As well as being penultimate day of the working week, Thursday is also PSN update day. Click the link for more and let us know what you think in the thread.

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Konami have announced amazing sales figures for Metal Gear Solid 4 - over 3 million in under two weeks. If you include Metal Gear Online and the PS2’s Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection, the franchise shifted almost 4 million units in the second quarter of 2008. Click here for a video which gives some clues to the title’s success…

Episode 23 of Wired’s Game|Life has a nice little interview with Alex Evans of Media Molecule. They’re talking LittleBigPlanet, and there’s plenty of exciting gameplay footage to watch.

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Some good reading for PS2 fans.

CNET has got a nice little article on the PS2 and how it’s doing in year nine of its lifecycle, based on a longer IGN story. Click here for CNET’s piece, and here for the original article from IGN.

Nice minimal trailer for Operation Flashpoint 2. Not a lot going on in this one, but looks pretty cool nonetheless…

Judging by the threads recently we’re sure you’ll be interested by this interview with Richard Lemarchand of Naughty Dog. He spoke to us about Uncharted and trophies, and gave us his opinion on what the future holds for the PS3 gaming experience…

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Lots of work going on over at Codemasters. A couple more things for fans of mythical Greece…

The RotA community site has been updated with some new profile pages, and also features forums and loads of assets. Check it out by clicking this link.

For those of you who fancy sitting on top of Mt Olympus, toying with the lives of mere mortals, have a look at this link. A quick quiz establishes which of the Ancient Greek gods you’re most like.

Rico Sablan, lead writer on Rise of the Argonauts, talks about the range of narrative arcs across the game’s different islands and characters, and how the game builds on the original myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

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A new video from Codemasters which discusses what makes Rise of the Argonauts an RPG, despite its action game feel. Some good points about the importance of character and immersion in the game being more important than classic RPG stats…

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Three Speech regular E-ROLE brings us another of his Top Trumps. This time we’re looking at Metal Gear Rex, who obviously holds a special place in E-ROLE’s heart…

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