Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series. With this new platform, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the Web and applications. For the first time ever, Microsoft will bring together Xbox LIVE games and the Zune music and video experience on a mobile phone, exclusively on Windows Phone 7 Series. Partners have already started building phones; customers will be able to purchase the first phones in stores by holiday 2010.

In an interview with GameReactor at Game Jam in Copenhagen, Creative Director of Microsoft Game Studios Europe and main man at Lionhead Studios, Peter Molyneux ended their discussion talking about Fable 3. After saying there was an announcement for Fable 3 in the coming weeks, Molyneux sagely agreed to it being at X10 and said "...there are some very very big things happening in Fable," and went on to say, "...its going to really upset people..." saying he is scared about making the announcement, Molyneux then said, "...they're gonna get super pissed off...". However he is insisting whatever this news is it is the right thing to do, and as discussed earlier in the interview, Peter Molyneux now takes what he says in public seriously, anything he does say is final and he intends to demonstrate any said features. The full video interview follows:

Appearing on the UK retailer Scan for over £1200 GBP, Hexus have also managed to source a shot of the 3.5" SSD beast. From the information available on Scan's website, all we know at the moment is that it is an aluminium enclosure with 3.5" form factor, this being larger than your standard 2.5", but along the lines of the size of a typical mechanical disk drive. It boasts read and write speeds up to 200MB/s and 240MB/s respectively and also 128MB cache which appears to consist of DDR2 chips judging by the product title. There is no official release date as yet and the product is only available as a pre-order while waiting for an ETA, however it is expected to make an appearance at CeBIT next month.

Source: Hexus

Its almost as if we are expecting to hear a Gran Turismo 5 delay every few months, and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe executive James Armstrong has not failed to disappoint. In an interview with Spanish site Canarias Al Dia Armstrong said he expected GT5 to be out "this fall, before Christmas", and confessed that a release date is "not yet decided". Do not expect it to be out then either, as Armstrong was the one who had originally said it would be out for Christmas 2009, its been five years in the making and reportedly $60 million later, we are still facing more delays.

Source: Eurogamer