If the Xbox 360 is the Dreamcast, then the PS3 is the ColecoVision and I'm a pilgrim. Sister site Gizmodo sized up the PLAYSTATION 3 and the ColecoVision. Bit of info about that retro console: Released in 1982, the console cost a cool US $600 and was actually a computer. The console failed horribly and drove the company to bankruptcy and alcoholism.

And no, we don't wish harm on the good people at Sony and are VERY EXCITED about the new machine. Brian Ashcraft

Sized Up For You Size Queens [Gizmodo]

Bloomberg has reported that a new game is in the works for the Wii, something along the lines of a diet game. Apparently Nintendo is developing this unique type of software to work much in the way that Brain Age works with the mind. Nintendo also hopes that this new game type will bring in even more non-gamers.

Pfft. Whatever, Nintendo. Real gamers have curves. Thanks to decliously curvaceous Scott for sending this in. Eliza "Why so sad, fatty?" Gauger

the Wii Diet Game [Go Nintendo]

Since my constant craving for cupcakes is surpassed only by my actual ingestion of cake and cake products, I give you photos of game-flavored cakes. Because you must also suffer for want of cake. It is fair and just. Thanks for the tip, Rick.

Says Slashfood:

According to blogger r4kk4, these cakes, which include the Nintendo you see here, arcade versions of Centipede and Ms. Pacman and a Gameboy with Tetris pieces, were created for a cakewalk to benefit the nonprofit youth literacy group 826 Seattle.

These cakes are nearby, you say? I see...yes, it all becomes clear. Cake = reading. Got it. Eliza Gauger

Cake [GlitterPissing, via Slashfood]

On an extremely slow news day, I give you this bouncing little McDonald's commercial featuring Mario and Mario toys. I bet you can find as many "acrobatic little goombas" on eBay as you could possibly want. Thanks, Siliconera.

In continuing Mario-in-league-with-fatness news, Kotaku Scout Lyle sends in the following heads-up:

Hey, I just got my little sister a happy meal from McDonald's when she informed me that the next line of happy meal toys was going to be "Mario and Friends." I asked her where she saw this and she showed me the bottom of the little happy meal box, thought people would want to know, thanks!

No, Lyle. Thank you. Eliza Gauger

I've been eagerly devouring everything related to Atlus' upcoming lolita-creepout, Rule of Rose, and while I wish i could deliver unto ye your own Kotaku-flavored gallery, that didn't work so well earlier today.

I will simply link, with a heavy heart, and give you the crowning image from this particular batch: fat scary kid with lipstick.

Unfortunately it looks like the difference between in-game and prerendered shots is going to be fairly astronomical, and it doesn't seem like much headway has been made in terms of play graphics. Still, the setting seems so bizarre, a sort of steampunk horror softened by childishness, that I imagine the atmosphere will fill in quite a bit. Eliza Gauger

New Rule of Rose screens here [Computer and Video Games]