After a weekend of the blogosphere bouncing around a November 6 launch date as fact based on a remark in Sports Illustrated for Kids of all places, theres a little bit more legitmate info to be had.
CNN Money‘s game guru Chris Morris report the Wii could be here earlier than that. In fact much earlier. The Wii has been in production since June 21st apparently, meaning a launch date could be feasible as early as September! It remains to be seen if Nintendo will hold back the date to launch at a time when there is a better supply, but after shortages rocked the Xbox 360 and the DS in the past few months, It would be nice to know you could walk in a store and get one on launch day without having to trample someone’s grandma.
As the Nintendo fanboy in all of us is no doubt thinking: there is a working complete console fresh out of the factory right now. Obviously games aren’t done, and launch titles like Red Steel, Metroid Prime 3, or Twilight Princess won’t have to go gold until literally a few weeks before systems hit stores. But, new hardware is new hardware, and I’d be happy to have it just to play GameCube titles on it right now. Right. Now.

Kotaku send word that Nintendo of America will be presenting US President George W Bush a Nintendo DS Lite and a copy of Brain Age for his 60th Birthday this saturday.
I’ll now open the floor on the comments section for jokes about why Nintendo thinks Brain Training is a good idea for Dubya.
Link: Nintendo Gifts DS Lite to President Bush

CKY as a band have been plagued with bad reviews throughout their career, but that never stopped the fans from supporting them.
However, CKY has never been plagued by Zombies, so who knows where the breaking point is.
Unkown comics is preparing a CKY comic for August with a $3.99 cover price. While the band is now the more well known side of CKY, I wonder if stars of the CKY videos (Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Brandom Dicamillo, etc) will make appearances in the book.
Listen to CKY

If you’ve seen the original Transformers movie, you know this song. Why not bring it back for the 2007 film?
Sign the Stan Bush “The Touch” in Transformers 2007 Petition

Just the other day I was relating to friends that I thought MP:H failed in the single player department. Phil Bond seemed to think the multiplayer made it worthwhile. So much for that.
4cr reports a hack allowing “Infinite Energy, Infinite Missiles, Infinite Sub-Weapon, and Hold B To Levitate” has been specifically designed for Nintendo WiFi.
Heres the first big obstacle for Nintendo’s fledgling online service. When cheaters started to populate Halo 2, Bungie and Xbox Live unleashed the “Banhammer” program that autodetected hacked files and removed players from matchmaking or Xbox Live altogeher. Does Nintendo have the ability to implement something similar?

Somebody call Robert Stack.

While Lost is on summer hiatus, fans have no way of getting answers to the mysteries that populate the island and its inhabitants’ pasts. So why not mull over all the unanswered questions?

Lost Mysteries compiles 161 strange events, questionable actions, and bizarre appearances. I thought I’d been pretty attentive to minor background things, but to see that the same car has appeared over and over in flashbacks with car accidents, I see we have a long way to go with settling this. Theres mysteries we don’t even know to solve!

Here’s a quick run down on the Liam Lynch directed concert film of comedian Sarah Silverman.

Sarah enthusiatically sets up a premise.

Then she dead-pans a punchline about AIDS or racism.  You feel uncomfortable.
But she smiles and its OK to laugh!

Then theres some musical numbers of questionable quality interspersed throughout.

A solid, if slightly boring formula, as her infamous “Joe Franklin raped me” bit in The Aristocrats probably already prepared you for her “awwshucks” presentation of extremely filthy material, so the shock value is lost.
Jesus Is Magic is currently available on DVD, so that means you can probably download it or borrow it from a friend.

Game Trailers has posted a video in their Top 10 series detailing Top 10 Video Game Weapons, and its hard to argue with the results.
Although, I’m disappointed how many FPS games there are on the list. Doom’s chainsaw defines the game, and Half Life 2’s Gravity Gun innovates beyond anything else on the list, but did we really need anything from Turok on there? Still, covering Metroid’s Ice beam and Mario Kart’s red shell makes the list a pretty well balanced one, if not for the oddball #10.