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    DSi Now Comes With Pre-Installed Software

    Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone

    iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?

    Commodore 64, Now On iPhone

    12% Of Americans Buy Digital Goods

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    Image of Torusan Torusan
    11/16/09

    In reply to DSi Now Comes With Pre-Installed Software
    Every year Nintendo has an exclusive Black Friday color or two. There's a good chance that that blue DSi won't be available in the future (unless you import, of course). #nintendo
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    11/16/09

    In reply to DSi Now Comes With Pre-Installed Software
    Mario Clock? How the hell is a clock a game? #nintendo
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    Image of MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs MrMcdoobie: I don't do drugs
    11/16/09

    @n00b_pwner: pull a random time out of a hat. wait until that time comes up. win. #nintendo
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    Image of buddhathing buddhathing
    11/16/09

    In reply to DSi Now Comes With Pre-Installed Software
    Clubhouse Games is the shit. Simple concept, it's basically a bunch of card games, board games (checkers, chess, battleship,), stylus versions of bowling, darts, etc. and some other cool, intuitive mini-games, all of which are great for multiplayer. The kicker is the in-game pictochat, which you can use for massive shit-talking. It's great if you have multiple DS's and perhaps kids, and can easily get you through a long car trip. #nintendo
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    Image of ☆Giroro G66☆ ☆Giroro G66☆
    11/16/09

    @buddhathing: I was most the way through your post before I realized you actually liked clubhouse games. I misread "clubhouse games is the shit" as "clubhouse games is shit"

    Don't use 'the shit' as a way of complimenting something, especially in text. #nintendo
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    11/16/09


    @☆Giroro G66☆: Clubhouse Games is the poo. Take a whiff. #nintendo
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    11/16/09

    In reply to DSi Now Comes With Pre-Installed Software
    Preinstalled? How will they be linked to your account? If you delete it will you be able to redownload? #nintendo
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    Image of WhatTheFrag WhatTheFrag
    11/16/09

    @Clarke: Sounds like it's just downloaded onto the SD card and there's no linkage to the account or does this batch of DSi come with a slightly different Manufacture number so if it's deleted they'll let you download it again?
    Unless there's a link to your account otherwise it doesn't seem likely to be able to redownload them. #nintendo
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    Image of ThursdayNext ThursdayNext
    11/16/09

    @WhatTheFrag: Maybe you register them with a code or some such so that they are linked to your account? #nintendo
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    Image of WhatTheFrag WhatTheFrag
    11/16/09

    @ThursdayNext: Maybe but usually preinstalled products (thinking about it on the PC and most devices) means that once deleted it's gone unless there's a restore state medium.
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    Image of ThursdayNext ThursdayNext
    11/16/09

    @WhatTheFrag: True. I would have said that there was probably a download code in the box, but "pre-installed" doesn't leave much room for interpretation. Perhaps they are linked to your account if/when you register the DS? They could be tied to the serial number? #nintendo
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    11/16/09

    @ThursdayNext: yeah. Hope so. I think they do do that for some mobiles. Might be the weather, but I'm not feeling too positive about that. But hey there's hope :) #nintendo
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    11/16/09

    @WhatTheFrag: probably wouldn't be hard to have the software be linked to some hardware identifier in the unit, like a MAC ID or something like that #nintendo
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    Image of gique gique
    11/10/09

    In reply to Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone
    DAMN that looks rough! #rtype
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    Image of Dr Durdon Dr Durdon
    11/10/09

    In reply to Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone
    Um...I live in Uh-MER-ica, wtf is a cheque? #rtype
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    11/10/09

    @Dr Durdon: Sound it out. #rtype
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    Image of RicoTheSaboteur RicoTheSaboteur
    11/10/09

    In reply to Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone
    Apple must have sponsored that. About 50% of the people buying these games will need to buy a new iPhone after their fits of destructive rage. #rtype
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    Image of GunFlame GunFlame
    11/10/09

    In reply to Bad Ideas: R-Type, Ghosts 'N Goblins For iPhone
    Its pretty impressive the amount of games that are currently being ported to the iPhone. It is getting quite alot of interest from big IP's.

