Word has come from Infinity Ward via Twitter that the PS3 community will not be treated to a demo of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 prior to the game’s November release. This adds insult to injury somewhat given that, back in August, Robert Bowling dispelled rumours regarding the possibility of a public multiplayer beta: 

'Expect no Public Beta unless we announce otherwise [...] we do plan on running an extensive Closed Beta among Infinity Ward, Activision, and possibly first party partners worldwide [...] if for any reason we feel we didn't receive the feedback, address the issues, or have the results we expected, we would consider pushing forward with a public one. However, at this point only an internal Closed Beta is planned.'

To be fair, trying to prepare and distribute a demo (or a public beta, for that matter) at such a crucial stage in development would be a difficult task.

But look on the bright side; with Infinity Ward putting all their time and effort into perfecting Modern Warfare 2, to ensure it betters 2007's Modern Warfare, we can be confident that November 10th will mark the arrival of another mind-blowing, Game Of The Year-worthy FPS.

Sam_Protagonist has posted to the Official EU Playstation Forums saying that there are 'no plans' for a release of the Game of the Year Edition of LittleBigPlanet in the EU, TSA has noticed.. Whether or not this means we won't get the 18 unique levels or the beta access to Modnation Racers or not is yet to be seen, but this is still a blow to us poor EU dwellers.

'No plans' doesn't mean 'never ever', though, so maybe if you look cute enough it'll happen at some point. Get those puppy-dog eyes and pouts ready.

Sony (or, more specifically, Eric Lempel of Sony America) have told CVG that there will be no NXE-type overhaul of the XMB in the future. His main reason is that the XMB is an Emmy Award winning interface - people like it.

The man makes sense, we like the XMB, too. See the quotes after the break.

PS3Fanboy are the bearers of bad news, Square Enix have said "at present the FINAL FANTASY XIII demo will only be available in Japan with the Blu Ray release of Advent Children Complete, but we hope to have further news in the coming months." This means that there are currently 'no plans' for a demo of Final Fantasy XIII outside of Japan.

The demo will be bundled with the Advent Children blu-ray and won't be available by any other (legal) means. However, this doesn't mean there won't be one, it just means they haven't planned one yet. You could always import it anyway.