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.

Playstation Network will be down on both Tuesday 28th (2pm to 5:30pm) and Wednesday 29th (2pm to 6pm) next week, for scheduled maintenance. As soon as the maintenance is finished things will be back to normal. If you're signed out during the maintenance you should be able to sign back in after a minute or so.

We are pretty sure this is GMT, as it's on the Official EU PS forums, but you never know. No, we don't know if there is any reason other than just 'maintenance', and we don't know what else it could be, either. Still, you never know.

Oh dear. Free Radical, the developers of the much-loved TimeSplitters series and the disappointing Haze maybe shutting down. The developer's staff have congregated at a hotel when they found the developer locked and are awaiting word to see if they're shut down or not.

Apparently, they lost the Battlefront project months ago and have been having trouble finding a publisher for TimeSplitters 4. TimeSplitters 4 would be a fantastic thing, why a published wouldn't want it is beyond us. Read more »