Confirming the conventional wisdom that there's no chance of a spring release, a Japanese newspaper is reporting a November ship date for Sony's next console.

In other news, the sun rises in the east... >>

Hey Xbox Live Arcade seems to be working pretty well. Why not borrow that and some ideas from Nintendo? It makes sense for Sony to do this, but how well they can pull it off remains to be seen.

At least they have a lot of time to work on this feature now... >>

Confirming everyone's suspicions, God of War 2 is officially in development, with release date purportedly set for next February.

It's a little surprising that it'll still be on the PS2 though... >>

Our favorite senators Clinton and Lieberman are supporting a $90 million dollar study by the Center for Disease Control to study the effects of media on children. Good to know the CDC is sparing important resources from cancer and bird flu research for this!

Your tax dollars at work! >>

Having trouble keeping up with all the game-related legislation around the country? The Entertainment Software Association has set up a legislation tracker, complete with easy links to contact your representatives on the issues.

Go rock the vote. Or something. >>

After being confronted with copy-protection-free GalCiv 2's commercial success, a Starforce employee posts a link to GalCiv 2 piracy torrents.

Not a classy move... >>

Both celebrated World War II shooters will supposedly shift into the future in their next installments, with Battlefield jumping even farther ahead. Are publishers finally getting off the WWII kick? Will the series work in a different time period? BF: Modern Combat wasn't a great start.

Battlefield with mechs and lasers? Sign us up. >>

Revenues from online game subscriptions shot up 43% to $2 billion in 2005. Analysts predict console subs to be $30 of the market in five years.

No doubt driven by World of Warcraft... >>

Apparently a lot of people are playing Mario Kart DS online, as Nintendo announced 1 million different users have connected to their Wi-fi service. Tetris DS will probably help that figure rise.

What tiny percentage of that is Tony Hawk? >>