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Game Informer first picked up on a quote from Runic CEO Max Schaefer, who recently showed up on The Rumble Pack podcast. "We're going to put some serious effort into it -- pretty quick -- getting Torchlight onto consoles," Schaefer confessed on The Rumble Pack.

In addition to the Lady Gaga DLC that was announced earlier this week, Harmonix has revealed four more Rock Band tracks scheduled to become available next week. Songs by Three Doors Down, Mute Math, and The Subways are all queued up for the Rock Band music store next Tuesday, May 16 on Xbox 360 and Wii, with a PlayStation 3 release planned for Thursday, May 18.

The developers have also posted a list of all the latest songs that were added to the Xbox 360's Rock Band Network store over the last week. The grand total for the platform's second week: 23 new tracks, including downloads from Flight of the Conchords, Jonathan Coulton, The Shins, and many others.

Year-over-year sales were down, though the consoles saw moderate gains from January of this year. Still, all of the hardware manufacturers have reason to celebrate this month. The PlayStation 3 sales are up 30%, the 360 is on top of the console market, and Nintendo always has its trusty DS to sell like hotcakes.

February 2010 Hardware Sales

• Nintendo DS -- 613,200
• Xbox 360 -- 422,000
• Wii -- 397,900
• PlayStation 3 -- 360,100
• PlayStation Portable -- 133,400
• PlayStation 2 -- 101,900

Year-over-year sales were down, though the consoles saw moderate gains from January of this year. Still, all of the hardware manufacturers have reason to celebrate this month. The PlayStation 3 sales are up 30%, the 360 is on top of the console market, and Nintendo always has its trusty DS to sell like hotcakes.

February 2010 Hardware Sales

• Nintendo DS -- 613,200
• Xbox 360 -- 422,000
• Wii -- 397,900
• PlayStation 3 -- 360,100
• PlayStation Portable -- 133,400
• PlayStation 2 -- 101,900

The conference kicks off at 4PM PST (7PM EST), so come back in a few hours to watch whatever big reveals and announcements Sony has planned as they happen. Will we get more info on their motion controller? Maybe the first official motion controller games? Maybe an actual name besides "Sony Motion Controller"? Or maybe new games that don't have to do with the motion controller at all!

That "only" attached to the Z rating has been the source of consternation for many a gamer in Japan. Unlike the ESRB's "Adults Only" rating, CERO's Z seems to be applied almost exclusively based on violence standards -- if there's too much blood, you're out. What's worse, while a Z on the box isn't as bad as an AO rating in America (or being refused classification at all in Australia, effectively banning it from shelves), it essentially means that the game cannot be advertised in any public manner within Japan.