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From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.

Vital Statistics

Date: May 23, 2011

Written and Performed By: Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, and Paul Saunders

Story Graphics: Paul Saunders and Jeremy Petter

CheckPoint Graphics: Graham Stark

Music: Bradley Rains

Edited By: Graham Stark

Thanks To: Russ Pitts, Alexander Macris and Penny Arcade

Produced By: Graham Stark and Paul Saunders

Today

When is non-news news? Ask Valve or find out on today's CheckPoint.

Stories

• Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer defends Sony's decision to wait a full week before telling the public about the PSN breach.
• American McGee's Shanghai-based studio Spicy Horse has partnered with Popcap to develop new social games.
• The Ubisoft Movie Division plans to dominate the video game-movie market with projects based on Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon.
• Art assets and other details for Modern Warfare 3 was leaked ahead of schedule.
• Chrono Trigger released for Wii's Virtual Console.
• Valve Software announces that they will not be attending E3 2011.
• Paul and Jer engage in a point-counterpoint discussion to try and find out why. Does the studio simply not have anything to announce at the moment, or is it something more?

Coming Up

THQ proclaims itself as one of the big gaming publishers.