1. Ah-ha, I just knew I’d heard of iPhone somewhere else before.
2. Oh, great, ANOTHER controller lawsuit. And this time, everyone’s a target.

   …even you.

   Well, maybe not you, back in the corner there.

3. Want a Peter Jackson-directed Hobbit movie?

   Tough.

   Sorry, folks.

4. If you like Marvel Zombies, Evil Dead, or just contests in general, then you just might like this.
5. Well, Konami just up and out of nowhere cancelled a bunch of PS3 and Wii titles. Fortunately, most were no-name stuff with little info, it seems, though one should mourn Gradius.
6. So Japan is getting a gold PSP.

   Hmm.

   I half expect promotion to include John Cena holding it on a leather strap with the WWE logo spinning on the screen.

   I don’t know, though. I guess it doesn’t look horrible, but I don’t think it’s a color I’d choose. Unless I was really trying to pitch the “bling-bling, ching-ching” image.

   Still, Japan has six colors now? Shouldn’t that be spread around more? It could entice someone who doesn’t want a PSP into getting one, because it’s the right color for them.

   Sure, it sounds shallow, but I find I myself am choosier over the colors of my portables than I am my consoles; a white Wii doesn’t bother me, but you’ve seen all the bitching I’ve done until Nintendo finally released a black DS Lite in America.

7. Hmm, GameDaily thinks that maybe MTV is in talks with Ziff-Davis.

   I wonder if MTV pays their people in a timely fashion…

8. What the hell, Emmies for everyone!

   Or is that “Emmys?”

9. “Fictional story about violent video game causes real censorship.”

   I don’t really have anything to add here, but do read the post, because it’s interesting to think of where it might go.

10. Extra! Extra! Nintendo franchises kick ass!
11. What’s this? Sony making a smart move that could help its Blu-Ray and PSP markets?

    ‘Bout time.

12. First entrants, now sponsors. Where will the Slamdance/Super Columbine Massacre RPG snowball wind up next?
13. Wow, Nyko is just all over this Wii thing. Now, in addition to the rechargable battery packs, they’re bringing in wireless sensor bars, too.

    Reggie wasn’t kidding when he said this is where third-parties would shine.

14. Newsarama has an interesting scoop, wherein Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis is going to reveal the ensemble who will form the new New Avengers.

    The catch?

    One day at a time.

    Each weekday starting today and through next Friday, we?ll reveal one new team member a day ? eight in all ? along with Bendis? thoughts on why he selected that character and what role he or she will be playing for the team. And then we?ll wrap things up with a talk about the foreseeable future of the whole [Avengers] assembled team.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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