The Associated Press Stylebook is one of the major tomes by which publications ensure that their style for using terms and phrases common and vague is consistent across the board. For example, does a publication use "videogame" or "video game". Both are technically correct, but you only want to use one variation in your publication for consistency.

Well, the new edition of the AP Stylebook says that it's video game. It also recognises the Game Boy, as Kotaku's band of scribes figured out. I'm not going to make any jokes about reading the AP Stylebook being akin to reading the dictionary, as technically we're supposed to do both as journalists. This is however akin to having a word put into the dictionary (a good dictionary, mind you) and now we can rejoice as the word Game Boy is no longer taboo or rife with inconsistency across the board of the AP-using media.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm just going to go and pepper my articles with the word "GameBoy", minus the space if you'll notice. I have some wax in my ear, and the most cost effective way to get rid of it is to pick up the phone to a blast of expletives most definitely not in the stylebook, issued by an irate and ever suffering copy editor.