To celebrate the two Guitar Hero performances that will be going on at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival, Activision has decorated the island's Jimi Hendrix statue to look like he's using a Guitar Hero controller. Stay classy, you guys!

Industry and multi-console news

• Call of Duty 5 is going back to World War II, focusing on the Pacific Theater. "The direction for the team was to make the best game they could, and as they were doing this they created a grittiness that quite frankly made some people very uncomfortable...This is a scarier Call of Duty than we've ever seen."
• The new UK sales chart sees Lego Indiana Jones debuting at number one.
• Flying Lab Software producer Joe Ludwig examines why there aren't more console MMOs.
• Will Wright believes games are "at the cusp of a Cambrian explosion of possibilities." (If you need to decode his nerdspeak, try here.) "We are a couple years away from being respected as a form of expression, but it's not a battle we need to fight. We'll win anyway."
• Next Generation presents a history of copy protection.
• LucasArts denies the latest rumor that they're halting internal development.
• Google Reader has an easter egg that appears when you put in the Konami code.
• The Video Game Voters Network has reached 150,000 members.
• The lawsuit against the NFL regarding the use of John Facenda's voice in a Madden 06 promo is now headed to trial.
• Dr. Jerald Block says that World of Warcraft addicts have more shame about their habit than porn addicts. "As a society we understand that porn is something people do, and you can see a psychiatrist and get treated for it. But gaming is hard to describe to anyone else. So these people can't explain their situation to friends."
• Jack Thompson is going to be honored at the America's Freedom Festival in Provo, Utah. Seriously, what good has Utah ever done for anyone.
• The Burnout Paradise Cagney update is due July 10.
• According to some guy on a message board, who Insert Credit seems to think knows what's going on, Street Fighter IV arcade cabinets will be hitting the streets in Japan July 18.
• A Newport News, Virginia pastor is considering holding a good old fashioned music and video game burning.

PC and mobile news

New content: Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice demo

• Massively compares the Eve Online and Age of Conan approaches to PvP.
• DeathKnight has screenshots of what is supposedly a World of Warcraft achievement system to be introduced in Lich King.
• 2K Games has announced Civilization IV: Colonization for release this fall. Despite the name, it's not an expansion and won't require the original Civ 4.
• Super Monkey Ball for the iPhone made an appearance at Apple's WWDC keynote, with video.
• Waxy.org is in the process of digitizing and uploading The Machine that Changed the World, a 1992 documentary on computers. "It's a whirlwind tour of computing before the Web, with brilliant archival footage and interviews with key players — several of whom passed away since the filming." The first two parts are up now.

Nintendo news

New WiiWare titles: My Pokemon Ranch
New Virtual Console titles: Dig Dug, Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa

• The managing director at Nintendo of Europe seems to think only geeks are concerned about running out of storage space on the Wii.
• Capcom USA says they don't have any interest in bringing Resident Evil 0 to the US. "Nothing is ever final, but we’ve been asked twice if we’ve wanted to bring it Westward and twice we’ve declined."

Sony news

New media: Initial D: Extreme Stage trailer

• Almost 13,000 Cell processors are at the heart of IBM's new supercomputer that has broken the record as the fastest computer in the world.
• Atlus has announced Yggrda Union for the PSP, to be released September 16.
• Destructoid looks, semi-seriously, at Metal Gear Solid as a Biblical allegory.
• Seems like the best way to get a copy of MGS4 early is to be in Kuwait, where one store is already selling it from a stack of 500 copies.
• Amazon has already brought Haze down to $39.99. Yikes.

Microsoft news

New content: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo

• This week's Live Arcade titles will be Commando 3 and Frogger 2. A sequel to Frogger, for Christ's sake.
• Salad Hats has scans of GamePro's Halo Wars article.
• There were rumors over the weekend that Microsoft was going to debut a Blu-ray enabled 360 today, but they obviously weren't true. Microsoft has once again reiterated that nothing like that is planned for the immediate future.
• Pre-ordering Too Human gets you five sets of bonus armor. Thrilling.
• Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath is coming to the 360 on June 23.
• Robbie Bach is confident the 360 will be profitable this year.
• Microsoft will be having an event tomorrow in Japan to show off their line-up of 360 JRPGs.
• Amazon's deal of the day is a sale on 360 hard drives: the 20GB for $64.99 or the 120GB for $134.99.