In light of finding any real news all I have for you to read is the same bottom feeder crap that your local news probably dwelled upon uncontrollably for a second or two regarding violent video games and the "video game report card". Woot!

If you haven't seen it yet the Video Game Report Card is an annual report put out by the National Institute on Media and the Family. It mainly condemns the whole entire industry for the ills of whichever couple of violent games they can find that year to pull gory bits and details from. As a whole the video game industry got an F this year, mainly for it's defamation of women and failure to fully enforce the ESRB rating system when it comes to getting mature rated games into the hands of kids. The F was supposed to send a "wake up call" to the industry on these matters. This probably resulted in a memo being sent somewhere to some manager of some game store to tell his "Marty Minimumwage" underlings to check those durn ID's. One or two may even have been fired and are now busy spitting on people's burgers that foolishly requested no mayo or pickles.

To counter the announcement and subsequent chest beating of the Video Game Report Card the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association released it's own statement known as the STATEMENT FROM THE INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION REGARDING VIOLENCE IN VIDEO GAMES. The STATEMENT FROM THE INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION REGARDING VIOLENCE IN VIDEO GAMES stated that they feel that the ESRB rating system is a good idea for the industry, and that progress has been made compared to in the past regarding the sales of mature rated games to underage buyers. Furthermore the STATEMENT FROM THE INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION REGARDING VIOLENCE IN VIDEO GAMES said that it would work with congress on these issues in the future as well.

If you didn't want to read all that heres a summary:
Anti videogame people: Ugga bugga ugga!!
Pro videogame people: Bugga ugga!!

Now that the problems with violent video games have been solved we move next to Nintendo's impending "Megaton" announcement. Apparently the word now is that ... there is no megaton announcement. Nintendo of Europe people were supposed to have denounced the whole charade as "utter rubbish", and were amazed it went as far as it did. Obviously they must not have the high technology of the internet eh? So with that crushing blow it seems there will be nothing for Nintendo fanboys to brag about for a while to come. This frankly is sad because I think Nintendo really does need something big time to shout about. Sure, they have Zelda coming out soon in the US, but after that they might be fighting for scraps. At least less scraps then they're fighting for now...

Well, hopefully tommorow there will be something wonderful and juicy news wise to chew on. We shall see. Ta ta.

-Hanzo

Sources: National Institute on Media and the Family, Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association, Gaming Cubed, and wool sweaters!