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Welcome to another edition of This Week in Geek. The one place where you can find everything you need to know about Games, Entertainment, Entrainment and Kittens. With E3 just over the horizon expect more rumors than announcements this week. Here it is: The Week of the Rumors!

Virtual Console Release:
-King of the Monsters. Originally for the Neo-Geo. 2 players. 900 Wii points.

WiiWare Release:
-SPOGS Racing. 2 players. 1,000 Wii points.

Game Releases:
July 7, 2008
-Unreal Tournament 3 (X360)
-Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice (PC)
July 8, 2008
-Devil May Cry 4 (PC)
-Sid Meirer's Civilization Revolution (X360, PS3, DS)
-Beijing 2008 (X360, PS3)
-Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon (Wii)
-Carnival Games (DS)
-Ghosts Online (PC)
-Wonder World Amusement Park (Wii)
July 9, 2008
-Golf: Tee it up (X360)
-Schizoid (X360)
July 11, 2008
-Sports Play (Wii)
-Baseball Mogul 2009 (PC)

Rumors:
-Could there be a PSP2 later this year? Well according to Kotaku the answer could be yes. Several third party developers appear to be confirming these rumors. These developers want their games to be a apart of the PSP2 launch.
-With the Xbox 360 price drop all but officially confirmed(Gamestop has released another add saying it's going to happen) the PS3 might be soon to follow suit. Despite previous statements by Sony to not have a price drop, the word on the street is that it will drop, and maybe even as low is $299, the same as the X360's rumored price drop.
-Bungie has hinted at another Halo game to add to the collection. If the Halo movie ever comes out it is widely speculated that "Halo 4" will follow it's plot and have little to no connection to the trilogy. Another theory is that it will serve as a prequel to the existing games, sort of like Master Chief: The Teen Years.
-Kotaku has found some more rumored tracks for RockBand2. All our great songs but some I am looking forward to are:
Bad Company Shooting Star
Duran Duran Hungry Like the Wolf
Guess Who, The American Woman
Journey Anyway You Want It
Kansas Carry On Wayward Son
Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky
Offspring, The Come Out & Play (Keep 'em Separated)
Steve Miller Band Rock'n Me
Survivor Eye of the Tiger


For the complete rumored list: click.
-Nintendo's GameBoy could be making an appearance on the Virtual Console. Several sources have speculated that the GameBoy could be on the Wii shop channel by the end of the year.

The Buzz:
-The BBC is reporting that the front man for Oasis, Noel Gallagher, blames video games for the violence seen in today's youth. In the UK, knife violence with young people has been on the rise.

"People say it's through violent video games and I guess that's got something to do with it.

-It looks like good ol'Nintendo is in legal trouble again. Nintendo recently lost upwards of $21 million in a patent lawsuit. Now, they seem to be plagued with yet another patent lawsuit. A man from Illinois is suing the big N with being in violation of his patent of a touchscreen video game system that passed in 2005. The DS "phat" came out in 2004. The same man is suing Apple as well. From GamePolitics.com.

Announcements: -Square Enix has announced what we can only hope will be one of the first of many game's for the iPhone. Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes is a full scale RPG. The game will incorporate your library of songs into the game, using them as "tune troopers". More details.
-Owners of Rockband who are feeling weary of Rockband2 have more reason to jump for joy. All the tracks for RB1 will be made available as a free DLC upon buying RB2.
-Burnout Paradise will soon be getting some new downloadable content. Planes. Criterion games has said that they are looking for a change with the game and planes are just what they needed.

Lolcat:


-Also, my mom sent me this Lawl too.

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