Having the somewhat disturbing realization that Pokemon is old enough that its earliest fans aren't kids anymore, the Pokemon Company has created a brand for adults. They're kicking it off with a set of four t-shirts featuring stylized representations of Hypno, Cubone, Articuno and Mewtwo.

Industry and multi-console news

New media: Dead Space "strategic dismemberment" feature, Red Faction: Guerilla gameplay footage, Alone in the Dark trailer

• EA is planning a line of sports peripherals to debut in the next 12 months -- or as early as E3.
• The UK's Trading Standards Institute says that 90% of retailers will sell age-restricted games to minors online.
• Ubisoft has opened its first production studio in South America, meaning that the company now has studios on five continents.
• EA says there are five Battlefield titles in development, "which is more than you'd expect." Yeah, no shit.
• Crispy Gamer looks at the history and evolution of games journalism.
• Harmonix' invites to their Rock Band Bash at E3 look somewhat similar to one of the concept covers for Rock Band 2. This could mean the sequel will be at the show, or it could just be a company reusing assets.
• The Abstract Factory argues that video game apologists are looking for art in the wrong places. "Likening video games to cinema is a fundamental error. Video games may borrow the aesthetic language of cinema, in the same way that architecture can borrow painterly or sculptural gestures, but the nature of a game is that it is an abstract state space through which the player moves. Indeed, video games, like computer code in general, can be viewed as simply the abstract version of architecture."
• A new survey finds that gamers spend roughly $30,000 between the ages of 18 and 48 on games and hardware.
• Konami believes that all music game instruments should be compatible with one another.
• As expected after that Retro Game Master thing, Game Center CX DVDs are getting subtitled in English, with the company behind them currently looking for a US distributor.
• A new video game bill is working its way through the New York legislature that would legally require console makers to add parental controls and mandate that ESRB ratings be displayed on game packaging. Boy, just imagine if they.. did that.. already?
• The producer for Call of Duty: World at War has tried to explain why it isn't called Call of Duty 5, but it doesn't make much sense.
• Joystiq has a look back on the Alone in the Dark series.
• Atlus will be hosting a Shin Megami Tensei panel at the Anime Expo in LA.
• And for those of you on the other side of the country, old school Final Fantasy character designer Yoshitaka Amano will be a guest of honor at the New York Anime Festival.
• N'Gai Croal and Stephen Totilo have posted the final segment of their GTA4 debate.
• MTV contrasts and compares the Rock Band, Rock Revolution and Guitar Hero drumsets.

PC and mobile news

• The people who made Limbo of the Lost have finally gotten around to responding to accusations of plagiarism. They claim it all came from outsourced talent and they had no idea it was stolen.
• Linux Game Publishing is introducing copy protection.
• DICE says Battlefield Heroes is targeted at "frustrated restricteds" -- "people who really want to play full games, and aspire to be gamers, but they're restricted in some way, and this makes them frustrated. Maybe they're restricted by money, time or skill?"
• Blizzard says that World of Warcraft was originally going to be free and ad-supported.
• Spre is getting an $80 "Galactic Edition" that includes a making-of DVD, art book and more.
• The Sporepedia database has surpassed one million creatures.

Nintendo news

New media: Final Fantasy IV DS screenshots

• Sim City Creator on the Wii allows for curved roads, what a concept.
• EA has announced Brain Quest for the DS. It sounds like another Brain Training rip-off, but it's actually based on a series of children's learning books that have been around for 15 years.
• Nintendo is being sued by Morgan Creek Productions, who alleges that they used music from the 1993 film True Romance in a Gamecube ad without permission.
• Super-NES.com has an interview with Secret of Evermore lead programmer Brian Fehdrau, looking back on the development of the game.
• 2006 PC adventure game Safecracker is coming to the Wii.
• EA is considering shipping Skate It with a skateboard form that fits onto the balance board.
• Amazon has Battle of the Bands for $19.85.

Sony news

• Sony says they need to "revitalize the developer community to get behind the PSP."
• Sony has supposedly lost $3 billion over the last two years by pricing the PS3 under its production cost.
• There are some images floating around the Internet that are claimed to be leaked shots of the PS3 trophy system, but there's no way to confirm it.
• There's a rumor that God of War III will be seen at E3.
• Amazon has Gangs of London for $11.91.

Microsoft news

New content: Don King Presents Prizefighter demo, Rock Band tracks
New media: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise screenshots, Tales of Vesperia gameplay footage -- this is actually just taken from the Japanese demo, which you can play yourself if you have a Japanese alternate Live account

• The number of people killed in Halo 3 matches has now surpassed the current population of Earth.
• In a new Fable II developer diary, Peter Molyneux is seen drawing a box around what looks like the word October. Maybe that's a hint at a release date, or maybe it's nothing.
• Amazon has Universe at War: Earth Assault for $21.84 and Sega Rally Revo for $15.88.