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If like many thousands of others in the US, you are still struggling to find a copy of Wii Fit on store shelves anywhere in your region, one analyst believes that it isn’t because Nintendo couldn’t ship enough to the country, but instead because they decided not to.

Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter reckons, reports BalanceBoardBlog.com, that a weak dollar and because Nintendo "know[s] that Americans will be just as fat a few months from now" when [it] will have more units available," means that it has nothing to worry about, as it earns higher profits elsewhere in the world.

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New trailer with music from Faith No More.

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You can’t take it with you, at least when it comes to your social graph.

Yahoo Messenger’s icon, a frighteningly happy face, reflects the fact that people have a whole section of their brains just for processing facial information. Yahoo is tapping into that visual cortex a little more directly with the new beta, which uses larger emoticons.

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Lida reports:

”The cat is now out of the bag, people finally know that BioShock is coming to PS3, after it was ‘confirmed‘ not to.

Well, I worked on the PS3 version, I was even lead programmer for the PS3 SKU at one point, but then there were a lot of lead programmers that worked on the PS3 version, but that’s a sordid tale for another post. Today’s post is about one of the lies of the games industry, the exclusivity deal.”

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All of you have awesome powers of deductive reasoning, so once you saw that you could neither comment nor read stories around 3pm Crecente Time today, you probably knew this was a major site problem and not some passive-aggressive ploy to see if you still cared about us.

We regret the major disruption to Kotaku today. It was noticed immediately and worked on diligently by Gawker Media staff for more than seven hours on a Saturday. We thank them for their hard work, we thank you for your patience, and your regularly scheduled Kotaku will return at 8 am on Sunday.

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Fable, released in 2004, was Molyneux’s first role playing game (RPG) and his ambition going into the game was simple. "I want to make the best RPG ever," he said at the time. The game sold many millions of copies but Molyneux has admitted that the game did not match his ambitions. Fable is considered by many to be one of the best RPGs released on the original Xbox.

He and his team at Lionhead Studios are now working on a much-anticipated sequel. And this time his ambitions are no less far reaching. The question is will it become the legendary RPG originally perceived and finally reach the creative vision of Molyneux?

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‘N+’ Passes ‘Rez HD’ as the biggest selling new title of 2008, while ‘Buku Soduku’ sells a decent 5,800 copies, and Warlords sells like an average retro title.

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GamePolitics writes:

An airman assigned to guard a North Dakota base for US nuclear bombers was found to be playing a video game on his mobile phone, according to a recent inspection.

As reported by the Associated Press, the guard’s inattention to duty was one of just a number of violations which caused Minot AFB to receive sub-par marks on the inspection, which must now be repeated in 90 days…

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A man who wanted to buy an Xbox 360 at his local Target quickly realized that not all was well, and upon further inspection learned that his console had been turned into a makeshift library, the outer shell gutted of its insides and replaced with two volumes of Lemony Snicket’s "A Series of Unfortunate Events"

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VG Chartz’ Louie July writes:

"Vgchartz.com, the most comprehensive Videogaming charts in the world, has announced cooperation with N-Zone, the biggest German Nintendo magazine.

The cooperation will feature a monthly special called “N-Zone chart show”. Powered by VGchartz.com, N-Zone, selling up to 100.000 units of their magazine each month, now introduces one successful game series in every issue. VGchartz.com will also provide a two page Wii sales analysis for the magazine.

We interviewed Christoph Krauss, N-Zone editor, about the magazine and the deal."

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