Resident Evil, MadWorld, Wii Sports, and more.

Posted: March 10th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

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Sony Answers Wii Remote With PlayStation Move on Mashable!
Sony has named its forthcoming PlayStation 3 motion controller “PlayStation Move.” The controller is Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s Wii Remote and Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360 – a way to use motion to play…

Madworld (Wii) $9 on SlickDeals.net

Hands-on: PlayStation Move’s Sports Champions on Joystiq
Click for the gallery of Champions You might think it derisive to call Sports Champions (working title) the Wii Sports of PlayStation Move , but it’s really intended as a compliment. Although the collection of sports-themed games are…

Hands-on: PlayStation Move’s ‘The Shoot’ on Joystiq
“The Shoot” is a pretty fun title. The on-rails shooter propels you through a series of cheesy movie sets, populated by cardboard cut-out civilians, antiquated B-movie aliens and hulking robots. And then you shoot them … on the shoot . See? What’s…

Shelly Palmer: Megabits in a Megabyte — Shelly Palmer on The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Sony just revealed its new PlayStation Move motion controller. The new controller is similar to the Wii controller in that it moves seamlessly with the user, with Sony…


Resident Evil, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, and more.

Posted: March 7th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

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More homes have a game console than a cable box on Engadget HD
Think twice before you say that using a game console to watch TV will never go mainstream because according to a survey from the Yankee Group , more people have a gaming console at home than a cable set-top box — in fact the survey says that 2…

Week in Games: Finally [New Releases] on Kotaku
This is Final Fantasy XIII’s week, as the game arrives in North America on PS3 and Xbox 360. Other releases of note: Assassin’s Creed II, DRM and all, on the PC, BlazBlue on PSP, and the BioShock 2 DLC. Let’s not forget Mega Man 10 on the PS3,…

Wii Console w/ Bonus Wii Sports Resort & Wii MotionPlus Bundle $199 on SlickDeals.net

Video Games: PC, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars $2, Clive Barker’s Jericho $4, Mercenaries 2 $4, Tom Clancys End War $5, Xbox 360 Alone In The Dark $7, Race Pro $7, Eat Lead $7, PS3 American Idol 2 Encore w/ mic $10, Wii Lost in Blue Shipwrecked $7, Dead Ris on SlickDeals.net


Red Steel, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and more.

Posted: March 4th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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Japan – next week’s retail releases on GoNintendo
[NDS] RPG Maker DS (Enterbrain) [NDS] Phonics de Minitsuku Eigo (Meister Hero) [NDS] Steve Soresi no Business Eikaiwa PeraPera DS Training (IE Institute) [NDS] Steve Soresi no Eikaiwa PeraPera DS Training (IE Institute) [NDS] Gakken Europa 4:…

Europe – Wii updates available on GoNintendo
It appears that there have been some updates to the Wii services today, at least over in Europe. There are now updates available for the following channels… – Nintendo – BBC iPlayer – Today and Tomorrow – Mii Contest – Internet Thanks…

Japanese hardware sales – Feb. 22nd to 28th on GoNintendo
PSP 37,338 Wii 36,241 PS3 27,763 DSi LL 24,605 DSi 15,586 DS Lite 5,029 Xbox 360 2,510 PS2 1,912 PSP go 1,296 Link

Ubisoft considered rebranding Red Steel 2 as a new title on GoNintendo
A portion of an NWR interview with Jason Vandenberghe, creative director… NWR : Was there ever any thought to rebranding the game as a new franchise, considering the poor reputation of its predecessor and the completely different track this…

Guess what you can stream on Netflix now? on GoNintendo
Direct link here Just one more reason to get yourself ready for the Netflix launch on Wii. Soon you can stream this baby right through Nintendo’s little white box! So good…so bad… Link

Jr. League Sports – boxart, screens, details on GoNintendo
More screens here * GameTitle: Jr. League Sports * Developer: Data Design Interactive * Publisher: XS Games * Genre: Sports * Platforms: Wii * Release Date: March 2010 * Price: $19.99 * Rating: E for…

NewEgg deal – MadWorld for $10 on GoNintendo
Seriously…MadWorld for $10. A retail Wii game that is costing less than the most expensive WiiWare games available. If you don’t have this game, but are old enough to purchase M-rated games, you really shouldn’t turn this deal…

The Daily GameDev.net on GameDev.Net
This will be my last Daily… until the week after GDC. I know, scared you there didn’t I? Actually we’re not entirely sure what we’ll be doing about the Dailies next week, considering all but two of the Daily editors will be at GDC. I just realized…

Face-off: Face-Off: Final Fantasy XIII on Eurogamer
The neverending story. The rumours are true. Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 isn’t anywhere near as impressive as it is on PlayStation 3. The real kicker is that it’s a lot worse than it should have…

PSP Still In First In Japan, But It’s Still Nintendo’s Pie [Console Taisen] on Kotaku
Sony’s PlayStation Portable is still the bestselling (and worst selling) piece of hardware in Japan, moving another 37,000 PSPs of standard variety and nearly another 1300 of the “go” variety. The PSP secured the top spot on the hardware chart once…

