Lookin' old, Jack. Thompson will be on Glenn Beck tonight at 7 PM EST, and the show will be repeated at 9. I wonder what he'll be talking about.

GTA news can't stop, won't stop:

• Kotaku has a feature on the appeal of GTA4 to those really living in New York City's ghettos. "Dragon says customers have shared plans to form gangs online, and pressed him for details about the specific types of crimes they'll be able to commit in the game. It's not that these people want to be criminals, though — 'It's a ghetto thing,' Dragon says. 'They just want to take their anger out... people are upset right now.'"
• Slate has a piece on "the surprising narrative richness of Grand Theft Auto IV."
• In a Gamasutra opinion piece, Simon Parkin argues against claims that GTA4 stereotypes illegal immigrants. "Indeed, my experience of the game has been to find that Niko’s level-headedness, character and sense of justice (a skewed but consistent moral standard that reminds me of that of Anton Chigurh in the Coen Borthers’ latest, No Country For Old Men) has influenced the way I’ve been playing the game."
• Man, even Obama is talking about GTA4.
• Oh, and the Daily Show did a bit on the game too.
• IGN has a map of Liberty City powered by Google Maps, with everything marked from restaurants to vehicles to points of interest.
• The characters of Little Jacob and Real Badman are wearing real clothes created by Rockers NYC.

Industry and multi-console news

New media: Splatterhouse first screenshots, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith trailer

• Gamer TV is ending production after five years.
• Gamasutra has a Q&A on the state of Fallout 3.
• Infogrames has paid $11 million to acquire the rest of Atari.
• The newest Japanese sales charts have Mario Kart Wii holding on to the top spot again.
• 1up has a more detailed summary of the Joypad Prince of Persia article.
• A few new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith tracks have been revealed, along with the news that Boston's Orpheum Theatre will be recreated for the game.
• Play has an interview with Doug Lombardi about Left 4 Dead.
• The BBFC insists they will be able to cope with the volume of work involved in rating video games.
• A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for acting as the operator, equipment supplier and scripter for a number of warez sites.
• But don't get caught, and you can go places. Tony Krvaric, now head of San Diego’s GOP committee, was the co-founder of the Fairlight warez group that formed in 1987.
• ComputerWorld suggests a possible solution for gaming seasickness.
• Sega apparently has a Rambo light gun shooter currently being tested in Japan.
• Penny Arcade Adventures has gone gold and is due out later this quarter.
• The CEO of Activision believes that the slowing US economy could cause a console price drop.
• Matt Damon apparently wanted the Bourne Conspiracy game to be a Myst-type title, "to play with his amnesia or his memory." The developer weren't interested, and so he didn't get involved with the making of the game.

PC and mobile news

New content: Two Worlds add-on

• Remeber Diablo3.com's countdown to a big announcement? It turns out to be one of those things that either hints at something big or may not mean anything at all: Blizzard has acquired the Diablo3.com domain. The fansite has been moved to DiabloFans.com.
• Gamasutra has an interview with CD Projekt's VP of PR & Marketing about the Witcher.
• Edge magazine checks in with the people behind Tabula Rasa, now that the initial buzz is over.
• You can get a free copy of Frontlines: Fuel of War when buying a qualifying GeForce card from PNY, Newegg or TigerDirect.
• A while back there was a story about using Microsoft Excel as a 3D engine. Insert Credit points out that this has actually been known for years, and links to several games running entirely on Excel.

Nintendo news

New media: Deca Sports screens and trailer

• You can see brief glimpses of Sonic Chronicles footage in these two videos about Bioware and their work on the game. Everyone's talking in French, though.
• The Game Factory has announced Rubik's World for the DS and Wii.
• Tecmo has officially announced Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff for the DS.
• Konami is making a Lost in Blue Wii game, but it hasn't been announced for North America yet.
• You can pick up a free Wii Fit promo DVD and booklet at certain retailers.
• GameFunk uses GameRankings stats to show that there's a higher percentage of crap on the Wii than on the PS3 or 360.
• Conflicting reports continue over whether brain training helps you or not.
• The director of the original PS2 version of Okami has expressed his disappointment that the end-game staff roll was cut from the Wii version of Okami. Capcom claims that the reason was that the credits contain the Clover logo, which they couldn't use, but the roll was in FMV and they didn't have the source file to cut the logo out. This project has really just been aces all around.
• Shigeru Miyamoto was voted to the top of Time's "Your Time 100" list of the most influential people of the year. Influencing nerds to spamvote a meaningless Internet poll, maybe. Miyamoto is followed by Korean pop singer Rain at #2 and Stephen Colbert at #3.
• Nintendo is looking at solutions for the Wii's limited memory problem. Satoru Iwata says: "Statistically speaking, it is true that there are a small number of customers who feel that the flash memory is too small, while many others find that they have plenty of memory. However, because this small number of people are none other than the most avid players, we know we have to review the best possible solution to eliminate their inconvenience."
• Amazon's deal of the day is Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for $11.99.

Sony news

New game: Echochrome
New content: Rock Band tracks, American Idol Encore tracks
New demo: Dark Sector

• A new survey finds that the number of consumers using the PS3 to watch Blu-ray movies is increasing.
• PS3 Fanboy has the US Singstar launch song line-up.
• Daniel Primed tells you why you should buy the original Metal Gear Solid instead of the Gamecube remake.
• Burnout Paradise players with the Bogart update can have their save game analyzed on criteriongames.com. The site will then generate a map of all incomplete discoverables.

Microsoft news

New content: Kung Fu Panda demo, Ace Combat plane, Chessmaster Live Rayman Raving Rabbids -- synergistic!

• Famitsu Xbox 360 revealed more details on Infinite Undiscovery.