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The 3G version of the PS Vita has been slashed to just £179 at Carphone Warehouse in the UK. A great chance to pick one up cheaply. We've reported before on rumours that the 3G Vita may be discontinued, could this be another sign of that ?

New details about Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate for PS Vita have appeared online thanks to an interview with the developers by Game Informer. The full list of details can be found here , but the below are the highlights. It takes place after the end of Origins on consoles Set on the isolated island at the Blackgate Penitentiary Batman moves through a side-scrolling game world Not focused on leveling up abilities like the console games Freeflow combat system The big news we can see is that Batman will move through a side scrolling game world, slightly disappointing as the Vita is capable of so much more. A side effect of it coming to Vita and the 3DS ?

Great news for European PS+ subscribers as a comment on the official blog has confirmed that Hitman Absolution, the latest installment in the Hitman series is coming to PS+ for free next month. The game is on sale currently, but the blog post was updated to say that: "Further briefing from HQ shows Hitman Absolution – included in the discounts below – is also landing on all EU PlayStation Plus member services as part of the Instant Game Collection from 1st May! " We reviewed the game when it was released and loved it.

A video has been released by IGN with the developers of Dark Souls 2, the sequel to Demon Souls talking through 12 minutes of gameplay. Demon Souls is well known for it's insane difficulty level and the game promises to be "more straightforward and more understandable" than its predecessor but Miyazaki has moved to allay fears that the sequel could tone down the series' trademark high difficulty.

A job listing on Quantic Dreams website is looking for a Lead Online Programmer. The studio is famous for unique games such as Heavy Rain and David Cage said online gaming was something he hoped to tackle soon, and he wanted to apply the same design philosophy of a game like Heavy Rain to "multiplayer experiences." We've reported before that the studio has purchased SingularityPS4.com and so maybe this title will be online ?

The first Batman Arkham Origins screens have appeared online

Evolution Studios have revealed that they have been helping Sony work on the design of the Dual Shock 4 along with Guerrilla studios since December 2011. They helped choose the gyros, prototype the analogue sticks and define the feel of the triggers “The control side of things has always been a really important thing for racing games, so we made sure that we got involved in the controller discussion very early on,” said Scott Kirkland. “I think this goes back to Christmas 2011. We started working with the guys in Japan on what became the DualShock 4. We were instrumental in securing the specific gyro components that [will] go in the DualShock 4; we had prototypes that demonstrated that the really high frequency gyros were the ones that allowed us to chuck the controller around like a steering wheel, and the ones that they were considering [meant] you could get a fair degree of lag and have to rely on accelerometers to compensate for that. So we put a very c...

Speaking in Edge magazine Guerrilla Games’ technical director Michiel Van Der Leeuw has called people claiming the PS4 is a like a high end PC trolls and fanboys. He highlights that the main differences are that the PS4 contains components designed to work together without the bottlenecks typically found in computers. “A PC is a number of parts which also has bridges in between where there are inefficiencies that may not be exactly the right match. We’ve got the right amount of memory, video card, everything balanced out. I know it was a very conscious effort to make sure that, with the speed of the memory, the amount of compute units, the speed of the hard-drive that we put in, that there would not be any bottlenecks. So the amount of pixel-pushers that you have, the amount of memory, the speed of your compute units make sure that you don’t hit any of the weakspots of the hardware.” It's also becoming clear why the developers are coming out with such praise for the syste...

Media Molecules brilliant looking PS Vita Exclusive is out this October, 22nd my Birthday. So I now know what's on the top of my wish list. Tearaways paper world looks fantastic. Take a look at the screens and video.

PS Vita 2.10 firmware goes live tonight. As we reported last night Folders will be part of the update as well as some other cool features. Take a look at the official vid for more. Some of the cool things added in 2.10: Group Messaging can now send to more than one person. Email can display HTML messages and offer multiple addresses per contact Photos can be zoomed in (in HD) PlayStation Plus game saves can be uploaded over 3G If you find any other new stuff let us know in the comments.