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Mourn The Mature Wii Horror Game ‘Winter,’ You May Never Play it

Bemoaning the lack of mature, long-session games on the Wii? Then you might want to avoid looking at n-Space’s aborted Winter, a survival horror game for the Wii that will, quite possibly, never be released. IGN’s exclusive look at Winter, from the developer of the lukewarm Gamecube title Geist, is about as depressing for “core”…

Wii Fit Helps Paralyzed Girl Walk Again

A 10-year-old girl left paralyzed by a virus four years ago is learning to walk again thanks to her doctors and a copy of Wii Fit, Ireland’s Herald.ie writes. The girl took her first steps in four years at a New York hospital late last year. Now, back in her home town of Wexford, Ireland,…

Governor-General Visits Afghanistan To Drop Off A Wii

Background info: Australia has a Governor-General. Read up on that here. Anyway, she was in Afghanistan today, paying a surprise visit to Australian troops stationed there. Troops who were bored. So Governor-General Quentin Bryce flew in, said hello, shook some hands, dropped off a Wii and left. Bemused troops smiled, shook hands, waved goodbye, asked…

The Conduit Then and Now

To say that The Conduit has improved with age would be a bit of an understatement. It has, at least graphically, metamorphosed into something I am actually interesting in watching.

Wii Is The New PS2, PS3 Is The New…

…GameCube. Website VentureBeat crunched the NPD numbers and has turned up the following results: • Based on the console’s first 26 months of availability, the Wii is on its way to become the best-selling console of all time — a title currently held by the PS2. (The Wii has been outselling the PS2.) • During…

No Photography, No Jumping, No Zombies

We already knew that Dead Rising: Chop ‘Til You Drop is lacking in the brain-eating-walking-dead department. But it’s missing more than just zombies — some of it good, some of it very bad. According to the latest Nintendo Power (via Capcom-Unity), there are the differences in Dead Rising: Chop ‘Til You Drop You ready? Cause…

Massive Wii Game Sales Driven By Only A Handful Of Wii Games

Pareto’s Principle says 80% of effects are brought about by only 20% of causes. It’s a handy rule, and one the NPD Group are busting out to try and explain 2008’s year in software sales. See, over the last few years, video game sales have held true to Pareto’s Principle. In that 20% of games…

Welcome To the Family: A Letter From Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway

Welcome to the Family is a series of three letters that will run this week from the heads of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. We asked each of the companies to write up a welcome letter to new owners of their consoles. They did the rest. We are running them in the order they were received.…

Obama Family Brings Gaming One Generation Closer to the Presidency

President elect Barack Obama’s first day in office Tuesday will bring gamers one step closer to the White House. This Christmas Obama bought his family a Wii, something he plans to have set up in the family’s main TV room on the second floor of the White House. This morning I stumbled across an fictional…

Weekly Wii Update: MUSHA And Friends

This week’s Nintendo Wii update brings with it a couple of WiiWare titles from Aksys and High Voltage Software, and MUSHA – one of the most expensive Genesis games you’re likely to find. We’ll do the Virtual Console this week first, as I am extremely excited to see MUSHA (800 points) showing up on the…

Wesley Snipes Wants To Visit Sony Wii Town

Wesley Snipes is at Sundance. Sounds surprisingly coherent, looks surprisingly law-abiding! Anyway, turns out he’s not there for the movies. He’s there for Wii Town. Where he can get a Sony Wii. And when he does get one? He can make a movie out of the whole experience. After all, like he says in the…

Why Nintendo Won’t Conquer Russia

Sure, Nintendo might be conquering Europe, but Russia is another beast altogether. Just ask Napoleon — or Hitler. Hey, just ask both! Inna Bukatina, head of international licensing and acquisition at Russian publisher GFI, believes that Nintendo won’t take over Russia like the rest of the globe. The reason? The Wii is only a game…

Duck Hunt for a Dollar, ’til Ninty Bags It

A Duck Hunt knockoff for the iPhone and iPod touch is available for 99 cents, but it lacks two key things: Nintendo’s approval, and the Asshole Dog. Venture Beat’s MG Siegler found the app, which calls its emulator the iPES, probably another reason Nintendo’s gonna smash it, as if the dead ripoff quality of gameplay…

Wii Helping Snowbound Schools Make P.E. Fun

Anyone who’s ever lived in upstate New York can imagine the difficulty gym teachers face in winter, when kids simply can’t go outside. Many schools, however, are using the Wii to get kids some exercise. A story in the Post-Star of Glens Falls, N.Y. reports about the mushrooming uses of video games in local schools…

The Physics Of The Mushroom Kingdom Are Worthy Of Research

Glenn Elert is a physics teacher from Brooklyn. He and his students did a little research recently, and published a serious paper reporting their findings. How serious? Mushroom Kingdom serious. Yes, Ebert has wisely forgone teaching his kids about gravity the boring/realistic way, and instead decided to chart the gravity in the Mushroom Kingdom. So…

Homebrew Wii HDD Workaround Succeeds Where Nintendo Does Not

No HDD on the Wii eh, Nintendo? Big mistake. Makes Wii owners sad. Never mind, while Nintendo may be lacking the will to make a storage device for the Wii, others are more adventurous. Matrix have parted the curtains on the WiiZii, a plugn-play mod (mod! avert your eyes!) that allows you the user to…

Nintendo Says It’s Responsible For 99% Of Game Industry Growth In ’08 With Ridiculous Pie Chart

As has already been established, Nintendo is doing well for itself, shattering sales records in the United States with the Wii and Nintendo DS. And, according to Nintendo, it’s 99% responsible for the industry’s growth. Nintendo highlighted that fact in its response to NPD sales data released yesterday, showing that Nintendo hardware sold more than…

The Death of Evil Obi Flies in the Face of Flush Video Game Industry

These are such things as dreams are made on, the colorful concepts of dying developers, the universes that will never be. A recent glimpse into the unpublished works of a now-defunct game developer shows us one such universe which includes fabled Star Wars good guy Obi-Wan Kenobi, corrupted and evil. In the original concept art…

Samba De Amigo: The iPod

Don’t you just love it when outdated consumer electronics and semi-obscure game characters meet? Hope you do. Because they sure as shit meet in this rare Samba De Amigo iPod. A 3rd Gen iPod, only a handful were ever made, and were handed out last year at the Nintendo World Store in NYC to winners…

Nintendo’s Wii And DS Sales Numbers Conquer Europe

Nintendo has announced its European install base has hit 14.2 million. In 2008 alone, 8.3 million Wiis were sold, up 58 percent from the previous year. How’s the DS doing in Europe? Damn good. Last year, 11.2 million DSes were sold in Europe, bringing the region’s lifetime sales to over 31 million DSes. If that’s…