Wii watch movies! (Are the Wii puns old yet?)

According to Engadget the Wii will be able to stream movies from Netflix sometime this spring.

This is a much bigger boon for Wii fans than it was when implemented into the PS3 or 360 as the Wii doesn't have a downloadable video library of its own. It will have limitations however. Since the Wii itself isn't capable of outputting resolutions higher than the relatively standard 480p HD movies will not be available. Also, just like the PS3, a disc will be required to stream movies. However, since the PS3 supposedly has a software update in the works to remove the need for a disc we can probably expect something similar from the Wii at some point down the road.

What Wii should be playing.

It seems lists are kind of the thing to do right now, as IGN has taken it upon themselves to assemble blurbs on the Wii's top 25 games to date. If you want to know what games to add to your Wii library, or are just looking for a reason to convince yourself or your spouse to pick up a Wii, this is your place to look. And for those of you that feel ashamed for cheating on your PS3 or 360 with your wife/girlfriend's Wii, you can find yourself some proper "core gamer" titles to pick up and lighten the load on your conscience. They also have video montages of each of the 25 titles to accompany the written word, and if a picture's worth a thousand word's, there's a whole lot of wordiness going on in this article. But I'll let you get to it, check out the Top 25 Wii Games at IGN.

Gamez rulez commercialz!

So Adweek recently held a voting on the best commercial of the decade (I know, I wasn't told either) and, in a move that will probably have your grandparents shaking their heads if/when you tell them, two gaming commercials actually managed to make it into the top spots.

One of these was Sony's "Mountain" commercial from the heyday of the Playstation 2 which...well I thought was kind of lame. But that's probably due to my unexplainable dislike for anything involving Shirley Temple. Check it out and make your own decision.

The second of these commercials was from the Halo 3 "Believe" campaign (although this particular ad is apparently called "Diorama") and is pretty rad. I can't ever watch this commercial without thinking to myself "Man! I want all of those things and the time to set up that exact scene!"

Feel free to check out the other, non-gaming commercials as well. From serious political statements to commercials that make you say "Wait...what?" to the ones that just make you say "WTF!?" Enjoy.