I wish I had a good excuse for using a motivational poster here -- well, it came from Capcom's official blog, so blame them.

Industry and multi-console news

New media: Dark Sector trailer, Grand Theft Auto IV screenshots

• Now Gibson is filing suit against various retailers for selling what they claim are patent-infringing Guitar Hero products.
• Now that Ubisoft has completely devoured the Tom Clancy name, they've begun work on a Tom Clancy MMO.
• EA has announced an animated movie prequel to their upcoming game Dead Space.
• Next Generation has an interview with NCsoft North America president Chris Chung.
• Gamasutra has an opinion piece looking at why there isn't a Japanese indie development scene the way there is in the west.
• A new Doom novel, set in the Doom 3 universe, went on sale late last month.
• Next week's Rock Band tracks is a six-pack of Boston. Hey Boston! Keep on rocking!
• IGN lays out Lost Planet: Colonies' new single-player modes, as well as a first-person view.
• Contrary to everyone talking about the dire state of PC gaming, Extreme Tech has an interview with the CEO of WildTangent in which he suggests consoles are the ones on their way out.
• 1up lists the various special forces groups available in SOCOM Confrontation.
• Racketboy has collected a gallery of the best Metal Slug fan art.
• GamesRadar has a comparison video that shows Street Fighter II combos that work the same in Street Fighter IV.
• GameSetWatch talks to the makers of Bus Driver about.. well, making a game about driving a bus.
• GamePolitics soldiers on with part 3 of their excerpts from the Bar trial against Jack Thompson.
• An award-winning University of Calgary professor has spoken out against game violence by citing America's Army and Custer's Revenge.
• Actors from the Iron Man movie, including Robert Downey Jr. and Terrence Howard, will be lending their voices to the Iron Man video game.
• The Pentagon has put a request for information on displays and read-outs on contact lenses. "This information might be command-and-control information, not unlike information provided to players of first-person, shooter-type videogames or synthetic entities and effects in a live training environment."
• VH1's Game Break blog is closing down.

PC and mobile news

New content: Team Fortress 2 update

• The CEO of Stardock argues that game developers should ignore pirates.
• RealNetworks' Chris Houtzer calls casual gaming "the new daytime TV."
• Acer has denied recent rumors, saying they have no plans to make a game machine. They were simply talking about a high-end PC targeted at hardcore gamers.

Nintendo news

New media: Defend Your Castle trailer

• Atari UK has announced Driving Theory Training, a DS title that teaches you "driving theory" and highway laws.
• The guy who wrote about that pirate version of Final Fantasy VII for the Famicom is back with a review of the equally pirate Titanic 1912, also on the Famicom.
• Some people have argued that No More Heroes is the video game equivolent of punk, while others say it's not. "No More Heroes is not the title to overturn genre conventions and raise its fist at the authorities. But it comes close. In fact, No More Heroes is an effigy. It is jest and parody."
• That Videogame Blog offers evidence to counter the claim that third party games never do well on the Wii by listing third party Wii games that have sold more than one million copies.

Sony news

New content: Unreal Tournament 3 patch

• Rumormonger Surfer Girl claims that Sony is no longer funding LA Noire. That hasn't stopped development, though.
• Details have finally been released on what that mysterious Orange Box patch yesterday actually does. The answer is not much.

Microsoft news

New content: Need for Speed ProStreet tracks and cars

• In a Gamasutra interview, the makers of N+ rant about the lack of quality on Xbox Live Arcade. "Those decisions that are ruining Live Arcade... it's like, who greenlit Word Puzzle? Who green-lit that hoverboard game that's just shit?"
• Reports from the Battlefield: Bad Company beta say that individual weapons are available for sale on the Marketplace.
• Lionhead has released their fifth Fable 2 developer diary.
• Bully has been patched, but it's not clear whether it actually fixes the issues some people had with the game.
• Bungie is auctioning off a signed Halo 3 Mountain Dew machine that's been sitting in their office. And it was never used, zing.