There's a new bill being hatched in Texas that may require convicted sex offenders to register their gamertags and other account names for online game networks like the PlayStation Network and Second Life with the fuzz. The new bill is called HB 22 and is headed to the Texas House of Representatives. If it passes there, it's next stop will be the Senate.

It was a tough week, alright, with the QJ team having to contend with a lot of fakers, a last-minute faking ourselves, and me personally now having to protect myself against some wicked magic of the black kind for leading people to believe that now is the best time to buy a Phantasy Star Portable - cos you know, news broke out that the PSP Brite has finally been hacked -- on April Fool's day. Yeah-huh, being fun sure is a lot of hard work. Thank goodness we've got juicy, exciting news from our friends in the gaming industry to balance it all out. And we've got them bundled up all nice and warm for you in ish #66 .

There is no rest for the wicked, and so here we are once more with another QuickPeek for all your QJ news and updates wrapped up tight and pretty in Issue #63. More exciting gaming news are here, and more statements - both controversial and reassuring alike - have we heard from the who's who. We also delved into our own little Who's Who in Homebrew for our QJ QuickGuide, as well as some What's What in the legal territory that's ever-broaching on homebrew.

New DLC now available for Smackdown vs. Raw 2009  (Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Wii, DS) on Xbox Live. As if over 60 characters on your roster isn't enough, you're gonna get three more, plus an alternate attire for one of them. Find out what's in store in the full article.

Big things up for Square Enix! They've just set up shop in LA, and in an interview, SE US president John Yamamoto has confided their plans: the LA studio is going digital. He also revealed the general direction the corporation is going - global markets and what not. But in what could be called as one of the boldest statements ever made in the industry, he's already declaring the exclusivity war officially over. Like whoa.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Forget it. Play a round of Bejeweled instead. According to a new study, casual games are proven to be beneficial for your health. Details in the full article.

If you loved Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, then you'd be interested in what old pal Quartermann has to say about its next chapter. In the latest EGM issue, the gaming seer also talks about Tecmo Bowl and a possible challenger to Mario's platform game throne from Disney. We smell a hidden Mickey! All this and more after the jump!

So they say that learning is about asking the right questions. That's probably why John Master Lee of Hudson Soft started a Q & A session regarding the company's games. If you're curious as to what Hudson Soft has to say regarding some of its various titles, turn to the full article after the jump.

We can't have a whole slew of QuickJump QuickPeek special editions without having QuickList's own fanfare, now can we? As one of QJ.NET's mainstay features that crop up every now and then, this QuickJump QuickList special edition will be especially special to be redundantly descriptive. We're compiling a unique list of games from 2007 that we here in QJ.NET believe aren't worth missing out on. On to the list at the full article!

It's Capcom Gamer's Day today in London, and there's already a handful of announcements made that would surely make a lot of gamers happy. For instance, there's a new Street Fighter game being developed, and this time it's the fourth installment of the core Street Fighter franchise. Capcom was only able to present an animated concept trailer for Street Fighter 4, without any video clips of actual gameplay, though.

Lost Planet for the Xbox 360 and PC will finally make its way to Sony's PS3. The best part? All the bonus content from both the PC and Xbox 360 versions of Lost Planet will be included in the PS3 Blu-ray disc. A 16-player multiplayer mode will be thrown in as well, through PlayStation Network.

Capcom also announced a new game franchise, Dark Void (thus clearing up some of the rumors about Capcom's filed patent). It will be a sci-fi action game in third-person POV, and will feature air-vehicle gameplay as well as sky diving. Nothing else is announced about this new title, so we'll have to stay tuned for more.

More updates to come!