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Ubisoft posted the following video online today: The tone and timing of the video may lead you to believe that it is just an April fools joke but the DLC has been long rumoured. The accompanying Geocities inspired website further adds to the mystery. What do you think ?

A partially completed mural in New York has revealed some of the cover art for the upcoming GTA V. The mural is expected to be completed in the next day or so.

A nice Aprils fools prank by the folks over at Sony.

Below is the extended version of the Last of Us gameplay trailer that was shown during the Walking Dead season finale in America last night. The PS3 is really going out with a bang.

Amazon have some great deals on at the moment. We have provided direct links to the games. Need For Speed, Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, Virtua Tennis, Fifa 13 and Rayman are all must haves. You can pre-order Soul Sacrifice for a steal at £30 as well as some other bargains.

Michael Hogan, executive vice president of strategy business and brand development at GameStop has said that: "We know that Sony will introduce the PlayStation 4 globally in 2013, but we are still waiting to see what Microsoft's final plans are. We have scenarios with one console introduction, as well as with two. Even a single launch in 2013 will drive double-digit console growth in 2014; and two launches would likely drive the console category north of 20% growth " during a quarterly conference call with financial analysts this week. Reports have already suggested that PS4 production will begin in August and 16 million units will be shipped in 2013. You can listen to the call here  (The quote comes from 36:57.0001 ) We can't wait.

Monday Battlefield 4 Release Date Leaked Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Trailer Tuesday New Watchdogs Trailer First Rain Gameplay Trailer Sony Steps Up Its Support for Independent Developers Wednesday Possibly the biggest day of PS3 news this year: MGS 5 Announced along with a trailer and gameplay footage GTA V Screens  PSN Spring Sale Starts Thursday Followed by the slowest Friday New PS4 Details Revealed New Dualshock 4 Details Sunday Gamestop Confirms 2013 Worldwide PS4 Release

In a long interview on Game Trailers Kojima has cleared up some confusion around the latest Metal Gear Solid game. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain He says that Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain will be released separately. "We can't comment just yet on how these things will be distributed and sold," he said. Ground Zeroes, the prologue, will come first, Kojima said, and will introduce players to the gameplay "on a smaller scale." He also confirmed that David Hayter was not asked to reprise his role as Snake / Big Boss due to the desire to set this game apart from the others.

Sony have revealed new PS4 details at a GDC panel. 1) The 64-bit x86 CPU provides low power consumption and heat. The 8 cores each have a single hardware thread and separate 32kb L1 instruction and data caches with a shared 2mb L2 cache. Multithreading support is made easier with hardware support for atomic operations. The CPU will have an extended DirectX 11.1+ feature set that includes extra debugging support not available on the PC and will allow developers more direct access to the shader pipeline than on the PS3. 2) The Blu-Ray drive will be up to 3x faster than the one in the PS3 3) Every console will come with a "very large" hard drive 4) Every console will come with a headset 5) The PS4 will record everything by default, requiring no extra work by developers

Sony has reveled some new details about the PS4s controller at GDC this week. The D Pad and and face buttons are now digitial unlike on the PS3 controller where they were analogue allowing the pressure applied to each button to be detected, but Sony claims that developers never used this feature so they are removing it. The touchpad resolution is 1920 x 900 and the trigger buttons are more curved. The PS4 will also provide power to its USB ports when in sleep mode allowing controllers to be charged.