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technology.timesonline.co.uk - 12/10/2008

Mario makes way for Shakespeare on Nintendo DS in HarperCollins deal

— technology.timesonline.co.uk — Nintendo, the Japanese video games company that brought us Donkey Kong and Mario the Plumber , is... to announce a deal with the publisher HarperCollins today to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles. The 100 ... (more) Mario makes way for Shakespeare on Nintendo DS in ...

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club.nintendo.com - 12/16/2008

Club Nintendo

— club.nintendo.com — Club Nintendo - Coming Soon! Club Nintendo will soon be replacing My Nintendo as your home for... Nintendo product registration, sweepstakes, newsletters and exclusive Rewards - So come back soon! During this time, creating new memberships and logging ... (more) Club Nintendo

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multiplayerblog.mtv.com - 12/3/2008

Nintendo Plays A Game For Me, Includes Slur

— multiplayerblog.mtv.com — Video game companies send me games: not surprising. Yesterday, Nintendo sent me a game they played for... me: say what? In my mailbox yesterday was a copy of 2005's "Animal Crossing: Wild World" for the DS out of the shrinkwrap and accompanied with a ... (more) Nintendo Plays A Game For Me, Includes Slur

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Nintendo Scrabble Teaches Naughty Words
ParentDish — ... Nintendo, however, clearly has no interest in keeping Scrabble clean for the sake of the kids. Their Scrabble 2007 game for DS not only allows the use of profanity and slang, but actually has the virtual opponents playing and defining those words. ...

DS Scrabble Beats Kid On "Fuckers" Triple-Word Score [Nintendo]
Kotaku — ... new words. Little did she suspect it'd proceed to kick his ass with a procession of slang words, from tits to toke to fuckers, which in a crushing blow to poor Ethan's self-esteem also gave his AI opponent a triple-word score for the win. Cue Tonya protesting to filthy tabloid papers, cue Ubisoft proclaiming she should have used the game's junior settings, cue Nintendo washing their hands of the whole thing. Oh, and cue a sudden upswing in interest in the British version of Scrabble! Mother's fury over Nintendo Scrabble game that taught her son a string of vile swear words ...

Scrabble Teaches You The ‘F-Bomb’?
Geeknews — Games One mother is furious that a Nintendo version of the Scrabble game used by her boy is throwing down dirty words from its dictionary like: Is it operator error on the part of mum and kid or is it failure on the part of Ubisoft and Nintendo? Oh, if you’re wondering what a ‘chav’, I too was curious. ...

Nintendo DS scrabble wins with swearword
T3.com All — Nintendo DS scrabble wins with swearword Watch out for the abusive triple word score An eight-year old was shocked (and his mother even more so) when his DS Scrabble game beat him with a choice expletive. His mother, Tonya Carrington, 36, lost no time in telling the Daily Mail of her disgust. It's disgraceful , she ranted. Apparently the game has a junior setting, which had not been enabled. The winning swearword was 'f**kers', according to the tabloid. Via: The Daily Mail ...