Square Enix may have pulled off a simultaneous North American and European release for Final Fantasy XIII, but things won't be the same for Wii title Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers. PAL gamers will have to wait until February 2010 to get this one.

IIt turns out that German Wii listing for Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney was true, after all. Capcom has confirmed that not only will Ace Attorney hit the download service but so will Justice For All and Trials and Tribulations. Reign in your objections and hit the jump for evidence.

Following up on earlier rumors of Pandemic Studios' closure, Kotaku reports that an internal Electronic Arts memo has confirmed the studio's fate.

Nintendo's Kensuke Tanabe has intimated that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may not be the last we'll see of the Prime series. Another handheld iteration may even be in the cards.

Rumor has it that Electronic Arts will be adding more people to its list of cut employees. The target? Pandemic Studios.

A five-song AFI track pack is coming to Rock Band 's in-game music store next week along with one from '80s all-female band The Bangles. Handheld rockers are also getting two new tracks; one each from Dead Kennedys and Sleater-Kinney.

Nintendo has announced that the Wii's BBC iPlayer now has its own dedicated Wii Channel. Details after the jump.

Famitsu.com has broken the news on a new entry in Taito's Estpolis series. If the name doesn't ring a bell, the series was released outside Japan as "Lufia". The new game will be called Estpolis: The Land Cursed by the Gods and will be produced by the original game's development staff. Square Enix will be handling publishing duties.

Nintendo currently has the motion-controlled console market in a chokehold, but Sony and Microsoft are planning to cut into Nintendo's slice of the market pie with their own motion controllers. NoA president Reggie Fils-Aime, however, isn't worried.

It seems IO Interactive is keeping quite busy these days. They already got two games in the pipeline -- Hitman 5 and Kane & Lynch 2 -- and now reports are suggesting that there's another new IO title on the way.