I came across two separate posts on two different news sites today that misrepresented and misquoted the story they were reporting on. I can't help but feel something's a bit backwards here when I'm having to fact-check these people after they've posted their news.

Maybe I should give up this racket and become an editor. At least then I could smoke a lot and yell at people like J Jonah Jameson.

Industry and multi-console news

New media: Midnight Club Los Angeles trailer

• A computer has beaten an 8-dan professional Go player in a 9-stone handicap game. This is a major achievement, despite the handicap, as Go has been an extremely difficult game to get computers to play well at all.
• Eidos says they've got ideas for user-generated content, but "we're not quite ready to talk about them just yet."
• John Carmack, who's getting quoted a lot all the sudden, says id no longer makes decisions around PCs. "The ground truth is just that the sales numbers on the PC are not what they used to be and are not what they are on the consoles."
• Next week's Rock Band tracks make up a six-song Roadrunner pack.
• Seven new tracks have been confirmed for Guitar Hero World Tour. In addition, there's a rumor about three Tool songs appearing in the game.
• Three teenagers arrested for firebombing cars in Atlanta claim GTA taught them how to make Molotov cocktails. I think just seeing what one looks like gives you a pretty good handle on how they work.
• 300 composer Tyler Bates will be providing the score for Rise of the Argonauts.
• The company making the MotionPlus accessory for the Wii says their relationship with Nintendo is not exclusive. You see, Mario and I have this understanding...
• Brenda Brathwaite is tired of hearing about "women in games." Me too. "I don't think about my gender any more than you probably do yours, unless someone brings it to my attention. In my case, that happens once or twice a month, and it's only when a reporter emails me to ask if I have any contributions to a particular piece."
• Author Warren Ellis says he did some work on Dead Space. Specifically: "I wrote a bunch of the groundwork, backstory and structure."
• Gamasutra presents part one of their feature on the state of game journalism.
• Cab drivers in Spain want GTA pulled from the market in the wake of the Thai taxi driver murder.
• 1up has a feature on Virtual Jihadi, the video game/art piece that caused some controversy earlier this year.
• The DS and PSP versions of N+ have been pushed back to August 26. However, they'll now both be only $20.
• A sequel to Divine Divinity called Divinity 2: Ergo Draconis is coming to the PC and 360.
• Wondering who won at the G-Phoria awards? Yeah, me neither.

PC and mobile news

• Far Cry 2's system requirements have been announced.
• Dynasty Warriors 6 is coming to the PC.

Nintendo news

New PAL Virtual Console titles: Pitstop II, Ecco: The Tides of Time, Splatterhouse 2, Samurai Shodown 2
New media: Dead Rising screenshots, Captain Rainbow trailer with English subtitles

• Nintendo will be showing off Mario Super Sluggers at the 2008 Cal Ripken World Series August 8 through 16.
• BioWare has described a possible DS Mass Effect title as "an awesome way to keep interest alive and keep it going in addition to to the next one [Mass Effect 2]."
• Capcom provides details on Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop's Wii controls.
• To confront claims that the Wii doesn't have much interesting on the horizon, GamePro presents 21 Upcoming Wii Games To Drool Over. "#21: Wii Music." Awesome start!
• Meanwhile, That Video Game Blog lists several MIA Wii games.
• EA has announced Celebrity Sports Showdown for the Wii. Soon you too will be able to pit Fergie against Nelly Furtado in badminton.
• PC World has a look inside the guts of the Famicom as well as the Disk System add-on.

Sony news

New PSP title: Talkman Travel
New content: Snakeball team mode, NASCAR 09 Montreal track and skin packs, Guitar Hero III tracks, Rock Band tracks

• Sony believes that LittleBigPlanet will be a system seller.
• Sony is expanding the Home beta to Europe. They will be contacting "consumers who have been most active on PlayStation Network and PlayStation Store" to take part.
• The official Playstation blog has details on Pain trophies.
• Psyonix has announced Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars for PSN.
• Play-Asia has added a listing in their store for a Greatest Hits version of Okami.

Microsoft news

• Street Fighter II HD has been patched.
• The collector's edition of Fable II contains an in-game medieval Master Chief.
• Realtime Worlds says the possibility is still there for a sequel to Crackdown.
• John Carmack explains just how and where Rage will look worse on the 360 than on the PS3.
• Braid creator Jonathan Blow says "unnecessary" requirements for Live Arcade games hurt game quality. "I put in a tremendous amount of work meeting all these requirements, when I could have put that work into the actual game, and made it even a little more polished, little bit better." He also admits positives about working with Microsoft, however, including how they bent some rules for him: "For example, the way in which you can launch Braid and be directly in the game -- that is technically illegal if you go by the book, but they saw what I was trying to do and went with it."
• Denis Dyack says Too Human can last 50 to 80 hours if you want to get to level 50. But your first playthrough will be "around 15 hours."
• Rare has released the first Viva Pinata Vision Card.
• The Gears of War 2 Amazon-exclusive Lancer is now available for pre-order.