Hooray! Nintendo has finally decided that the time is right and the US is finally ready for a Club Nintendo branch of its own. Today (October 2, 2008) at Nintendo’s Fall Media Summit in San Francisco, the very last announcement was that Club Nintendo, a Nintendo loyalty program that rewards customers buying Nintendo games with points/stars, will finally be arriving in the US. The program will supposedly be implemented before the end of 2008…

We all have bad habits we’re trying to free ourselves from. Whether its drinking, speeding, or in my case caffeine and chocolate. One of the more popular vices everyone would like to see vanish is smoking. Yep, down with the nicotine sticks, no more dancing with cancer these days. But if you have friends who smoke like I do, asking them to stop will result in their telling you to ‘butt’ out or blow that defiant puff in your face.

It’s a habit that people find difficult to shake, especially if they’ve been smoking for quite a long time, rendering the nicotine patches, gums and carrot sticks useless. But in Canada, members of the Allen Carr Team – founded by anti-smoking guru Allen Carr – found a way to help smokers break their habit with the help of a Nintendo DS.