Originally posted 21 Feb 09 at 11:00PM

After taking five for quite some time now, The Weekend Warrior just took his Conan the Barbarian-like sword and took it to the nearest smithy. This time, the DS and Wii Weekend Warriors have joined forces, merging into the new Nintendo Weekend Warrior, bringing you all the big news from an Italian plumber's pipeline.

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 Easily the biggest gnome on the Wii's garden this week is the user-profiling report on gamers' console preference. Apparently, the older gamers, particularly those who grew up with the NES, SNES, and PSOne, simply followed the steps of console evolution and followed it up to the PS3. As for the Wii, the very successful Nintendo console extends its influence into newer gamers, turning non-gamers into casual gamers.

Link: Report: PS3 has oldest gamers, Wii has youngest

On the DS side of the fence, the DSi is now available for pre-order at GameStop in the United States. For US$ 25, you can reserve one of up to 40 units that'll be available per store.

Link: DSi now available for pre-order at GameStop, Red Xbox 360 confirmed for NZ
Link: Nintendo DSi gets release date for North America

Rumors rumors going around. It seems last week's love triangle drama between EA, Activision, and Brutal Legend has come to a close. So now, we're getting rumors that Brutal Legend is coming to the Wii, courtesy of EA. And now the mastermind who brought us Smash Bros. is all set to bring us a new game "that's different from anything [you've played] until."

Link: EA and Activision rumorama: Brutal Legend for Wii, Battlefront III still coming, more

 Despite the rumors and open-ended news bits, at least something's getting confirmed. A Wii-exclusive Dead Space game got confirmed, and there's a trailer to boot. Plus GTA Chinatown Wars is up for pre-order, so that's better than gold.

Link: Wii-exclusive Dead Space game confirmed
Link: GTA Chinatown Wars GameStop pre-order trailer shows actual gameplay

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Most of the Wii and DS homebrew games and apps don't really get second looks, but is the one that caught our eye, and yours. That's speaking relative to the attention that our Wii and DS brews get hahaha. For starters, Scanff released his very useful WiiRadio, a ShoutCast stream player for your Wii. With over a thousand radio streams all over the web at its disposal, this app owns.

Link: WiiRadio Preview v0.1: ShoutCast stream player for the Wii