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This long holiday weekend I put a little time in with Animal Crossing, the only Wii title I play alongside my kids. While I play in an eco-friendly way saving creatures for the museum first and avoiding trampling flowers while taking a bit of time to earn bells here and there to slowly pay down my massive debt to Nook, my kids see things differently. Read more »

Nintendo has solved its supply problem. Proof? Three million Wiis were sold in December 2009 in the United States alone, or so Nintendo says. Official NPD numbers are coming on January 14th.

What else has sold millions? The New Super Mario Brothers game, 4 million copies to date in the US to be exact. As someone who plays games on the PS3, a console that cheers when 200,000 copies of anything are sold, that's amazing. Read more »

Think those Wii sales numbers have been sagging? Sure the whole industry's been dragging itself along through the middle of this year despite some stellar titles hitting very high marks on non-Nintendo systems, but Nintendo apparently thinks their massive bank of money counting machines needs a workout again. Read more »

BestBuy has the PS3 version of Conan and the PS3/Wii/360 The Simpsons Game for $10 each. Conan is only available for in-store pickup and the BestBuy website already has The Simpsons Game backordered so you'll need to hit the store to try and find if any are left.

I own both on the PS3 and think they're both worth it at this price. Conan gets indescribably hard (for me anyway) late in the game and very focused on knowing just the right combo and timing to avoid getting chopped to ribbons. I'm still stuck where I stopped playing it. I played The Simpsons Game all the way through and it has some really great jokes in there along with very good work from I think the entire cast of the show. Neither game has or will ever get Trophies on the PS3, either, but at ten bucks it's something great to fill in the gaps between AAA releases this fall. (Or release, singular, if you're on the Wii.)

Seen on DealNews.

I guess Steven Spielberg himself can't even summon enough magic to dispel the black cloud hanging over nearly all third-party Wii releases. The sales stats are coming in for the game I've heard nothing but great things about and they're dismal. Just 60,000 units in its first month amidst an absolute ocean of an installed base of Wii machines is just terrible. Read more »