With the release of the new DS system, it’s not always clear exactly what has changed. As a super simplistic comparison, here’s a side-by-side physical and observational breakdown of the similarities and differences between Nintendo’s DS Lite and the DSi handheld game systems.

Also check out the Photo Gallery of comparison shots of the two systems next to each other as well the several of just the DSi.

There I am, driving around town, listening to my local NPR station, soaking up disturbing international news like a good American, when I hear this troubling comment spoken by Brian Jenkins, security analyst with the RAND Corporation, regarding the recent attacks in Mumbai, India:

“…This in a sense for them was an opportunity to demonstrate their conviction, courage, although it doesn’t require a lot of courage to gun down unarmed people, but it becomes a kind of a real-life video game killing fantasy for the actual attackers themselves.”

Taken out of context, that sure sounds like Jenkins is a gamer hater. Really, he’s just…

Home Media Magazine, which covers primarily home movie and videogame news, had an interesting lede for an article posted on August 9, 2007, about 300 DVD sales:

It looked like a video game and felt like a video game, so it isn’t surprising that Warner Home Video would score big with the simultaneous DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of 300.

The article, by Thomas K. Arnold, so blatantly credits the movie as being like a videogame, yet videogame movies rarely do well (or a are usually not very good). Arnold seems to have missed that the movie actually – and intentionally – looks like the graphic novel by Frank Miller on which it was based. We gamers wish a videogame-based movie would be at least as good as 300.