What are your thoughts on the game? If you're spending the day playing it and are looking for some fellow Kotakuites to play with drop your Friend Code (and impressions) here. Mine is 7261 8567 6364 9952.

Now get to racing... and no blue shells!

Disincentives [Penny Arcade]

See what a little persistence will get you? Over the years we've run posts where people could put up their own gamer IDs, be they for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii or PC. But the problem has always been that that post eventually, usually quickly, moves off the page and people forget about it. So I started bugging our tech folks about maybe adding it to Kotaku's increasingly robust user profiles and sure enough they did it.

Now if you want to know a fellow Kotakuite's 360 Gamertag, PS3 ID, Wii Friend Code or Steam ID you can hit their user page and check it out. To add yours to your page just sign in and click on your name at the top of the page. You'll find the boxes for that information on the right side.

Have at it and play nice.

A day doesn't go by that someone asks me for my Friend Code and just inevitably I reply, "I have no clue."

Not only can I not remember strings of random numbers, phone numbers included, but even if I could I think I wouldn't out of spite because I detest Nintendo's malicious online match-making system. Yes, I said it, malicious.

But Stephen Totilo doesn't have the same hang-ups I do. Instead of endlessly whining about the friend codes and how much they suck he's actually gone on a hunt for a way to fix them.

Apparently over the weekend he had an epiphany of sorts and realized that he might be able to turn friend codes into friend sentences using the old phone number to word trick.

Hunting around on the Internet he discovered PhoneSpell.org which can handle six to ten numbers and convert them automatically into a sentence of sorts. To get it to work you have to break your code into a couple of tries. When Totilo did this his code, 3536 6979 4706 2132, became ELF ON OX 7 YIP 06.

WTF? How does that help anyone? I still hate friend codes, hot elf on ox sex or not. Brian Crecente

Multiplayer: Cracking Nintendo Friend Codes [MTV]

Unfortunately, because of Nintendo's idiotic Friend Code system, getting the number doesn't help unless I enter yours as well. Go ahead and post your Wii number here and I'll try to enter some of them in my system, also feel free to use this post as a place to hook-up with other Kotaku readers. Brian Crecente

Are your Mii's lonely? Do they need some other company to hang out with? Some stranger who randomly wanders over from another Wii for a cheap one night stand? Well, this may be the answer to your prayers.

Mii Pages is ostensibly a site set up so you can pick up other peoples Wii player codes and find someone with similar games to play online multiplayer with. It also, however, opens the doors of your Wii to all kinds of unwanted emails and invasion by other people's Miis. I can't help but think that eventually someone will create some kind of hack that will create evil Mii's that run around, eat your hard drive and serial murder all your existing Mii's. Terrifying...

Mii Pages: Wii Players Directory [Thanks, wiicopy!]

Now that the Wii is out of the box I think it would be nice to share the Wii and MII.

If you're interested post your Wii Friend Code here, but keep in mind you need to both add the code and be added for it to work because Nintendo hates the Internet.

I'll post mine in a bit, once I get home. Brian Crecente

Here's how it works:

The console, as I pointed out in a video, has an address book. In the address book you can find out your console's Wii Number, register a friend or send a message.

To register a friend you have to be connected to the Internet. Next you tap in their nickname then enter the Wii Number for their console or, if your friend is on a PC or cell phone, you enter their email address.

Keep in mind that to register another person as a Wii Friend, both of you need to register each other.

In an interview recently, Insomniac games' Ted Price revealed that the upcoming Resistance: Fall of Man will not use the central buddy list created for use with PS3's online service, but will have its own separate buddy list, clan registry and in game chat services. According to GamesIndustry.biz, this will be the same for all of the PS3 launch titles. You'll have to create a separate buddy list for each game? What a pain!

This sound suspiciously like the horrible Nintendo DS friend code system. They copied the DS's colors, fine; colors are nice. They copied Nintendo's motion control, not so fine, but the deed is done. The crappy friend code system though, that's where I draw the line. Someone over at Sony really needs to learn the difference between copying the good things Nintendo does and copying the stupid things Nintendo does Let's hope that by the next crop of games, Sony will have figured out how to integrate to a system more like the 360 than the DS.

GamesIndustry.biz: PS3 online concerns [Eurogamer Thanks, TJ!]

Mario Kart Contest

Mario Kart DS is officially live today. If you end up buying the game come post your friend code in our comments and you'll be entered to win some bits of cool Nintendo shwag. I'll update you when I figure out what exectly I'll be giving away, but it'll be cool dammit, it'll be cool.

I'll be holding the random drawing Saturday morning so drop the code by midnight Friday. Let us know if you need commenting privileges. To kick things off here's my and Luke's friend codes. Luke, btw, sucks ass at this game.

Codes after the jump:

Crecente: 107433 372586
Luke: 493980 083139

Ps. We promise not to do anything with your codes, other than use them to practice winning. :)