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As good of a gaming computer as you might have, whether you spent $400 or $2000, its visual output will more or less look like crap unless you have a good monitor to show off what it can do. Today, I’m going to rank the top five monitors for your money, based on a budget of around $200. To make these rankings, I not only took price into factor but also contrast, brightness, screen size (yes, size does matter), resolution, screen type, and extra toys as well....

SCEA president Jack Tretton is a happy little monkey today,boasting ofskyrocketing PS3 sales and the “proof” that demand has always been there for a PlayStation 3. “Skyrocketing sales, couldn’t be happier with the numbers that we’re seeing, and I think proof that there was tremendous consumer demand, they were just waiting for the price-point to come down,” he beams. Tretton also had things to say about Sony’s rivals, Microsoft and Nintendo: “I love [Microsoft’s] money....

As we told you shortly after Harmonixannounced Rock Band Networklast July, a few companies have sprung up in theRock Bandcommunity, offering toput people’s songs on RBNfor a fee or a portion of the profits from music sales. TuneCore is one such organization, and they’re offering alimited-time discounted offer: a thousand bucks to get one song on RBN (the regular price is $2,500). That may seem absurdly high to you, but think about it before you get up in arms....

According to the composer of UNLV’s fight song, “Win With The Rebels,” EA has been using the song in their college sports titles without permission.GamePoliticsis reporting that Gerald Willis, who claims to own the copyright to both the music and lyrics for the fight song, filed asuitin the U.S. District Court late last month seeking damages. The song has appeared in at least ten titles published by EA since 2006, including baseball, football and basketball games, which are named in the suit....

Shinji Mikami has been There and Back Again on the Japanese development circuit: he started at Capcom’s Studio 4 where he created and directed a slew ofResident Evilgames; joined Clover just in time to produceGod Hand; and migrated over to Platinum Games, where he’s currently directingVanquish. But you may not know that, on the sly in 2006, he created his own private development company called Straight Story that works under Platinum’s label....

Video game remix web siteOverclocked Remixhas partnered up withVideo Games Liveto rock the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC this Friday and Saturday. You may already know about the epic touring game music concert series aswe’ve covered it here at Destructoidseveral times, and founder Tommy Tallaricois a friend of the site, but Overclocked Remix might be new to some. OCR (as the regulars call it) is a web site dedicated to video game music remixes and arrangements, and is arguably the most important in the small but growing video game remix scene....

Here’s avery telling storyabout how progressive and open-minded politicians are. Vietnam’s Minister of Information and Communications Le Doan Hop has been accused of not doing enough to combat the so-calledmental and moral erosionthat online games cause, and when he tried to talk about the good that videogames do, he was ignored by legislators who didn’t care. Nguyen Ngoc Dao was the man who claimed that games cause the aforementioned “erosion,” and said that Hop’s strategies for dealing with the so-called problem of online gaming were insufficient....

We’ve all seen the videos onYouTubeand read the stories. Injuries caused by overzealous game players getting hurt by way of the Wiimote are nothing new to any of us. However, getting your very own medical term coined after you just might be. In a story that is just too ironic to be true, WebMD tells the tale of a 29-year old medical student (that should have known better) who wakes up to find a bad case of Wiitis in his shoulder....

Nintendo sent us the details on the Wii Shop update a little late today, but it’s kind of a big one. As Nintendo puts it, it’s “a set of exciting firsts.” For example, Hudson’s first-person shooterOnslaught(1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points)hits WiiWare today. As you might expect from a first-person shooter, it’s got alien, humans, and shooting things. The game will also support Wi-fi functionality in “Onslaught,” which let’s you complete or team up with up to three other players....

So, it’s officialofficial—Sacred 2is hitting consoles on May 12. This afternoon the developer, cdv Software Entertainment, announced the Xbox 360 version of the game’s new gold status and then confirmed that the title would indeed byhitting in May. (You now have a little under a month to get your clicking fingers ready for some real punishment.) Missing from the announcement was the release date for the PlayStation 3 version of the game....

Jenn Frank, community manager for 1UP.com apparently didn’t have enough work to do this week and decided to make this weird little chart that showed where video game related stuff and normal activities stand when its comes to testosterone, estrogen, being responsible and wasting time. According to her chart, Summa is a responsible woman for playingCooking Mamaand owning a Nintendo Wii, I’m a man for playing Xbox andCall of Duty, andTetrisis as neutral as you can get in her little world....

This is pretty darn cool. As part of his thesis Andreas Heikus put together a video of a complete run ofSuper Mario Bros.played out on a street curb. See he is studying matchmoving, which is putting digital animation into the real world. The outcome is something pretty neat to watch. I will admit I would have liked it to move beyond the curb a bit more, but that would have probably been really problematic....

A gold-colored Commodore 64 sold oneBayyesterday for an absurd £2650. The collectible model is said to be one of only a few hundred in the world. They were made in 1986 to celebrate the production of one million C64s. It was a small world back then. The ’64 in question was won by the seller’s parents at CeBit 1987 in Hanover, Germany, and it was swiftly locked away in a cupboard, never to be used....