It's Thursday, so it's time again for another update on what's new on the PlayStation Store. Sony's offering a nice deal on some PSN-only games this week, with seven different PSN titles getting half off the price until next week's update. The usual round of add-ons also make an appearance, most notably the Ghostbusters costumes for LittleBigPlanet. PSP owners, on the other hand, get a trio of downloadable games and some add-ons for Rock Band: Unplugged.

If you happened to be in Chessington, Surrey, over the weekend, then you might've spotted a big blue bus reminiscent of Scooby Doo's Mystery Machine. That big blue bus happens to the PSP Summer Tour Bus and it'll ride into different locations across England to spread some summer PSP fun with a few family-friendly PSP titles. Feel like having some gaming time with the family? Hit the link to find out more.

Jack Thompson was already disbarred in Florida back in September of 2008. 10 months after Florida, that disbarment from the practice of law might just go federal. Judge Federico Moreno of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has issued a court order to Thompson, directing him to explain why his Florida disbarment should not be extended to the federal level.

It's a big day for any kid to be getting a gaming platform. For Eliso Tovar of Florida, the big day came as a late Christmas present - his mom took him to a Wal-Mart in Manatee County to get a brand new PSP! All was okay, until he boots it up for the first time and finds a naked woman on the screen. Afraid of getting grounded, he ran to his mom, who found yet more porn in the memory card.

"And don't you come back no more, no more, no more," and so on. Breaking news, gamers! The Supreme Court of Florida has approved Jack Thompson's disbarment. Thompson, of course, responded to the court's decision. Details after the link.

It's still far from the end of the road for Jack Thompson: apparently, the Florida lawyer walked out of his recent disciplinary hearing after filing his own formal objections to the sanctions hearing. The result? An enhanced disbarment recommendation that may result in barring Thompson from practicing law for ten years. More details in the full article.

Activist lawyer Jack Thompson has been on the case of violent games and their developers for years now, and he's provoked the ire of gamers time and again. We're looking back at some of the most memorable quotes he's ever dropped, and we've chosen the twenty best out of them all. See the full list of Jack Thompson's most memorable quotes right after the jump!

Jack Thompson is at it again, and this time he has his eye on the recent shoot out that occurred at North Illinois University earlier today. In an interview with Fox News, he presented the same arguments as with previous campus massacres and other violent incidents, pinning the blame once again on violent video games. You can read more about what Jack Thompson had to say, as well as the video interview in the full article after the jump.

A two-month survey conducted by the National Institute on Media and Family (NIMF) involving 60 retailers in the U.S. show that 46% of retailers sell M-rated video games to teens. The East County Youth Coalition and other youth groups are now requesting retailers to provide employees with proper training and separate M-rated titles from other games.

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Take-Two Interactive and Jack Thompson have certainly had a storied past. While we all know about the uneasy settlement between Take-Two and Jack Thompson involving a particularly heated lawsuit last April, we've also caught wind of the many moves Jack has made against Take-Two, the most recent one being his lodging of a complaint against the televised ads of Bioshock.

The shaky relationship between the two is still not looking good. What started as an e-mail from Jack Thompson to Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick, CEO Ben Feder, the Federal Trade Commission, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, the legal counsel of Blank Rome and GamePolitics turned into an exchange between the Florida-based lawyer and Gena Feist, Take-Two's VP and Associate General Counsel.

Below is Jack Thompson's opening e-mail, unedited and presented as is:

From: Jack Thompson

Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:55 PM

Subject: Letter to Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, Ben Feder Re Manhunt 2

Dear Mr. Zelnick and Mr. Feder:

Congratulations on receiving a “Mature” rating for Manhunt 2. You’ll live to regret it (trust me), so enjoy it while you can. I want to bring to your attention the fact that at www.rockstargames.com anyone of any age can order Manhunt 2 and receive it, with no age verification whatsoever.

Asking a 14-year-old if he’s 17 is not age verification, now is it? You also know that the use of a bank card as an age verifier is a violation of all bank card agreements, right? Govern yourselves accordingly, if you can.

Regards, Jack Thompson

Strong words indeed, and it's to note that things go downhill from there on in. See Feist's reply by clicking on the Full Article link below.

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