Jack Thompson, Spore porn, and more.

For those of you living the lives of busy, important people, here is a rundown of the biggest gaming-related stories of the past week.

Monday: Jack Thompson got a visit from a couple US Marshals in regards to a letter he wrote to a federal judge.  In the letter, he compared himself to detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, and stated, “I guess my ‘mistake’ was not killing 3000 people to make my point.”  The ever-tactful attorney is now furious that the judge sent the Marshals to explain to him the impropriety of such correspondence, and is even complaining to the House Judiciary Committee.  The Thompson saga is becoming like a bad VH1 Saturday afternoon reality show marathon.  I know it’s mindless, and I know it caters to the lowest common denominator…  but I can’t stop watching.

Tuesday: Nintendo of Europe exec Laurent Fischer further commented on the Wii’s embarrassingly scant memory.  “Definitely there’s no plan to issue hardware, an external hard drive, but we know that we have an issue in that area.”  Okay then.  I guess geeks and otaku will be playing SD Card Hot Potato for quite some time.

Wednesday: EA is not amused by your juvenile toilet humor.  Its Spore Creature Creator tool is serious business.  Kristin Salvatore, of PC Gamer, was notified that her “Boobalicious” creation was inappropriate and could result in a future ban.  To the many of you with monsters based on, well, one-eyed monsters, consider yourselves put on notice.

Thursday: Poor Sony.  Their PS3 has really taken a thrashing on the Japanese sales charts for a long time now.  But not this week!  The release of Metal Gear Solid 4 provided a nice kick in the pants, propelling the console to the top hardware sales position with over 75,000 units sold.  That’s quite a shake-up for the standard Nintendo domination we usually see over there.  It will be curious to see if this carries over into next week, and beyond.

Friday: The ESRB has been known to throw out a few bones when it comes to future releases.  It used to be that titles would show up on their online database well before publishers gave any sort of official announcement.  Not anymore.  From now on, a title won’t be listed on the site until a date predetermined by the publisher.  Essentially, the organization has been stripped of its one useful function.  Oh well.

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