Typing of the Wii

Holy Christ... it's about freakin' time.

Woke up this morning and found my Wii glowing it's calm blue pulse at me. This always makes me happy even though it's often just an email from someone.

Today it was from Nintendo, which made me quiver. So far, I've learned that messages from Nintendo are pretty much gonna be good news.

The boys at "N" didn't disappoint today. A system update was available (version 3.1) they were telling me. "Awesome" I thought, since every new update has brought a few new features.

This one, however, in addition to updating the "Everybody Votes" interface... included system-wide support for a USB keyboard!

Doesn't sound like much to the non-Wii user I imagine. But just imagine writing out a blog posting like this one, with the point-click method of the Wii mote, which had previously been our only option.

Try sending emails, try filling in forms online... or even simply log into a site. Everything becomes a pain in the ass, and essentially the Wii browser had become useless. No longer.

And in a very un-Nintendo move, rather than releasing an over-priced propriety keyboard... any USB unit will do!

Good work big "N"!

Now if only they could do something about the size of the Wii's system memory.

Tetris Grand Master

My Friend Jason sent this to me, because I was bragging about how crazy hard some Guitar Hero songs were. You've got to see this to believe it. Watch the entire video... it keeps getting more and more insane.

'SingStar Amped' Review (PS2)

Boring interface, limited selection of songs, only two by women. No option to sing without vocals from original artist which relegates the game to more of a "sing-along" than any form of Karaoke.

And there must be something really wrong with it... cause whenever I play it... it just sounds... well, bad.

$200 plus for Rock Band?

I dunno... that's a lot of dough to shell out for an entire band's worth of fake plastic equipment... I don't care how much it rocks.

I'm not sure yet if it's being released for the Wii... but if it is... then will it have downloadable songs released for it in the future? I think that would likely be a bit of a strain on the Wii's SD card-based memory. Sounds like a great package for the XBox 360 however.

But irregardless of all that hype... Guitar Hero III IS being released for the Wii... and it will be online multiplayer.

But better yet... it has this song:

Sad, sad, git

This is your reward if you're sad enough like me, to watch the entire credits in the original Guitar Hero