Posted: February 3rd, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Fit, Wii Remote, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort | No Comments »
Wii news from around the web:
| “de Blob Sequel Announced New NBA Jam Screens Game Save: Iron Man 2 EA on Wii Dante’s Inferno Wii Software Dominated Worldwide Sales For 2009 EA Predicts Super Bowl XLIV Winner With Madden SEGA Snags Gladiator A.D. Take Two Layoff…” |
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“Alright! Nintendo finally made it! The big time! Link (Thanks Chris!)” |
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“The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited, and Enterbrain, Inc. track the three biggest gaming markets in the world: the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. How did those three markets do in 2009? A report from the three groups claims overall…” |
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“In traditional Nintendo fashion, the company has been very secretive about the upcoming Legend of Zelda game on the Wii. We knew it existed, but not much else. Now series producer Eiji Aonuma has revealed a few details about the upcoming…” |
| “Tournament of Legends here in May. SEGA’s stamped a May release date on High Voltage’s new gladiator game for Wii. And it’s no longer known as…” |
| “But Wii is second, third, fourth, fifth. Activision’s Modern Warfare 2 has predictably been crowned the best selling game of 2009, in the…” |
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“Bad moon rising. Rarely has a such a great series been dogged by such careless disregard. Passed around no fewer than four publishers for its first three incarnations, the fact the Fatal Frame series -…” |
Posted: January 6th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: Call of Duty: World at War, Dragon Quest X, MadWorld, Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Wii, New Super Mario Bros., Nintendo Points, No More Heroes, Punch-Out!!, Resident Evil, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The House of the Dead: Overkill, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Remote, Wii Sports, WiiWare | No Comments »
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“In an interview with Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Nintendo prez Satoru Iwata provided some rare commentary on what we might expect from a DS successor – not just another DS revision, mind you – whenever the gaming giant gets the urge to upgrade…” |
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“The fact that LG presented 39 new LCD HDTVs today and only eight plasmas is telling of the times, but videophiles are just happy to still have the option to choose picture quality over features. For you Mr videophile, LG has eight new plasma models…” |
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“During last December, Japan’s Famitsu magazine asked its readers to give it their top picks for 2010 in games, companies, and game creators. Some of the highlights: – By far, the game Japanese players are looking forward to the most this year is…” |
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“Nintendo usually holds its cards close to the chest, but a new wide-ranging interview with president Satoru Iwata outlined the company’s plans for 2010. The interview with Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun (via Kotaku) revealed plans to release the…” |
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“Phoenix Wright finally makes it to the big screen next week, when Capcom releases a port of the DS game that started it all on Nintendo’s WiiWare. 1,000 Wii points is all you need to score the first four chapters of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney on…” |
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“One parent has put Modern Warfare and Halo to educational use for their four-year-old. Another believes Okami teaches values. These are the things the parents among you told us about what games do — or don’t do — for children. Yesterday,…” |
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“To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Goodbye Again Roll up the rug! Micro-Bash has been sick for most of the week. Thanks goodness for plastic buckets. (T_T) That’s a sock at the bottom of the slide. I think. What you missed last night Report: New Zelda…” |
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“Game-trading outlet Goozex have released some charts revealing what their most popular titles of 2009 were on the service, and included are comprehensive charts for each major video game platform. And, as you’re about to see, the lists are a little…” |
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“With Sony’s motion controller due later this year, some of you may be thinking ahead. To the future. A future with killer robots, alien overlords and an Uncharted 3 that maybe uses motion controls. We don’t know about the chances of the first two,…” |
