I just wanted to bring your attention, as if it wasn’t blatantly obvious, that I tweaked the layout for the news. I hope it is easier to read. As always, your feedback is welcome.

So it seems that at least EA, Midway, and Ubisoft are set on making lots of nice fun games for the Wii. Ubisoft has even been praising the console itself, hinting that it may be a breath of fresh air in the market. Sega, who is already known to have titles on the market, seems to be a fan of the system’s price point.

The PS3, on the other hand, can count out Atari until at least next year. The publisher is worried that it will not be able to produce a viable business model on the machine.

EDIT: I forgot to throw this in, but SNK is waiting until [b]2009[/b] to touch the PS3. Ouch. A lot of us 2d nuts will count that as a huge mark against.

[url=http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1751233&from=rss]Everybody Loves the Wii[/url] (slashdot)
[url=http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=13402]Ubisoft, Midway Pledge Strong Wii Support[/url] (GameDaily BIZ)
[url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/02/atari-ceo-no-atari-ps3-games-before-2007/]Atari CEO: No PS3 games before 2007[/url] (Joystiq)
[url=http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/03/snk-to-wait-until-2009-to-develop-for-ps3/]SNK to wait until 2009 to develop for PS3[/url] (Joystiq)

In good old Nintendo fashion, they have admitted that the cracks in the new DS Lites are due to a manufacturing defect and they are repairing them free of charge. Why is it so hard for everyone in our industry to do this instead of denying their product has a problem, Sony I am looking at you.

You can catch the whole story on GI.biz

Source: [url=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=18478]GamesIndustry.biz[/url]

If you’ve been living under a rock (non-Xbox folks excluded, of course), you know that Street Fighter II on live has been delayed quite a bit. Supposedly the reason was problems with glitches and lag when playing online. Unfortunately [url=http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152594]it sounds like the problems are still there[/url], but the good news is that Capcom is trying to stay on top of them and get them fixed quickly.

I’m of two minds about this game at a $10 price point, but I do like the idea of popping online for a scrap if they can cure the problems. Until then I will be [url=http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/g/galagalivearcadexbox360/default.htm]shooting space bees[/url] and moving both left AND right!