Here’s what’s been going on at video gaming sister site Kotaku this past week.
The Nintendo DS Lite finally made its way stateside, sold like hotcakes (a mathematical constant of 68,250 per day, or 47.3958333 DS/min.) and generally pleased gamers looking for a handheld to match their iPods. But Nintendo got a bit of bad news, as Hong Kong criminals always bet on black, stealing a shipment of black DS Lites and DS games to the tune of a cool $2 mil.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/is-the-ds-lite-doing-well-duh-yeah-180826.php
Xbox overlord Bill Gates announced that he’ll be stepping down from his full-time position at Microsoft to focus on his charitable efforts. Considering that I still don’t have my hands on a complimentary Xbox 360, I’m crying foul on his ability to give ’til it hurts.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/bill-gates-to-work-parttime-181152.php
But Peter Moore and crew are not giving up on Xbox 360 backwards compatability. No, sir! Pete actually admitted that BC is important to MS. But the proof is in the downloadable pudding, as some twenty-odd titles (mostly crap) were added to the growing list of supported original Xbox games.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/peter-moore/moore-corrects-backwards-compat-crazy-talk-180206.php
In some wacky “Engrish”-style hilarity, Sony looks like they’ll be firing their PS3 controller copywriter after this sperring spelling mistake was caught by an eagle-eyed Kotaku reader.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/omg-playstation-3-controller-spelling-mistake-update-its-real-180260.php
Blizzard banned some 30,000 World of Warcraft accounts, citing illegal third-party tools used for gold farming. In other account news, I deleted my WoW account after not having played for 4 months. A great weight has been lifted from my life and debit card.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/goldfarming/blizzard-bans-30000-world-of-warcraft-accounts-180232.php
On the positive PC side, Half-Life 2 Episode II details started to leak out of Valve, courtesy of the current PC Gamer. Check out the summary for more.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/source/first-halflife-2-episode-two-details-181239.php
Finally, there were so many video highlights this week, here’s a big long list of pure fun.
Game Over! Stop-Motion Food Rocks Frogger
The Greatest 5 Yr.-Old DDR Dancer Evar
