Posted December 21, 2006 
Comments(0) This is a VERY expensive way to wrap a present…
Now, I wonder if anyone threw out the wrapping paper? Though personally, I’d ditch the player, and take the money. “Hey! Does anyone want my Shuffle? I’ll trade you for your wrapping paper…”
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Posted December 21, 2006 Comments(0) Vancouver, BC – (December 21, 2006) – The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC) joined today in commending the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for their December 14, 2006 raid of Toy Revenge, a retail outlet in the Admiralty Centre Mall in Richmond, British Columbia that was selling pirated entertainment software and modified PlayStation 2 consoles.
Posted December 20, 2006 Comments(0) The gloves are off!
But according to Satchell, it’s still to early to tell whether the Wii will be the winner in the end. “It’s going to start very fast, it’s a cool thing that’s different, but I’m not sure how big it’s going to be in the long term,” he said.
Satchell also questioned whether Microsoft’s other rival in the console space is taking the correct approach when it comes to online services and user-created content, stating, “I don’t think Sony has the right focus. I’m not even sure, looking at how they execute, that they even think that it’s important.
Source: GameIndustry
Posted December 20, 2006 Comments(0) Something is wrong when people are thinking about Robot Rights when they haven’t even gotten human rights…right…right?
If you’ve got someone who loves you, holds down a steady job, helps you out, reads your mail to you, takes care of you, and even gives birth, it’s only fair that they enjoy the same rights and liberties as everyone else, right? What if that individual is powered by an Intel processor? Concerns over the status of robots in our society around 2056 have emerged from “one of 270 forward-looking papers sponsored by Sir David King,” the UK government’s chief scientist.
Source: Engadget
Posted December 20, 2006 Comments(1) This morning, Nintendo Wii users received an email that informed them of a Wii Strap Replacement program. The skillfully crafted email that leaves out the term “recall” is instructing customers to have their original straps replaced with new thicker ones…
Nintendo has been quietly replacing straps for customers for a couple weeks now, but this seems to be the first time that Nintendo has notified the public on mass of this replacement. This may have been prompted by the recent class action lawsuit launched against them. Nintendo urges consumers to go to this site for information on how to order a free replacement strap for their controllers.
I guess at a cost of $158 per unit to manufacture the Wii, they can afford to absorb these costs in the interest of public safety. However some would argue it is more to prevent additional public stupidity.
