Today in PlayStation: December 22, 2008

With the holidays almost upon us the news has slowed to a crawl, though a few interesting tidbits have popped up today. As for the PSM, we’ll be updating until tomorrow, and then resuming after the New Year. Expect to see a big review later this afternoon and our awards for best PSP, PS3, and PS2 games tomorrow. On to the headlines:

• PlayStation Home has been updated again, with voice chat be installed reinstated.
• The addictive tower defense PSN title Pixeljunk Monsters is coming to the PSP sometime next year.
• If you’re at all interested in the way games are made, check out this very interesting post-mortem over at Gamasutra dealing with one of last years’ best, Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction.
• While it may not be the best game, it turns out that PAIN is the most downloaded title on the PSN.
• It looks like Lumines Supernova will be available to those of us in North America very soon, as in tomorrow.