1) So the guy who made God of War has lost interest in storytelling.

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2) Evidently, Nintendo hates us, and conveniently, there are 10 reasons why.

As I’m sure no one would be surprised by, I’m a Nintendo fan, and I do have a few issues with the list.

Nintendo aren’t saints, there’s definitely some issues from the past, “sins of the father,” one might say. I’m not trying to polish a halo around Nintendo’s collective head, just issue some debate to the points made above.

1: The Wii name. Like it, love it, or hate it, it’s here to stay, Nintendo’s stated their reasons, and part of it being that “Wii” is pretty much universal, something “Revolution” would not have been. That said, let’s hear a better name for it than either “Wii” or “Revolution.”

2) I’ve never had to blow the dust out of a game cartridge since the NES. Ever.

Additionally, while I don’t think Nintendo made the right decision going with cartridges, I don’t think they made the wrong one, either. Prior to N64′s development, SEGA CD, CDi, Jaguar, TurboCD, and 3DO were your systems showing off what CDs could do, and it just wasn’t as grand as it would later become, with the PlayStation. After Sony showed “this shit can kick some ass,” well, it became another ballgame, but I imagine to change things on N64 could have caused further delays and more turmoil.

Should N64 have used CDs? Probably, yeah(though lack of load times was generally appreciated). For sure.

Was it wrong of them to go with cartridges? Not exactly, they still made a good showing with carts.

3) A tragedy, I admit, but it did have a few neat games that I think would be neat to see reformated for Wii download play as a standard game. I hear Wario Land for the VB is one of the series’ best.

4) Yeah, that is a bit of overkill. While I’ve heard that none are really terrible in their own individual right, it sounds like many of them can be more redundant than Mega Man sequelization if you’ve played others.

5) Not even going to justify this by debating against it.

6) Can’t argue this one.

7) Too far? Give me a break, if Nintendo didn’t do it, everyone else would have.

8) GameCube didn’t really fail, it just didn’t have a dominant market share. Big difference between not having a larger market share and not turning a profit, which is the main issue here.

As for the retro stuff? Yeah, the games were a bit of a rip, especially compared to Japan, but damn, that limited-edition GBA SP was hot, and I’m still pissed that I can’t own one of those, while “limited-edition” platinum GameCubes are in abundance…

9) These are just about the only sports games I play. Keep ‘em coming, says I. If I want “real” baseball or tennis, I’ll go outside.

10) Poor baby. This is why I seldom tread into rumors unless they hold a particular interest, and clearly note that it is a rumor.

Random story: Nintendo also used to have a cab company, if memory serves, among other businesses.

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3) Evidently, the country of Japan decided to get a second job.

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4) Kudos to Sony, if this doesn’t involve spyware and the like.

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5) Plenty of things annoy me about the Mega Man compilations. One thing would be that they seem to be the ONLY ones Capcom will put on Nintendo, not counting that one little bundle of love coming for the GBA, while collections like this and others(Street Fighter) stick to PS2, PSP, and maybe XBox.

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6) South Park‘s Matt Stone and Trey Parker chat with IGN about Tom Cruise, Family Guy, and constantly creating controversy.

Q: You guys have been on for ten years. You have plush toys. You have collectibles. You’ve got wireless games. Apparently you even have a travel sweepstakes. Are you guys afraid of becoming respectable?

Trey Parker: No. Look at the s**t we do, you know?

Matt Stone: It was, like, our worst nightmare was winning the Emmy. We were just like, “Oh, God.” That was our nightmare.

Trey Parker: It really was. Winning the Emmy really was like, you’re kind of the punk rock kid at school, and suddenly you get Student of the Month. And you’re like, “This isn’t cool.”

Good stuff.

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7) Following in the footsteps of their Why Game Developers Hate Game Reviewers piece, GameDaily now has Why Video Game Journalism Sucks and Why Gamers Hate Certain Companies.

Man, lotta hate going around…

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8) Joystiq and Gameworld take a look at if the PSP’s number is up.

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9) Ouch, guess Nintendo isn’t all sweetness and nice on repairs after all, though I imagine if enough of a case is made, they may change their stance.

Not that they’re all bad on it. Either way, fifty bucks, not too bad. Sort of says “be more careful” without totally collapsing your gonads for negligence or accidents.

It is business, after all.

I do wonder if people are bending the top portion back too far, though.

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10) Awesome, a lost Penny Arcade comic.

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11) More Animal Crossing The Movie stuff.

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12) GAMEPRO TV!!!!!!

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13) Super Mario War: the Mushroom Kingdom Deathmatch.

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14) Yet more Gaming is Art stuff.

Man, I love this stuff. Especially that first Mario one…

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15) Rentals: The Next Generation

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16) Cheapass Gamer notes a $9.82 sale at Wal-mart.com. Get ‘em fast!

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17) bpmomega has alerted me to something I missed at Nintendo.com: A free Animal Crossing: Wild World virtual gift at Toys R Us!

But, is it available in Canada?

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18) Oh, sweet… IDW is making a new adaptation of the original TransFormers The Movie. And Don’s doing the art! This is going to be great.

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LBD “Nytetrayn”

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