While at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, some gaming journalists spotted that a playable demo of Unreal Tournament III for the PS3 featured something known as a 'Gamercard' in its menu system. This has sparked speculation that this will evolve into a unique player identity system much like the Xbox 360's Gamertag system which oversees player stats and achievements.

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We quizzed Epic’s Mark Rein about and he did little to dispel our assumptions saying quickly “Oops, you shouldn’t have seen that”. We would have liked to grabbed a pic, and were little deterred by the venue’s strict no camera phone policy and dodgy lighting, however Mark Rein’s rapid covering of the projector with his hand put pay to that cunning idea.

Needless to say, we have little to go on. It is accessed with the Triangle button if that makes any difference to you. It is also anyone’s guess whether this is a future Sony project that will cover the whole of the PlayStation Network or whether it is simply a feature of UT3. But I’m betting that the secrecy surrounding it indicates a new PS3 feature. More news as we get it.