Industry and multi-console news:

• Jessica Biel is rumored to be up for the role of Chun Li in the next Street Fighter movie. Keira Knightley and Jessica Alba already passed. This can't possibly be right. Surely they mean Cammy or something. They've approached three different caucasian women to play a Chinese woman?
• Microsoft's J Allard sports dreads and a PSP after losing a bet to Newsweek's N'Gai Croal about how fast the PSP would sell.
• Jack Thompson has complained about the Wii toys being offered at Wendy's with their kids meals, because Manhunt 2 is a bad game with blood in it and Manhunt 2 is on the Wii and therefore Wendy's is promoting a vehicle for Manhunt 2 delivery with their kids meals and then he shit in a bag and wore it as a hat.
• Blade Interactive has released the first details and screenshots of Hydrophobia.
• The president of the Entertainment Consumers Association disputes the recent study that says games are socially isolating.
• You can now pre-order the Alter Egos book, filled with photos of people alongside their video game avatars.
• Capcom is publishing a book in Japan aimed at introducing children to the video game industry. It will be distributed to 24,000 elementary schools and 2,700 public libraries across Japan.
• Speaking of them, The Escapist has a new issue devoted to Capcom, with articles ranging from the history of Clover Studios to how Dead Rising represents the Japanese fear of Westernization and Ada Wong as a feminist icon.

PC news:

• Liam Neeson has a voice role in Fallout 3, playing the main character's father.
• Valve explains how Team Fortress 2's dynamic maps work.
• [H]ard|OCP has used a number of titles to compare framerates in games on Vista and XP.
• If you have trouble remember things I said yesterday, or just don't read every entry (gasp!), free full physics game CellFactor is now available for download.
• Some Neo Geo games are coming to GameTap, including King of Fighters '94, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown, Last Blade, and all the Metal Slugs.
• If you're looking for new games but don't have any money, here's a list of 17 freeware adventure games coming out in 2007.
• PopCap is giving away free copies of Bejeweled for Mother's Day.
• Amazon has Myst Uru: Complete Chronicles marked down to $9.99.

Nintendo news:

• The US launch of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl has more than doubled DS wi-fi activity.
• Siliconera has a short preview of strategy RPG Rondo of Deception for the DS, and Famitsu has screenshots and character art and all that.
• Worth Playing has a preview of Treasure Island Z for the Wii.

Sony news:

• PS3Comp.com is a Playstation 3 backwards compatibility list rated by users.
• Sony has updated their 2 gig Entertainment Pack for the PSP. It comes with a 2 gig memory stick and your choice of one of four moves: Spider-Man 2, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Hellboy, or S.W.A.T.

Microsoft news:

• This week's Xbox Live Arcade title is Double Dragon.
• Other games newly announced for Live Arcade include Spyglass Board Games (a pack containing chess, reversi, checkers and mancala), Soltrio Solitaire and Street Trace: NYC, a hoverboard racing game.
• Peter Moore has sidestepped the issue of 360 failure rates, saying we should instead focus on how well Microsoft treats customers who have to deal with their broken crap.