Can we bring back the immature Wii jokes? It is still a funny word, and just because you've all grown used to it -- like five years ago -- doesn't mean I'm OK giving up on a nostalgic source of humor.

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Rumors suggest Nintendo will drop the price of the Wii to $150 in May. The Wii's sales seemed to have plateaued, and the company is focused on the 3DS. That is a recipe for knocking 50 bucks off the waggle machine's manufacturer's suggested retail price. Who knows? Maybe the company has found a cheaper way to produce the system than duct taping two GameCubes together. A price drop is always good to help flagging sales, but you can't deny that the Wii situation looks pretty grim beyond 2011 -- and $50 will only do so much. [Engadget]

Minecraft 1.5 won't make its schedule release this week. Mojang, the game's developer, is adding rain, snow, and stat-tracking features for players. The rain is particularly noteworthy because when the clouds black out the sun the game's creeper minions will attack during the daytime. (Great...and  I used to find the rain really relaxing.) Notch -- the man behind all the digital dirt -- said, "Yeaaaah, no 1.5 this week. :-/" on his Twitter. Which makes it sound like he broke something. 

Rift developers say "you're not in Azeroth" ad campaign worked. "We saw [the ad campaign] and went, 'Wow there's no way we can do that. That means we have to do that,'" said Trion Worlds' Chief Creative Officer Scott Hartsman. "You have to do something to get attention and I think that campaign really helped us stand out." For the unaware, the ad campaign innvoked the setting of Blizzard's World of Warcraft in an attempt to set itself apart. Apparently, Trion learned game marketing in prison, where you pick a fight with the toughest guy on the block.

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