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As you've probably guessed, the dearth of footage of actual Project Natal gameplay can be attributed to Microsoft's ban on filming the screen during demos of the technology. Hence, the gameplay-less video above, captured by Engadget during a Natal preview of Beautiful Katamari and Space Invaders Extreme. Watch as Project Natal creative director Kudo Tsunoda shows how one rolls giant sticky balls or pushes back extraterrestrial attackers using only one's limbs. Without seeing the screen, we can't be certain how well he's performing these activities, but we can certainly attest to his remarkable dancing prowess.

Q-Games' adorable tower defense title PixelJunk Monsters is getting a wee bit smaller this week with the release of its somewhat ironically named, PSP-sized adaptation, PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe. Though technically tinier in stature, the game offers all the strategic defending of the PS3 version of the title, while adding a new island, new monsters and even a few new towers into the mix. The game also gets a few multiplayer options, including a local four-player cooperative mode and an eight-player online competitive mode. We've yet to confirm a price for the title, which will presumably appear in this week's PSN Thursday update, but we've contacted Q-Games to try to find out ahead of time.

More screens here Special Delivery! Get Oak’s Letter via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection between September 28th and November 8th and use it to find the special Pokémon Shaymin! With Oak’s Letter, you can unlock a new scenario in Pokémon Platinum Version featuring the famed Professor that will lead you to Shaymin, the 492nd Pokémon in the National Pokédex. [...]

Activision has announced all of the forthcoming Guitar Hero 5 DLC tracks for ... Rocktober! Queens of the Stone Age, Billy Squier and Wolfmother are the featured track packs next month, along with some themed collections later in the month. Each pack will cost 440 on Xbox 360, $5.50 on PS3 and 550 Wii Points on Nintendo's console -- each track will also be sold separately for the respective console's $2 equivalent. Check out the full list of artists, tracks and release dates after the break.

Tim Schaffer actually sent LucasArts a cover letter in the style of an adventure game to LucasArts, all in the hope of securing a job. Believe it or not, the letter lead to an in-person visit, and then he landed his job. Without that cover letter, we might have never gotten Tales of [...]

Click for even bigger PSP, larger hand Announced just over four months ago, the PSP Go will hit store shelves worldwide this Thursday, October 1. By its very nature as a flash memory-based device -- and its incompatibility with already-owned UMD titles -- Sony's latest incarnation of the PlayStation Portable is leaping out of the gate with a considerable handicap. Early adopters, the devoted Sony and PSP fans, are going to find themselves wowed by the hardware, but a little unsure of what to do next.The Go is a wonderful gadget -- it's beautiful to look at, feels great to hold in your hands and certainly has the air of a high-end, tech lust-worthy device. There's just that aforementioned inability to play your existing games and a only-$50-less-than-a-PS3 price tag serving as Exhibit A; and B is the little angel on your shoulder who's saying you don't need to spend $250 on another PSP.

This is an official comic strip from the developers behind Super Meat Boy. You’ve only seen a small snippet of the full story! Click here to check out the full thing (thanks B!)

Maybe not playing per se, but we are "now gazing" at the PSP Go ... and doing our darnedest to forget about that stack of old, worthless UMDs in the other room. Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:Last updated: Monday, 12:42 PM

Maybe not playing per se, but we are "now gazing" at the PSP Go ... and doing our darnedest to forget about that stack of old, worthless UMDs in the other room. Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:Last updated: Monday, 12:42 PM

Maybe not playing per se, but we are "now gazing" at the PSP Go ... and doing our darnedest to forget about that stack of worthless UMDs in the other room. Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list:Last updated: Monday, 12:42 PM