Here’s a roundup of today’s news found elsewhere on the internet:

Profits flat for Sony's game division (gamesindustry.biz) - Sony's Networked Products and Services division, which includes sales of PlayStation hardware as well as Viao PCs, recorded an operating profit of USD213m for the third quarter, an improvement of USD277m year on year.

However, profitability in the game business specifically was relatively unchanged, said the company, with cheaper hardware manufacturing costs of the PlayStation 3 offsetting the decline in PS2 and PSP sales.

APB allows you to create custom theme music (vg247.com) - Real Time Worlds has revealed that the music tool in APB will allow you to create your very own custom track that plays every time you kill an enemy. If you are familiar with music editing software already, the game’s music creation system will be familiar to you, said Stuart Ross, senior sound designer for the game

ESRB apologizes, replaces Dead or Alive Paradise description (vg247.com) - The ESRB has apologized over the “creepy voyeurism” description it gave to Dead or Alive Paradise yesterday, calling it a posting “error” and subsequently replaced the bit with a more impartial one. The original ESRB classification included the description "Parents and consumers should know that the game contains a fair amount of “cheesy,” and at times, creepy voyeurism—especially when users have complete rotate-pan-zoom control; but the game also contains bizarre, misguided notions of what women really want (if given two weeks, paid vacation, island resort)—Paradise cannot mean straddling felled tree trunks in dental-floss thongs"

F.E.A.R. 3 On The Way? (gameinformer.com) - If anonymous web sources and a pretty authentic looking casting call is to be believed, then yes, F.E.A.R. 3 is probably on the way. An anonymous source has supplied VG247 details of an January LA casting call for a Marcus Nispel-directed F.E.A.R. 3 web promo, which apparently reveals significant plot and character details from the unannounced game.