With half the world watching today’s Word Cup match between Germany and Spain, it’s no wonder not much news came our way aside from a cluster of studies. We only ran two of them, but read the news we didn’t post to find out just how many there were today.

07/07 — Viva Espania!

Irrational wants you to guess what their next game is
AJ: That’s either the best or the worst idea for a developer ever. There is no middle ground.

Play MW2 with Korn Monday 7/12
Dave: Please don’t make me news that. I don’t like promoting bands that suck. But on the other hand, maybe Activision has a good idea going with recruiting famous people you actually want to shoot. If that’s the case, I suggest this band next.

AJ: Because even though I’m for Spain, Germany deserves a little World Cup love, too. Even if it is from Rabbids.

Jim Brown appeals his EA suit getting tossed

AJ: Eh. The headline is the article and most people don’t have an NY Times online account to read the source text, anyway.

Study: Too many video games may sap attention span
Will: Study: too many studies about video games.

GameStop Counts Down to Madden NFL 11 Launch with Madden Mondays and the Gridiron Game Changers Sweepstakes

AJ: Is APB out yet?

Tae: Yeah, last week.

AJ: Ah, that explains the layoffs then.

Dave: Also, apparently, the game STANKS.

AJ: /plays a sad trombone