1up took time out this weekend to ponder what's up with Chun Li's thumb. I wouldn't mind knowing myself.

Industry and multi-console news

New media: TNA Impact gameplay videos, Hellboy: The Science of Evil trailer, Alone in the Dark trailer

• Activision has confirmed they are closing down Underground Development. The studio was formerly known as Z-Axis and responsible for Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX and the Aggressive Inline series.
• For the first time, all three console makers showed up on BusinessWeek's list of the 50 Most Innovative Companies. Microsoft came in at #5, versus Nintendo's #7 and Sony's #9.
• Variety has an interview with Dan Houser about GTA4, and GTA DJ Lazlow Jones recently talked about the game on Opie & Anthony.
• TNA iMPACT! has been delayed until September.
• Top Cow Entertainment has hinted at a sequel to The Darkness. “We can’t say ‘darkness’ and ‘videogame sequel’ in the same sentence, so ‘darkness.’ Wink. ‘Sequel.’” I hope it stars Crazy Abdul.
• Racketboy has a PDF of the first issue of EGM.
• Write the Game looks at what you need to get hired as a game writer, taking as an example a recent job posting at Blizzard.
• A man named Don Hodges has made a patch for the arcade version of Pac-Man to fix a bug on the 256th board in which the screen garbles (likely because no one was supposed to play long enough to get that far).
• Sarcastic Gamer talks to the "top bloggers" for their picks for the top 10 games for under $10. There are several Live Arcade and PSN games and then suddenly... Bloody Roar.
• Michael Abbott at the Brainy Gamer is working on creating a syllabus for a one-semester seminar course devoted to the history of RPGs, and he's looking for suggestions on what games should be included.

PC and mobile news

• Waxy.org has come into possession of a backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. The drive contains design documents, e-mail archives, sales figures, and most importantly, an archive of the source code and game files for every released and unreleased game Infocom made. The article I've linked to in particular focuses on Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, an unreleased sequel to their Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.
• Music puzzle game Lumines is now available on Steam.
• Next Generation has an interview with Games for Windows' Kevin Unangst, who says PC gaming's biggest roadblock is convincing people it's not dead.
• The Witcher: Enhanced Edition has been delayed.
• A New Zealand man could be facing trouble from the law after he modded his copy of GTA to include official New Zealand police insignias. Apparently the cops are looking in to this as "unauthorised use of a police uniform."
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun revisits an older interview on the making of Trackmania, conducted in the lead up to Trackmania Sunrise.
• Paradox Interactive has announced Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim for release in the first quarter of 2009.
• This is rather niche, but may be of interest to anyone who likes computer history, old technology and particularly the demoscene: The Internet Archive has video of a presentation by Jim Leonard on the preservation of demos. "To stay ahead of the curve, demos have always used hardware to the fullest extent available, sometimes in unorthodox and unauthorized ways. But when that hardware becomes yesterday's news, it is those very tricks that cause such demos to become lost to history." He and the Hornet group have been working on a series of DVDs that reproduce demos the best they can.

Nintendo news

• On May 31 and June 1, you can get a Darkrai Pokemon at Toys R Us.
• The Okami Wii box art contains an IGN watermark from where some knuckleknob used game art taken from IGN's site rather than from Capcom's own assets (which you would think they'd have access to). It kind of looks like Amaterasu is trying to eat it.

Sony news

• The official Playstation blog has an Eye of Judgment theme deck preview.

Microsoft news

New media: Operation Darkness screenshots

• Epic says they don't plan on offering a Gears of War 2 demo prior to the game's launch.
• An Xbox 360 power supply is being blamed for a house fire in Arkansas. Fire officials say that the power supply was likely crammed in a tight space, leaving it unable to adequately dissipate heat.
• The Consumerist has another story of trouble with Microsoft and 360 repairs, this time a woman who can't get her system back because Microsoft thinks she stole it.
• Xbox Live is going to be down Monday morning for about eight hours.