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Only yesterday I brought youNintendo’s most pompous claim yet— that gamers were apparently bored until Nintendo rubbed the cobwebs from their eyes and introduced our messiah in the Wii. However,according to research, it is Nintendo that’s the boring one. A recent Japanese report revealed that nearly 75% of Wii owners haven’t touched their consoles in a long time, and goes on to question why there hasn’t been the same kind of excitement for software that we saw withWii Sports....

Nintendo has pushed out a surprise (but small) update for the Nintendo 3DS. So if you try to log on to that eShop — you know, to get all of thatawesome stuff that was released today— you’ll have to first download this update. What does it do? Well, if you’d already updated last week, not all that much. Nintendo has released the basic “improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments to enhance the user experience” line, which is meaningless to most people....

While our own super duper Destructoid review ofSuper Paper Mariowill be coming soon, ye oldeGameJewhas done his own video thang on the new Wii title. Take a look and add your own two cents on what you think.

It continues. I’m as surprised as anyone that we actually stuck to our guns and recorded another videogame movie commentary exactly when we said we would. Either way, it’s here. It’s not as good as theStreet Fightermovie commentary, of course, but it’s not bad. Get ithere. No highlights this time, as the entire thing is basically just one big running stream of weird riffs and offensive jokes. I will say thatGuncannon‘s “you’ve lost your balls” riff is as close as we can get to announcing a best listener question....

As always, it’s time for another Podtoid and, as always, we’re inadvertently trying something new this time around: rather than spending two hours focusing on recent news stories and bitching out America’s conservatives, we’re going to (more or less) just stick to one subject. We’re going to continue one of our discussions from last week — namely, what makes a memorable gaming character? Why do we like some and hate others?...

Brink, the upcoming first-person shooter fromEnemy Territorydeveloper Splash Damage, is bringing a novel approach to a crowded market. It incorporates elements from a variety of popular genres, but does so in a way that makes it seem like a unique, multifaceted experience. I had the opportunity to playBrinkat a recent press event in New York. Based on the hour that I spent with the game, I think it’s going to be one of the standout shooters of the year....

We were just sent over the package art forPrinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties Dood!and you may see it in all its glory in the gallery. But the other bit of information we were told is that folks who found the originalPrinnyto be too difficult will have it easier this time around.ÂNIS has heard the bleating and moaning over how hardPrinnywas (and, to be fair, it’s pretty goddamn hard) and is implementing a “Baby” difficulty mode for the sequel....

You cheeky Brits have beenenjoyingProfessor Layton and the Eternal Divafor almost a year now. Now it’s time for the filthy Yanks to get our cryptic on! At the Anime Expo in Los Angeles yesterday, anime distributor Viz Media announced that it would be bringing theLaytonmovie to our shores this fall, although no release date was specified. I can’t wait! I’m gonna celebrate by posing my Revoltech Layton figurine in obscene positions!...

Sony is a company that was once the talk of the tech sector. With their gargantuan successes – including the ubiquitous Walkman and their line of chic televisions – Sony has traditionally been the Icarus of technology, soaring above their competition on wings made of dreams and solidified wax. Sadly (for them, not this analogy) Sony flew too high, and has recently seen a string of failures including the MiniDisc, every DRM scheme they have ever concocted, and last year’s storied $1....

Quick Hit Football, the free-to-playfootball strategy RPG, has secured a multi-year licensing deal with the National Football League. The agreement will see the 32 NFL team names as well as their logos and uniforms — along with the logos for the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, NFC, and AFC — make their way to the browser-based football game this fall. The last timeMaddencame out for the PC was2007, so this makesQuick Hitthe first officially licensed football game on the platform in three years....

I really love the Rabbids. I’m not terribly interested in many of the mini-game focused titles that have been released in their name, but I want them to be successful if for no other reason than so more videos and ads featuring the lovable scamps will be created. The pair of videos Ubisoft sent over today don’t have all that much of the Rabbids to see, though they do appear. These videos promotingRabbids Go Homeare focused on humans, the poor bastards being terrorized by Rabbids desperate to build their tower of junk to the moon....

This summer EA announced development on the PlayStation 3 version ofCommand & Conquer 3: Red Alerthad been suspended. Knowing full well that PS3 gamerswant hot chicksand RTS action like every other person, EA has resumed work on the project. The game’s producer, David Silverman, toldVideoGamerthe reason why the title was shelved for a period of time and confirmed that the game is “definitely” being worked on.From the interview: When we announced Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 we announced there was a PS3 version, then we decided to go on the record and say that we’ve suspended it to make sure that RA3 was able to come out to the level of quality that it must adhere to to be called a C&C game....

The save feature is something we simply expect from videogames today. Saving has become so ingrained into the medium that practically all games now do it for you automatically. But when console gaming was still in its earlier stages, complicated passwords were much more common, probably due to the expense of manufacturing cartridges that used a battery to maintain your save files. The problem with passwords, apart from the irritation of having to enter them in using a controller, is that they were one more thing you had to keep track of....