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Nintendo: Just Dance 2 and FIFA 12 Are 2011 Best Sellers So Far

Video game publisher Nintendo has released a series of sales charts for the first nine months of this year, compiled from sources like Media Create in Japan, the NPD Group in the United States and Gfk International, showing that the biggest hits at the moment are Just Dance 2 and FIFA 12.Just Dance 2 for the Nintendo...

2 November 2011
14:31 GMT

Motion Controllers Would Have Been 'Too Exhausting' for Final Fantasy XIII

Motion controllers are the brand-new rave, the gimmick that every game needs to support so that people will see it as the title that's coming from tomorrow, which has that glossy shine of the new. However, some developers tend to be either a bit skeptic about the new input method or simply not impressed by it, b...

17 February 2010
03:21 GMT

The Black Wii Bundle Drops Anchor on European Shores

Ever since it first appeared at the Nintendo press conference at the 2005 E3, the Wii developer had plans for color variations. A black version of the console may have been unveiled back in 2005, but it's only this June that the console resurfaced with a dark polish. The Wii came bundled with a black Wii Remote ...

21 October 2009
06:01 GMT

The New Super Mario Bros Wii Will Sell Forever

The New Super Mario Bros Wii should have the same long-lasting effect as the DS version of the game. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, this Mario will continue to keep sales up and be a successful title well after its original release time frame. Second only to the Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, the DS New Super Mario Bros ha...

13 October 2009
09:15 GMT

The Wii, More Addictive than Drugs

In the state of Florida a drug bust deviates from the course and yet another case of police misconduct is reported. Police brutality, extortion or indecent proposals are not the plot of this story. After raiding the house of a 43-year-old man and finding drugs, weapons and stolen property, police officers continued t...

23 September 2009
03:29 GMT

Christina Aguilera Got Injured While Playing Wii Sports

The Nintendo Wii has introduced a lot of interesting things, from the likes of motion control to new titles that make gamers get off of the couch and start moving around, thus burning some of the calories that many people have in excess. But while a lot of people try to unwind with a friendly match of tennis thanks ...

20 July 2009
13:01 GMT

Nintendo Presents the Top Selling Titles of 2008

Nintendo is really, really rubbing it in the eyes of the competition. As if the humiliation of the various sales charts was not enough, the company is releasing some internal data showing the sales of the games it released for the Nintendo Wii and the DS during last year. 26 titles have broken through the 1 million u...

3 February 2009
03:05 GMT

Golden Globe Winner Kate Winslet Thinks the Wii Is Great

The Nintendo Wii is nothing short of a sales miracle in today's harsh market, which is affected by the recession. Its wide appeal to a variety of demographics made it a must buy for quite a lot of people and managed to pull the industry after it in terms of sales and popularity.But Nintendo's small white bo...

28 January 2009
15:01 GMT

United Kingdom is Wii Fit

The United Kingdom weekly videogame sales chart is dominated, somewhat surprisingly, by Wii Fit. In a week when titles like Fallout 3 and Red Alert 3 were available to players, the fitness oriented release from Nintendo has managed to top the chart, having its third best week of its lifetime in the United Kingdom.Wii...

7 November 2008
12:41 GMT

Ubisoft Launches Sports Party, Goes Wii Exclusive

Ubisoft sends word that it is launching a new division in charge of creating Nintendo Wii titles, with a casual audience in mind and with rather simple gameplay mechanics. The division will be called Play Zone and it already has a videogame under development, called Sports Party.Sports Party seems to borrow a lot fro...

20 June 2008
16:06 GMT

UK Government Considers Wii in Schools

Five British schools in Worcestershire have trialled some so-called "active" Wii video games to augment traditional Physical Education lessons with their final goal being the reduction of obesity of the population and encourage students to take and enjoy more exercise, everything in a fun way. Strange, because I alwa...

