In an email sent out to members of its service Monday evening, Netflix said technical issues may have made it hard for members to stream video from the service to the Xbox 360 on Sunday.

"We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. If you were unable to instantly watch a movie or TV episode last night via your Xbox, click on this account specific link in the next 7 days to apply your 3% credit on your next billing statement. Credit can only be applied once."

If you didn't receive the email, but had an issue you can also call 1-866-923-0898.

Speaking with some of the development team earlier this week they said that the already have four public service announcements built into the game which can be unlocked by players. They're the serious ones from Hasbro.

But they also love the silly PSAs that have appeared on the Internet over the years.

They like they so much they've actually recorded some voice over work for both Body Massage and Pork Chop Sandwich. They haven't, though, received permission from Hasbro to include them in the game.

Yeah, I wouldn't be waiting around for that phone call.

[Smoking Warning]
Cugarette smoke has detrimental effects to you and those around you, particularly infants, children, and the elderly.

Have consideration for others when choosing to smoke.

Oh, and cancer, there's that too.

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We'd prefer a campaign titled, "Get Off Your Ass And Parent," but this will do just fine for the time being. Still, we can't help but wonder, once again, why the ESRB didn't adopt the movie rating system already in place and eliminate the need for such ads altogether.

I can tell you what I'm damn well not going to be playing this weekend. Metroid Prime: Hunters. While the Gamespot review wanks off about the incredibly fluid, intuitive control scheme, my experience is directly opposite: I'm about ready to gouge my stylus through the lower DS screen in frustration.

Who can play a game this way? The stylus works okay as a mouse, but holding the DS in the air with one hand and using the stylus with the other quickly leads to hand cramping. I can balance the DS Lite on my knee, except then, I can't actually see those tiny orbs floating around shooting at me. As near as I can tell, the only comfortable way to play this game is hunched over your DS at a desk, squinting. Unfortunately, I like my portables portable... as in not requiring a stationary flat surface to play on.

So that leaves me pretty much out of ideas. I've been in the mood for a Diablo-like, but unfortunately my torrent of Titan Quest hasn't finished yet. Note to Ironlore's lawyers: just kidding. Actually, I don't really know if it's been released over in Europe yet. All signs point to 'no'. Perhaps it's just time for a Diablo 2 hardcore run. What the hell... it was on sale around the corner for 40 clams. Purchased.

Comment section, people. You know the drill. Florian Eckhardt

With the purchase of my Black DS Lite, it's obviously going to be a Nintendo sort of weekend. My god, that screen is beautiful, isn't it? I honestly don't think I've seen a better screen on any device. Not only am I looking forward to taking my outageously overpriced used copy of Mario & Luigi 2 for a spin, but I plan on revisiting some old GBA favorites and see how they look on the new screen.

So what about you? This is your weekly opportunity to brag, chortle, exult, enthuse. We want to hear all about your prospective virtual adventures in the comments Florian Eckhardt

One problem with Oblivion is that it starts you off like the physical incarnation of any RPG fans cliche nightmare monster: it drops you in a sewer and makes you fight rats. So after losing my save game, I've been really hesitant to start up a new game. Who wants to go through that crap again? No one, but I think I'm going to anyway, because what better way to test out a new rig than with a game of Oblivion?

So what about you guys? It's time for the boasting, the thumping of chests. What gnarly purchases were made this week? What games will while away the time for you this weekend? Do any of them make you fight rats in sewers? Florian Eckhardt

One thing that continues to bug me about the Half-Life 2 saga is just how little time you spend in City 17. With Half-Life 2, Valve created what I consider to be the greatest setting for a video game ever: a carbonated, dust-decayed Eastern European metropolis turned into a massive human internment camp by the enslavers of humanity. Yet in Half-Life 2, you spend all of a couple of hours actually wandering through City 17. The design of the game outside of the first fifteen minutes never allows you to just wander around, absorbing the atmosphere: they quickly blast you off to sand dunes and weird ghost towns which are strangely less compelling than the first level of the game.

Episode One somewhat helps this, but even so, a lot of the game is spent in underground tunnels and parking garages. And, spoilers, so hit the next paragraph to save yourself any potential pain! You're not going to be able to wander around City 17 in the future episodes, because they done nuked the place at the end of Episode One.

But I largely enjoyed Episode One: it felt like a more concentrated and focussed Half-Life 2. In fact, even though I didn't quite care for it on release, it's gotten me so jonesing for more City 17 that I think I will pick amongst HL2's scraps just to soak in the scant atmosphere of HL2's brilliant but curiously underused game setting.

What about you? What will you be playing? What the heck was even released this week? Florian Eckhardt

On my part, I just got myself a beautiful MacBook Pro, so I'm going to try to Boot Camp it, get XP running and then see if Oblivion is even remotely possible. Probably a very fat chance, but we'll see.

So what will you be playing? Let loose the boasting, the chest-pounding, or merely the effluvial small talk that heralds a weekend without hot dates. FLORIAN ECKHARDT

I hate to say it, but I'm gamed out. The E3 coverage last week has gotten me less excited by what's coming than burned out by what's coming. So I'm looking forward to just kicking back on the couch and reading exploitative 50's detective novels for the weekend. You know the type: where a hardboiled misogynistic gumshoe pumps round after round of hard lead into the intestines of a commie, lights a cigarette, then makes out with a "broad." Over the years, I've inherited a few hundred such novels from my father, and I feel obliged to consume at least a couple a year to carry on the literary bloodline. My sole gaming will probably be a few rounds of Guitar Hero and possibly some exploration in Resident Evil 4's "Separate Ways" scenario.

Still, I imagine our readers are quite a deal more loyal to our hobby than I am at this current moment in time. So what will you be playing this weekend? New Super Mario Bros. is out and of course that looks great. Otherwise, E3 time tends to be slow for major releases: it's a time for looking forward, which means gamers tend to spend their time looking back when it comes to what disc they plug into their console. So tell us in the comments what you're playing and how you're liking it! - Florian Eckhardt

While we probably can't hope for Reggie to stand up, apologize for the entire Wii fiasco, pump one chocolate fist into the sky and declare "Revolution Forever!", you can expect the latest and greatest Nintendo coverage, photographs of the conference, as well as shaky-cam footage of whatever trailers Nintendo deigns to show.

Stay tuned, me bonny lads and lasses.

E3 is next week. Seven days from now, we'll all be chomping at the bit for games that today we have no inkling of. That means this weekend is the last weekend for quite a while where you can play current games without its luster being slightly dimmer by the chronic disease of every gamer — anticipation comes next.

So what will you be playing this weekend? On my part, it's probably well past time I finished up Shadow of the Colossus, a game which I find a lot more brilliant to watch than to actually play. Oh, it's poetically beautiful in its own way, saturated with a despondent sadness and wonder that actually moves. But I must admit I've never found it particularly interesting to gallop through Colossus' dead, empty world. When the Colossi emerge, shedding scales of stone, roaring ancient and chthonic roars... when I climb up its fur, plunge in my sword and the green ichor starts to spurt, I find the game amazing. It's everything in between that bores me. Even the designers themselves seem to recognize the problem: without the context of a world, it would just be an endless series of boss battles. Unfortunately, they only made a cursory attempt at a world... and so all you look forward to seeing are the bosses.

What about you? Tell us about the old games you're revisiting or the new games you've just purchased in the comments.

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