. Grand Theft Auto 4 in Australia costs a whopping AU$ 120. Shocked? Well, we are. Having such a high price tag, there's no doubt people could have second thoughts about grabbing a copy of the game. Find out more on this after the jump!

Koei has revealed that Shin Sangoku Musou 5 or Dynasty Warriors 6 (Xbox 360, PS3) has finally gone gold. Gamers can expect this popular title to be available in North America pretty soon. In case you want to find out more about this, be sure to head on over to the full article.

Once again, another game was able to slip the noose by breaking its official street date today. Although its release date isn't until January 22, a copy of Electronic Arts' Burnout Paradise (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) came into the hands of QJ.NET forum member Daelakk after pre-ordering a copy of the game two days ago.

For more details, check out the full article.