Goddamn, you really can't get any more off-model than that.

Destructoid has a great feature on bizarre tracks on video game arranged albums, with streaming audio so you can hear them for yourselves. The damage ranges from the amusingly goofy Blanka Has Come To Town (with lyrics set to Blanka's stage music), to the unbelievably bad idea of a rap about Super Mario Land ("Folks out there might think that I'm crazy / But I got to rescue Daisy").

As Dale North notes, the entire Street Fighter II Vocal Album is great in a silly way, and you can get the whole thing here. Get it and you too can punch your way on through the world.

Industry and multi-console news

New media: World in Conflict: Soviet Assault trailer

• Rock Band has exceeded 3 million bundles shipped, and ten million songs downloaded.
• Rocketmen: It Came From Uranus is due out on Live Arcade May 14 and PSN a day later.
• GameSetWatch has an interview with one of the guys behind the recently completed Card Fighters Clash 2 translation project.
• 8-bit Rocket examines the possibility that Atari may have made a version of Missile Command for the military.
• Best Buy is offering two free Rock Band tracks from Disturbed when you pre-order it online through them. Imagine if they were for a band that didn't suck!
• New York Magazine talks to Dan Houser about how Rockstar made their version of New York City. "We ended up with 660 speaking parts. 80,000 lines of dialogue, it's ridiculous."
• A disgruntled young man has set up a YouTube channel solely to showcase videos of GTA4 freezing on the 360 and PS3. "this is page is here simply to chronicle the freezing epidemic and let naysayers see that this epidemic is very real and very universal. people have lost not only 70 dollars on a game but their entire systems" OH NO
• I'd avoided this because it's a rather blatant attempt at advertising Postal, but just so you can keep tabs on the crazy little German man: Uwe Boll claims he's going to box Michael Bay. Bay says he never agreed to anything.
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun has an interview with EA's Rod Humble about the Sims. He seems to enjoy Sim-deaths as much as players do. "We have a lot of fun with it, so every expansion pack we come to the point where we’re adding in some new death states. ... It shouldn’t be funny. But oh my goodness, it is."
• Someone at the GameTrailers forum is a little concerned that he has turned into a zombie in Rockstar-branded yellow underwear in GTA4 multiplayer.
• The Guardian has an interview with Will Wright.
• The Australian Defence Force is using Flash games on their website as a recruiting tool. I, for one, am greatly disturbed to learn that Australia has an Air Force.
• It's possible that Boom Blox could go to other consoles.
• Craig Ferguson also did a bit on GTA4. Additionally, it provides video evidence that Tim Meadows is still alive.

PC and mobile news

• Valve has cut prices on a number of their games.
• 1up has a history of PC game packaging which sounds like a duller idea than it actually is.
• GameSetWatch has a guide to leveling quickly in World of Warcraft.
• Microsoft's Popfly team has launched the Popfly Game Creator.

Nintendo news

New media: Star Wars: Force Unleashed footage -- G4 coverage showing off Duel Mode
New PAL Virtual Console titles: Final Soldier, Columns III, Gradius II -- part of a second Hanabi Festival that will later include games like Puyo Puyo 2 and Cho Aniki

• Valve would like to develop kids games for the Wii, but there's nothing currently in the works.
• A homebrew group has ported a demo of Snatcher to the DS, just for the hell of it, I guess.
• Capcom has a website where you can create your own Ace Attorney stories, putting text to images that then play out in a little video.
• Westin Hotels have added Wiis with Wii Fit to their exercise rooms.
• MTV Multiplayer talks to Peekabo Pole Dancing about why they want to make a poledancing game on the Wii.
• Ubisoft is considering a Wii version of Prince of Persia, but it wouldn't be a straight port.

Sony news

• The official Playstation blog has details on the next Eye of Judgment update as well as information on Free Card Friday.