The Super Smash Bros. Brawl site has announced that their upcoming title for the Wii will support multi-player over the system's wi-fi connection. In an improvement over earlier Nintendo games that have utilized the wi-fi, players will not need to register friend codes in order to find a match, as there will be a service that will allow players to battle randomly selected people over the internet. Parents of young gamers should be pleased with how this function will work, as players will be unable to communicate with each other and no records will be kept of the battles, keeping children protected from potential predators. However, players that to do register and compete with friends will be able to track their statistics and send short messages via the taunt buttons on the controller (the d-pad directions). No word yet on whether certain words will be censored in this method, but seeing what has happened in the past with user created content in Nintendo games, I imagine there will be.
The Associated Press has reported that an unidentified man in China has died of exhaustion after playing videogames for three days straight. Paramedics were called after the 30 year old man fainted in an internet cafe, but were unable to resuscitate the victim. The name of the game he was playing has not been released, but it has been identified as an online role-playing game, echoing recent cries of addiction to games such as World of Warcraft and Everquest. This is not the first videogame-related death China has experienced, as a young man suffered a fatal heart attack in March after playing for nearly a week straight.
Lastly, remember Tingle, the annoying little faux fairy from some of the recent Legend of Zelda games? The little bastard now has his own game, Freshly-Picked Tingle"s Rosy Rupeeland, which was released a while ago in Japan and this week in Europe. No North America release for the game has been announced, but from the general hatred I have seen toward this character I am not surprised. Still, I must admit I am morbidly curious as to what the game is like, so much so that I am tempted to import it and experience the horror for myself.
I really wish I didn’t find bad ideas so appealing.
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