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Yeah 2300 hours JST is 3 pm UK time and I've got a few 20110 error codes already. :-( However Goldeneye 007 seems to be still working...(no idea for how long) I still think the actual time of switching off sucks especially for everyone in North America where it was still morning. I guess Glu mobile won't be on my Xmas card list this year.

Interesting, I remember last year when WiiConnect 24 went down, Nintendo stated that the servers were closing on 28th June but I was able carry on using the service until 1 am the following day. Personally, I think Nintendo/GameSpy/Glu Mobile should switch everything off at midnight local time so that people can at least play this evening. Shame to this service is going soon, ah the memories!

I've never seen myself to be an online gamer at all really and I still don't have broadband where I'm living but recently I've tried to play some Wii and DS games online some even for the very first time and also making sure that any DLC that I can has been downloaded. I hope that as gaming continues to change the single player and multiplayer offline modes will still be there and not diluted further. The GameSpy server shut down is going to affect a lot people and not just DS/Wii users.

I've played all the RE series on console and handheld so far across many systems but to me the game which sticks into my mind is the Gamecube remake of Resident Evil. Resident Evil 4 did what it set out to do, it changed the system of game play and most importantly won back old fans of the series who had lost interest in Resident Evil and also it won new fans to the franchise. It's a great game and I bought it three times on other systems but it's not my favourite of the series.

The short answer is yes Nintendo does have what it takes to produce hardware but the only problem is 'they' can't really sell it well enough through advertising and marketing. Also I believe the company still holds Gunpei Yokoi's view of 'Lateral thinking with withered technology' in good regard.

It's good news but it will be even better news when its gets a western release date.

If Quake was done today- Also I miss video games being on tape/floppy disc and long loading times. Yes, I'm old enough to remember all of that!

I agree to all of that plus I would add 'bots'. I never had the internet for many years so games with bots were the nearest thing I got to multi-player gaming. People might be lamenting about the fact that Nintendo is going to remove Wi-Fi gaming next month on DS and Wii but when online gaming gets removed from PS3 and Xbox 360 games, people will soon realise that some of their games are largely worthless.

When I was younger I used to hear people saying that politicians were all the same which I disagreed with but in now it seems they were largely right. There's two politicians who are good orators in the UK right now - George Galloway and Nigel Farage. I probably won't vote for either of them but they are interesting people. I watched both debates and regardless of who did better it did provide a boost for both LD and UKIP. I'm going to vote next month in the European elections but like most of the UK (without going on the net) have no idea who my current MEP is.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Having survived the massive crowds in London yesterday and asking myself what is everyone really celebrating, I'm thinking of going to Monserrat and celebrating St. Patrick's Day there one day instead.

I've just read about this and it's a shock even more to know that he recently got married as well. 34 is young as well. R.I.P. Before coming to N-Europe a few years ago, I used to listen to Giant Bombcast a lot and before that I used to visit Gamespot. I left Gamespot shortly after Jeff Gerstmann and others made a stand and I respected them for having the balls to set up a new site like Giant Bomb which felt more real than Gamespot was at the time. I'll remember Ryan for his quality of reviews and sense of humour/humor, something which is sadly lacking on other sites.

Voted for Greece but glad they didn't win as they would have had to fork out running the show next year. For once this years Eurovision host, Petra Mede was good as was Graham Norton.

What does this mean for Nintendo? It means that they should get their act together and try and push/advertise the Wii U during 2013 and increase the number of Wii U users out there. Not so keen on the Xbox One (Xbox Won) name but maybe that's just me.

Modern games take time to develop. I'd hate to see a situation in say a years time when there are more Wii U users around with EA trying to play catch up because of decisions and comments that they made now.

I watched a documentary recently on NHK (Japanese TV) which I had seen before which talked about women over 40 having children and the problems that could be linked with it. Also I remember the stories from women who couldn't have children (after many IVF sessions) and the pain and stress they had because of it. I wonder how as a society we value and respect people who don't have children or who have children later in life? I know, we look down on them and that isn't a society I want to be part of. A few years ago I remember reading about J-pop star 'Kumi Koda' who said women should have children before they are 35 because after that age they have “rotten” fluid in their wombs. While it's great that Kumi had her first child before reaching 30 and was unmarried at the time (this is no longer something of real shame) this doesn't mean that people after that age can't have children. It also proves that some people in the media have no idea about life and should just stick to singing or whatever talent they have.

