AU News Wrap, September 26 - What happened today

I'm back! Did you miss me? D-did you notice I was gone...?

I went to Japan! I met Keza in the flesh and recognised her by her voice! Plus a lot of other people I didn't recognise and only identified about three days later! I did a lot of interviews! It was really fun!

It was totally exhausting.

Then I spent a week lolling around Kansai, flitting between Kyoto, Nara and Osaka, eating delicious foods and embarrassing everyone, especially myself, with my terrible Japanese language skills. Now you know.

Today's header image is Cerys Matthews, Welsh vocalist of the defunct Catatonia, and was taken from this excellent gallery of portraits.

• Gears of War 3 leaderboards point to unreleased maps
  More Gears of War 3? YOU CAN'T HANDLE MORE.
• Persona PSP pub "looking into" digital AU releases
  The first Persona is on there, for like, forty bucks! Don't do it.
• End of Nations delayed
  Petroglyph has so much on its plate.
• Survey finds gamers unimpressed by 3DS
  So, a massive number of people aren't aware that the 3DS does glasses-free 3D, and another massive number aren't aware it does anything else. Ouch, Ninty.
• Zynga profits nosedive by 95 percent
  If you put five bucks on "bubble" in the great social gaming pool of 2011, you may be a rich individual by New Year's.
• War in the North trailer issues dramatic call to arms
  IM log, article posting time minute two minutes: "What do you think of this headline: 'Trailer exists.'"
• Weekend PSN downtime reportedly resolved
  Right in prime gaming time. Quite a few FIFA and Madden players with noses out of joint over it.
• Access FIFA 12 Ultimate Team with Web Start
  EA Sports hasn't communicated this very well - I hope you didn't miss anything important!
• CD Projekt not finished with The Witcher 2, expansion teased
  Hmmm! Intriguing.
• Wizardry Online enters beta October 7
  I'm kind of keen on this because I am incapable of learning.