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Dutch art dealership Cook & Becker has launched a curated collection of artwork from the Killzone franchise. Now available on the firm's website, The Killzone Collection contains concept art and drawings from Guerrilla's PlayStation shooter series, including Stahl Arms, a finalist at Into The Pixel 2011. More >

Alex Wiltshire, Edge's online editor, is hosting a roundtable discussion at next month's F2P Summit in London. The topic for the panel is My Worst Mistake, with our affable overlord joined by Relentless co-founder Andrew Eades, Papaya Mobile founder Oscar Clark, and Matthew Wiggins, GM of Zynga Mobile UK. More >

A lack of demand caused by the low price for digital downloads of PSP games meant Sony saw little point in bringing Japan's UMD Passport programme to the west, Sony has admitted. Speaking to Wired, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said that there would have been little merit in launching the scheme, which allowed Japanese Vita owners to buy digital download licences for their UMD PSP games for a nominal fee, in other territories. More >

Nintendo has revealed Japan's 3DS game lineup for the coming months. The news was revealed by company president Satoru Iwata during a Nintendo Direct presentation streamed on the firm's official website, which was re-broadcast with English subtitles an hour later. More >

Nintendo has announced a new game of brain training exercises featuring Dr Kawashima, to be released in Japan this summer. The game was announced by company president Satoru Iwata in a Nintendo Direct briefing earlier today. Speaking from the sound studio in the bowels of Nintendo's Kyoto HQ, Iwata recalled that he first met Dr Kawashima on the day DS launched in Japan, showing him a prototype that would eventually become Brain Training. More >

PopCap Games has launched Lucky Gem Casino, a collection of slot machine games based on the company's existing properties, on Facebook. The game, which you can play now at the source link below, features seven slot machines based on Bejeweled, Zuma, Chuzzle, Bookworm and more. More >

Kojima Productions is hiring for staff to work on a new Metal Gear game. A listing on publisher Konami's website confirms that Kojima Productions will have its own booth at the GDC Career Pavilion next month, and is looking for staff in Japan and California. More >

Sony's new handheld, PS Vita, has launched in North America and Europe. First in line at Game's flagship store on London's Oxford Street was Zohaib Ali, 21, who had been waiting outside the store since Sunday. "No sleep," he told VG247. "Tonight I'm just going to play Vita all night. I've stayed awake all night. I've already played it - it's really good! I love games, I love technology - I just want my Vita." More >

Internal studios including Sony Santa Monica are assisting Team Ico in development of long-awaited, much-delayed PS3 exclusive The Last Guardian. Speaking to Wired, Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida admitted that several Sony studios were helping out to help ship the game, which was first announced at E3 in 2009. More >

Beleaguered UK retailer Game Group has cancelled all Special Edition pre-orders of Wii RPG The Last Story. In an email to customers who had pre-ordered the Special Edition of the Mistwalker RPG, which will be released on Friday, Game confirms: "Unfortunately, this product is no longer being stocked and we will therefore be unable to fulfil your order, which has been cancelled." More >

UK retailer Game Group's fortunes have taken another turn for the worse after it admitted it would not be stocking Ubisoft-published PS Vita titles. A spokesperson told VG247 that the company, the largest specialist videogame retailer in the UK, will not be selling Lumines: Electronic Symphony, Michael Jackson: The Experience HD, Rayman Origins, Asphalt Injection and Dungeon Hunter Alliance. More >

EA is weeks away from releasing The Simpsons: Tapped Out, a free-to-play game for iOS devices. CNET reports that EA has committed significant resources to the project, using the cartoon's writers and voice actors. The game starts with Homer causing a nuclear explosion that wipes out Springfield, tasking the player with rebuilding it, completing quests and unlocking characters along the way More >

Gree and Ubisoft have announced an agreement that will see a brand new Assassin's Creed mobile game released exclusively on the Gree platform. More >

Sony has finally revealed the prices for full PS Vita games on the PlayStation Store ahead of the handheld's launch tomorrow. Of Sony's firstparty titles, Uncharted: Golden Abyss is the most expensive, at £39.99, just £5 less than its retail RRP. WipeOut 2048, Modnation Racers: Road Trip and Everybody's Golf will cost £29.99, while Little Deviants and Reality Fighters are priced at £19.99 apiece. More >

The coder of iOS strategy game Hard Lines is locked in dispute with publisher Spilt Milk Studios over the rights to the game. Nicoll Hunt accuses Spilt Milk MD Andrew Smith of withholding his share of sales revenue unless he agrees to give up his rights to the game. Speaking to IndieGames, both parties give their perspective on the dispute. More >

Uncharted studio Naughty Dog has insisted it currently has "no plans" to develop games for PS Vita, despite claims to the contrary from a Sony executive. Guy Longsworth, SVP of PlayStation brand marketing, was asked by Gametrailers if the likes of Media Molecule, Sony Santa Monica, Guerrilla and Naughty Dog would be developing for Sony's new handheld. More >

Almost a third of PlayStation 3 owners are "seriously considering" buying PlayStation Vita. The finding comes from Playr2, which asked 1321 PS3 owners about Sony's new handheld, which will be on shelves tomorrow. More >