Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii, No More Heroes, and more.

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

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aTunes – Full-featured audio player and manager on Ubuntu Geek
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, … (…) Read the rest of aTunes – Full-featured audio player and…

Japanese hardware sales, April 12 – April 18: Dry spell edition on Joystiq
Poor, poor April. After a quarter of pretty enormous video game releases, we’ve seen a noticeable slowdown over the past 25 days. Normally, we’d relish the opportunity to get caught up on the surplus the past few months have brought us, but … well,…

GoNintendo ‘End of Day’ thoughts – D3stiny_Sm4sher Reviews WarioWare: DIY (and an important site note) on GoNintendo
Okay, a quick little note from me, and then it’s off to the review. I’m heading into NYC tomorrow for something site related, but I’m going early in the morning. If all works out well, and there are no hiccups along the way, I…

Are game demos on the way out? on GoNintendo
I guess it all depends on what publishers and developers you are talking to. If you look at what Nintendo is doing, they are still pushing ahead with demos. While we don’t really see any Wii demos, we do get plenty of demos for DS games, and…

Amazon/Nintendo Channel data – Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, New Super Mario Bros. Wii (April. 26th) on GoNintendo
Wii Fit Plus is doing much better than I thought it would be. I didn’t think that many people would be interested in the game, and for this long! Looks like Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus are titles that the expanded audience just can’t get…

Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes – Japanese boxart, tentative price/release on GoNintendo
We know that Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes, but GameStop is showing us a tentative release date, along with a budget price. Sure, it might only be $10 less top-tier Wii games, but I’ll take the savings anytime I can! Link

ESRB updates on GoNintendo
Arc Rise Fantasia (Wii) – T LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (DS) – E10+ XG Blast! (DS) – E Let’s Paint (Wii) – E Little Bears (DS) – E Mahkongg Mysteries (DS) – E Despicable Me: The Game – Minion Mayhem (DS) – E 10 Minute…

Japanese software sales – April 12th to 18th (Top 50) on GoNintendo
01. / 01. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) – 32.108 / 3.686.739 (-14%) 02. / 05. [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) – 20.883 / 3.110.984 (-7%) 03. / 03. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2010 (Konami) – 20.880 / 102.733 (-3 %)…


Animal Crossing: City Folk, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, Mario Party 8, and more.

Posted: April 17th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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NEWS: Wii and DS Take Top Spots in March NPD on Nintendo World Report Headlines
delivers a 1-2 punch in the latest edition of the NPD sales report.

One million Americans have Just Danced on Joystiq
Ubisoft announced last month that its Wii public humiliation simulator Just Dance had sold two million copies worldwide. Now, based on data from the March NPD report , analyst Ben Schachter estimates that one million copies have been sold in…

Nintendo Wii Console with Nintendo Wii Sports & Bonus Game $199+S&H at Walmart.com on Fatwallet.com Hot Deals
Rating: 11 Posted By: Crazy8 Views: 1936 Replies: 6 Product Link or search for Wii Console Bonus Bonus Top Selling Game (Pick 1 from this list of 9): New Super Mario Bros. (Wii) Mario Kart w/ Wheel (Wii) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) Super Smash…


Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, WiiWare, and more.

Posted: April 16th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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Nintendo Wii Console with Nintendo Wii Sports & Bonus Game $199 at Walmart.com on Fatwallet.com Hot Deals
Rating: 10 Posted By: Crazy8 Views: 1690 Replies: 5 Product Link or search for Wii Console Bonus Bonus Top Selling Game (Pick 1 from this list of 9): New Super Mario Bros. (Wii) Mario Kart w/ Wheel (Wii) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) Super Smash…

Tron Legacy Reboots Space Paranoids Online on Wired: Underwire
Tron Legacy doesn’t arrive until the end of the year. And yeah, the wait sucks. But soon you can while away that time playing Space Paranoids online. Don’t you feel better already? Like the joystick version shown off at Comic-Con…

Wii Fit Causing Sex Obsessions? on Cubed3.com News
A woman from Manchester claims that due to an accident using Wii Fit, she has become a sex addict.

Geist Developer Working on a New Wii Game on Cubed3.com News
nand#45;Space is working on a new Wii title that is set to hit in Q4 2010.

New Prince of Persia Wii Trailer on Cubed3.com News
Ubisoft has sent out the latest trailer for the upcoming Wiiand#45;specific editon of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

Descent coming to WiiWare – prepare barf bags on CrunchGear
Do you people remember how disorientating Descent was back when it first game out? I mean, we had Doom and Flight Simulator and all that, but spinning around in those little passages trying to laser a fool was a whole new thing. And a lot of…

Exclusive First Look At New Backyard Sports Characters on Wired: GeekDad
A GeekDad exclusive first look! Check out the all new characters introduced in the upcoming Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers videogame for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii, Nintendo DS and a downloadable…


Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, Super Mario Bros., Wii Sports Resort, and more.