Just before I got to 30, I wanted in my 30's to work hard, get married, have kids and keep that marriage strong....but life didn't turn out like that and 10 years on I feel differently to what I thought my life would be like now. Things change and while it's nice to set in your mind "I want to get married and have kids before I'm 25/30/35..." life doesn't always work out as you want it to be. My younger brother got married and then divorced (his wife cheated on him) but married again and has two children with his second wife, my younger sister got married, had a child but now is in the process of getting a divorce although she has a new boyfriend now. Although I'm in a long term relationship, I don't want to get married and this is for a variety of reasons and although I don't have any children I think I would feel sad if I didn't have any in the future. My girlfriend already has children from her a previous relationship and doesn't want anymore. Marriage isn't for everyone and we shouldn't push or expect people into thinking that marriage will lead to children or that marriage=successful life. Also in general people are getting married later on in life and that means the chances of having children decreases. Look towards your grandparents era and they in general got married (before living together) and had children earlier than people today. Finally, there are many successful people (straight or gay) who are not married or living with someone who don't have children and this doesn't mean they are selfish or a failure in life. In today's world more and more people live together, have or don't have children or become a mother or father to someone else's child and never get married, in fact marriage doesn't even enter their head. Perhaps we can't see the massive changes that have happened over the last few decades. I think also we need to take a serious look as to why many marriages fail. People have this notion of a fairy tale marriage or having children will improve their lives and it can if people work at it and I mean really work at it together. People need to see beyond the glossy magazines and the fairy tale and face truths about marriage, having children and the life commitment to both. It's hard work. All I can do for now is be the best uncle I can to my brother and sister's children and that's what I intend to do. Perhaps in another 10 years time I might feel differently about children/marriage, perhaps it will be too late to do anything then but then again perhaps not.

I wonder if this game will ever see light of day on any system. Too Human started off on the PS1>GameCube>Xbox360>Destroy all remaining unsold games and that taints this game directly/indirectly. Could this game be another 'sadness', no surely not. Interesting to learn about this game but I might give it a miss. Don't like that this is a digital download only either. If I remember rightly Nintendo still own rights to the sanity meter (as others have mentioned) so they need to deal with them if they want to it be more like ED.

It might not be Western enough for some people so they will avoid it without playing it and seeing what's it like to begin with. I'm going to get this regardless.

There will be EA titles coming out for the Wii U just not the ones that need the frostbite engine. The engine could be modified and hopefully EA will see the wisdom of doing this. I'd be interested to know how much development time and money is needed to produce a Wii U game and how much this will compare to the Xbox 720/PS4. During the Wii era, EA produced a separate division just to concentrate on making Wii games. They were quicker and cheaper to produce. From a business point of view, I hope for their sake they can get a good return on develop costs from the PS4/720 and I think at the start they won't.

EA need to sort out their damage control pronto however Nintendo need to see what EA will bring to the console in the future and have some kind of dialogue with them. Perhaps the company is busy developing games for the PS4/Xbox 720 right now and expect masses of people buying them as soon as they come out. No, console users grow with time and the Wii U has only been out for less than a year. A price cut would help however. Blame EA as much as you want but others too are to blame.

If it's some kind of only available outside of Japan as a digital download then count me out. Perhaps a Wii U version of the original Okami, a 3DS version of Okamiden or Okami 2 who knows.

I've seen a lot of things happen in the video game industry from when I got my Commodore 16 onwards until the present day but I'm not so keen on the big push for online (and then switching that service off), dlc (can't complete the whole game without it) and purging/punishing people who buy second hand video games. I can only see this increasing in the future. In the far future, I see us just buying a video games box (with the words Sony, Nintendo...on it) that will allow us to buy games that we can only play online. We won't own anything, just the box and the controller because everything else will be cloud based.

In the remaining two months or so left, I hope I can use the WiiConnect24 service a bit more before it closes. I've bought a few games recently just so that I just it.