To keep up with so many requests for video-game gifts, Santa Claus has just opened North Pole Studios. That means the Bitmob staff can ask for anything they want. What would you ask from Santa? Post in the comments!

Alejandro Quan-Madrid, writer
This year, I would like for North Pole Studios to do an official port and translation of Mother 3 for the Nintendo DS or DSiWare/WiiWare download. While we're at it, why not throw in Mother and Earthbound (Mother 2) to make it a bundle? Since Nintendo has been reluctant to rerelease these games for the U.S. market, this is pretty much asking Santa for a miracle. But hey, that's what the season's all about, right?

Dan "Shoe" Hsu, co-founder
Is it shallow of me to just wish for games, plain and simple? I wish for:

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Darksiders, both specifically because the Bitmob community has raved about them so much.

Metro 2033 and Bayonetta, just because I never got a chance to get around to them.

OK, I also wish for time-freezing powers. I pretty much daydream about this at least two or three times a year...anytime I fall behind on my games. I need everything in the world to stop for a couple of months, so I can catch up! Also so I can loot Best Buy, place my friends in funny, compromising positions when I unfreeze time, etc.

Finally, I wish that we can find an angel investor for Bitmob, so we can keep this site going for a long time to come!

Hit the jump to see what the rest of the Bitmob staff is asking for!

Chris Hoadley, moderator
I want Capcom to include time-release characters in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition. Not because I want more characters, but because the Evil Ryu/Oni Akuma announcement made my Oddsmakers article pointless.

Jasmine Rea, writer
I want all the food-based minigame collections and shovelware to disappear from the globe. In their place we should have more enjoyable and finely crafted games. Why? Because it makes recommending Christmas presents to agonizingly thick parents much, much easier. And eases the number of day-after-Christmas returns I have to process. 

Andrew Hiscock, community manager
For Christmas I would like a legitimate Red Dead Redemption MMO. And none of this Free Roam mode garbage. Get that out of my face. I want the world of New Austin expanded, I want packed servers, I want factions (Outlaw and Marshals) with the ability to cross that line with existing characters, I want guilds (or more appropriately, posses), I want instances, and I want raids. Let's not fool ourselves -- Rockstar San Diego nearly did it already. The single-player game has all the components, and the Social Club challenges show the depth it already has. If you can put this under my tree, I will not only leave milk and cookies, but I will also pay a $15/month subscription fee. You could turn the North Pole into a year-round operation and maybe even get bought by Activision (which is a good fit, because Christmas is already an annual franchise).

Demian Linn, co-founder
Please halt production on Andrew Hiscock's Red Dead Redemption MMO and make it a Borderlands MMO instead. You can probably share half the assets anyways. Then resume work on the Red Dead game, because that would probably be pretty good, too. Also, congrats on your new job as a game developer.

Jeff Grubb, writer
I have a list here of the people who are higher than me on the Pac-Man Championship Edition DX leaderboards, and I was hoping you could track down those people and punch them in the hands for me. When it comes to leaderboard chasing, I think violence is the answer.

James DeRosa, editor
Thank you for providing me with Marvel vs. Capcom 3. I require nothing else of you. (I would ask for a new Half-Life 2 episode, but I know that even you can't do the impossible.)

Rus McLaughlin, writer
I want to hunt down my enemies and destroy them to level up so I can unlock a bigger house and more cars and a buster sword I've had my eye on. Give me anything that helps me do that.

The rest of our wishlist is on page 2.