Wii Hits Stores November, Mario Ecstatic

Nintendo’s much talked about video game console finally has a release date — it will be launched in the Americas on November 19th with a price tag of $249.99 or seventeen gold coins. The system, called Wii (pronounced “wee” but the name is bad enough for fans to consider, “why” instead) is set to break all video gaming standards with a new kind of controller that will detect 3-D space. The long-awaited console can break or make Nintendo — competing with Microsoft’s and Sony’s more adult-oriented systems — but it’s a gamble that the company that made italian plumbers famous is willing to take.

Nintendo Introduces New DS Lite

Nintendo, following in the path of such companies like Coors and Budweiser, has proudly announced the arrival of the updated version of the DS — the DS lite. iPod-white and Apple-futuristic, the DS Lite is a completely improvement of the original DS (released in October 2004) — and is guaranteed to get you drunk a whole lot slower.