There was actually a LOT you missed over the weekend. Well worth bouncing back through the pages to catch a lot of big news. Here’s just a sampler of the highlights, but there is seriously more tucked away in here for those willing to wander back through the last 10 pages of stories.

Former ESA Head: Game Journalists Helped Make Thompson GamePolitics Calls Out Lowenstein for Thompson Comments Report: New Nintendo DS Coming This Year With Camera, Music Playback Mega Man Hat Keeps Head Warm, Awesome Fable II Online Co-Op So Not Making Launch Date Activision Trademarks ‘Dance Hero’ Activision – Perhaps Record Companies Should Pay Us Jack Thompson is so Disbarred…. How Disbarred Is He?

25,000 LittleBigPlanet Beta Keys To Flood The Internet So many? Go take your shot if you can’t wait for launch!

City Of Heroes Mission Creator Somewhat Delayed Isn’t CoH really at its best when you’re just making cool new toons?

Thompson Responds To Disbarment Jack Thompson Disbarred It’s so hard to feel bad for the guy. Because it’s so awesome, and he’s… Jack Thompson.

Bungie Secret Game is a ‘New Halo 3 Campaign Experience’ Halo teaser campaigns have been good, but I’ll wait for some substance on this round.

Burnout Trophies Are Go, But Not Backwards Doh! Now you have to go and really earn these things!

Mirror’s Edge To Inspire Future Battlefield Games Parcour meets Battlefield? Man, I’d love to see those elite units.

Here’s Why There Are Fewer PSP Games Today Word is, flood of unannounced big name titles arriving 2009.

Big Halo news overnight, though more “what might have been” than “get set for teh shiz.”

Ensemble Were Working On A Halo MMO Halo MMO Concepts: What Your Sexy Mistress Chief Could Have Looked Like Would Halo have been a golden setting for a sci-fi MMO? Or is Star Trek going to lock that up?

Make Comics, Pop-Up Books, Anything With LittleBigPlanet Is there anything LBP won’t do?

Finally, The LEGO Batman Launch Trailer A spot of video goodness while we wait for the local release next month.

Vanguard Still Wants You Back, Won’t Stop Calling If you own it, and it’s still installed, then why not check it out again? A free re-sniff is hard to ignore (unless you HATED it).

Crysis Warhead Performance Put To The Test Learn what the different graphics levels actually mean in this thing.

Rock Band dated! Now to hunt down the back of the couch for a spare few oranges and pineapples in the hope of affording to live through the upcoming release bonanza.

NBA 2K9 Introduces Living Rosters Keeping up with the life and times of the ’09 season.

Civ IV: Colonization Review: Once More, With(out) Feeling Does the remake live up to the memory of the classic?

New Screens Raise Argonauts Higher These. Screens. Are. Hotness.

Colbert Enlists Lord British To Save Universe From His Balls A spot of video from the not-in-person interview.

LBP Online Level Creation Coming Post-Release Prepare to wait a little for some of the sexiest features of the game.

Rock Band Dated For Australia (Bonus Reasonable Pricing Included) November 7, all-in-one-box bundle $250. Who’s buying?

Left 4 Dead On The DS? Yeah, Right. Our Classification Board made a big typo, so we must rake them over coals!

Large Hadron Collider – And Halo Was Its Name-O Yes, they actually picked Halo because it feels friendly. Ummm… have they played…

Prince of Persia Hits in December Yep, this December.

Warhammer Online Is Online Yes, it’s online!

Steam DRM Vs Spore DRM Yep,DRM stinks, but Valve is good at talking about how to try and balance user and publisher needs.

Here’s When Mirror’s Edge Will Be Out Europe says November 14. Let’s hope we’re the same?

‘PS3 Is Waiting For Defining Title’ So say Peter Molyneux. Is that title coming soon? Did he forget something?

But Does Hayao Miyazaki Play Video Games? Apparently that’s a resounding ‘No.’

Impressions of Life With Playstation Simple so far, holds a lot of promise?

Prelude Proves Portal is Still Alive Haven’t seen many mods as ambitious as this for quite some time. Awesome!

If Only – Atari Modern Classics Bioshock, GTA IV, No More Heroes, and more get the old school box art treatment.

LotRO’s New Warden and Rune Keeper Classes Ready for Mines of Moria?

Age Of Conan Game Director Quits Dissatisfied Will fresh blood solve AoC’s problems?

Peter Moore On Rare: ‘Skills Not Applicable Today’ It’s harsh, but Rare hasn’t exactly shown otherwise lately.

Life With PlayStation Out For Some That’s a pretty big feature slipped into a ‘nothing major’ update. If you can get it working…

The 100 Retailer Pop Quiz – What Gaming Console Should We Buy? USA it may be, but I’d be an EB VIP card that this experience would be closely reflected out here.

The Force Unleashed Review: As If Millions of Star Wars Fans Suddenly Cried Out Is force-centric butt-kicking as awesome as it sounds?

Geoff Johns Scribes The DC Universe Online Because a real comic-book MMO deserves a real comic-book writer to flesh it out! Though I’m a Marvel guy, so…

The Secret Apprentice Talks Gaming, Japanese Voice Acting and Putting the Sexy in FU Always good to hear about sci-fi actors who nerd out just like you and I.

Each Nintendo Employee Generates $1.6 Million In Profit C’mon Christmas bonus! What, Japan doesn’t do Christmas? Oh, bad luck!

PS3 Launch Message ‘A Little Too Zealous’ Grasping reality is the first step to long-term recovery.

Big news for the MMO fans overnight…

EA Declares Thursday The ‘Day Of Reckoning’ If you were supposed to get married this weekend, you’d better cancel. That’s valuable leveling time right there.

Wrath of the Lich King Officially Dated, Priced: Collector’s Edition Detailed Time enough to play WAR for two months before deciding your long term MMO future

Saints Row 2 Has Hidden Zombie Minigame Not so hidden now, huh?

Weapons of Migraine Development Cache Found In Dubai Expect a glut of mint Virtual Boy units to hit eBay real soon.

EA Take-Two: The wedding’s off Hollywood couplings never turn out well. I hope the breakup sex was appropriately steamy.

‘Muslim Massacre’ creator tucks tail, apologises Considering how crass the game was, the apology is well considered and kind of classy.

Jenny McCarthy talking ‘Bout Tanya Jenny McCarthy talking ’bout anything… seriously, I’m in it for the talking.

Forbes: Spore Downloaded 35k Times Wed-Thurs I wonder how many illegal downloads are by people who paid up but wanted a DRM-free version.

The Resident Evil Activity Book for Kids A good laugh to start your week.

GTA IV Not Meeting Sales Expectations? You see, they’ve only sold a meagre 8.5 million units. So that’s another 5.91 billion people who don’t own it yet.