Thanks to everyone for showing up at the QuakeCon IGDA poker tournament we sponsored. The event managed to raise over $10,000 for Childs Play so I'm happy to call it a success.

• New microscope ditches

  lenses

• Ancient life in Antarctica
• Exposing the ISPs that

  throttle

• AT&T holding iPhone to

  2010 (the iPhone 2.0.1 update just came out by the way)

As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:

• New Fallout 3 screenshots
• Final Fantasy release date and

  demo information

• Xbox 360 September price cut info
• Microsoft lied about Braid XBLA

  pricing

• Left 4 Dead headed to PS3
• Battlefield: Bad Company gets

  Conquest on August 7

• Weekly PC sales figures
• Quake MMO? id Software sure got

  the pitches

• GTA 4 pulled from shelves in

  Thailand

• EA hating on crappy license games
• Intel chasing the GPU market
• THQ says hardware cycles are dead
• Skate 2 trailer
• Uncharted gets trophy support
• Bikini Samurai Squad coming to US

Lastly, Maarten and I are indeed ramping up to get back to work on the Shack library system. We have some pretty significant stuff we are hoping to add around here as well as exposing and reporting to you guys more on the

Shack Library stats. Our hope is that what you guys vote on actually helps to shape what we prioritze and report on around here. Maybe! If you havent done it yet, make sure and fill out your game library. Near the top of the list is being able to hit the enter button to search! (Hi Maarten!)