The Joystiq Weekend: June 10 - 12, 2006

This weekend exploded with the launch of Nintendo's redesigned handheld, the DS Lite. YTMND solves all our gaming dilemmas, Oklahoma sets itself up for another legal battle with the ESA, and Kutaragi predicts the end of hard disk drives. While we dupe our Oblivion soul gems, here are the highlights for the weekend:

Joystiquery
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup: June 4 – 10, 2006
Nintendo-Apple merger? Don't hold your breath.
DS Lite launch partay!
Joystiq's DS Lite buyer's guide

News
$500,000 offered to finish Duke Nukem Forever this year
Prey web site fully operational
Free Brain Age with DS Lite purchase
DS Lite launches in the US
E3 interview with professional video gamer, Fatal1ty
Oklahoma guv signs violent games bill into law
Pizza Hut to sponsor cyberathletes
Games shipping this week
NPR starts a gaming podcast
Foster's Big Fat Awesome House Party
Take-Two pledges support for Wii
Fuzzy E3 Golden Axe shots surface
Kutaragi: PS3 online will be free, digital distribution is the future
Rockstar vets enlisted for GTA IV
Design Merc ink: Mercenaries 2 tattoo contest
Japan Airlines offers DS Lites in-flight
Interactive phiction: Zork phone demo is online

Rumors & Speculation
DS games know their hardware?

Culture
Oblivion patch doesn't mend item duping
Halo 3 has a happy ending, or how I learned to love YTMND
Death Death Revolution? Ask a Ninja!
"RPG" missing from today's MMORPGs
The DS Lite is "smaller than a brick"
The geek version of the World Cup
Resident Evil 4, Mega64-style