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   We were barely starting to get excited at the prospect of playing Super Mario Galaxy in 2-player mode, after the game's website reportedly updated the number of players from one to two this week, and now we can take that excitement and shove it where the sun don't shine. Because, as we discover on Nintendo Revolution, the Wii has just been hit by one of the worst news possible:
"There will not be unified gamer tags or codes for Wii online games. Users will have to register with each title separately, as is already the case with the DS and the Wii's first online title, Pokemon Battle Revolution."    This "feature" was rumoured more than once in recent months, but now our hopes and dreams have finally been shattered to pieces by Nintendo's official confirmation on Eurogamer.

   The news follows just a couple of days after GameSpy announced they will provide multiplayer technology for the Nintendo Wii, enabling Wii games to offer community features such as "friend rosters, advanced matchmaking capabilities and comprehensive rankings data". Pokemon Battle Revolution will be the first game to use this technology when it launches on June 25 (it was already released in Japan), and it will have similar multiplayer features to those using GameSpy's technology on the Nintendo DS.

   "Nintendo has taken this step as we believe it's the right thing to do", said a Nintendo UK spokesperson, despite the fact that "GameSpy's technology does allow for features that could span multiple games". I'm sure that the vast majority of gamers would rather have a unified friends list for all their Wii games, instead of having to create a separate one for each game... typing in those tedious 16-digit Wii IDs... with the Wiimote, to top it all off. Jesus Christ, Nintendo sure blew it this time!

   Oh well, here's something to cheer you up (unlikely): the Opera browser for the Nintendo DS will be released in North America on June 4.