Atlus PS2 RPGs Odin Sphere and Disgaea have been added to the Greatest Hits line, meaning both can now be had for $20. I seriously doubt either actually sold a million copies or whatever the qualifying amount used to be, so the Greatest Hits designation is now more of a recommendation than a mark of accomplishment in sales. Not that that's a bad thing -- that's the only way Final Fantasy Tactics got reissued on the PSX.

However, speaking as someone who happens to be slogging through Odin Sphere at this very moment, here's some advice: Skip it.

Industry and multi-console news

New media: Rise of the Argonauts trailer, Call of Duty: World at War co-op trailer, Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI screenshots and trailer

• Godfather II is set to ship in February.
• Edge runs down a list of this year's biggest shooters.
• GameSetWatch looks at the problem of separating players and protagonists. How do you accomplish tragedy in game stories when the player has a vested interest in seeing the protagonist succeed?
• It sounds like Narrows Plaza Bowling in Tacoma is getting a Street Fighter IV cabinet.
• EGM has revealed new Bayonetta details.
• Words on Play is assembling a list of "secret" books on game design. "Books that are not explicitly written about games, but which any game designer who reads them just knows that they are really about games."
• Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe is a big Guitar Hero fan, describing himself as "one of the top 100 Guitar Hero players in the world."

PC and mobile news

New content: Gary Grigsby's War Between The States 1.020 patch
New media: Star Trek Online debut trailer

• The former team members of Flagship Studios have reassembled as Runic Games.
• Bionic Commando Rearmed will be $15 on the PC as opposed to $10 on consoles, but Capcom says it has nothing to do with piracy. "It has to do with different business terms/expectations in that sector and more importantly, generally prevailing pricing of PC digital games versus their console counterparts."
• Vehicle combat is coming to Star Wars Galaxies.
• Indie developer Cliff Harris wants to hear from pirates about why they pirate his games. "I want to improve my business, and ensure I stay afloat, and to do that, it would be mad to sit in the corner and ignore the opinions of that section of the public who pirate my games."
• The Warhammer Online team reportedly developed 250 classes before settling on 20.
• An Age of Conan GM was let go after being caught having cybersex on the job.
• Epic's Mike Capps says lower scores for Gears of War on the PC are "bullshit."

Nintendo news

New media: Rhapsody trailer

• You might have heard about Tenchu 4 coming to the Wii and wondered why anyone is bothering to keep that series going. That's because you haven't yet seen the STEALTH CAT GAMEPLAY.
• Microsoft claims that research shows 60% of Wii Fit owners use it once and then never again.
• Nintendo has offered up an NPD sales chart to show that third party games do sell on the Wii.
• Nintendo has told Shigeru Miyamoto to stop discussing his hobbies with the press because they're often clues to his next project.
• The limited edition Palkia/Dialga DS that Japan got a couple years ago will be arriving in American GameStops soon.
• Famitsu has revealed some Captain Rainbow details.

Sony news

New media: Infamous gameplay footage

• The list of trophies for Rock Band 2 has been released already.
• A modder has managed to add a touchscreen to the PSP.
• God of War 2 is banned in Saudi Arabia, but you can get it anyway through the right channels.
• Sony has launched the official LittleBigPlanet news and information site.

Microsoft news

• Fable II Pub Games will be coming to Live Arcade this week.
• Overhead shooter Shred Nebula is coming to XBLA September 3.
• 30 of Viva Pinata 2's achievements are up for perusal. Some of them make reference to four-player co-op, which may be new information.
• iXboxLive is an app that gives you access to your Xbox Live friends list on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
• A new video has appeared on YouTube showing the game installation process through the 360's new dashboard.