Study: Wii Can Alleviate Elderly Depression, Too [Exergaming] on Kotaku
The benefits of the Wii and exergaming to patients in hospitals and elder-care facilities has been discussed nearly since the console’s release. Researchers in San Diego now say that Wii games can combat the onset of depression in elderly persons. A…

Badass PSP Game Rumbles To The Top Of Japan’s Bestsellers List [Sales Get] on Kotaku
Tough guy simulator Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou is Japan’s bestselling video game, the latest entry in the series that has made its way stateside under the name Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble. It dethrones Capcom’s Biohazard 5 re-release this week. …

The Rock Band Network Goes Live With 100 Plus New Tracks [Harmonix] on Kotaku
In January, Harmonix launched the tools needed for artists to publish their songs on the Rock Band Network . Today, the Rock Band Network Store opens to the public, with more than 100 new songs for fans to purchase and play. The Rock Band Network…

My 10 Years With The PlayStation 2 [Happy Birthday PS2] on Kotaku
On March 4, 2000, Sony unleashed the successor to their wildly successful PlayStation on an unsuspecting world. Ten years later I’ve still got PlayStation 2 games on preorder. And to think I didn’t even care until 2002. In 1999, I was still new to…


New Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, World of Goo, and more.

Posted: March 3rd, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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Brodmann Blades – the table tennis paddle you wear on Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
The equipment used for table tennis is so basic, you would think there was no way of streamlining it further… There’s a table, a net, a ball and two bare-bones paddles – what could you possibly get rid of? As it turns out, those paddles…

Alice in Wonderland – review on GoNintendo
A portion of a GamesRadar review… You’ll love * Great characters brilliantly voiced * Good use of Wii-mote activated powers * It’s a beautifully designed world You’ll hate * You can’t die …

Japanese software sales – Feb. 22nd to 28th on GoNintendo
01. [PSP] Kenka Banchou 4: Ichinen Sensou – 71,000 / NEW 02. [DS] Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier EXCEED – 65,000 / NEW 03. [PS3] Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition – 48,000 / 191,000 04. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii – 45,000 /…

IGN Updates 3-3-10 on GoNintendo
NHL 2K11 Is Now Exclusive For Nintendo Wii Capcom-Unity Blog: Around the Web Warner Bros. Extends Deal On LEGO Games This Week in Imports Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver Refresher

Top DSiWare, WiiWare, VC titles of the week on GoNintendo
WiiWare 1 – Mega Man 10 2 – Pokemon Rumble 3 – Frogger Returns 4 – “Aha! I Found It!” Hidden Object Game 5 – Tetris Party 6 – Dr. Mario Online Rx 7 – Reel Fishing Challenge 8 – UNO 9 – Family Go-Kart Racing 10 – Pub…

EA Sports Active earned publisher $125 million on Joystiq
EA Sports Active for the Wii, the third-party publisher’s sweatier response to Nintendo’s best-seller Wii Fit , has earned the company $125 million. Gamasutra reports that at the conclusion of Electronic Arts’ fiscal year (which is at the end…


No More Heroes, Red Steel 2, Super Mario Galaxy, and more.

Posted: February 28th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

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K Monthly – February 2010 [K Magazine] on Kotaku
Welcome to the February 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original coverage, including reviews, features, weekly columns and more, from Kotaku. Don’t miss our reporting from this year’s DICE summit, where video game…


New Super Mario Bros., Wii Fit, Wii Sports, and more.

Posted: February 27th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

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UK – Top ten best-selling games for January on GoNintendo
01 (__) [WII] Just Dance - 184,000 02 (02) [WII] Wii Fit Plus - 111,000 03 (01) [WII] Wii Sports Resort - 90,000 04 (__) [360] Mass Effect 2 - 90,000 05 (04) [360] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 61,000 06 (03) [WII] New Super Mario…

Reggie to answer Zelda Wii question on GT TV on GoNintendo
Direct link here Coming from Mr. Keighley’s Twitter… Great Reggie interview today….coming soon to GTTV. Find out if he has played the new Zelda for Wii or not.

Wii Rail Shooters Data: House of the Dead: Overkill, Dead Space: Extraction, and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles on GoNintendo
Dead Space: Extraction is the only tile of the three that I’ve played, but it was darn good. I was very skeptical at first (as usual), but I really ended up enjoying what the game had to offer. Keep in mind, that is a gamer who dislikes on…


Pikmin, Red Steel 2, Super Mario Galaxy, and more.

Posted: February 27th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

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Kotaku Originals: The $43,100 Question [Original] on Kotaku
Last night a hunk of plastic no one ever played set a sale price record for rare video games. In 1987 it retailed for $30. And people complain about $60 price points and used sales today. The week in Kotaku’s original reporting: Kotaku Talk…


Call of Duty: World at War, Pikmin, Arc Rise Fantasia, and more.

