Wednesday brings the unofficial start of the unofficial start of the weekend -- the official-unofficial start of the weekend being Thursday.

How's that for figuring out something original to say about the Jan Brady of weekdays?

It also, however, brings you a new Humpdate episode. Edie and Simon DI dig deep into the first half of the week's news. Despite being deep in the pre-E3 doldrums, there's a hell of a lot going on. Nothing official, but it's the unofficial stuff that gets our tongues wagging.

Topics and links after the jump...

This week, Simon and Edie discuss:

and suggests a number of game developers ideas for what may be unveiled at E3, including details about new Xbox Live avatars, Guitar Hero: World Tour's controllers, karaoke game Lips, Forza 3, and Spiderman games. Too many to talk about in one podcast.

The , and if they're true, they allude to potential big worries about the game developer.

to put more workforce behind Final Fantasy XIII.

. Look -- it's the Sony iPhone!

, according to Laurent Fischer. Who's your "geek or otaku" now, bitch?

Spore Creature Creator can be run on older Intel Macs. You just need to tweak things a bit. .

Of course, having a PC doesn't make Spore CC any easier. . Whups!

Rumor has it that due to problems with Sony Cambridge. Nobody's talking, tho.

PS3 update 2.4 will make you smile. .

Call of Duty: World at War trailer will debut on Xbox Live this weekend. We'll all be watching very closely.

Letters from Unreal Tournament clan . We love letters!

Thanks to iTunes commentors z.thirteen and Jynx32! Yay team!

Enjoy