I can tell you these are screenshots from Linger In Shadows for the PS3. Beyond that is where things get shaky. It's being produced by demosceners and will be released to the public, but may just be a graphical showcase and not a game in the traditional sense. And it's got basset hounds and cats for some reason.

Industry and multi-console news

• Chinese actress Josie Ho has joined the cast of the new Street Fighter movie in an unspecified role.
• Gamasutra has an interview with Valve's Kim Swift And Erik Wolpaw about Portal.
• The UK's National Union of Teachers argue that an increasing number of children are behaving badly at school because they're being spoiled at home. Oh, and they play violent video games too.
• Although two new studies find no link between violent video games and violent behavior.
• GameCareerGuide has advice for game designers on developing your fun instinct.
• The new issue of Game Informer has new details on Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. Not only is Neversoft mo-capping the band, but they're also recreating in-game the high school in which they played their first show. In addition, some other songs appearing in the game have been revealed, including Joan Jett's Hate Myself for Loving You and Cheap Trick's Dream Police.
• Popular Mechanics has an article on the realism, or lackthereof, of FPS guns. "A shotgun firing buckshot, for example, has significantly more penetration in RSV2 than it should. Why? 'People associate shotguns with powerful, close-range weapons,' Theiren says. So a shotgun blast will punch through walls and armor just fine, even though buckshot is known for its lack of penetration in the real world."
• Next Generation pulls out the charts to examine the DLC download figures for Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
• Music 4 Games has an interview with Nobuo Uematsu about the third Black Mages album.
• Capcom says they believe in Monster Hunter and are planning to push the brand in the US "in a big way." They say that "with some serious outreach and marketing muscle that we can make this series almost as big here in North America as it is in Japan."
• GamesRadar lists the Top 7 Stereotypical Gamers We Hate.
• GamePolitics has part six of their excerpts from the Bar trial of Jack Thompson.
• The cover of the next issue of EGM mentions a preview of 50 Cent II. Oh.. boy.
• An erotic game shop in Akihabara has a help wanted sign in the window with the only message a downtrodden geek needs to hear: "No sexual experience necessary."

PC and mobile news

New content: World of Warcraft 2.4 patch, Maximum Football 2.0 v2.2 patch, Savage 2 content update

• Vista SP1 is available now.
• NCSoft has licensed Unreal Engine 3 for two new MMOs they're working on.
• Infinity Ward says "logistics are being worked out" on how to bring DLC to Call of Duty 4. Um.. You upload the file and people download it?
• Amazon's deal of the day is Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa for Richard Garriott's Ten Bux.

Nintendo news

New media: Sonic Chronicles screenshots

• WiiWare has debuted in Japan to a mixed response. Joystiq has a round-up of coverage and impressions from around the Internet.
• As part of the coverage of the service's debut, we've learned that Square Enix will charge you for the other races in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King. There will also be separately priced downloadable costumes.
• But WiiWare can't be all bad: There's a game coming for it about a food critic on a plane fighting vampires.
• Majesco has plans to bring old Humongous point-and-click character games to the Wii, like Freddi Fish in Kelp Seed Mystery, Pajama Sam in Don't Fear the Dark and Spy Fox in Dry Cereal.
• Harmonix has answered some questions about the upcoming Rock Band Wii release.

Sony news

• Sony has announced the North American soundtrack for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.
• The official Playstation blog has a video walkthrough of the features of PS3 firmware 2.20.
• Meanwhile Sony's European blog has preview of an expansion for Warhawk called Operation: Broken Mirror.
• The Eye of Judgment expansion pack has been delayed in the US.
• Kotaku has a collection of Persona 3 FES webisodes that Atlus has been releasing to promote the release of FES.
• 30 randomly selected gamers who bought the MGS4 bundle in Japan from Konami's online store got a set of MGS-themed MDR-DS7000 headphones. I question how headphones can deliver 7.1 sound, but whatever.

Microsoft news

New content: Rock Band tracks, Raiden Fighters Aces demo (Japan only)

• Remember that the Halo 3 Heroic Map Pack is now free.
• Sierra is bringing the card game Lost Cities to Live Arcade.
• Anyone caught cheating on Live will have their Gamerscore reduced to zero (with no way to re-earn past achievements) and will be publicly branded a cheater.
• The Blue Dragon soundtrack is available now if you can find a store that carries this sort of thing.
• One Kotaku reader sent in a picture of an endcap at Target piled high with copies of Crackdown, priced at $15 a piece. No store should have that many copies of a single game that isn't even new.