Here we are then, the end of another week, and the beginning of another Friday round up. Well, the first Friday round up, but next week this intro will work much better.

Forget i wrote that first bit, Hello and welcome to the Friday Round Up! The only way to end you busy gaming week!

Before the PS4 was officially announced in New York City in February, there were plenty of rumours floating around that both Sony and Microsoft were considering some form of DRM system in their next console.

It's been quite a day for the ratings boards.

Earlier we brought you news that Sly Cooper Collection is coming to PS Vita, a story that broke after the ESRB gave it an E rating prior to any official announcement. Now it appears that the Korean ratings board have managed to spoil a big announcement from Hideo Kojima's and Konami.

Recent court documents have revealed that THQ owed WWE and Yukes, the developers of the WWE video game series, a combined $27.5 million at the time that they filled for chapter 11 bankruptcy.

It's looking increasingly likely that a version of the Sly Cooper Collection will be coming to Sony's portable gaming platform, almost two and a half years after it was originally released on PS3.

As has become customary since the inception of PS Plus, Sony’s added value subscription service that offers new, free downloads of full retail titles every month, the line-up for May 2013 was recently announced on the Playstation blog.

Disney have announced their decision to close down the LucasArts games division, only months after buying it along with Lucasfilm for a combined $4.05 billion in October 2012. An official spokesman for Lucasfilm has refused to confirm how many employees are directly affected by the decision (Kotaku report that 150 will lose their jobs) which has been made as part of an ongoing internal cost cutting review.

GAME's twitter account yesterday broke the news that they will be stocking the Android based OUYA console in the near future (The GAME website claims June 2013 as the expected launch date), and that it is already available to pre-order.

Last week we reported that the Japanese PS Vita price cut had resulted in much improved sales of Sony's beleguered handheld console, and this week the news is even more encouraging.

The PS Vita was the highest selling videogames console in Japan over the last 7 days. Bar none.

Gaming website Gematsu is reporting that the Playstation Vita has seen a six-fold increase in sales in Japan for the week of February 25th - March 3rd.

It didn't take very long, but here's a second photo of the rumoured PS4 controller that initialy surfaced on Destructoid.com

Gaming has been under intense scrutiny since the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings back in December, with many US Senators blaming such tragedies on the influence of violent titles such as GTA and Call of Duty. Yet, while senators Christopher Murphy and Leland Yee are in no doubt as to the influence of violent games, others with a more balanced and well researched view have come forward in defence of the industry.

It's extremely rare to see a game on top of the UK charts that isn't either FIFA or Call of Duty. Imagine my surprise then, when the latest UK sales charts were released and Ni No Kuni was sitting on top of the pile.

In a recent appearance on The Daily Rundown, United States Senator Lamar Alexander made the extraordinary claim that Games are “a bigger problem than guns.” However, due to the First and Second ammendments, he doubts that any legislation banning violent games or Guns can, or will, be brought into being.

Have you ever asked yourself why you can't control games on your Tablet, PC, Games console and Smartphone with the same controller, keyboard or mouse? Well if you have then the good people at Mad Catz are looking out for you with their new "Gamesmart Initiative".

According to Markus "Notch" Persson's Twitter account, Minecraft sold a staggering 453,000 copies on Christmas Eve 2012. In total that brings sales of the little game that could up to 8.7 million copies on PC as well as 4 million on XBLA and 5 million on iOS. I think you'll agree that those are mind boggling sales figures for a game that doesn't look very good, and at first glance has a very limited gameplay mechanic.