News

What’s New About Nintendo’s New Wii Remote?

Over the past few weeks, a new version of Nintendo’s Wii Remote controller was tested and ruled totally compliant by the FCC. What has changed about the device that gives the Wii its waggle?


April 30, 2010
News

Swords: Like Punch-Out!! But With Swords

Majesco offers the Wii owner another chance to use the rarely exploited Wii MotionPlus add-on with its new, to-the-point Swords, a game that is about swords, time travelling and swords.


April 29, 2010

Black Wii Bundle Shows Up In GameStop Marketing

GameStop stores’ monthly poster shipment includes this lovely advertisement for the rumoured black Nintendo Wii, bundled with Wii Sports, Wii MotionPlus and Wii Sports Resort.


April 27, 2010

Rumour: Black Wii Comes To North America In May

When will North American Wii owners finally have a sleek black console that matches their black Wii Remote, Nunchuk and Classic Controller? Maybe as early as May, according to multiple retail sources.


February 23, 2010

Motion Control In Gaming: Rationalising A New Dissonance

Everything changed in 2001, the year Nintendo decided that the future of gaming didn’t lie in faster processors and photorealistic images, but in interaction.


September 27, 2009

Kotaku Approval Ratings: Issues Of The Day

After a week’s hiatus, Kotaku Approval Ratings has returned to measure your opinions on certain games, concepts and controversies involved in the news over the past two weeks.


September 26, 2009
News

Rage Of The Gladiator Is The First MotionPlus WiiWare Game

While we’re all waiting for more retail titles utilising Nintendo’s more responsive MotionPlus add-on to arrive, Ghostfire Games is busy readying Rage of the Gladiator, the first MotionPlus-enable WiiWare game.


August 15, 2009

Red Steel 2 GamesCom Video

We knew Ubisoft’s Red Steel 2 was going to be playable at GamesCom, and this teaser trailer doesn’t tell us much more than that.


August 8, 2009
In Real Life

Wii MotionPlus Is Wall Street Journal Approved

You know you’ve got it made when even the Wall Street Journal wants a piece of your sweet, sweet motion controlled action.


June 4, 2009
News

Why Didn’t The Original Wii Remote Have Wii MotionPlus?

Nintendo is releasing add-on for the Wii Remote called Wii MotionPlus. It brings much needed accuracy to the Wii-mote. Why wasn’t it included in the original Wii-mote?