Good morning everybody - very grey and blustery here in York today. Luckily for me it's another day off, so it's feet up, game on today!

Five guys spent six months doing nothing but reading.

Those vaunted 10,000 conjurable in-game items in Scribblenauts had to come from somewhere, but we had always assumed they came from the fevered minds of the development team, bouncing ideas off each other and being all "creative". As it turns out, the truth is far less interesting.

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Virtua Tennis and Let's Tap this Friday, The Conduit next Friday... best put those Wii Remotes on charge and cancel all other appointments!

How come I really want to play on Xbox Live today, when I haven't been on in months? Can't wait for #tappingfriday though!

There goes my relaxing day off - we've got a soaked carpet and a plumber coming later. Not my week so far!

For a bit.

Shigeru Miyamoto's been harping on about a multiplayer Mario for ages, but in a recent interview with Wired.com he revealed there was planned to be two-player support for Super Mario 64, but that it was scrapped.

Miyamoto: With Mario 64, we had an experiment that took advantage of the idea of the screen growing larger and smaller depending on how far apart the characters were. So we had Mario and Luigi running around in that 3-D world, but we ended up not using it.

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New trademark application in the US suggests so.

There are some combinations in the world that just seem natural: fish and chips, ham and eggs, plumbers and magical kingdoms. Chief amongst all these blessed unions is that of monkeys and balls, but even that holiest of pairings could get even better if the newly-uncovered trademark application for "Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll" lives up to its name.

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Can't believe Mitsuhara Misawa died this week! I shall break out my copy of All-Japan Pro Wrestling featuring Virtua in tribute.

Did not sleep well again.

Up to face a grey morning, hoping to repel it with the power of positive thinking. And muesli!