video games - "xbox live"

Some slim pickins this week, but perhaps you can find a few diamonds in the rough... Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of August 3, 2008 on xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!

id Software boss John Carmack has potentially set the internet ablaze this weekend, telling Eurogamer.net at QuakeCon, Texas, that the xbox 360 is the 'better platform', in a certain context.

TVGB: "It was clear as day that Avatars were at the very least somewhat inspired by the Wii's Miis, the 'problem' was getting a Microsoft official to actually admit it. But now we have it - in a recent interview, xbox live boss John Schappert said that Avatars indeed drew "a lot of inspiration" from what Nintendo has been doing with Miis."

13 xbox 360 Screenshots posted, from THQ

Id Software's John Carmack has laughed off suggestions that Nintendo will care about being a lot of gamers' 'second system' after a PS3 or xbox 360. Asked how Nintendo could overcome that - or even if they want to or care to - Carmack laughed and told Eurogamer, "Yeah! Do they have to? They're selling more, making more money selling more units. Good problem to have!" Nintendo has raced to a leadership position in the so-called console war between itself and Sony and Microsoft, recently announcing that worldwide sales of the console have nearly reached 30 million - not that much less than xbox 360 and PS3 sales combined.