For once, I just might be 'loving it'.

Nintendo has officially launched nintendowifi.com and with it thousands upon thousands of hotspots across the UK and USA. With no work at all you can walk into various McDonalds, open your DS and have a chat with anybody, or play some Mario Kart DS when it actually comes out.

Nintendowifi.com has all the info on how to get your DS online, which is very interesting when it comes to doing it without the assistance of McDonalds. The USB adapter is not cheap and you'll need to do some extra work to link your DS wirelessly to other, non-partnership wifi connections. But it can still be done - your DS is now ready to go online with any wireless connection and come next week you can grab the USB adapter to take your DS online with the help of a high speed connection through your PC. Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing: Wild World (PKA Animal Crossing DS and Animal Crossing On The Go), Tony Hawk's American Sk8land, and Metroid Prime Hunters are the first four titles to support online play, but we expect plenty more to come.

Beware the Pictochat. I, personally, don't like poorly drawn penises.