Today in Joystiq: October 19, 2005

Old Grandma Hardcore gets her day to shine in Business Week, while those Xbox 360s popping up at Wal-Mart locations nationwide are sure to bring a twinkle to some gamers' eyes.  Arnold defends his state's violent games law, and the Nintendo Entertainment System celebrated its birthday…yesterday (oops!). Here are the highlights for the day:

• Xbox 360s playable at Wal-Mart today? Confirmed.

• Wal-Mart gets Joystiqed on news of playable Xbox 360s

• Wal-Mart Xbox 360 display pics!

• Rumble Pak for DS revealed; Metroid Prime: Hunters support touted

• Wario Ware's Ashley grants kids to hell?

• Who makes games? Straight, white males, that's who.

• "We've finally found the WMDs!"

• Dear NES, sorry we missed your birthday…

• Xbox 360 shortage faked to spur demand?

• Attack of the Gaming Grannies

• CMU students create 4 new games per week

• Xbox 360 Media Center Extender Demo

• Arizona student does Master's thesis on game development

• Schwarzenegger and Yee defend CA violent games law

• mtvU offers $50,000 for a game about the crisis in Sudan

• Electroplankton coming to US Jan 9, 2006