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

A college student from Cal State Fullerton was arrested by federal agents on Monday by illegally running a home business of modifying Xbox, Playstation, Wii and other video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games.

He's a future astrophysicist, a martial artist, a College Degree holder at the age of 11, and he doesn't like video games. Child prodigy Moshe Kai Cavalin graduated with honors from East Los Angeles Community College just last week, and made it known to the world that he thinks video games are "a waste of time."

When it comes to the Wiixclusive Grand Slam Tennis, it's gonna be all about the Slams and the tennis greats who make them worth watching. In the same way, Electronic Arts shows that they know how to make their grand slam title worth watching now that they've brought a tennis great to Los Angeles, raising the bar for all special guests to show in the expo. Their special guest is none other than 14-time Grand Slam winner, Pete Sampras.

The Swine Flu (now officially known as the H1N1 virus) is proving to cause a huge damper on the upcoming E3 festivities. With just literally a couple of weeks before the curtains rise to start what could be the biggest games show of the year, we have attendees going over the list and checking it twice, for fear of the said virus. Capcom Japan would be one such attendee.

Ubisoft has revealed their plans for the E3 Expo. Sure, they'll have their own booth on the show floor, but their press conference will be held on June 1 in an invitation-only set up at the Los Angeles Theater. They'll be bringing Assassin's Creed 2, Red Steel 2, Rabbids Go Home, a couple new games, and special guests during the event "to thrill attendees and web viewers."

Umm, Jade Raymond, anyone?

With 13 confirmed cases of the H1N1 Swine Flu in California, Governor Arnie's raised a State of Emergency. If the situation doesn't improve within a month, the E3 Expo might not push through. Despite these risks, the ESA event organizers are optimistic that the E3 will indeed happen, come hell, high water, or pandemic (and by pandemic, I'm obviously not referring to the studio).

Got any plans to attend this year's E3? In that case, you might wanna book another day for your trip 'cause you're in for a treat. A special Video Games Live concert's gonna wrap the whole thing up, with special performances from guests from Japan and Europe. More info's just a click away.

So, any of you want to place bets on what the big three will announce/reveal during E3 2009? A new PSP model, perhaps? More exclusive games for the Xbox 360? The new Zelda game for the Wii? Will the new Team ICO game finally be unveiled? Will there be pricecuts? Synchronize your clocks, folks! Here we have the press conference schedules of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo!

As rumors would have it, Electronic Arts has shut down the Brisbane, Australia office of Pandemic Studios. Says a "reliable source", the shut down was more of a "find a new publisher" thing, rather than a "sorry, we'll have to kill you off" scenario.