Power to the people! In a move straight out of the Jericho fan playbook, disgruntled Shenmue devotees are planning a mass protest to try and convince SEGA to resurrect the franchise.

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As much as I like to make fun of XS Games' PopStar Guitar for even existing, I can't shake the feeling that if I were 20 years younger or so I would really get a kick out of their track listing. They've just revealed five new original master recordings for the game, two from Fall Out Boy, one from Paramore, and two from the All-American Rejects, joining a lineup packed with tunes from The Jonas Brothers, Hannah "Stop Calling Me That" Montana, Maroon 5, and Three Doors Down. The track list reads like an iTunes shopping list for creepy internet men who want to pretend they're 14-year-old girls on MySpace.

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Looks like SOE's DC Universe Online just wants to hook up and share animated gifs and befriend bands online. Well, at the very least, DCUO now has an official MySpace page, full of interesting info, extras like wallpaper downloads and buddy icons, and even some (small) screens.

If you're a MySpace user and you friend the page, it looks like you can even score an invite to a DCUO party at Comic-Con, just by bringing a printout of your page (presumably the one that shows you're all pally). Screens after the jump.

[via Joystiq]

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If Carillon GameTraders can make a MySpace page for its customers, there's nothing to stop other GT outlets from doing the same.

Matt Cooper, assistant manager for GT's Bundaberg operations, has put some effort into a page for his store. I'm assuming the deal is the same as Carillon's - to make people aware of sales, offers and events. That, or a posting board for emo poetry about PS3 shortages or the gruelling experiences of working in retail.

Oh, I'm only kidding! Now, go make friends with an inanimate object.

GameTraders Bundaberg [MySpace]

We've all heard of GameTraders. It's been breaking street dates since the beginning of time, and probably a little before then.

In order to keep customers up-to-date with tournaments, deals, offers and the like, the Carillon store has started a MySpace page. While I think Facebook might have been a better choice, MySpace is more than sufficient.

If you're a fan of the independent retailer, it might be an idea to sign up. At the moment it doesn't provide much, but Travis of GameTraders says he's in the process of getting it up to scratch.

GT Carillon [MySpace]

So, you guys might know Obsidian's Chris Avellone as one of the designers behind Fallout 2 and Planescape Torment. But it turns out he also has another talent that's well worth checking out - he does rather hilarious game development-related cartoons on his MySpace blog.

One of his latest posts shows off the illustrations he did for Schizoid developer Bill Dugan's talk on developer-publisher relations at the recent IGDA Leadership Forum in San Francisco.

Turns out they're funny, pungent illustrations (including a swearword or too, warning) of how those pesky publishers and developers fight like dogs and cats living together - resulting in mass hysteria.

Torpex IGDA speech illustrations [Avellone's MySpace Blog.]

MySpace just announced a deal with Oberon Media that'll see a gaming channel created for the service. Called MySpace games, it'll allow anyone with a MySpace page to add casual flash games to their site. For anyone who has a little sister or knows a struggling high school indie rock band still using the service, tell them the games channel should be arriving sometime in 2008.
MySpace in deal to let users play on-line games [Reuters]

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass hits stores on October 1st, and to honour the occasion Nintendo has created a Phantom Hourglass e-card, complete with an exclusive video of the game in action. They've also created a handy-dandy countdown widget on their Zelda.com site, suitable for MySpace pages and personal blogs alike. Two doses of Zelda goodness to keep you going until the big day.

Phantom Hourglass E-Card [Nintendo]

We apologise. It's only rumour that EA is in possession of gigantic space lasers. However, if EA were in possession of said space lasers, Peter Moore would be aiming them straight at big sports business entities like ESPN and Nike, and community entities like MySpace and Facebook.

There is a great opportunity to take EA Sports and turn it into a general sports brand that can compete not only with Take-Two and Konami and the other usual suspects in the videogame world...[but also] to look at ourselves in a different way and compete with the likes of Nike and ESPN to win the hearts and minds of a very desirable demographic group, which is the 14-to-34-year-old male worldwide.

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All alone with a splitting migraine in Kotaku Tower while my daymates are getting drunk gathering the latest hard-hitting stories from the Games Convention in Leipzig, I crave any sort of humour I can find while plugged into the vast database of gaming goodness we have in KOTAKUVAK 2000, our AI research supercomputer, so when I ran across this internet ad found by a reader while trolling MySpace it elicited in me a titter, and in my condition a titter is worth a thousand words. Nice to see Microsoft and Sony put their differences behind them and let the cross-advertising loving begin. Thank you Sardu, for spreading the love.