    But still, I do not and never will see it as a gaming platform. The same way I don't see any phone as a gaming platform.

    Call me close minded if you like. #rtype
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Ha! So Apple products do get spyware... #iphone
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/06/09

    @Xagest: all it took was a platform with a respectable piece of marketshare... their phone. #iphone
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    Image of Project_J187 Project_J187
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    My friend was asking me the other day why he was all of a sudden gettting 10-20 text messages a day that are spam. he's had his iphone for 2 weeks and has Vampires Live and iMobsters. It could be a coincidence, but it seems like they may have sold his number.

    Thanks for the info Kotaku, as I will be watching this very closely (pulls out magnifying glass) #iphone
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    But the iPhone! It's clearly the best handheld platform ever with its millions of apps!

    Hey Apple, how about some quality control on iPhone apps instead of spending all your time touting how you have the most apps ever and therefore it's the best handheld ever?

    *incoherent grumbling* #iphone
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    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Aren't Apples verification processes supposed to catch crap like this? Me thinks someone there was slacking when they let this slip through. #iphone
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    Image of Spoony Bard Spoony Bard
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    Aww crap. I have those games on my iPhone.

    Damn you, storm8! Damn you to the depths of Hades! #iphone
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    Image of Cojo21 Cojo21
    11/06/09

    @Spoony Bard: Ban 'em! Ban 'em! #iphone
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    Image of MechaTama31 MechaTama31
    11/06/09

    @Spoony Bard: You realize you could have just damned them to heaven, right? Hades is the entire Greek underworld, including the good parts (Elysium). Next time damn them to Tartarus if you really can't bring yourself to just say hell. #iphone
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    Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) promoted this comment MechaTama31 was starred MechaTama31 was unstarred
    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @MechaTama31:

    storm8 Employee1: Woah, dude? Where are we?

    storm8 Employee2: Not sure, it looks... like a Japanese High School or something?

    storm8 Employee3: Hey Guys! Thank God I found someone normal! I just saw a bunch of kids being attacked by giant gloves... The poor kids shot themselves in the head to escape... Then these Even Bigger monsters appeared and attacked the first... It's some messed up shit here...

    storm8 Employee1: Hey Guys, look out this window!

    storm8 Employee2: ... What are all those coffins doing in the street? #iphone
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    Image of houser houser
    11/06/09

    @MechaTama31: Well, even Elysium wasn't exactly great. It was heaven in comparison to poetic tortures for all time, or the middle ground of complete boredom, but at best it was shadowy ashey pantomimes of the better parts of your life. Consistent with most mythologies at the time of what you could at most hope for by being a good person (ie not rewards, just no punishments). #iphone
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    Image of Muzzled Muzzled
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    "iPhone is a veritable wild west for developers"

    .... . really? #iphone
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    Image of hot_heart hot_heart
    11/06/09

    @Muzzled: Darn tootin'! #iphone
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    Image of chadbeckwith chadbeckwith
    11/06/09

    @Muzzled: Personally, I take every opportunity to combine the words "veritable" and "wild west" whenever I can.

    This comments section is a veritable wild west for burgeoning internet meme creation.

    See? Fun for all ages. #iphone
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    Image of Klyco Klyco
    11/06/09

    In reply to iPhone Games Caught Stealing Phone Numbers?
    By stealing, was it actually preventing people from using their phone number? #iphone
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    Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) promoted this comment Klyco was starred Klyco was unstarred
    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/06/09

    @Klyco: Unless they sold Really Poorly, I doubt it, since I think people would have picked up on it pretty sharpish overwise... #iphone
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    Image of Klyco Klyco
    11/06/09

    @Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair): So then did he get a bunch of calls? I'm baffled by this because if my number was stolen by buying a game, I probably wouldnt even realize it was the game that did it, just "oh fuck who did I give my number too?" #iphone
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