Here are a few things I missed while reading the Foo Fighter's awesome tour rider:

• Microsoft explains their policy on the word Gay in gamertags
• Gory games cut crime?  Expect new lows of real world violence when Ninja Gaiden II hits
• CBS buys C|Net (owner of Gamespot) for way more than it's worth
• Is Call of Duty 4 a MMO?  I guess I missed the Morloc mission
• Lucasarts gets pithy about the lack of multiplayer in Force Unleashed
• Ars Technica takes Microsoft down a peg or two about the Xbox 360 numbers
• New racing rig is totally awesome, Dave might have to sell the plane to get it though
• Capcom wants to know which Street Fighter IV figure you want, no Stretch Armstrong Dhalsim available
• Haze questions answered, I guess we find out next week if the game was worth the wait

Sorry about missing yesterday's Gibs but real life intervened.  That said here are a few things I missed while rocking out to a song composed of nothing but gun sounds from Call of Duty 4:

• Gamerscore whores will be happy to know that their gamerscores will probably carry over to the next-gen Xbox 360
• Destrucoid comes up with three reasons to care about the well being of the ESA
• Joystiq talks to GameTrailers about their GRiD Snafu
• I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who doesn't really care about Doom 4
• Is it time to wonder why Ubisoft de-featured the PC version of Assassin's Creed in the last patch?
• RockStar big wig is cool with an EA takeover, maybe the only one in the Take Two empire
• Getting old sucks, getting old and being a gamer...still sucks

For whatever reason, the artist that penned the "Le Tour de France" logo in the lower right hand corner of the box art managed to make it look like "Le deTour France."  Which is neither here nor there, though this year's Pro Cycling Manager - Tour de France 2008 will certainly travel through the painstakingly recreated race.  (I'm also recalling Russel Crowe in A Good Year in which he'd always drive by the French cyclists, honking his horn, flipping them off, and yelling out "Laaance Aaaarmstrong!")  Again, neither here nor there.  We've got five new screenshots from developer Cyanide Studio. [READ MORE]

Demo

• The new demo for Race Driver: GRID is mirrored over at AtomicGamer.
• For all your driving/business sim needs, Bus Simulator 2008 demo v1.0 is out (also in German), plus Bonus Pack #2 for the game.

Videos, Screens

• VIDEOS:  LittleBigPlanet PlayStation Day 2008 Trailer (WMV); MotorStorm Pacific Rift Pre-Alpha Tech Trailer (WMV HD); Killzone 2 PlayStation Day 2008 Trailer (WMV); Resistance 2 Teaser Trailer (MPEG); Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Insider Video #3 (WMV SD; WMV Web); World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Zul'Drak, Vehicular Combat, Sholazar Basin, Borean Tundra; Battlefield: Bad Company B Company Trailer (QT); Burnout Paradise PC Trailer (QT HD); Top Spin 3 Trailer (WMV HD, MP4 HD); SpongeBob SquarePants: Drawn to Life Trailer (QT HD, WMV SD, WMV Small); Spectraball Gameplay Trailer (WMV); Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Stroylent Video #1, #2 (QT HD), Console Gameplay (WMV HD, QT HD, QT SD, WMV).

• SCREENS:  Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (PC); Iron Grip: Warlord (PC); Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway; Spectral Force 3 (X360); X-Blades (PC) [user interface]; The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (PC) [Book 13 Epic Quest]; Roogoo; Grand Theft Auto IV; DOFUS (PC) [2.0 map pics];

Articles

• The i3DSpeed, a project of iXBT.com and Digit-Life.com, is dedicated to informing you about performance on a large number of graphics cards under Windows XP and Vista.
• Pi Studios has Video Game Testers/Quality Assurance positions available in their Houston, TX, office -- details on Craigslist.

Thanks to Pi Studios, AtomicGamer, and Digit-Life for today's news roundup.