Nintendo build on the Donkey Konga drums with Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.

Over the Christmas period I was pleasantly surprised by how appealing Donkey Konga was to friends and family who don't normally go for computer games...

The 2005 Edge question: What do you believe is true, even though you cannot prove it?

Interesting point from Thomas Maufer: "the growth rate of voice... basically scales with the size of the population, which grows at a relatively slow rate". File under "bloody obvious, why didn't I realise that".

Voice traffic scales with population size. Data traffic has no such limitation.

Modifying The Sims to turn it into a learning environment: "...a modification to the number one selling video game The Sims that intelligently combines game data from the English edition with data from editions of other languages to form a bilingual gaming environment. This exposes learners to abundant L2 vocabulary, yet still provides enough L1 support not to detract from the game."

More on the kata of play from Peter Goldsbury: "...one can know about the art only through the experience of performing it and becoming skilled. It should not be possible to articulate this experience in any way other than the forms (katachi) of that skill (waza)."