Admit it.  When you heard about the recent week-long PSN outage (that’s how long it lasted, right?), you reflected on the ridiculously high rate at which Xbox 360s spontaneously stop working and read about the inane, childish bickering at Infinity Ward, you had one thought and one thought only: GET ME A WII NOW!
Though the [...]

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In a joint press release, soulless corporate giants Sony and Microsoft admitted that the console war was unwinnable, much like the war on drugs or the war on rainbows.
Quoting former Police lead-singer and current tantric sex master Sting, the press release read, in part, “‘There’s no such thing as a winnable war/ It’s a lie [...]

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Every six months or so, there’s a back log of Wii exclusive titles that release that make me stop for a half a second and say to myself, “Hmmm…I wonder if I should get a Wii yet?”. I then trundle down to my local electronics store with its ridiculously liberal return policy and “rent” a Wii [...]

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If we learned anything from 1992’s Academy Award winning Encino Man, it’s that evolution is an inescapable part of our life, and that Brendan Frasier would ravish western cinema with his unparalleled thespianic skills for decades to come.  (Having Pauley Shore to provide a contrast certainly helped his cause in this department.)  Venture past the [...]

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As many of you may have read, two other staff members have given their points on why one game scoring system is better than the other. One thought trophies were better than achievements, while the other thought that achievements were tops.
Honestly, they both are a waste of time, as both trophies and achievements are completely [...]

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Well, it happened once again.  The “hardcore” Wii fans kick and scream for a “hardcore” title for their little girly system.  A big boy M-rated title releases and receives generally good marks across the board from all the major reviewers out there.  Finally, the monthly sales numbers come back, and everyone is shocked at how [...]

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I’m sorry, Mario, but our princess is in another castle…with a creepy little zombie dog and his intrusive tape recorder. That’s right, folks, this week I had the privilege of sitting down with the lovely Princess Peach! Don’t ask me why she was such a willing guest. Perhaps she found me dashingly handsome, or she [...]

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It was recently noted by Frontier Developments head David Braben (developers of the WiiWare game Lost Winds) that the reason Wii Metacritic scores are usually so abysmally low compared to the rest of the pack is that these games are being reviewed by “core gamers” and that “family focused games tend to appeal less to [...]

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In a speech to the American Medical Association in Chicago yesterday, he had the following dig:

The second step that we can all agree on is to invest more in preventive care so that we can avoid illness and disease in the first place. That starts with each of us taking more responsibility for our [...]

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