• Major games released this week were: Stronghold Crusader Extreme for the PC; Grid for the 360, PS3, and PC; Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 for the PSP; Kung Fu Panda for all systems; Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures for all systems; Ninja Gaiden II for the 360; Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy for the 360 and PS3; The Incredible Hulk for all systems; and Fatal Inertia EX for the PSN.

• Even before Guitar Hero: Aerosmith has been released [June 29], Activision has already announced, and confirmed, that they are in the making of Guitar Hero: Metallica, which is set to be released in Quarter 1 of 2009. In addition to this, they’ve also announced that within the fiscal year of 2009, they’ll be releasing Guitar Hero: On Tour for the DS, and Guitar Hero IV across multiple platforms.

• Nintendo has been running with supply shortages on everything, from the Wii system itself, to it’s latest release, Wii Fit. Unfortunately, reports have shown that this shortage, at least in the U.S., are intentional. Since the dollar has a weaker value than the euro at the moment, Nintendo is shipping most of it’s Wii Fit units to Europe instead of to the U.S.

• Not even a year after it’s release, Infinity Ward announced that they have sold over 10 million copies of Call of Duty 4 worldwide, with the Xbox 360 version being it’s top seller.

• Former Minnesota Timberwolf and now Boston Celtic Kevin Garnett was announced to be the cover athlete for NBA 2K9 this fall. This announcement was made right before the beginning of the NBA Finals Game 1 earlier this week.

• According to reports across the board, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has become the biggest MMO launch since World of Warcraft. The latest announcement that Funcom released stated that they had shipped one million units worldwide. This doesn’t mean one million subscribers, but rather units shipped to retailers.

• Once again, Electronic Arts has postponed it’s Take-Two takeover. It seems, though, that there might finally be a deadline for when they can make this hostile takeover. At the earliest, this means that July 18th would be when EA can make their first move towards taking Take-Two over.