The well-oiled Nintendo marketing machine is kicking into gear (we mean "well-oiled" only metaphorically - this is a Rated E blog; we can't have oil-covered marketing execs parading in the streets - Perrin Kaplan would probably not allow it, at least not until Mardis Gras).

From New York to Los Angeles, the Wii goes on sale at midnight, the morning of November 19. Toys "R" Us Times Square in Manhattan and GameStop at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles are having midnight launches.

We bet it'll be like an Aztec new year orgy, because in a sense, it will start a new era of gaming. So we are expecting a countdown, live music and entertainment (dancing oiled-up marketing execs, perhaps), fun, games...

...and cutting out the hearts of a few Rabbids to appease the Lords of Gaming.