This late night edition of the news is brought to you by my Internet connection being down for the entire afternoon.

Gamasutra has an interesting pair of podcasts (part 1, part 2) about translation and localization of Japanese games. It's in a roundtable format featuring Atlus' Bill Alexander, Nintendo's Nate Bihldorff, Media Sunshine's Heather Chandler, Gaijinworks' Victor Ireland, Capcom's Ben Judd, Mastiff's Bill Swartz, Namco Bandai's Hiroshi Tanaka, and Nintendo's Bill Trinen.

• Ubisoft claims crowd AI in Assassin's Creed is actually better on the 360 because of "improved threading."
• HP has acquired Voodoo PC, not long after HP rival Dell bought Voodoo rival Alienware.
• The Dead or Alive movie has been pushed back to December 8.
• The first downloadable content pack for Saints Row is now available.. and it's a bunch of clothes.
• The non-combative MMORPG known as SEED has been cancelled.
• Too Human has been delayed to early to mid 2007.
• Itagaki talks about just how many changes are being made for Ninja Gaiden Sigma.
• A Michigan congressman wants to make it illegal for game companies to fail to disclose content to get a lower rating. In other words, more Hot Coffee crap.
• At least one Gamestop employee doesn't care that his store was selling counterfeit cartridges.
• Feel a little piece of yourself die inside as you peruse these World of Wacraft t-shirts at Hot Topic.
• Racketboy looks at games that defined the Master System.
• Gamers in New York, LA, Chicago and San Francisco can play Gears of War after special pre-release screenings of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
• A Microsoft exec says the recently announced Halo Wars is "for the Germans."
• Even Reggie has a staying up late to beat Zelda story.
• A look back, with mp3 samples, at early 80's attempts to cash in on the arcade craze with video game themed records.