On Thursdays the 3DS's eShop gets updated. So naturally, I turned on my 3DS today and opened the eShop to check out what's new.

But not only that! I had heard that us here in Europe would get a demo for Dead or Alive Dimensions (I don't know if US will get it today too). I pressed the Demo-button in the menu, but couldn't find any new demos. I checked the News-section, and saw no mention of it. So I checked several sites and all of them, even Nintendo's UK-site, mention it. Then I remembered something. The game was never released where I live.

Dead or Alive Dimensions was not released in the Scandinavian countries.

For those of you who don't know or remember, the game wasn't released in Sweden, Norway and Denmark due to Sweden's child pornography laws. It was a stupid and ignorant decision by Nintendo of Europe and Bergsala, the company which imports and distributes Nintendo games in Scandinavia, as even the police themselves dismissed that the game could equate to porn.


Sorry, Scandinavia. Too offensive for you.

So I tried changing my regions to the UK in the settings and lo and behold, there was the demo. Even the News-section was now mentioning it. Dead or Alive Dimensions Demo.
And I had no problems downloading or playing it. So Nintendo actually went out of their way to try to prevent access to a demo. As if they wanted to say that the rest of Europe is allowed to download and play it, but not us.

Now, we are all annoyed when a game is released in one region but not another. There was a time when it looked like the US wouldn't receive Xenoblade or The Last Story, and I have several times expressed my annoyance that Sakura Samurai has not been released in Europe and there has been no mention of it on release schedules. Just to mention a few recent examples. But a company intentionally going out of their way to hold back simple demo from a few countries within a region? Seriously?

Idiocy, in my opinion. Simple as that.

So this is not only a heads-up to other Dtoiders from Scandinavia with a 3DS if they want to try the demo and how to get around the restrictions, but to everybody to still be aware that sometimes companies will try to pull the wool over your eyes.

So, if you will excuse me, I'm now going to ogle Hitomi in all her 3D-glory. Because as a European, that is my right.

So, yeah. During the last few months I've made some gifs and pics of various Dtoid staff.
I thought I might as well put them up somewhere, so why not here.

Now this is just for laughs, but if any editors featured here don't like it, I'll remove any pics that include them.

Also, be sure to check out the awesome Dtoid show gifs from
Blasster's http://twitter.com/#!/Maxgifville and
McFlyGold's http://twitter.com/#!/TaraLongGif



Jim Sterling's hypnotic finger waving dance will put you in a trance.


Especially if you've looked at it for 10 hours straight.


"Cool game, bro." Your game does not impress Hamza. You have failed.


O.o Oh my...*blushes*


It's a revolving door of piñata abuse.


Tara likes to flirt with the camera. Hey, at least it's not a boob jiggle gif.


Teh floppiness!


Come on, Max. Not in front of the internet.

And that's it for now. I'll post new gifs when I make them. Who knows when that will be, though.
Leave some gifs or links to other Dtoid gif collections in the comments if you've come across any ^_^