UK tabloid The Sun reports that an average of 10 Brits are hospitalized a week for Wii-related injuries. If that statistic was higher, I'd know what to give my annoying neighbor for Christmas.

One of Russia's most distinguished game developer and publisher, 1C company, has announced two new game projects that will be their first on the next generation consoles. The two games are based on Captain Blood novels and the successful IL-2 Sturmovik flight combat simulation series.  Both are now heading to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (to North America with help), but even handhelds will feel some love as well.

Achtung! claims Michael Stiel of the Xbox Linux team, during the Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin, "the Wii is the perfect goal for hackers." The gist of his speech is that the Wii is perfectly hackable because of its backwards-compatibility with the Gamecube. As such, the Wii has inherited a couple of hacks from its predecessor.

For example, a variant of the Action Replay hack works with the Wii. Hackers also found a back door in, well, as Google Translate goes, "With the interface, over which the DVD drive assembly with the core of the Gamecube communicates." This probably refers to the interface between the DVD drive and the legacy Gamecube parts or code, or so says another participant in the Chaos Comm. Congress, Felix Domke. The most successful hack for the Wii, he says, is one similar to the DVD firmware hack on the Xbox 360.

Speaking of which: compared to the Wii, the 360 is in fact a harder nut to hack. And the PS3? That's a different story, says Domke. His opinion is that Sony has provided a "compromise" to hackers by offering Linux capability in the box. On the other hand, it didn't stop some people looking for exploits...

UPDATE: Guess what we found on the Tube of You (as Borat might put it)? It's a video, it seems, of a presentation during the Chaos Communications Congress, explaining comparisons between GameCube and Wii, and theories on DVD security and hacking.

We came to know the first one as "The Finest Hour." Then they gave us the "Big Red One." Now, with the release of the third installment of Call of Duty just around the corner, it's about time this WWII epic game from Activision receive a proper name.

We found this development at GameKult, a French online publication. And we can't help but think how appropriate and coincidental everything is. Call of Duty 3 bring us back amidst the fury of combat during the Normandy invasion. This historic campaign went down in history as the very mission that made the liberation of Paris possible and brought the Allies a step closer to Berlin.

With this in mind, Activision very well thought to name the new title En Marche Vers Paris (March to Paris). Also, GameKult added that March to Paris will be shipping together with the first two titles. As of the moment, this California-based publisher has yet to comment about the matter.

Call of Duty 3 is a multi-platform title that will see earliest release for Wii on October 1. The PS3 and X360 versions ship a little later on November 17.