I got around to checking out Google Chrome

a bit more today and I was pretty impressed. The migrate of settings/passwords/etc worked

quite well and I was right at home. Of course the lack of downloadthemall and firebug

makes it a no-go for me, but if I didnt actually work on websites all day and just browsed

them, it would be great.

• It pays to be

  sexist

• Texting is

  hot

• Got any good

  ideas?

• Hulu is hot

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

• Motorstorm 2 screenshots
• Spore players threatened with

  forum banning

• Interplay MMO gets a new developer
• The Last Remnant screenshots
• Spore DRM prompts class action

  lawsuit

• Grand Theft Auto DS features drug

  dealing

• Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie XBLA

  plans

• Advertising challenges creativity
• Gears of War 2 trailer
• Xbox 360 dashboard in November
• Video game legislation sucks
• EA declares Spore a hit
• Peggle XBLA and multiplayer priced
• Tenchu 4 trailer and screenshots
• GameTap sells out
• EA loves Spore DRM

Lastly, we'll hopefully be seeing a fairly significant change around here in the next

few weeks as we are going to begin integrating Shacker polling info in to individual news

items via a cute little shack

nugget. This is the first step in a broader plan to start a deeper integration of what

you guys think about games in to what we publish here. Everyone hold your breath!