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The PlayStation.Blog has posted details on the new version 2.53 firmware update for the PlayStation 3, which enhances the system's support for in-browser Flash support. The next update, which is available for download now, includes full-screen support for Flash players.

Konami has been keeping Gradius series fans happy these past few years with releases like Gradius 5, the PSP Gradius Collection, and the recent Japanese WiiWare title, Gradius ReBirth. But things have gotten a little...bubblier in the new, currently Japan-only Xbox 360 shoot-em-up Otomedius Gorgeous! ("Otome" being the Japanese word for "young woman," and "-dius" being the suffix for any Gradius-inspired game.) Although the series is a spiritual sequel to Gradius, the Otomedius games are more in line with the Parodius series, which took the Gradius brand of shooting and put it in a world of complete cartoon wackiness.

Open-world action titles have come a long way since the last console generation, with many offering massive "living" settings and sharp online integration. But you wouldn't know it from Destroy All Humans!: Path of the Furon, a game that feels both woefully dated and curiously incomplete, consistently displaying distracting presentational hitches.

With the biggest shopping day of the year in the books, Microsoft is doing its best to make sure everyone knows that the Xbox 360 did extremely well -- and a whole lot better than the PlayStation 3, thank-you-very-much. Microsoft estimates that there was a 25% increase over Xbox 360 sales during last year's Black Friday and claims they outsold the PlayStation 3 by a three-to-one ratio.

Talk about getting the hype machine started early. At a press event for Wheelman, the game's creative director, Simon Woodroffe, spoke with VideoGamer.com about another project from Midway Games; an unannounced, secret game that's been in development for only three months. For obvious reasons, he couldn't go into much in the way of specifics, but he didn't hold back from letting us know how great he thinks it looks.