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Nintendo announced that it will no longer support any of its old skool consoles, including the NES (Famicom), Super NES (Super Famicom), N64, Gameboy and Gameboy Pockets.

Nintendo cites the incredible difficulty involved in finding the parts and pieces to repair the consoles as the reason for the drop.

Maybe they should check RadioShack. ;)

Remember that random countdown we told you about on Sunday? It turns out it wasn't for a Dark Void announcement. Nor was it about an explosion of their offices. It was an announcement of Street Fighter 4! If it had to be a sequel to an old game, we are definitely glad it was for Street Fighter one of our favorite franchises in gaming history.

Enjoy!

Are you good at Guitar Hero 2? Will you be in LA this weekend? Then why not take up a challenge from Target to become a pro? You can stop by any of the GH kiosks at the E for All event, play Guitar Hero 2 and try for a chance to be in the finals playing for $3000!

Even if you're not good, and just want to try out Guitar Hero 3, you can stop by and do that, too!

AT&T, the country's largest provider of wireless phone service, has followed the lead of Verizon Wireless in changing its contract terms. From now on, the early termination fee will be prorated, based on the customer's time into their contract (the farther along, the lower the fee).

Based on what we know about the wireless industry and the way handsets are priced, we suspect this will be reflected back into the pricing of the phones themselves.

The important thing to remember is, once you get pissed and destroy your iPhone, it won't cost as much to get out of contract.

YouTube is implementing a new system that will allow them to remove copyrighted material from their system. That should make Viacom happy, right? Not as much as you might think. The system requires that YouTube have a copy of the material so that it can be compared to ensure it is illegally posted. Then, the copyright owner has the option to either have it removed or have an ad placed around the video to generate revenue.

So, companies like Viacom that owns multiple television stations and movie brands, will have to submit EVERYTHING they have ever produced to make the system funtion. All I can say is, I wouldn't want to be the one at Google processing all of this new video and uploading it into the content filter.

Facebook, one of the largest social networking sites on the Internets, has agreed to make the network safer. They, along with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, have worked out procedures to attend to complaints about innapropriate content (obscene language, nudity, etc) within 24 hours of the complaint and report to the complaint within 72 hours.

Cuomo said at a news conference. "Facebook will have the safest interactions of its kind on the Internet." "We care deeply about our Facebook users and today we pledge a solution," said Chris Kelly, Facebook Chief Privacy Officer, who was with the Attorney General announcing the procedures. "We believe that safety is an ongoing process."

Now that Facebook is "safe" where will emo kids post their half-naked pictures for everyone to see?