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Features
Sega Updates Us On Wii Strategy, Aliens, “Sega-ness”
6:00AM Stephen Totilo | Kotaku sat with the new chief of Sega’s American and European divisions yesterday to get an update on everything from Aliens to Yakuza. More »
Hands On
Go Play Lumberjacks So You Don’t Have To
4:00AM Mike Fahey | It’s been quite awhile, but now we’re back, playing the Nintendo Wii family party game Go Play Lumberjacks, so you don’t have to. More »
Culture
The Queen Of England’s Gold-Plated Wii
1:40AM Mike Fahey | THQ knows that if you’re going to deliver a Wii to Buckingham Palace to promote your new game no ordinary console will do, so they had one gold plated. More »
News
Disney Sends Spectrobes Wii-ward
12:20AM Mike Fahey | Spectrobes makes the leap from two small screens to one large one, as Disney Interactive Studios takes their original science fiction adventure series to the Nintendo Wii with Spectrobes: Origins. More »
Barack Obama Backs The Wii
3:40AM Mike Fahey | Sure, video games are raising our children and you can’t vote with a Wii remote. Now that the voting is over, President-elect Obama finds time to kick back with a little Wii Sports bowling. More »
If Crusty Old Hippies Designed A Wii Remote…
6:00PM Luke Plunkett | …it would look a lot like this. Well, crusty hippies or industrious 19th century sailors. They’re the only types aside from DHREK who could have made a functioning Wii Remote out of hemp string. More »Wario Land Shake It Impressions
5:00AM Brian Crecente | Tristan and I were walking past the Nintendo booth yesterday at PAX when we noticed that they had demo stations for Wario Land Shake It set up. More »
Homebrew Wii Channel Enables DVD Playback
7:00AM Kotaku US Edition | Nintendo has been far too busy printing money and dreaming up strange new controllers to actually finish that DVD-on-Wii thing it has been promising for the last couple of years. Happily, the homebrew community has stepped up and put together a Wii channel that will read a DVD disc and pipe it through the open source MPlayer media player. It’s not quite ready for prime time — the audio can sometimes get out of sync, although this is more a ‘feature’ of MPlayer than the fault of the hack, we suspect. Worth checking out, though, and it might just save Nintendo the bother of building something that nobody has really been crying out for but would be nice to have for free. Homebrew Enables DVD Playback On Wii [Gemaga.com] More »
News
Good News: Pachter Says We are Wealthy!
4:00AM Owen Good | Alright, alright, forgive the distortion, but if you’ve bought a next-gen console — and worldwide, more than 60 million of us have — then you are “wealthy or hardcore gamers”, according to everyone’s favourite video game software analyst, Michael Pachter. I don’t consider myself hardcore. And my aforementioned $AU 1562.4 rent apparently qualifies me as wealthy. Pachter’s reasoning, in comments to GamePro, is that the next-gen consoles are not truly mass-market items yet, and won’t be until their price point dips to $AU 207.28. More »
