Like the looks of those limited edition Baby Milo/Nintendo DS handhelds? Best of luck trying to find one. This vid was taken on the first morning the console went on sale in Japan. As you can see, the line outside Bape’s flagship store in Aoyama, Tokyo was…considerable. [via Wired via Go Nintendo]
Launching on May 19 in the US, Wii Fit will retail for $US 89.99. With the crappy dollar exchange rate, that’s about the same as it costs in Japan, where it’s priced at ¥8,800. There’s more! The first 1,000 folks in the New York City area who pre-order Wii Fit with a $US 5 deposit at the Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Plaza have will get a limited edition Wii Fit with a reproduced Shigeru Miyamoto signature on it. That’s right, if you are lucky, you too can wear a fake Miyamoto autograph. Hooray!
Hit the jump for the press release.
And our contest continues! Today, since we’re short on plane costumes, we bring you this B-2 “Spirit” bomber from reader Stephen, who writes:
So I know I don’t score many points in the effort category here, but hopefully I make it up in the creativity and fan devotion categories :)
The idea is that it’s a top down view of a B-2 “Spirit” bomber. Since it’s a little esoteric I’ve attached a picture of a real B-2 for reference that maybe you can include with it.
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Forget it. Your PSN name is not enough for Metal Gear Online. No way, no how. For those getting in on the MGO beta, you’re going to need not one ID, but, you ready, two other separate IDs. That’s right! Your PSN name is apparently worthless. According to the PlayStation.Blog:
Britain’s all-format sales charts for last week are in. Seven out of the ten are Wii games. Yes, I’m as surprised as you are. Mario Kart took the top spot, becoming not only the 8th-biggest-selling debut game in British history, but the single biggest-selling debut Nintendo game in British history as well. Would love to tell you just how many copies that equates to, but ChartTrack don’t think you need that information, so take it up with them.
Here’s a Max Factory figure of the yo-yo slingin’ bounty hunter Bridget from Guilty Gear XX. Quite nice, this figurine — check out the detail and colour on his face. Ah, yes. Bridget. Helping male gamers question their sexuality since 2002.
Hit the jump for an image of the entire figurine.
The combination of EA, Steven Spielberg and casual Wii gaming targeted at children and retirees may not instill much in the way of hardcore gaming fervor, but there is something unquantifiable about Boom Blox that makes it so appealing. On display on just one monitor at last week’s Nintendo Media Summit, the Spielberg production—not unlike a virtual game of Jenga played with a cannon—had a consistent crowd of press and PR surrounding it, some of whom were repeat Boom Blox-ers regularly returning for another taste.
Boom Blox‘s main gameplay draw lies in the ability to knock down towers of inconsistently shaped blocks with the toss of baseballs, bowling balls, whatever, all of which adhere to an accurate physics model. Simply line up your shot, after a careful panning and scanning of the camera, then whip the Wii-remote at the screen to start knocking blocks off. Special blocks and multipliers pile on the tactics, but gamers of any skill level can compete from the get-go.
Frontier’s WiiWare effort LostWinds may not be grabbing headlines, especially in the midst of releases like Grand Theft Auto IV and Metal Gear Solid 4 on the horizon, but it may be the WiiWare title with the most potential. Arguably the prettiest of the digitally delivered offerings from Nintendo’s answer to Xbox Live Arcade, LostWinds lets players take control of two characters at once, big-headed boy adventurer Taku and, well, a gust of wind.
Sega is revitalising one of its most endeared and niche properties with Samba de Amigo for the Wii, handing of development to Gearbox Studios and trading in expensive, dedicated and unreliable maraca peripherals for a pair of Wii controllers. The Wii version can utilise either a nunchuk-and-Wii-mote combo or, preferably, a dual Wii Remote set up. The latter scheme feels more natural and, if Gearbox Studios gets force feedback and proper embedded speaker output working, potentially more authentic.
But how true to the original will Sega’s casual-friendly music game ultimately be?
