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Nintendo Announces Christmas Wii Bundles

Video game hardware developer and publisher Nintendo has announced a number of bundles that will be available in time for the Christmas shopping season, including the Wii home console and a number of high profile video games.On December 2 gamers will be able to get one of two Wii Fit bundles, one which includes a new...

13 October 2011
16:41 GMT

Nintendo Planned Mood Lighting Add-On for the Wii

A patent has been recently unveiled showing that Nintendo had plans to launch an add-on for the Wii home gaming console that could display colors and lighting that were connected to the video games the player was enjoying. The patent was registered in 2009, which might suggest that the add-on was only in the plannin...

7 April 2011
03:27 GMT

New Dance Dance Revolution Announced for the Nintendo Wii

Konami Digital Entertainment has announced that is preparing a new Dance Dance Revolution titles that will arrive exclusively on the Nintendo Wii and will deliver more music and new game modes designed to make it the most attractive dancing simulation on the market.The mat will remain at the center of the gaming expe...

1 September 2010
13:31 GMT

2K Play Tackles Kid Fitness with Help from Nickelodeon

2K Play and the media conglomerate Nickelodeon have announced that they are entering into an agreement linked to the development of a new fitness video game, the first to be aimed directly at kids. Nickelodeon Fit will be released exclusively for the Nintendo Wii home console and development duties are handled by Hig...

30 June 2010
04:09 GMT

Nintendo Announces Mii-Powered Wii Party

Nintendo has officially announced that its next big attempt at creating a million selling blockbuster is called Wii Party, a title using the player made Mii avatars and delivering a wide array of mini games, which can be enjoyed both solo and in multiplayer. It seems that the launch date for Wii Party is set for this...

10 May 2010
16:21 GMT

Modern Warfare 2 Tops 2009 Worldwide Sales Chart

When taking into account the United States, Japanese and United Kingdom markets Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision Blizzard, is the best sold videogame of 2009, with close to 12 million copies moved to gamers since it was released in November.The performance of the ...

5 February 2010
12:41 GMT

EA Sports Prepares Active Branded Peripherals

Electronic Arts has announced that it has entered into agreements with companies like Sakar, Sunflex, Accessories 4 Technologies and IMG in order to create a line of peripherals that will have the EA Sports brand and that will be sold worldwide beginning with this year. The deal between the companies is applicable to...

13 January 2010
03:05 GMT

Wii and DS Break Records in the United States and Europe

Nintendo has announced that the Wii had what it described as a “healthy” holiday season on the United States market, managing to sell more than 3 million units during the month of December. Satoru Iwata, who is the president of Nintendo, has made the announcement in Japan citing internal company data. The...

7 January 2010
03:51 GMT

Wii Fit Plus Is Not a Sequel

Shigeru Miyamoto, the Nintendo game creator who put together the Wii Fit concept, has said that he sees the Plus sequel set for release not as a real follow up to the first game but rather as an enhanced version, which aims to expand the usability of the concept and allow gamers to play the title for a longer time.In...

16 October 2009
13:31 GMT

Project Runway Videogame Coming to the Nintendo Wii

It's no mystery that television and movies seem not to mix well with videogames. Most adaptations for the big screen of titles like Doom have been flops and all attempts to make television series into videogames have turned out poorly (see Lost: Via Domus). But now Atari is determined to get it right by adapting...

12 October 2009
13:01 GMT

Wii Fit Plus Arriving on October 4

Reggie Fils-Aime, the man who heads up Nintendo of America, has announced that Wii Fit Plus is set to be released on October 4 in the United States. The game will be packaged with a Balance Board and will be retailing for a suggested 100-dollar price.The announcement came at a conference that GameStop organized in La...

1 September 2009
08:15 GMT

Wii Fit Close to Breaking Records in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom videogame charts have the same leader this week as during the previous one. Wii Fit, the exercise game from Nintendo that comes packed with a Balance Board, has been sitting at number one for no less than seven weeks.Research firm Chart Track, which puts together the top 20 for each week, is saying...

21 May 2009
04:24 GMT

Activision Confirms Next Tony Hawk for E3

Activision has recently unveiled its financial results for the last quarter of the last fiscal year and during that event, a conference call with investors and analysts revealed more information about the plans that the publisher has for the future. And one of the best-known games getting a big reveal in the coming w...

