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PSN is going to be down during Sony's conference today at GamesCom (6pm if you live in England). Obviously, Sony have given the usual reason, saying it's 'scheduled maintenance', but with this 'scheduled maintenance' falling dead on top of their conference, it's going to take a lot more than that to convince us that it's not a little bit more than that.

What do we think? Well, we think - nay, hope - that it's video store finally making it's way over to the EU territories. Or maybe a firmware update. It could be anything, really, so we're going to shape our fingers into the letters 'E' and 'U' and leave it at that. Feel free to make your own predictions in the comments below.

First up in our news catch-up, SCEE have confirmed that they're going to have a 3 (three) hour conference at GamesCon in Cologne in August. What does this mean? Well, everyone there reporting it is going to run out of battery power, but other than that, it means they've got big things planned.

Price cut? PS3 Slim? Could be...