The game deserves it. It currently sets the standards of what is expected of mobile games.

I would love to see a comparison piece labeled "My Heart while eating a sandwich".

how exactly do menus work on Kinect? I'd expect this is one case where the Wii remote, Move, or even a normal controller would work much better.

You only have to get there at midnight to be first in line at Yodabashi? I'm surprised.

Anime hair technology has come a long way

Guitar Hero has been around longer and has more brand name recognition. Simple as that. Rock Band is more generically named, and to the uninformed consumer can easily be mistaken for another music game.

Why does Thomas have the number 999? Thomas is number 1, am I missing something?

@tim rogers: The Gamecube was initially marketed exclusively for Dolphins. [cube.ign.com]

Shoot. They doubled their install base this year on Wii.

@phisheep: Ah so basically they had great Christmas sales, but the mostly empty first-party release schedule started to hurt them this Spring. I mean the last big games were Brawl, Wii Fit and Mario Kart. And exchange rates didn't help either.

I'm a little confused. How do sales go up 9 percent yet have still slowed compared to the last year?

I think anyone that's ever picked up a PS3 knows why it stays plugged in. The Wii is so light and portable it spoiled me.

wait a second. Was that game really just using the Windows maze screensaver as its 3D engine the whole time?

@JGab: How DO you replace the batteries with those things on?

Way to get everyone hyped up. Don't you know Nintendo only makes good announcements when you're not expecting them?

All five of them, yes.

@malfeat: You'd think they could just pay for the rights to use the song.

@masterage: I made a comparison video a while back of the MGS theme and the Sviridov song. Sorry for the shameless advertising of my own video, but it's highly relevant to the topic.

@Kuhniee: The game is rated 3+ which is an incorrect rating for a game which contains swear words. So it's really the fault of the developers and the rating board. I'm guessing the development was so short and low-budget they didn't even think to remove the offensive words or to notify the board of their existance.

@lllusionx: bakugan is at the top of this list because no one has the faintest clue what on earth it is.