Posted: December 7th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: Disney Sing It, Nintendo Points, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Virtual Console, WiiWare | No Comments »
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“The Wii Virtual Console is due to get a double dose of 8-bit adventure soon, as the ESRB has rated Sega Master System spin-off Alex Kidd in Shinobi World and NES classic Blaster Master for Nintendo’s service. Alex Kidd in Shinobi World was, sadly,…” |
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“There are two ways Zelda games can be great. The newest entry in the series, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks summits one of those rarefied heights. There are the Zelda games that are great in ways that influence an industry and nearly mandate that…” |
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“Eleven new titles make their debut across WiiWare, DSiWare, and the Virtual Console this week, with performances by Street Fighter Alpha, the arcade version of Shinobi, and a little Rayman for your DSi. Kicking things off this week despite a…” |
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“Spotted by omg! fashion police, Melissa Joan Hart — of Clarissa Explains it All* — attended an Ubisoft event last week for Jenny McCarthy’s Wii Fitness game, Your Shape. Looks like Hart could use some Frag Doll fashion tips. *And Sabrina…” |
Posted: December 7th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: New Super Mario Bros., Resident Evil, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario World, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort | No Comments »
Wii news from around the web:
| “LEGO Rock Band- Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii [$59.99]” |
| “With New Super Mario Bros. Wii taking No.1 in the UK last week, a couple of other Nintendo favourites have climbed up as well.” |
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“You press a button; a character on the television screen jumps. You press the same button again, while the on-screen character is in the air; the character jumps again. In video-gamer vernacular, this is called a “double jump.” To a gaming outsider,…” |
| “To: Totilo From: Bashcraft Mrs. Bashcraft is watching Oliver Stone’s JFK — we’re going to my hometown, Dallas, in a week. I guess this is preparation for her trip to Dallas? (. _ .;) It’s kinda strange to be from a city that’s best know as the…” |
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“Enterbrain, which publishes Japanese game magazine Famitsu, has crunched data for the top ten selling games Japan during the period beginning October 26 and ending November 29. Let’s have a look: 10. Tekken 6 Launch: October 29, 2009 Sales: 158,965…” |
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“Don’t worry! There’s always next week. According to sales numbers from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, Wii title New Super Mario Bros. Wii nearly sold a million in its first week in Japan. This is the biggest debut for a Wii title. Between December 3…” |
| “Pick of the week: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS) With the holidays almost upon us, the flood of new retail releases has slowed to a trickle. But there are at least a few new titles to get gamers excited. Most notably we have The Legend of…” |
Posted: December 4th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: Mario Kart Wii, New Super Mario Bros., Nintendo Points, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Virtual Console, Wii Sports | No Comments »
Wii news from around the web:
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“If you’re looking for a new phone, AT&T is slashing all Blackberry prices 50% for a limited time, starting today. If you’re looking for something else, odds are we have a deal for it in today’s post. Top Deals: • 23″ HP TouchSmart 600xt 1080p…” |
| “Continuity in Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda games can be a muddled, confusing mess, but Spirit Tracks is unambiguously presented as the sequel to both 2003’s Wind Waker and 2007’s Phantom Hourglass. Set “about 100″ years after its predecessors, the…” |
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“On top of the regular DLC announcements for next week, Harmonix also revealed three more Green Day tracks bound for Rock Band’s in-game music store. The three-pack of Green Day songs will arrive on Xbox 360 and Wii beginning Tuesday, December 15 and…” |
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“Another six tracks are primed to join the Rock Band music library next week. A three-pack of songs from masked metal band Slipknot is coming for $5.49 (440 Microsoft points). If 1960s folk rock is more your speed, there’s also a pair of Simon &…” |
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“Initially conceived as a multimedia device, the iPhone overcame a number of hurdles to become a popular gaming portable. But one surprising problem still haunts the device’s gaming capabilities. Despite being a phone, the iPhone doesn’t have a single…” |
