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Nintendo owned the DS charts last week
In a rare showing, Nintendo got the honour for being the first platform owner to ever grace the top-ten of Japan’s coveted software sales chart, with the top-ten belonging to the Nintendo DS sales machine. While nothing to write home about, this certainly is another black mark against Sony and it’s PSP handheld.

Eve Online breaks 30,000 simultaneous player record
Uber-MMO Eve Online is unique in that it doesn’t shard it’s game servers, allowing all players currently in-game to exist in the same galaxy. A massive technical feat of distributed computing within the games industry. The 50,000 mark isn’t far off and with thousands in China currently beta testing Eve China, I expect great things for CCP’s future.

Sony delays PS3 launch for anywhere other than the US and Japan
Dashing Playstation fanboy’s dreams all Europe, Sony announces that they made a boo boo and won’t be launching their PS3 console this November anywhere but the US and Japan. Manufacturing problems, reliance on un-proven technology or whatever, expect Microsoft and Nintendo to do all they can to move in on Europe and get the jump on the PS3.

Afrika PS3 video and screenshots
An intruiging and great-looking title from Japan. Though noone really knows what it’s about or how you’ll actually play it, if these are in-game shots I’m all revved up and ready to get my hands on Afrika. As a commentor noted, it would be great to be able to play as different animals, living out their lives and hunting or being hunted.

JoWooD announces “The Mark”
JoWooD is still around somehow and announcing new titles. After the loss of yet another of the developers (Phenomic to EA), JoWooD comes out of nowhere with what looks to be a Ghost Recon clone developed by a new studio.