Industry and multi-console news:

• A new study suggests violent video game effects "linger in the brain."
• The state of Illinois has yet to pay the half a million they owe after the ESA successfully sued them for introducing an anti-game law they knew would be shot down. The ESA is now considering taking action to collect.
• A grandmother in Pennsylvania is filing a complaint with the FTC after she reserved two Wiis in October, only to be told when she went to pick them up that she had to buy games with them as a part of a bundle. The bundle rule was implemented two weeks after she had put in her pre-orders.
• Konami has released a Plug 'n' Play Strawberry Shortcake Dance Dance Revolution game. The two brands were practically made for each other.
• Scarface: The World Is Yours has sold one million copies. Guess they have to start working on Scarface 2: The World Is Still Yours.
• 11,500 FFXI accounts are being banned for use of third party tools and real world money trading.
• An art student in Australia decided to make a bronze Dreamcast controller for a school project.
• Korean game companies don't care about your grades when considering applicants. "We rarely look at the name of the university they graduated from or the grades they earned."

PC news:

• For the next five days, a WoW chat room will be giving away Burning Crusade beta keys every 18 minutes.
• After a long silence, the Black Mesa Source project has updated with new screenshots and new information. The mod is a total conversion of Half Life 2 to remake the original Half Life.

Nintendo news:

• Nintendo has announced they sold 600,000 Wiis and 454,000 copies of Twilight Princess in the first eight days of their availability.
• The big Virtual Console library update for Monday was... Super Star Soldier. And... that's it.
• Informit provides a how-to guide to add an external antenna to your Wii.
• Comparison photos suggest that Mario 64 runs at a higher resolution in the Virtual Console than it did on the N64.
• Video: The Colbert Report puts the Wii at number one on the ThreatDown. I can't imagine this is at all related to the big Wii giveaway Comedy Central had over Thanksgiving.
• Video: Testing the range of the Wii remote. Turns out it's about 400 feet.
• MojoDojo presents the best GBA titles you aren't playing.

Sony news:

• The average sale price for a PS3 on Ebay is $1186.39.
• Sony's John Hight says there's a size limit of 500 megs on downloadable content on the PS3 to keep download times reasonable. He also mentions that classic games are likely to be added to the Playstation store in the future.
• Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the armed robbery of a waiting line for the PS3 in Connecticut that resulted in one person being shot.
• It also turns out that one person was not a gamer but an Ebay profiteer. I wonder how many people will think he deserved it now.
• A PS3 firmware update has been released, bringing it up to 1.11. It doesn't add anything interesting.
• Killzone has shown its head again, in the form of a Dutch newspaper article talking about the game's development. Its budget is apparently higher than that of the most expensive Dutch movie ever made.

Microsoft news:

• Applications are now being accepted to be a part of the Shadowrun 360 beta.
• Mad Catz has revealed a arcade stick for the 360.
• Micro Center has extended its $100 mail-in rebate on 360s through the holidays.
• StripClubDj has become one of the few (the only?) to have broken 100,000 gamer points.
• Texas Hold 'Em will receive a patch tomorrow that should fix several cheating methods as well as make the game faster. They're also wiping the leaderboard to remove cheaters.
• Double Dragon, with online co-op, has been confirmed as coming to Xbox Live Arcade.
• Finally, the perfect solution for red rings of death has been found.
• Fake Live accounts made to access content in other regions are now being blocked from downloading. From the wording of this post, it sounds as if the main concern is non-US players making fake accounts to access US content. Whether that means they'll ignore Americans doing the same to get UK or Japanese content is unclear.