According to Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, the New York-based NPD Group will limit the data it releases to its non-paying customers starting with the October hardware sales data, which is due for release later this month. Hardware sales data will no longer be available every month, and the Top Ten SKUs charts will be cut in half. Hardware sales data as well as the Top Ten software titles will instead be released on a quarterly and yearly basis. Find out more at the full article.

Moral Kombat, Spencer Halpin's controversial feature-length documentary about video game violence, will be premiering at the VideoGame Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 3. If you're in the area on that date, check it out. It should be a pretty interesting and thought-provoking experience.

In case you haven't heard about Moral Kombat yet, here's a backgrounder. According to a press release announcing the documentary's premiere, Moral Kombat is "a probative work that examines interactive entertainment as a medium and seeks to objectively portray the debate in a fair and poignant fashion". It's also the first high-def documentary shot entirely in HD three years ago.

The film includes testimonies from a few leading figures in the video game violence issue, some of whom will be present at the premiere for a panel discussion moderated by Newsweek's N'Gai Croal. Among those who will grace the Moral Kombat premiere are prominent anti-games advocate Jack Thompson and Lorne Lanning, video game developer and co-founder of Oddworld Inhabitants.

Online site GameTrailers has this special video productions focusing on Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo in relation to their preparations for this year's E3. For this week, the show highlighted Nintendo's consoles Wii and DS and what announcements fans can expect from the company.

The discussion was spearheaded by Spike TV's "Game Head" host Geoff Keighley and the guests include: GameTrailers Editor in Chief Shane Satterfield, analyst Michael Pachter, Game Informer Online Managing Director Bily Berghammer, and Newsweek General Editor for Tech N-Gai Croal.

Basically, the three discussed what surprises Nintendo has in-store this year in terms of video game titles, possible hardware upgrades in relation to enhanced Wii-DS connection, and the controversial game Manhunt 2. Aside from the already mentioned, a lot of other important topics came up so we suggest you get your headsets now and watch the video via our Read link below.