And in the game industry news, Take-Two Interactive's restructuring progress has reached full steam, re-consolidating their creative staff in studios encompassing 2K Games, 2K Sports and Rockstar. In Europe alone, Take-Two's marketing and sales division suffered heavy bloodletting, while reports are coming in from the west coast about administrative cuts in 2K Games and 2K Sports studios.

Manhunt 2 received an AO rating for two reasons: the ESRB is hyper vigilant, and the Rockstar guys answer to no one. I think that the game is likely not a lot more violent than its predecessor, but the ESRB is not taking any chances with Take-Two games, and will carefully scrutinize all of them. That's political reality and the company has to recognize that it is working under a microscope from now on. They'll fix Manhunt 2, but I don't see it selling as well as it would have, particularly since it is a PS2/Wii game. The hardcore will have abandoned the PS2 by the time the game is ready, and the publicity was likely a turnoff for Wii owners.