• Burnout will be heading to mobile phones as well. I'm not quite sure how EA intends to match the excitement produced from a session of playing Burnout on a console. One of the best mobile racing games, Asphalt: Urban GT 2, plays more like the SNES' Top Gear than a current racer and Ridge Racer Mobile is sub-par. Maybe they were able to do it right, though. Burnout Mobile will be released in August.

• An ex-employee at Rockstar has chronicled his employment with the company. It is a long and very interesting read. Check it out.

• If you own an Xbox 360 you can catch some of the action from the San Diego Comic-Con. Xbox Live will have downloads of panels, footage, trailers, and some extra stuff.

Movies

• The new, long awaited editions of Blade Runner were finally revealed this week. The Digital Bits has all the information and photos of all three editions coming in December. There will be the two disc The Final Cut Special Edition, the four disc Collector's Edition containing four versions of the film, and the five disc Ultimate Edition. The Ultimate Edition not only contains five versions of Blade Runner, but also a lenticular flip clip, miniature spinner car, miniature origami unicorn, photographs and a signed letter form Sir Ridley Scott all in a Deckard's briefcase packaging. This may be the best edition of any DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD release ever.

• Project Gotham Racing 4 will be able to save every race that will ever be played in the game. This is part of the included PGR4 On Demand service. Why bother playing the game yourself when you can watch other people do it for the rest of eternity.

• Gamasutra has an in-depth ten page feature on The History of Civilization. The article details the complete history of the first Civ game, making it a must-read for all you Civ nuts.

• Play the greatest Flash game ever: Rose & Camilla. 19th century women slap the hell out of each other. Beat her cheek!

• Silicon Knights sued Epic this week for providing them, and other licensees, with a faulty version of the Unreal Engine 3.

• Microsoft was sued for the Xbox 360 scratching discs. Again.

• Oh, it's another lawsuit this week. Midway was sued by shareholders for not telling them of their steady financial losses.

• The new game from the creator of Katamari Damacy is Nobi Nobi Boy. There are only three shots of the game's main character who is a green elongated and stretchy fellow with pink tips. He looks oddly awkward. Ultimately it will probably be another awesome game.

TV

• It's the final episode of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. What? The last episode? Say it isn't so Adult Swim! Harvey should have gone on for at least two more seasons. Damn you, Adult Swim. You need to watch The Death of Harvey Birdman.

• Master Replicas' Halo 3 Battle Rifle and Covenant Carbine went on pre-order this week. What's surprising is that they are only $19.99 each. They may only be 6 inches long, but twenty bones for a scaled Master Replicas piece is a pretty decent deal.

The budget for BSG: Razor was a bit less than usual, so the producers had to find alternate means for the special effects.

• The first preview trailer for Battlestar Galactica: Razor, the two-hour TV movie focusing more on the back story of the Pegasus, aired on Sci-fi channel a few nights ago and has made its way onto the internet.

• Why is the PS3 Sixaxis controller on the Star Wars Unleashed site screwed-up? The D-pad and left analog stick are switched making it look very messed-up. How could they get something as common as a PlayStation controller so wrong?

• At E3 Peter Moore announced a Halo 3 special edition Xbox 360. It's Master Chief green, has those Spartan "lines," and has an orange disc tray. Overall it's really kind of ugly and is something only the hardcore of hardcore Halo fans will buy.

• A History of Zelda video documentary from Japan in 2003 has finally been translated. It is full of great information, interviews, and well worth watching. Our thanks to Mike Darniani for the undertaking.

Movies

• The previous trailers for J.J. Abrams' "Cloverfield" or "01-18-08" were taken off of YouTube almost as soon as they were posted, but now the trailer is officially on Apple.

We can only hope that "Cloverfield" is a remake of the 1980 classic "Gamera VS Star Destroyer 5000."

• What's the greatest film trailer of all time? People are saying the trailer for the unnamed film (which is going by the code name of Cloverfield) that has been popping up before Transformers.

• Both Microsoft and Sony will have special E3 trailers and press conferences available to download on their respective consoles during E3 week.

• Irem has updated the R-Type Tactics site with some new images. There is still no word as to whether this will be coming to the US PSP yet.

• Japanese website Gpara has some new screenshots of Otomedius, Konami's touch screen shooter of young maidens.

Comics

• Why does Japan air the American version of Astro Boy in Japan? The really sad answer can be found in the latest Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed.

• It looks like Marvel is sneaking in (or rather blatantly shoving in) product placement into comics now if the Old Spice themed Ant-Man issue is any indication.

• Statue and awesome action figure maker Kotobukiya is releasing a Halo 3 Master Chief Statue this October. The Chief dual wields pistols, is in a high action pose, stands a foot tall and will be $99.

Toys

Simon Belmont used to be a cool vampire hunter. Now he's just another leather-clad hero afflicted with effeminacy issues.

• NECA will debut the prototypes for their first line of Castlevania figures at the San Diego Comic-Con. They will also have an exclusive Pixel Simon Mini Figure that looks like the character sprite from the original Castlevania game. The three-inch figure is limited to a mere 1000 and will only be available at San Diego.

• SOTA Toys has finally revealed their latest series of Street Fighter figures. Previously known as Round 5 (or series 5), they will now be called Street Fighter Revolution Series 1, because of SOTA's new sculpting. The series will include Zangief, E. Honda, Dhalsim, and Mika. Action-Figure.com has photos of the new figures, but not one of Zangief yet. Poor Zangief is left out once again.

• Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console has tons of old-school games, but lack any original downloadable titles. Nintendo has now opened WiiWare and is now looking for games from big developers and independent. The first titles should be available early next year.

• Ultimate Mortal Kombat is headed to the DS this November. The game will have the arcade version of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Puzzle Kombat, the MK version of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. Plus, it will feature wi-fi multiplayer. This all sounds good and hopefully it won't end up sucking like most of the portable Kombat games.

• We've read what the $90 collector's edition of GTAIV will offer, now see it.

• If you want to keep up with behind the scenes stuff on Geometry Wars: Galaxies for the DS and Wii, IGN has a Bizarre Creations developer's blog.

• Someone at the Etch-a-Sketchist has posted a picture of Street Fighter II on an etch-a-sketch. It's freaking amazing.

• One gamer has had zero luck as his Xbox 360s keep breaking. He has sent in eleven 360s and is now on number twelve. 

• Sam Raimi has recently expressed interest in having the Sinister Six in the next Spider-Man film, which pretty much would finish off any of the remaining interesting villains in Spider-Man's rouges gallery.

• There's a teaser site up for the Iron Man film. So far there's not much to look at, but at least it's there.

• TMNT was a pretty kick-ass return for everyone's favorite turtles who happen to be ninjas. It looks like there is a 70/30 chance that TMNT2 will see the light of day.

• File in the probably only a rumor category: There may be several big name actors signed on to the Watchman film.

• Captain America is still dead and Marvel continues to milk that fact by having his funeral during the week of July, 4th, which is Independence Day for you teenagers who don't care about anything.