Posted: April 11th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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GoNintendo ‘End of Day’ thoughts – Pokemon SoulSilver review/preview by D3stiny_Sm4sher on GoNintendo
Oh man, what a tiring day. As a matter of fact, I don’t think I’ve had a weekend as jam-packed as this one in quite some time! Juggling the site work and moving out at the same time can be quite a pain! Actually, it’s just the…

Official PR – Thousands of Movies & TV Episodes from Netflix Now Available via Nintendo’s Wii Console (plus Gary and Allison show you how to take a Wii online) on GoNintendo
–> Direct link here REDMOND, Wash. & LOS GATOS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Nintendo of America Inc. and Netflix, Inc. [Nasdaq: NFLX] today announced that Netflix members who own Nintendo’s Wii™…

ESRB updates on GoNintendo
Vacation Isle: Beach Party (Wii) – E The Last Airbender (Wii) – T The Last Airbender (DS) – E10+ Backyard Sports – Sandlot Sluggers (Wii) – E Disney Sing It: Family Hits (Wii) – E Galaxy Racers (DS) – E Pearl Harbor Trilogy – …

Japanese software sales – March 29th to April 4th (Top 50) on GoNintendo
01. / 00. [NDS] Etrian Odyssey III: Caller of the Starry Seas (Atlus Co.) – 87.765 / NEW 02. / 01. [PS3] Fist of the North Star: Warriors (Koei) – 71.629 / 456.924 (-81%) 03. / 00. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2010 (Konami) – 57.136 / NEW 04. / 00….


Mario Party 8, Super Mario Galaxy, Taiko no Tatsujin, and more.

Posted: April 9th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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Japan – Top 15 best-sellers on Wii on GoNintendo
01. Wii Sports (Nintendo) – 3634806 02. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) – 3587755 03. Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 3560889 04. Wii Play (Nintendo) – 2776759 05. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) – 2607839 06. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 1924424…

Spaceball: Revolution – review on GoNintendo
A portion of a WiiLoveIt review… You’ll need to evaluate for yourself if you prefer the extras, or the portability that comes with this release. Although it lacks some of the additional selling points of the WiiWare version, this is…

A pair of Wii previews on GoNintendo
Two Wii previews from Dtoid… Lost in Shadow Oops! Prank Party

GameSpot updates on GoNintendo
Alice in Wonderland Wii review GTI Club Supermini Festa Demo 2010 Konami Gamers Day The Cages: Pro Style Batting Practice Demo Lost in Shadow – multiple videos The Cages: Pro Style…

IGN Updates on GoNintendo
Videos Lost in Shadow Gameplay Videos 2010 World Cup Wii Video Monster Hunter Tri Multiplayer Video News Etrian Odyssey 3 Tops Japanese Charts First Look: The Last Story’s Hero and Heroine Green Day:…

Monster Hunter 3 – EDGE review snippet on GoNintendo
EDGE scored Monster Hunter 3 a bit lower than Nintendo Power, giving it a 7 out of 10. EDGE traditionally scores much lower, but they had this nice bit to say. Duality is at the heart of Tri – it is both tourism and dungeon crawl, reconnaissance…


Super Smash Bros. Brawl and more.

Posted: April 8th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: | No Comments »

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Top 10 Most Avidly-Played Wii Games In America [Wii] on Kotaku
# wii As of April 1, 2010, the Wii game that gets played the most by the people who have it is still Super Smash Bros. Brawl. 75 hours. 10 minutes. Since the day they got it. But a new contender is…

Get in Touch With The Future on The Michel Fortin Blog
An interesting thing is happening lately, and it’s giving me a lot of fodder. I wanted to share a few opinions with you. First off, as you know I love predictions and making some of my own. For example, I wrote a controversial white paper several…


The Legend of Zelda, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and more.

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

Wii news from around the web:

Nintendo and Google Making a Search Game for Wii on Mashable!
This just in from the “Strange Bedfellows” department: apparently Nintendo has enlisted the help of Google to create a Wii game where players compete to guess the most popular search terms. The game, entitled Ando Kensaku , will be…

Zelda team “under considerable pressure” to match Monster Hunter graphics on Infendo – Nintendo blog
Click here to view the embedded video. No one makes better-looking games for Nintendo platforms than Nintendo. Unless of course you’re Capcom, working on the upcoming Monster Hunter Tri for Wii. “Looking at the graphics objectively,…

Wii Game Ando Kensaku Puts Your Google Search Results Knowledge To Work [Video Games] on Gizmodo
# videogames Many an argument has been settled by comparing the number of Google search results, and while the initial victory is satisfying I never would’ve thought we’d see a Wii game inspired by…

Wii Emulator Shows Off Some Super-Widescreen Viewpoints [Video Games] on Gizmodo
# videogames This is what Super Smash Bros. Brawl looks like at a super-widescreen resolution, when using Dolphin, a Wii emulator on a PC. It’s so wide, you can barely make it out when shrunk down to…


Super Smash Bros. Brawl and more.