31 January 2008
04:40 GMT

2012 Olympics Get Wii Sports as New Trial

The 2008 Beijing Olympics haven't yet started and already we're talking about the 2012 edition. As strange as it may seem, we'll see Wii Sports as part of the competitions included in the Olympic challenges, according to the International Olympics committee president, Jacques Rogge. Wii Sports has ju...

22 January 2008
11:06 GMT

Wii Sports Hints and Glitches (Wii)

Wii Sports offers five distinct sports experiences, each using the Wii Remote to provide a natural, intuitive and realistic feel. Players can use their own Mii caricatures in the game and play them against their friends' Miis for a more personalized experience. As players improve, their Miis' skill levels w...

13 November 2007
10:35 GMT

Wii Sports Gets New Controllers

Wii Sports has cashed in, earned many BAFTA gaming awards, appealed to elder folks and now it's ready to provide a revamped experience thanks to a new set of controllers which have just been released by dreamGEAR. The pack is called "Soft Sports Kit" and it includes a bat, racket and a club which will be avail...

2 November 2007
05:08 GMT

In2Games Brings Wii Sports Clone to PlayStation 2

What do you know? Not only is the PlayStation 2 far from dead, heading gloriously towards its eighth holiday season, but it's now getting an alternative to Wii Sports too. If there's a company that's "stealing" Nintendo's ideas in the most obvious manner possible, that company is without a doubt I...

26 October 2007
05:31 GMT

Gaming BAFTA Winners Announced. Wii Sports Scores Big Time!

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has just announced the winners of the 2007 edition of the Video Games Awards and it turns out that one of the hits of the year is in fact Wii Sports. Nintendo's blockbusters brought home six of the 13 major awards in categories like Casual and Social, Gameplay or I...

24 October 2007
11:07 GMT

Wii Games Crucial in the Recovery of Stroke Victims

The general opinion was that gaming makes you obese, destroys your social life and causes depression... A certain percentage of this statement was true, but things have changed drastically since the Nintendo Wii was launched. The gaming device is now considered the ideal indoor sports gear and even used with curativ...

9 October 2007
04:47 GMT

Video Games Bafta Awards Coming Up

2007 is not over yet, but it's been a busy year for game publishers and developers as many great titles have hit the market and many more will come till 2008. Such a rich list of top games deserves a proper event and an award, the gaming version of BAFTA, the BAVGA (British Academy Video Games Awards), which w...

26 September 2007
04:14 GMT

Wii Fit Sarcastic Commercial - A Little White Thing You Stand On!

Thanks to a well known gaming site, I stumbled upon something I never thought I would see: a sarcastic commercial addressed to the Wii. It speaks of the new Wii Fit, which is said to help you stay fit without even leaving the comfort of your home and on top of that all, that it's fun and simple. I don't kno...

19 July 2007
09:34 GMT

Wii Party Hosted by Overtime Comedy Group at Westside Eclectic Theater

It has been revealed today that Overtime (not the noun), the comedy team behind the hit video series "Mario In MySpace," and Siliconera are teaming up to throw a Nintendo Wii party and comedy show at the Westside Eclectic Theater. The event will be hosted in Santa Monica this Friday (June 22nd).The official report sa...

20 June 2007
06:59 GMT

Actors to Show How 'Simple' Wii Tennis Is - Live in UK Theatres

Here's the deal: inside one of the Picturehouse cinemas in the UK, two actors will be playing Wii Tennis LIVE, for audiences who will see their in-game actions projected onto cinema screens. But hear this: NextGeneration reports that this campaign's goal is to show just how fun and "easy" it is to play game...

25 May 2007
10:08 GMT

Nintendo Wii Retailing for $549.92. What?!

Without further ado, here's what you're getting in terms of Nintendo household gaming system, as the ad on EB Games says:Nintendo Wii system (system, remote controller, nunchuck, stand, sensor and Wii Sports)Wii 1 Gigabyte Memory Card- 1 additional Wii Remote Controller- 1 additional Wii Nunchuck Controller...

12 April 2007
07:08 GMT


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