Posted: February 26th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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The Ghostbusters Peripheral We Should Have Had [Wii]Kotaku on “cool” via Recommendations in Google Reader
When your officially licensed movie tie-in game is a bit of a disappointment, who ya gonna call? Nobody. It’s too late to fix that. But oh, how things could have been different if this Wii Proton Pack had been sold. It’s the work of modder Jack…

Rock Band Weekly Gets Disturbed, Adds Silversun Pickups & More [Rock Band] on Kotaku
Next week’s batch of Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and LEGO Rock Band downloadable tracks leads with mood rockers Disturbed, who bring more of The Sickness to Harmonix and MTV Games’ music game. A three pack of Disturbed tracks will come to various Rock…

Review Round Up: Micro Zombie Invasion [List] on Kotaku
It was a week infested with zombies, Nazi zombies and micro-reviews, the smaller format reserved for Kotaku reviews of downloadable video games and downloadable game add-ons. It was also the week that featured our first massive-review. That would…

PlayStation Wins, Places In Japan’s Weekly Hardware Race [Console Taisen] on Kotaku
The PlayStation family bookends this week’s Media Create hardware sales chart thanks to strong sales of Biohazard 5 Alternative Edition and God Eater , as well as dwindling sales of the PlayStation 2 and PSPgo. Sony’s PSP and PlayStation 3 secure…

Transformers: War For Cyberton Preview: A World Without Michael Bay’s Robots [Impressions] on Kotaku
No humans. No Michael Bay. Two campaigns. Three-player online (only) drop-in/drop-out co-op Transformers with a link to the past and a Gears of War amount of gunfire. Happier? Last week, the developers of Transformers: War For Cyberton began the…

Arc Rise Fantasia Is As Pretty As Eight New Pictures [Screens] on Kotaku
Ignition Entertainment is gearing up to release “the definitive JRPG for the Wii” this summer, and eight new screenshots show us how much that looks like a Namco Bandai Tales of Something title. That’s not a bad thing, of course. In truth, Luminous…

FlingSmash: It’s All In the Elbow [Impressions] on Kotaku
The Nintendo representative demoing upcoming Wii title FlingSmash, kept describing the game as an “active sidescroller.” While I wasn’t exactly sure what to make of that genre tag, I did find myself recalling Super Breakout and Boom Blox while…

Disney’s Guilty Party: Family-Friendly and Fun…Really. [Impressions] on Kotaku
Wii owners who have suffered through countless me-too mini-game collections and lame party games often consider the term “family-friendly” the kiss of death. But Wideload Games (Stubbs the Zombie), the studio recently acquired by Disney…


Red Steel, Resident Evil, Super Mario Galaxy, and more.

Posted: February 26th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

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Nintendo Offering Dedicated Euro Monster Hunter 3 Wii Servers on Cubed3.com News
Nintendo has confirmed there will be dedicated European online servers for Monster Hunter 3 on Wii.

Nintendo DSi Uses Camera Face Tracking to Create 3D Mirages [3D] on Gizmodo
Three-dee displays make me dizzy. I want to see real 3D without eyeglasses, which is exactly what this new Nintendo DSi game does. It opens a world to a new dimension by tracking your face with the DSi camera. Its name is Rittai Kakushi e…

In-Store Gaming Kiosks Through the Ages [Retromodo] on Gizmodo
I never owned a Nintendo 64, and that was totally fine. See, I lived within biking distance of a Blockbuster. Despite its gradual decline on account of downloadable demos and general console popularity (if you don’t have one, one of your friends…

This Week’s Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss [Roundups] on Gizmodo
I remember the good old days, when 2 or 3 guns was all a man needed. The Secret Armory Of General Knoxx Opens This Week MORE GUNSSSSS!!!! Kotaku-Tan, The T-Shirt For The Kotaku Fan Nice work by Meatbun . Super Mario Galaxy 2:…


Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii, and more.

Posted: February 25th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo on CrunchGear
Don’t expect new console hardware from Nintendo in the near future. When asked “When do you think it’ll be time for new hardware?” in a recent interview with Gamespot, Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway replied, “I don’t think it’ll be any…

Biohazard 5 Alternative Edition Sees Gold Sales In Japan [Sales Get] on Kotaku
The re-release of Resident Evil 5—aka Biohazard on that side of the Pacific—looks like it has already paid for itself, the zombie hunting adventures of Chris and Jill delivering another 143,000 scares to Japanese gamers. This week also…

Wiimote proton pack ain’t afraid of no ghost on Coolest Gadgets
If there is one franchise that shouldn’t be overdone, it is Ghostbusters. I mean, it had one glorious film in 1984 that is still funny, though the special effects look fake. It is a shame that the Ghostbusters II wasn’t the beginning of…

MEDIA: Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands on Nintendo World Report Headlines
Pour out the sands and check out some screens and artwork from Ubisoft's upcoming Wii title.