A slow week begets a slow weekend, I suppose. Here’s a few tidbits from around and about.

1. Don’t forget! Today starts the Canadian EB Games Wii and PS3 preorders! If you have about $200 to put down on it, that is… and are an EB Insider, according to EB employees.

   Sadly, I won’t be taking part, instead looking for a job so that maybe I can someday enjoy a Wii at all… or at least have a roof over my head to play it in.

2. Go Nintendo features a video which showcases a piece of music by Kazumi Totaka which has made its way through a number of different Nintendo video games for 10 years.
3. Steve Kent talks video games, likening Nintendo to an old friend with a drinking problem, and betting XBox 360 beats all the rest this holiday season.

   I do feel it’s also worth noting that the company is now under a different head than it was with the past examples.

4. Yeah, I guess any plans of going to Nintendo World for the Wii launch are sort of dashed now, as they’ve stopped taking preorders, seemingly for good this time.
5. Go Nintendo presents: The Toronto Star vs. the Nintendo DS Lite, a tale of a mother who just doesn’t want to introduce video games into her family, and how Nintendo’s strategy is working.
6. If you’re looking at Bubble Bobble Revolution as a potential purchase, it’s best to hold off for now.
7. Joystiq reports that Dead Rising will be $39.99 at Best Buy this week.
8. Joystiq sides with eBay on the new system auction cancellations.
9. And on today’s edition of Sony Sez’, courtesy of Kotaku:

   “We’re pretty pleased with UMD… UMD has a fantastic attachment ratio. Where we’ve struggled a little is getting a decent proposition for full-length movies. UMD is not the problem?it’s getting the right content that’s the challenge.”

   Big K ain’t buying that one, though.

10. Sony’s first North American PS3 commercial, “The Wait.”

    The Wait is on.

11. Wow, I know there are no new Mega Man X games on the planned horizon, but washing cars?

    Man, I know times are tough, X, but you can do so much better. I can truly empathize with your position…

12. Kotaku links to a closed eBay auction that is a holy grail of sorts for Game & Watch collectors.

    Even if you can’t afford it, it’s that sort of curiousity that makes it worth a peek.

13. Oh, wow. WeeMee? I wonder if Nintendo has a case.
14. Press The Buttons asks, why all the lies?

LBD “Nytetrayn”

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