Developers are worrying about the financial viability of next-gen ports, gamers are wondering where the @&!# Street Fighter II is, and the ESRB fines them for not reporting that swear. While we're a-whoopin' and a-whoppin' Bill Gates in XBLA UNO (give us a second Bill, we're posting), check out the highlights for today:
Joystiquery
Joystiq Poll: Blu-ray, yay or nay?
"Just press the green button", I said
News
Bill Gates dropping the day-to-day MSFT grind
27% of top 300 Xbox games are back-compatible
Midway announces Unreal Anthology
New Call of Duty 3 details highlight immersive environments
ESRB: Lie to us, pay up to $1 million in fines
Microsoft toys with our Street Fighter II hopes
Xbox 360 dev: PS3 ports to be "reasonably difficult"
Best Buy to open Shanghai store
TIME.com bestows gadget honorific on DS Lite
Amazon supports retro gaming
Culture
The all-time 11 most groundbreaking controllers
Wiimote versus Revmote: more junk in the trunk
20 gameplay innovations we take for granted
LucasArts: inflating budgets and delays are "inexcusable"
Gaming plague sweeps South Korea, at least 1 million infected
Griefing and self-governance in online games
Used Splinter Cell: Double Agent available on GameStop?
