IT SEEMS THE Xbox 360 is receiving non-official price-cuts in the UK.

Xbox 360
Play.com is now offering the Xbox 360 Premium for a bargain £170 delivered. Or an Arcade for £150. This will probably not appease this analyst who's called for a 'proper' price-cut. However, another analyst believes the US price-drop should at least propel the 360 in the charts for the next month or two. Dell is now offering a free Xbox 360 Elite - providing you spend a small fortune on one of its laptops, reports Gizmodo.

Fortunately, you won't be forced to use the new Xbox 360 dashboard on your new Elite, so says Major Nelson.

PS3/PSP
A Java homebrew devkit for the PS3 has emerged and Engadget does its best to show it doesn't know what Java is capable of here. A new Sony PSP model has been spotted, with an in-built mic and a new PS button.John Koller, Sony's senior marketing manager for PSP, has mentioned that GPS-enabled games could eventually hit the PSP - which would be an interesting use of the technology.

Wii/DS
Satoru Iwata has apologised for Nintendo's weak showing at E3, with none of the key-titles earlier promised. A new disk-dumper, that dumps Wii DVD contents to SD cards has been made available. Gamesindustry.biz reports that Nintendo platform titles currently dominate the charts.

Eurogamer has this week's Virtual Console round up.

Source: theinquirer