Industry and multi-console news:

• Kevin Smith would like to see a Jay and Silent Bob video game. I'm sure he likes to see anything he can get money out of.
• The Producers Guild of America will be honoring Will Wright with the Vanguard Award, making him the first game designer to ever receive it. Previous winners include George Lucas, James Cameron, and Pixar Animation Studios.
• The investigation into the shooting of a suspected PS3 thief is continuing, with prosecutors looking to bring the case before a second grand jury.
• Next Generation has listed their top 25 people of the year, if photos of random executives excite you.
• Forbes.com has a lengthy special section devoted to games, from sports to board games to video games. Puting a Mario speed run video on Forbes may have just caused the universe to fracture a little bit.
• Ubisoft has opened a store where you can buy Rayman Raving Rabbids toys.
• EGM's rumor section claims that Namco is preparing three more Katamaris, one for each new console.
• Sega has a new preview video up for Virtua Fighter 5.
• If you want to get your entire upper torso wrapped in retro gaming tattoos, always be sure to leave room for your wispy-haired nipples. This is important.
• A member of the Crytek development team relates a scary story of German police overreaction after a school shooting. A kid shoots up his school, so you send an assault team to the office of a development studio?
• You can watch Jack Thompson's recent appearance on Nightline here.

PC news:

• Blizzard has added the opening cinematic to WoW: Burning Crusade to their website.
• GameSetWatch looks at How they'll screw up a Firefly MMORPG.

Nintendo news:

• A Japanese news site has analyzed the retail value of the various components of the Wii and comes to the conclusion that Nintendo is making $40 per system sold.
• Nintendo now has a Wii strap replacement form for anyone wishing to replace their thin remote strap with the new thicker one.
• Former PS2 and PSP series Mercury Meltdown is coming to the Wii.
• I'm sure your kid will be delighted to receive the Wal-Mart Wii gift card this Christmas. It's just like a regular gift card, except worth exactly the cost of a Wii system. Whenever they show up.
• From Famitsu, here are seven pages worth of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates scans.
• SNK's Card Fighters on the DS will be seeing an American release.
• EGM's rumor section claims that your Mii will be your avatar in Animal Crossing and that clothes worn in AC will transfer to other games.
• If you're brave, you can get your Mii put on a t-shirt. If you're foolhardy, you can wear it in public.
• If you see a link called Awesome Mario Fan Art Made Just For GayGamer! and click on it, well, you can't say you weren't warned.
• Moonbooks is a project to bring classic literature in the public domain to the DS.
• Joystiq has three videos of Mario tunes played with hand farts. I really don't know what else to say.
• Buzznet has a contest where you and your friends can dress up like Elite Beat Agents and submit a dance video to win DS Lite systems.
• Gamespot has given Twilight Princess on the Cube an 8.9 after giving the game on the Wii an 8.8.
• Girl dislocates knee playing Wii Tennis. Jesus God you people, just sit down and try not to move.

Sony news:

• MotorStorm has become the best selling PS3 game in Japan.
• UK retailer GAME says that the pink slimline PS2 has proved unexpectedly popular.
• European Playstation Network registration begins today, so get in quick to be sure you're the one who lands that coveted Sephiroth screen name.
• The guy whose name was in the whois information for alliwantforxmasisapsp.com has put up a webpage trying to tell people to leave him alone because it's not his fault.
• The song Heavenly Star from Lumines II is now available on iTunes.

Microsoft news:

• The next official backwards compatibility update is here, and yes, Psychonauts is on it.
• 2 million copies of Gears of War have been sold, making it the fastest selling next-gen game so far.
• Peter Molyneux calls today's game developers "lucky bastards" for having things like XNA and the Internet at their disposal to get their ideas out.
• Microsoft sold 35,343 360s in Japan last week following the release of Blue Dragon. That's an increase of almost 90% versus the previous week's sales of 4000 units.
• Yesterday's rumored Halo 3 video is real.. sort of. Bungie has basically said a video is coming and wouldn't confirm the date, but did go as far as to flatly deny the rumor that Brutes will be playable.
• Microsoft's Dave Mitchell talks about how XNA works.
• Gears of War downloadable content will be free.
• The fake game seen in the movie Grandma's Boy is becoming a real game named Demonik.