This random sighting of Zombie Le Chuck is part of an awesome Flickr collection from Paul The Wine Guy dubbed IT Everywhere that answers the question, "What happens if some IT comes into our real life?" It reminds us of those virtual/real hybrids for Starcraft and The Sims. (Thanks, Kjell S) Check out the highlights for today:

Joystiquery
The best of WoW Insider: July 15-22, 2008
Joystiq E3 hands-on: Dead Space
Joystiq E3 Hands-on: Novint's Falcon controller
Joystiq E3 sticks-on: Ion premium drum set
Joystiq E3 Q&A: Spore detailed
JoystiQ&A on Xbox Live Community Games
Mahalo Daily talks arcade games with Wiebe, Walter Day, Joystiq

News
Quake Arena trailer shakes up web games
Tilted Mill shows off first Hinterland images
BioShock PS3 receiving trophies, some details given
Capcom patching SSFIITHDR 'open beta' after all
Splash Damage hires four industry vets for multiplatform mystery
Dragon Age: Origins screenshots and gameplay footage
Nintendo: Hardcore gamers 'critically important to us'
BioShock's PS3 graphics identical to Xbox 360
Zelnick: GTA isn't Take-Two's only moneymaker
User-created Xbox Live games to cost as low as $2.50, devs get up to 70% revenue
Microsoft makes Games For Windows Live free for all
DirectX 11 detailed; Vista and DX 10 / 10.1 hardware supported
Certain Nintendo controllers face retail ban
New York governor signs 'unnecessary' game law
THQ games joining GameTap this summer
Fallout irradiates GameTap this Thursday
BioWare has 'never confirmed any plans' for Mass Effect 360 exclusivity
Rumor: WipEout HD held up by epilepsy tests
Nyko FrontMan guitar compatibility chart
First real, tiny screen of Sony's 'Massive Action Game'

Rumors & Speculation
Rumor: PSP-3000 adds built-in mic, PS button
Not so fast! Alan Wake may not be at TGS 2008 after all
Rumor: Oldman confirms Dark Knight game, G4 pulls video

Culture & Community
Star Wars Retrospective: Episode VII visits the Empire's shadows, the old republic
Bethesda defends E3, says it needs to change
The 'ultimate proof' that PS3 is winning
So it begins: Feminist gamers decry Sony's Fat Princess

With pirates being de rigeur in the entertainment industry these days, it only seems right that the reinvigorated LucasArts would dig up their backyard and consider rescuscitating the venerable (and hysterical) Monkey Island series for a whole new generation of swashbuckling scallywags. And they are, if you believe the Rumor Reporter who, uh, reports that "the fifth Monkey Island is coming." According to his top secret sources -- "some of the guys who worked on the music compositions for the original PC classics" -- the title is being considered, but don't expect to see any piratey action until 2008 "at the earliest."

Sound fishy? Yeah, we thought so too, so why not try to rinse that taste out of your mouth with these delicious Steve Purcell drawings of a suspiciously familiar dead pirate guy? Purcell is quick to point out that these images (more at World of Monkey Island) are "in no way connected to any existing or canceled piratey project." Aye, we'll see about that in ought-eight.

[Via Gamesblog]

Read - "The fifth Monkey Island is coming" (Rumor Reporter)
Read - Steve Purcell artwork (World of Monkey Island)