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

Sony launches ideas submission blog (gamesindustry.biz) - Sony has launched a new section of PlayStation.Blog where users can submit new ideas and feature suggestions for PlayStation products.
PlayStation.Blog Share allows users to post their own ideas and also vote on the suggestions of others, with Sony promising to monitor and act upon the most popular.

The FAQ for the site claimed that Sony is looking for "any idea that will help make the PlayStation experience better. Period. Game title ideas. PS3 ideas. PlayStation Home ideas. Hey, maybe even PlayStation.Blog ideas!"

Currently the most popular three suggestions are cross game voice chat, software emulation for PlayStation 2 games and auto-synching of Trophies.

Users will initially be restricted to one submission per day, in order to ensure a variety of submissions, but the most popular authors will be placed in an online leaderboard.

At the same time as the new service was announced site administrators have warned of a "crack down on Blog comments", with moderation for off-topic comments becoming "much more strict".

The site is currently only featured on the US version of PlayStation.Blog but any user with a valid PSN ID is allowed to post. Region-specific versions of the service are currently under consideration.

Sony prevails in copyright lawsuit over God of War (gamesindustry.biz) - Sony and game designer David Jaffe have prevailed in a court battle against screenplay writers who claimed that God of War infringed on their copyright.

Jonathan Bissoon-Dath and Jennifer Dath said that they conceived the idea behind the game God of War, having submitted two treatments and two screenplays based on a story involving a Spartan attack on Athens and the resulting effort by the Greek Gods to restore peace.

But Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled against the pair in her verdict, concluding there were key differences between their story and Sony's, and that the basic idea for a story cannot be owned anyway.

"While violence is not absent from plaintiffs' works, it lacks the thematic centrality and intensity seen in God of War. For instance, plaintiffs' protagonist refuses to kill such an 'amazing animal' as the rampaging Nemean Lion and instead transforms the beast into his 'tamed pet'," she said in a verdict published in full by the Hollywood Reporter.

"No one can own the basic idea for a story. General plot ideas are not protected by copyright law; they remain forever the common property of artistic mankind," the verdict concluded.

USB storage for Xbox 360 in spring (eurogamer) - A new report claims Xbox 360 will support USB mass storage devices as soon as this spring.

Apparently anything up to 16GB will be usable as the de facto console hard drive.

The report, published by Joystiq, claims to have come from a software engineer at Microsoft. The piece says USB Mass Storage Device Support will be added through a system update.

Any piece of Xbox 360 content - even full game installs - can be done on the USB device, provided it has enough space. You'll still need the disc in the tray to be authenticated for play.

GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City sees slight delay on PC and PS3 (vg247) - Rockstar has revealed that GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City will be delayed into April.

Originally slated for March, blame it on SCEE, apparently, because according to Rockstar, Sony wanted it to edit some of the content in media bits of the game.

“Due to a last minute game submission request from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to edit some of the in-game Liberty City radio station, television, and internet content – we are forced to delay the worldwide release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City for both PlayStation 3 and PC for an extra two weeks,” wrote Rockstar on its blog.

“The new release date for Episodes from Liberty City – and the two downloadable episodes The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony – on those platforms is now April 13th in North America and April 16th in Europe.

“This new date will enable us to rectify these changes for Sony Europe, and still allow for a level playing field for all of the Grand Theft Auto fans that have been waiting patiently for this release. In the meantime, we’re moving full speed ahead towards the new game release date. On that note – please be aware that the Grand Theft Auto IV PlayStation 3 leaderboards at Rockstar Games Social Club will be down for maintenance for one week starting March 22nd as we work on their re-launch in support of Episodes from Liberty City.

“Unfortunately, with each round of changes comes fully re-testing the game and a full re-submission to PlayStation. This is the nature of the game submission process. Believe us, if we could expedite the turnaround any sooner – we would. We are dying to get this game in the hands of fans who’ve waited for it for so long in the first place.

“This was a tough decision but with a simultaneous release, everyone can experience multiplayer simultaneously, take part in online events together, be on level ground on leaderboards, etc.”