Oh man, this is horrible...

Okay, a while ago, it was announced that Mario Kart Wii was going to include "text chat" so you could "chat" with your friends before races. This announcement was met with rejoice and criticism. On one hand, Wii FINALLY gets some form of real communication with other people online. On the other hand, it's text chat, cave man technology. But hey, it's better than some predetermined text to be selected to communicate with others...

But what's this!? UPDATE. Turns out, Mario Kart's "text chat" is actually the ability to select from a pre-determined number of phrases that can be sent along as rudimentary texts before matches. OMFG. XD. Obviously, this was met with more criticism than praise... 'course, the fanboys will defend this. Boo.

Also, Capcom announced its next Resident Evil game for the Wii: a port of Resident Evil Zero. Wait-- what!? Wasn't Resident Evil Zero a Gamecube game? And isn't the Wii backwards compatible with Gamecube games? Surely there must be something new here, right? Like maybe they're remaking it RE4 style? Nah. BUT YOU CAN CONTROL THE GAME WITH JUST THE WIIMOTE. AWESOME. MUST BUY. No, I kid. More failure. Luckily, this is a Japan-only release...for now. Where's my RE2 remake, Capcom?