It's time to compare numbers again. After the impressive giant leap that the PS3 console made the past couple of weeks, things are starting to simmer down as the DSi regains the top spot in Japan's Media Create hardware sales chart for the week of September 7 through the 13th.

You can really feel the gaming expo heat building up when more and more publishers start handing out their lineups. We've seen quite a lot of games coming to TGS 2009 by now, and adding to that list is Namco Bandai, bringing games from franchises that the merged companies are well-known for.

TGS is getting ready to explode and we have another publisher revealing its lineup for the event. So if TGS was indeed an explosion, what Sega shrapnel are we gonna be seeing? Hit the full article and find out.

With the release of the FW 3.01 update, many thought that their issues with 3.00, particularly the one with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, will be resolved. But out of the frying pan and into the fire, comments at the PlayStation Blog indicate that 3.01 causes more problems than it solves. After updating, many users seem to have experienced problems with their Blu-ray drives. Bummer.

Thanks to linked2thepast06 for the tip-off!

How many times will you ever see Captain America smack Iron Man across the head with that shield? The launch trailer for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 would be one, and you wouldn't see too many of those scenes around. Civil War action right here, definitely, so there's a lot of Marvel action to go around. Check it out.

Well, Media Create's official Japanese hardware sales are out, and I'd have to say Famitsu pretty much had it down pat with their released estimates from yesterday, give or take a few couple of hundreds. Official numbers after the jump.

Famitsu's estimates on the latest hardware sales figures from Japan puts the previously down-trodden PlayStation 3 Sony console to a nicer spot at the top. That's much nicer.

The success stories continue to surface for Sony and the PS3. We already know that sales week-on-week grew 999%, and the Slim has already smashed old Japanese sales records. Adding to those today is MCV UK reporting that the slimmed-down model of the console sold 40,000 units in the United Kingdom in just the first week of release.

The PS3 has outsold the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii by a ratio of three to one in the latest ChartTrack sales figures. The 999 percent sales increase follows the launch of the new slimmer PS3 SKU in the UK last tuesday.

Things are starting to settle down on the PS3 blog. The Slim's out but we won't be seeing if it has had any significant effect on the console's sales until the NPD report for September comes out. What we do have this week though is another long-ago rumor that came true: a Blu-ray compilation that contains God of War and God of War 2. That's not all, of course, so just hit the jump and check out the rest of the PS3 Weekend Warrior.