The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony will release a new smart phone "capable of downloading and playing PlayStation games" later this year, as well as a competitor to Apple's iPad that may also play PSone titles.

Bill Murray was on Letterman the other night and got talking Ghostbusters. Then he got talking the recent Ghostbusters game. I had to watch it four times to catch it all, so dazzled was I by that shirt.

Steven Spielberg, filmmaker and part-time game designer, plans to make a live action version of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell futuristic cop manga. Scribe Laeta Kalogridis is hard at work on the screenplay.

Can you sum up your feelings towards Sony in one word? These people did. Well, most of them did. Others needed a few more.

Even though Tecmo Koei America seems happy to market the fact that Dead or Alive: Paradise is called "cheesy" and "creepy," the game's director says it isn't softcore porn, but a game trying to show that women are "beautiful characters."

Just in case you forgot how amazingly versitile Rockstar's Beaterator is, the developer passed us a clip created by unconventional rapper and producer Jay Electronica to remind you.

Evocative and provocative, a game born of the anxiety about George W. Bush's polices abroad would have included a Chinese invasion of the U.S. and the emotional journey of a soldier struggling over whether to flee military service.

But the game was killed, not by politics but the popularity of the other game that developer David Jaffe was working on.

Hurry, get yourself to your PlayStation 3 and download the God of War III demo before everyone else starts putting a hurtin' on the PlayStation Network. Actually, there's a lot of new stuff on the PlayStation Store this week.

There was the time the slave gladiator came to work, and the other time in which dudes got spanked. This time, it's PSP gaming day at Japan's Dengeki.com.

Ladies cosplaying as characters Ryomou and Kanu showed up at the site's offices to play around of Ikki Tousen: Xross Impact and...play around?

The North American PlayStation Store is getting one new addition that can bear the PSone Classic moniker with a straight face this week, the excellent role-playing game from developer Game Arts, Grandia.