Today in Joystiq: August 2, 2006

Street Fighter blasts hadoukens its way Live, Wii rumors get catalogued, and CGW pulls an E3 by falling and rising again as ... um ... GFWM. While we practice our gamer lexicon, check out the highlights for today:

Joystiquery
Readers pick best webcomic (July 23 - 29, 2006)

News
Street Fighter II shoryukens XBLA Wednesdays
Midway, Ubisoft jump on Wii bandwagon
DS becomes Japan's fastest selling game machine, ever
Jury recommends death sentences in 'Xbox slayings' trial
Second Life to introduce 'Expressive Puppeteering'
MTV VMAs to recognize best game soundtrack & score
Goodbye Computer Gaming World, hello Games for Windows magazine
Five days of free Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45
Get your Tra5hTa1k in live, human form
Ubisoft PR guy on why Beyond Good & Evil tanked
Gothic 3 in-depth preview
Atari CEO: No PS3 games before 2007
Current XBLA to be updated for use with camera

Rumors & Speculation
Nearly every Wii rumor demystified

Culture
Wii: A look at motion-controls from the past
Three thoughts on the "new" Min-E3
Gamer lexicon that bugs
China online gaming trends