11 May 2009
03:19 GMT

Shaun White Says a New Game Will Appear but Ubisoft Doesn't Comment

The Nintendo Wii is certainly a very innovative console, especially because of its unique features, like motion sensitivity or the very different controllers, in the form of the Wii Remote or the Nunchuk. But a new peripheral, the Balance Board, has been adopted by quite a lot of users, thanks to the fact that it is ...

22 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Electronic Arts Prepares Wii Fit Challenger

Well, the stereotype demands that gamers do not read manly magazines like Men's Fitness, but the last issue to hit stands had a cover featuring Strauss Zelnick, the outspoken chairman of the board at Take Two Interactive, so we had to take a peek at it and see if there was any piece of advice on how y...

29 October 2008
06:09 GMT

Wii Music Release Date Set

Nintendo has officially announced that Wii Music is set to debut on shelves of videogames stores on October 20. With the official unveiling of the title only coming at the E3 trade show during this summer, an October release date seems very close, which means that the game was in development at Nintendo long before i...

19 September 2008
20:31 GMT

Dance Tour Way into Fitness with Helix

Not content with losing pounds using Wii Fit? Does the constant exercising on the balance board scare you? Are you afraid that you could fall and damage your home? Are you afraid that you might kill the cat? Are you one of the people fearing the fact that more Balance Board powered titles are coming to threaten your ...

25 August 2008
05:33 GMT

Electronic Arts Is Creating Wii Peripherals

We've been reporting yesterday on how EA Sports is thinking of focusing on the Nintendo Wii in an effort to extend its appeal to a more diverse gaming demographic. It seems that part of the Wii emphasis strategy might consist of creating new peripherals for the console, which enhance the gaming experience with E...

26 June 2008
06:04 GMT

Wii Fit Causes Damage in People's Homes

There's a good reason why gyms exist, namely that exercising in the living room can lead to serious personal injury and even damage to one's property. The upside of the launch of the Wii Fit is that it managed to get more people exercising and worrying about their weight. The downside is that more and more ...

19 June 2008
19:26 GMT

Balance Board Adapted to World of Warcraft

With the crowd of games that are in development and aiming to use the Wii Balance Board somehow, it was just a matter of time before someone with considerably high engineering skills managed to get the Balance Board working in games it was not specifically designed for.The German Research Center for Artificial Intell...

18 June 2008
19:06 GMT

Majesco Wants You to Get Ultimate Fitness

Majesco is continuing its series of game announcements by telling us that it plans to enter the market of fitness games with the upcoming release of Fitness Ultimatum 2009, also known as Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum. The game is set to debut in retail sometime around the coveted holiday season and is bein...

13 June 2008
02:16 GMT

Nintendo Apologizes for Wii Fit BMI Offenses

Last week, we reported on the girl who was offended by the fact that the Wii Fit game considered her to be... a little above the recommended weight as it was constructed based on her other physical attributes. The story itself seems a bit on the fishy side but, nevertheless, the parents of other kids, presumably over...

20 May 2008
19:06 GMT

Skate on the Wii and DS

When the gaming world takes notice of the skating world, it does so big time. After Activision revealed that a new entry in the Tony Hawk franchise was in the making for the Nintendo DS and that another game in the franchise would be released next year, Electronic Arts brings now news on its breakout skating franchis...

13 May 2008
16:21 GMT

Next Rayman Raving Rabbids Will Use the Wii Balance Board

Following the succes had by Ubisoft with the release of Rayman Raving Rabbids, it was only a matter of time until a sequel was officially announced. Even though details are still scarce, it seems that Ubisoft has just confirmed it, since a short teaser trailer has been released by the company and it clearly suggests ...

30 April 2008
12:06 GMT

Wii Fit Is a Revolutionary Game

As the Wii Fit is making history in Japan, where it is fast becoming the title that has sold the most in any given period since its launch, Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Wii Fit and its accompanying Balance Board, has been talking to the "Times" about the way gaming needs to change and about how this one game ...

29 April 2008
18:16 GMT

Cheerleading Game from THQ

THQ is one of the most diverse publishers in the video game business and probably best known for their long running series Warhammer 40,000 and for their revolutionary RTS Company of Heroes. Less well known, but equally innovative and interesting, is the range of games THQ aims to bring to the Nintendo Wii.All Star C...

7 March 2008
05:08 GMT


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