1. Over at Nintendo’s website, NOA Matt talks up licensed games for the Wii.
2. In addition, the monthly preview for the newest Nintendo Power is now available.
3. Over at GameTrailers, they’ve added their review of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for the DS, as well as the first gameplay footage of Halo 3, including the Brutes, with a documentary.
4. GameSpot sits down with Ubisoft to discuss the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and its games, plus some screens.
5. Speaking of the TMNT movie, a cool bit of news is that Patrick Stewart has been cast as the villain, Max Winters.

   I find the news to be awesome, righteous, and bossanova.

6. Next-Gen takes a look at the… ahem, “Gaffes and Blunders of 2006.”

   No points for guessing what made #1.

7. Oh, what the hell. It’s Christmastime. A million points if you guess what made #1. For everyone!
8. Hmm, between this and the shootings, I guess you could say that the PlayStation 3 was #1, with a bullet.
9. Go Nintendo has an important safety announcement from G4′s Attack of the Show and Nintendo.
10. Game|Life reports that if you really hate the way the Wii Classic controller’s cord comes out of the bottom that much, there’s a hack which allows you to fix it.
11. Via Game|Life, NeoGAF looks at the worst offenders of the XBox 360′s Live microtransactions.
12. Joystiq has found an interesting online shopping game, where you have to acquire all the items on your list, possibly even beating other customers to get them, lest you fail at the spirit of Christmas.
13. Joystiq and Forbes pull back the curtain and reveal where the 60 smackeroos for a new game go.

    …does anyone say “smackeroos” anymore?

14. If you’re looking to grab an XBox 360 in the 11th hour before Christmas, then brother, has Toys R Us got a deal for you.
15. A PS3 for a dollar?

    Think you’re good enough?

16. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

    One game.

    Two systems.

    How do they stack up?

17. If you missed Sony’s failed attempt at viral marketing before they pulled the plug, you’re in luck.
18. Kotaku dreams up some connections between Wii games and Wii Channels, thanks to an allusion from Nintendo’s forums about Madden using the Wii Weather Channel to affect in-game weather (an idea Nintendo Power really loved a few months back).
19. A new game system may be good and all, but this gift is simply da’ bomb.
20. Hey, look who got linked on Kotaku…
21. Uh-oh, is Wii60 dead?
22. …the hell?
23. Steve Fritz at Newsarama gives his tribute to the recently-departed Joe Barbera.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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