Nice.

Nintendo should immediately hire those guys as level designers.

"THIS IS SPARTA!"

Sounds cool, Meridian is a company that doesn't slouch on quality, but their prices certainly are made to match. This is one of those HiFi stereo companies that makes BIG money equipment. Like CD players that cost more than your Mini Cooper.

They're the l337357!

Having a cell phone, especially for a high school student, is an important safety tool. A kid needs to be able to get in contact with someone in case of an emergency. To take a kid's cell phone away for a week puts them in danger.

Parents don't buy their sons and daughters cell phones to conduct business. They get them so that they can get in touch with them when necessary. Have the kids shut them off during the day, but telling them that they can't have them at all is a great way to needlessly put them at risk.

I blame ebay. The internet is making people more violent.

Bomberman '93 seals it. I'm buying a Wii at launch.

Moonlight Sonata

This is really appalling. The biggest improvement in the next gen (being X360 and PS3) is high definition gaming. To limit users to SD out of the box is absurd. This is different from a DVD player folks. The PS3 is designed as an HD box. Now, the 360 should have come with component cables on both SKUs, so I won't give them a pass on the $300 version lacking them, MS failed gamers there, but Sony is charging $600, the least they could do is include a cable that would cost them at most a dollar or two to manufacture.

It seems that the HD era is going to start us out with only 480 lines of resolution... I'd bet that Korea's got a cell phone that can handle that.