News Roundup: Infected Stroke Summer Sports

• Cry of the Infected is an indie first-person zombie shooter -- with you as the zombie.

• Too lazy to read?  Let Defunct Games read for you (!!!) in "Episode 2: Cyril Reads Ninja Gaiden (Chapters 3 + 4)."
• WarCry has a full-fledged preview of one of the next big sci-fi MMOs coming out, Stargate Worlds.
• Discussion:  Console MMOs?
• ActionTrip previews Volition's upcoming action game, Saints Row 2, for the X360.
• Sean Bell of MMORPG.com sends back a missive on his time in Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures' beta.
• Keep your CPU chillaxin' with the Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler.

• VIDEOS -- Memento Mori German Trailer; Aggression: Reign over Europe Trailer; Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball Behind the Scenes Trailer; Operation Darkness Trailer; Commander in Chief Trailer; Summer Sports: Paradise Island Badminton, Mini-Golf and Volleyball Trailers;

• SCREENS -- Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball (X360); A Stroke of Fate (PC); Black Mirror 2 (PC); Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (PC) [High Elves and the Inevitable City]; R-Type Command (PSP); Drone Tactics (DS); The Incredible Hulk (Multi) [a render]; Cry of the Infected (PC); MiniCopter: Adventure Flight (Wii); Strategic Command: Patton Drives East (PC); The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (PC); The Chronicles of Spellborn (PC); Elf Online (PC) ["Pet Carnival" Expansion art]; Summon Night: Twin Age (DS).