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“The Japanese release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii is looking pretty positive for Nintendo, with the Wii game moving an impressive 422,000 units on day one, according to reports. Japanese retail blog Sinobi’s estimates put New Super Mario Bros. Wii’s…” |
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“The bigger, larger and more enormous Nintendo DSi LL continued to outsell the competition in its second week on the market in Japan, another 67,000-plus hardware units sold. It’s a stark contrast to competitor Sony’s most recent PSP revision. While…” |
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“Japanese publisher Sunsoft, perhaps best known for its NES release Blaster Master and subsequent sequels, will be resuming operations in North America the company announced today, soliciting a little relaunch help from Gaijinworks. For those…” |
| ““First of all, I wouldn’t be obsessed about being number two or number one. I don’t really think that’s the point. In the first several years at EA, we focused on making a lot of original products and bringing up the…” |
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“Teyon announced that starting from Monday December 7 its Nintendo DSiWare™ title, Ball Fighter will be available in the Nintendo DSi™ Shop. Ball Fighter will be available for 500 Nintendo points. In Ball Fighter your task is to destroy colorful…” |
| “A portion of a 1up review… I suppose it’s pretty much a given that Nintendo fans are always going to buy the latest Zelda game, but Spirit Tracks doesn’t simply coast along on its legacy. Like New Super Mario Bros. Wii, it’s a…” |
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“Universal Music and Mindscape are delighted with the initial results and UK retail support for the first instalment of their franchise ‘U-Sing – U’ve Got Talent’. Mark Stanger of Mindscape commented “we have been greatly encouraged by the…” |
Posted: November 26th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: Mii, Nintendo Points, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass | No Comments »
Wii news from around the web:
| “Videos News Features The Top 25 Wii Games, #25 – #6 Screens Previews Reviews” |
| “- each vehicle has it’s own stats – big emphasis on drifting – snaking not possible – playing the game earns you ‘SEGA miles’, which are the game’s currency system – use ‘SEGA miles’ to purchase music, characters,…” |
| “A portion of a PocketGamer review… Army Defender comes across as My First Castle Defence game, which, considering its position on DSi, it may well be. But with colourful, quick, and easy to pick-up-and-play, it ticks most of the boxes expected…” |
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“With sales of the PS3 on the rebound, Sony are starting to get a little of their old swagger back. Speaking with GI.biz, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Andrew House has taken a couple of shots not at his company’s arch-rival, the Xbox 360, but at…” |
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“In an interview with Britain’s The Guaridan, Zelda director Eiji Aonuma has given a none-too-subtle hint that the upcoming Wii entry in the series may feature, for the first real time in a Zelda game, flight. “I have an eight-year-old son myself at…” |
Posted: November 26th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: Art Style, New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Virtual Console, Wii Fit, WiiWare | No Comments »
Wii news from around the web:
| “DSi LL 100,553 PS3 34,752 Wii 32,844 PSP 32,752 DSi 32,070 DS Lite 5,051 PSP go 4,574 Xbox 360 4,085 PS2 2,024 Is it just me, or did the launch of the DSi LL help to boost all Nintendo hardware sales?! Link” |
| “Spanish – commercial 1 – commercial 2 French: – commercial 1 – commercial 2 – commercial 3 Dutch: – commercial 1 English: – commercial 1 – commercial 2” |
| “Rabbids Lab – 500 Points Copter Crisis – 500 Points Dragon Master Spell Caster – 500 Points Solitaire – 500 Points Virtual Console Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye (SMD) – 800 Points DSiWare Mighty Flip Champs – 800 Points Reflect Missle – 500…” |
| ““I have an eight-year-old son myself at home, and quite recently he started playing The Phantom Hourglass for DS, because when the software first hit the market he was too young. When he started playing with the boat, I told him: ‘In the…” |
| “Just the other day we heard that Q-Games was going to be working with WiiWare or DSiWare again, but we didn’t get any specific details. Now we know that the Big N and Q-Games are tackling ‘Reflect Missile’…whatever that may…” |
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“My baby is NINE today (From Top Left: 5, 6, 7, 8th birthdays, Xander at 4, Xander’s 9th (big photo), 3rd birthday, Baby Xander (6months) and Xander at 2. )And he couldn’t be happier. He got some good swag and had a great party a few weekends…” |
| “Just bought Wii Fit Plus w/ Balance Board $79.99, add the $4.99 HDMI 6ft cord for free shipping ” |
