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by jay-saint 3589 days ago
""Nintendo Wii U has been released."

has been is Passive voice and should be avoided.
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lobster_johnson 3588 days ago
Sometimes good advice, but certainly not a rule. As Pinker points out in "A Sense of Style", passive voice lets you modify word order to emphasize what's important to the reader.
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