Here we go: politics to industry jobs in neat bullet points!

• An excellent feature on working in the games industry in Japan; what salaries are like in the domestic one
• WoW virus proves a useful epidemiological study tool; not the first time a disease has slaughtered avatars, forcing people to play First Life in shame.
• Chores, meet game. Kids to fight over toilet scrubbing to level up to Lvl. 60 Brat.
• This guy is my hero. He carries a DS in his pocket to have politicians see what games are actually like, instead of letting believe Jack Thompson and the like without ever seeing the true violence of Nintendogs in person.
• Star Jones, on the other hand, is apparently an idiot-in-training under the aforementioned Thompson, and has set her sights on VG violence as a new talking point since she likes to be an authority on things she knows nothing about. Girl's gotta work, I guess...
• Rock Band to come to PS2, more tracks announced.
• Bigtime modder and bootlegger gets busted for, well, modding and bootlegging. Of course, advertising his "services" all over the place and working out of his home probably wasn't the best idea given the illegal nature of his "trade" and all...