Posted: November 5th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: LostWinds, New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, WiiWare | No Comments »
Wii news from around the web:
| “After the great success of LostWinds on WiiWare, Frontier has now released the sequel, Winter of the Melodias. How does it compare to the original?” |
| “Abylight have announced a new WiiWare game, Stop Stress: A Day Of Fury. Your objective? Destroy!” |
| “Capcom’s Ace Attorney series might be heading to Wii, if the German Ratings board is to be believed.” |
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“The official website for New Super Mario Bros. Wii has been updated in a big way. There are tons of videos to check out, but I’ve grabbed all of them and put them into two massive YouTube videos below! Unfortunately, some of the clips crapped…” |
| “Video Games | Zelda: Spirit Tracks | Exclusive Zelda’s Secret Trailer XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii Direct link here” |
| “I’ll update this post after every commercial break… – Reggie wanted to see more marketing support for Dead Space: Extraction – Reggie says that core gamers crying about nothing on Wii should open up their eyes, and reach into their…” |
Posted: June 2nd, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: New Super Mario Bros., Pikmin, SimCity, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Wii Fit, Wii Music, Wii Speak, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort | No Comments »
Wii news from around the web:
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I was pleased to see Mario return to his side-scrolling platform roots once more in New Super Mario Bros. for Wii. Similar to it’s DS predecessor, New Super Mario Bros. Wii puts our hero in his original element – traversing the mushroom…”
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Hey all; I’m sure a lot of you caught coverage of this earlier, but I was taking notes live-blog style and have gone back to complete the thoughts and ideas from the session; digested it a bit more if you will. Enjoy! Tim O’leary from…”
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Got to give it to Nintendo — this year’s E3 press conference was better than last year’s train wreck, don’t cha think? The company announced some big news. All that and more after the jump. Nintendo’s E3 Expo Live Blog Mario Vs. Donkey Kong,…”
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Google has turned out a new web interface for viewing YouTube, called YouTube XL, which reformats the site to suit web-connected TVs, game console browsers, and, perhaps unintentionally, touchscreens. The interface isn’t quite the full experiential…”
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E3 2009: Japanese publisher announces Raging Blast for Xbox 360 and PS3, Revenge of King Piccolo for Wii, Attack of the Saiyans for DS; DBZ license holder unclear.”
Posted: May 8th, 2009 | Author: Rex | Filed under: Wii | Tags: New Play Control!, Punch-Out!!, Resident Evil, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | No Comments »
Wii news from around the web:
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In an interview with gamesindustry.biz, Glen Schofield, VP and general manager of the recently re-branded Visceral Games, said that the EA studio’s upcoming Wii title Dead Space Extraction is an experiment in mature content on the platform for the…”
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Remember, we heard Ancel say that a version of BG&E 2 for Wii isn’t out of the question. With that, try not to drool over this leaked footage. Direct link here”
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Apropos of the column my fellow Gaming Insider Josh Lovison wrote a short time ago about “hardcore” titles being released on “casual platforms,” GamesIndustry.biz posted an interesting interview with Glenn Schofield, developer of the horror-survival…”
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“I’m confident – it is an experiment, but there’s going to be 50 million Wiis out there by the time the game comes out, so if you only hit 2 per cent of the installed base you’ve got a huge number. (discussing core successes…”
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“In partnering with the development team at Transmission Games, Ashes Cricket 2009 is a cricket title with an unprecedented heritage that comes from two companies that know and love the sport. The Brian Lara titles became the number one cricket…”
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Wii™ 1. Wii Music™ 2. Animal Crossing™: City Folk 3. Mario Kart Wii™ 4. Wii Fit™ 5. Super Smash Bros.™ Brawl 6. Super Mario Galaxy™ 7. New Play Control! Pikmin™ 8. New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis™ 9….”
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The Wii ships with a free tennis game bundled in with a clutch of other sports titles, so how can you convince Nintendo gamers they should spend more money on a stand alone tennis title? What Is It? Based on the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments,…”