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

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Smash Bros. Wii Blasts into Korea on Cubed3.com News
Nintendo has confirmed that it will finally be releasing Super Smash Bros. Brawl in South Korea on Wii.


Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Red Steel 2, Ultimate Band, and more.

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

Wii news from around the web:

A taste of Netflix on Wii (video) on Download Squad
Filed under: Fun , Video As I was on my way out the door today the friendly postman drove by and shoved a familiar red envelope in my mailbox. Knowing what was coming , I skipped back to the house with the Netflix streaming disc for Wii ……

Korea finally seeing the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl on GoNintendo
Korean Wii owners are soon going to know the joys of beating the crap out of one another, in video game form. Super Smash Bros. Brawl is set for an April 29th, 2010 release. I didn’t know that the game hadn’t made it there yet! Thanks…

Activision’s Build-A-Bear Workshop Titles Now Available for Wii and Nintendo DS on GoNintendo
Minneapolis, MN – March 26, 2010 – Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), in association with Build-A-Bear Workshop®, today announced that Build-A-Bear Workshop: Friendship Valley for Wii™ and Build-A-Bear Workshop: Welcome to Hugsville…

Monster Hunter 3 preview tour hitting UK on GoNintendo
26 March 2010 – Nintendo invites you to be one of the first in the country to get your hands on one of the most exciting games to launch on Wii this year, the roaring adventure, Monster Hunter Tri available exclusively on Wii. Monster Hunter fans can…

Red Steel 2 – various Amazon sales rankings on GoNintendo
Amazon UK: ranked 9th in Wii best sellers Amazon France: ranked 22 in Wii best sellers Amazon Canada: ranked 22 in Wii bestsellers Amazon Germany: ranked 26 in Wii bestsellers Looks like the game might be fairing quite well around the rest of…

GoGamer – this week’s sales on GoNintendo
Wii – Tony Hawk Ride $69.90 Wii – Blast Works: Build, Trade & Destroy $9.90 (If you don’t own this yet, my dear, sweet GoNintendo reader, BUY IT NOW!!!!!) Wii – Cid the Dummy $9.90 Wii – Ultimate Band $9.90 Wii – Nunchuk Controller…

HD Component AV Cable for Nintendo Wii $6 at Buy.com on BensBargains.net Latest Headlines
Buy.com has the HD Component AV Cable for Nintendo Wii for $6 with free shipping. Allows you to play games and movies in 480p resolution. It may not be much compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360, but at least it is still widescreen. [ Compare ]

Netflix streaming via Wii coming really soon on Macworld
Netflix has started shipping instant-streaming discs to some of its members to test streaming movies and TV shows via the Wii console.


Mario Kart Wii, New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros., and more.

Posted: March 20th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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Random Time! – Siskel and Ebert play the Wii’s forefather on GoNintendo
This video was too good not to pass up. With motion control all the rage now, I wish we had Siskel and Ebert to test all this stuff out! Direct link here (thanks Josh!)

Famitsu Top 30 Selling Titles (Gold Cross Review Score or higher) 1996 ~ 2010.02.14 on GoNintendo
01 [GB] Pokemon Gold/Silver – 6,089,503 (33) 02 [DS] Pokemon Diamond/Pearl – 5,763,120 (35) 03 [DS] New Super Mario Bros. – 5,734,634 (36) 04 [GBA] Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire – 5,337,045 (34) 05 [DS] Animal Crossing: Wild World – 5,129,679 (37) 06…

Japan – sales so far on GoNintendo
- Dragon Quest VI (NDS, Square Enix): 1,260,135 units sold * Release: 02/28/10 – Zelda no Densetsu: Daichi no Kiteki (NDS, Nintendo): 606,358 units sold * Release: 12/23/09 – Dragon Quest V Ultimate Hits (NDS, Square Enix): 10,615 units…

Zallag’s upcoming WiiWare lineup – more details on GoNintendo
Racers’ Islands: Crazy Races – racing game – drive with one hand and shoot Racers’ Islands: Crazy Arena – party game Gods vs. Humans – strategy game – “unlikely but effective mix of Lemmings, Populous, and Final Fantasy…

Calling – review on GoNintendo
A portion of a Gaming-Age review… Overall, Calling is a game that has a decent idea, and a really neat use for one aspect of the Wii (the remote speaker of all things), but everything else about it is horrid. You’re likely to encounter…