The Geeky Brit

In this article William Usher comments on the distinct lack of top quality games for the Wii. I am really happy with my purchase, and love playing it when I can. But at some point I am going to tire of Wii Sports, and want to move on to something more involving.

I have a feeling my first purchase may be the Wii Harry Potter game (casting spells with the wiimote sounds to geeky to miss!), but other than that and a couple of sports games that I know I will purchase (Tiger Woods, Fifa, Madden) I am hearing of no real amazing titles coming in the future. I mean, where is the killer software title? Playstation had GTA, Xbox had Halo, and the new gen of Sony and Microsoft consoles have their own killer titles. Is Wii Sports it tho? Really? Come on Nintendo, you must realize that with the enourmous success you are having on the hardware sales side of things, you must come up with something special – oh and don’t count on everyone jumping onboard with buying a mario game. Alot of this new “non-gaming” crowd will not want to go there…

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I just went to youtube.com for my usual sunday evenings video humor, and I got the following message:

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

Oops.. Well I am glad it happens to the best of us at sometime.

I am watching the very first episode now on Joost. Not quite sure how I missed this one… Very geeky and cool!

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“Hat tip” to rob for this link about what it means for an american company to be sold to a foreigner.

Ya know I had been wondering about whether we would have to rename our fries, toast, and cafe. After 2003 when France spoke out against the US led invasion of Iraq, the company went to some weird extremes to disassociate themselves with anything french. Renaming anything (it seems) with the word “France” or “French” in it. Thus the birth of our Freedom Fries etc.

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