The director of Deadly Premonition, Swery (birth name: Hidetaka Suehiro) has an excellent relationship with his fans over Twitter, doing his best to answer their questions while often updating on what he's been eating (or drinking).

Although he's usually very careful with what development information he reveals on the site, it seems that he's slipped up, tweeting in response (via Siliconera) to a fan who asked what system his next game would be on the fairly cryptic, "Is it means 'Load of Arcana'? I can't say for that. But you can know it from internet. maybe."

AFP - YouTube has begun offering glimpses into a day in life around the world.

Sony has officially released a new firmware update for PS3, version 3.42, which seems to only include "additional security features" as explained by Sony's director of hardware marketing John Koller in the official announcement on the PlayStation Blog.

As rumored and then confirmed by Eurogamer, this firmware update's intention was to stop the much-discussed "PSJailbreak" exploit -- in which users used a USB dongle to "fool" a system into thinking it is a debug unit, allowing installation of "unsigned code " (the expectation being pirate games) on the system.

AFP - A former State Department official credited with helping bring social networking and other Web 2.0 tools to US diplomacy has been tapped to head a new division at Google called "Google Ideas."