I was really disappointed last year that Nintendo - the company that doesn't ever seem to do very much right in the online department - beat Microsoft to the one obvious feature that you'd want to see in an online network that has both users and content to sell: the ability to gift downloadable content to other members. Months later, with just hours until Christmas, Microsoft debuted a lame point-gifting system that was in beta at the time, and seems to be completely deactivated now. How it is that Microsoft - who celebrated the fifth anniversary of its Xbox Live service - still hasn't implemented this sort of thing, is beyond me.
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Earlier today I finally got my replacement Wii Remote straps from Nintendo. I ordered them on the 22nd of December - a week after the replacement program was announced - and it took Nintendo almost three weeks to even ship them, after which they arrived...
Earlier today I listened to a great interview that Uncle Gamer Radio recorded with Shayne Guilano from Autonomous Productions , makers of the upcoming XBLA and Wii Virtual Console game Butterfly Garden . It's amazing to hear of all the complex (and minute...