Insert Credit points out SuperPCEngineGrafx.com's collection of PC Engine system card warning screens -- screens that would appear if you attempted to play a CD game without the proper system card. It's somewhat remarkable to see the number of times developers went through the trouble of creating original art, sometimes even animated, for what amounts to a simple error message.

Industry and multi-console news

• Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski has been confirmed as director of the BioShock movie. "We're prepared to make it an R-rated movie. I don’t intuitively see it as PG-13. The content and the graphic nature of the story itself is smarter than that. It's not for young kids."
• Activision has announced Call of Duty 5 for fiscal 2009. They add that this game will take place in "a new military theater."
• Activision claims they are two weeks away from revealing a "significant leap forward in innovation " for the Guitar Hero franchise. Gee, I wonder what it could be.
• Next Generation has the new European sales charts and GTA4 is on top of all of them.
• Not a day after reports that Sony was in danger of losing it, it's been announced that Codemasters has secured the Formula 1 license.
• Atari has been delisted by Nasdaq.
• A game based on the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace is in the works, using Call of Duty 4's engine.
• A Battlefield Bad Company demo is coming June 5.
• Eurogamer cites a "credible industry source" in reporting that Realtime Worlds bought back the rights to their upcoming MMO All Points Bulletin so they could try to sell it to Rockstar as GTA Online. Realtime Worlds was founded by David Jones, who helped create the GTA series.
• Next week's Rock Band tracks come from Blondie, the Clash, and Sonic Youth. The latter track, Kool Thing, was previously seen in Guitar Hero III.
• Gamasutra summarizes Neils Clark's talk on game addiction from the recent Games for Health conference.
• MSNBC's list of the top 5 hardest levels in video games is adorable. I kept clicking through expecting the obligatory Battletoads Turbo Tunnel mention, and instead it ends on Clubhouse Games.
• Game Politics has an interview with Nebraska congressman Lee Terry, who is a co-sponsor of the new bill that would require retailers to check IDs for M and AO rated games.
• FASA founder Jordan Weisman talks about the need for game developers to practice "planned parenthood" with their creations. "They don't adequately prepare for the baby they're about to give birth to. So they make a single thing. They make a movie, they make a game, and they don't know any more about their world and what's in that world than what's in the game. Then in the happy circumstance the game becomes enormously popular, all of a sudden they're going to be making a lot more. And they're caught behind the eight ball, frantically trying to write into a background of what's already there."
• GameFly has opened a new distribution center in Austin, Texas.

PC and mobile news

• After carefully considering the input from everyone in the whole world who told them their SecuROM plan was retarded, BioWare has changed the way authentication will work with Mass Effect. The game will now authenticate once and will only require another connection if the player downloads new game content.
• Burnout Paradise is coming to the PC.
• EA Mythic says that Warhammer Online has been designed for five years of content. "What you don't want is when you launch the game you've got 40 levels - and it takes however long it takes to get to level 40. You then launch an expansion and it now takes two weeks to get to level 40 because now we need everyone to spend six months to get from level 40 to 50."
• Tech Report talks to Ubisoft about the recent issue involving Assassin's Creed and DX10.1 -- namely, that DX10.1 in the game was found to improve performance, but then Ubisoft announced their new patch would take it out.
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun talks to the developers of Stalin vs. Martians. "The dullest people are Russian publishers, who have no sense of humour at all and invest money in serious WWII titles, worn-out IPs and cheap adventure games. It is a very hopeless situation and I think that the Jews are involved somehow."
• The embargo has lifted, so lots of new WoW: Wrath of the Lich King information and previews have been released, along with several videos.

Nintendo news

• The DS will get an exclusive Tony Hawk game in 2008 as part of a "reinvention" of the franchise. Haven't the last two or three games been reboots?
• GameCyte talks to the creators of Homestar Runner about Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People.
• Guitar Hero On Tour will be available bundled with a DS.
• Kombo believes they have their hands on concept art from the new Kid Icarus game. I'm not so sure.
• Reef Entertainment has announced Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Zone Massacre for the Wii.
• GameFly's "coming soon" database mentions two games not yet confirmed for the US: Exit DS and Legend of Kage 2.
• The newest Iwata Asks column reveals some odd information from Shigeru Miyamoto, including his surprising support of the FPS genre. "At first when we were developing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, I even proposed using a first-person perspective. I thought that the FPS system would be the best way of enabling players to take in the vast terrain of the Hyrule Field." Iwata also suggests that perhaps westerners take to FPS games better than the Japanese because "people who were traditionally hunters would have a better understanding of using space, whereas people who were traditionally farmers might not."
• Amazon's deal of the day is Driver: Parallel Lines for $9.99.

Sony news

New media: Killzone 2 trailer

• The Gran Turismo series has shipped over 50 million units worldwide.
• Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves, who apparently just can't stop being honest lately, admits he'd like to see more games on the PSP.
• Valhalla Knights 2 has been announced for a fall release.
• In addition to their still ongoing Star Wars retrospectives, GameTrailers has now released part one of their Metal Gear retrospective.
• A new ESRB entry suggests Suikoden is coming to the Playstation Store.

Microsoft news

New media: Ninja Gaiden II screenshots
New content: Timeshift map pack

• New information on Banjo Kazooie 3 is coming next week.
• Remember that the first footage of Gears of War 2 goes up at 1up tonight at 10:30 PM PST, and it will be on the Live Marketplace a half hour later.
• A plane ticket found on the Rockstar Social Club website has sparked a rumor that GTA4 DLC will involve going to San Andreas.
• Bizarre has no plans for future PGR4 content.
• Amazon has Devil May Cry 4 for $49.99.