PSN is such bullshit... there is literally no way I can buy anything from them. PSN cards aren't in Canada. Prepaid cards are explicitly disallowed. Entropay was cut off. And when Sony is the only point of failure in a decade of using my credit card, there's no way I'm getting another just to use with them.

I've never seen a company put so much effort into making absolutely certain that they can't be paid.

[playmagazine.com]
[www.evilavatar.com]
[boards.ign.com]
[www.videogaming247.com]
[www.vgwatchdog.com]

[blog.us.playstation.com] (search for "Canada")
[www.neogaf.com]

I agree with what you said about privacy. It's getting close to crital mass. I followed you because I really think you're observant and unusually unbiased.

FROMMMMM!!! Why must you bury Acquire's name so deeply! I tried to check if you were the publisher or the dev, but the dev was totally obscured!

[www.famitsu.com]

OMG! Tenchu 4 is coming! SOON! To the Wii? Cool, I have one of those!

...and they made Ayame ugly! WTF! FROMMMMMM!!! Why must you poison every Tenchu in some way??? T_T

lol... disregard the post below this...

I was at work and didn't look closely but it seems it's a visual novel/ren'ai game and someone on the linking page made(?!) a spoof pic that looked like the Okami cover.

Bizarre.

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lol... In Japan, Okami (大神, "great god," sounds like "wolf") is called Amagami (天神, "heaven god" probably taken from "Amaterasu Omikami" 天照大御神)

So a double-meaning/pun in Japanese was removed from the Japanese title, haha...

I really liked your comments in the Japanese vs Western games article. I think Japanese games just have more soul than most Western ones. Glad someone else still agrees with me.

I'd still contact Nintendo, just don't tell them you opened it yourself, talk to the rep about the issues and send it in.

Your quite welcome. I'm glad you've got a new DS tho. And yeah a way to tell how many more hours of battery life would be good. If I might say, one way to help is to change it a down-tick from max brightness, that seems to help for me.

On your DS draining the battery overnight when in sleep mode, it sounds like the battery is faulty or old. You should contact Nintendo ASAP, because i've left mine in sleep mode for 3 days before and opened it to still be able to play at least a few hours on it before the charge light went red. Remember that Nintendo takes good care of it's customers and you might find yourself with a brand new DS if it's a issue with the system or at the very least, a fully functioning system that will allow you to get your game on whenever.

The fact that Nintendo often does small repairs for free is good stuff too.

It's hard to keep up on EVERYTHING on Kotaku...

Google Reader is pretty sweet (then, RSS is handy anyway!)

My Google feeds are Kotaku, Schneier on Security, Physorg, Psyblog, jpopexpress, and animenewsnetwork so far... ^^b

I read the story on Hachiko, it was really similar and sad. Right up and before the part where it said he was stuffed and put in a museum after he died. That sort of killed the mood, but your point was well received.