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Marcus, Dom, and the rest of Delta are back for more head-stomping, stop-and-pop action in Gears of War 3, which takes the crew to an island called Vectes after the sinking of Jacinto in Gears of War 2. With this new environment come new weapons, such as the Pendulum Wars-era lancer and the digger launcher. There will be new foes to face in the form of the lambent--infected Locust suffering from extended exposure to imulsion (also known as "that juice"). You encounter these foes both in the new campaign, which supports cooperative play with up to four players, and in the new Beast mode, a slightly different take on Gears 2's popular Horde mode that puts you in the shoes of a locust.

Whoops. Looks like GameStop jumped the gun after Sony officially revealed the hot-n-tasty NGP gaming device early (early) this morning.

Although the listing is now offline, Joystiq received a tip leading to a very hefty $999.99 price tag over on GameStop. The listing didn't specify actual hardware or when the device is scheduled to ship (Holiday 2011), but the near-grand "Buy New" pricetag clearly was an error on the retailer's part.

Rumour has it that Sony is looking to the PC games market to help solve its growing piracy problem on the PlayStation 3 - with the introduction of serial keys to its games.

According to 'a very reliable source' quoted by PS3-Sense, Sony is attempting to address the recent revelation that it failed to properly secure the private signing key for its flagship console - leading to clever tinkerers producing third-party firmware that allows unofficial software and illegitimately downloaded games to run on unmodified hardware - by looking to the PC retail market for solutions.

Unlike the PS3, the PC doesn't have a hardware DRM system built in to it - despite attempts by groups like the Trusted Computing Group, formerly the Trusted Computer Platform Alliance, to introduce such a thing - relying instead on software-based DRM and a surprisingly old-fashioned guarantee of a game's uniqueness: a serial key.

Printed on the product's packaging, the key is a unique identifier that promises that the game is the real deal - and usually verifies itself with an online server, preventing the game from running or accessing multiplayer features if the same key is in use elsewhere.

It's a solution that the PC gaming industry has been using for years, but if the rumour that Sony is looking to use it as a bandage for its thoroughly broken PS3 DRM proves true, it could have one major hurdle in its path: unlike a PC, the PS3 has no keyboard.