The Problem With Microsoft’s New Way To Play Video Games

When Xbox 360′s controller-free Kinect add-on hits stores later this week it has the potential to redefine gaming in ways even the Nintendo Wii hasn’t yet done. It could just as easily fall flat on its face.


October 26, 2010
News

It’s Official: Nintendo Has Sold A Ridiculous Amount Of Wii Remotes

63,500,000. That’s the number of Wii Remotes Nintendo says it has sold in the United States since the Wii launched in November 2006. How did Nintendo manage to move so many of the damn things?


October 13, 2010
In Real Life

This Wii Remote Is Made By LEGO, Not Nintendo

If you’re sick to death of Nintendo and its subtle, stylish colours for Wii Remotes, you could always pick up one of these official LEGO controllers.


September 22, 2010

Monster Hands Or MiniChuk?

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August 31, 2010
In Real Life

What Are These Wii Remote Accessories For?

I can tell you, they’re not for the pursuit of medical science.


July 12, 2010
News

The Nintendo 3DS Is A Tricky Sell

The Wii was an easy sell. Nintendo showed the Wii Remote and that players could swing it around. Simple! Ditto for the Nintendo DS. It has a touch screen, and there is a stylus. Clear as day.


July 3, 2010
News

Apple Engineers "Totally Wrong", Nintendo Misjudged Excitement And Other Great Corporate Excuses

This morning iPhone owners woke to a very unusual thing: an apology letter from Apple.


May 25, 2010
News

Stuff Your Wii Remote Inside A Baby

I’m not sure what’s more disturbing; the fact that Majesco’s Babysitting Mama has you stuffing your Wii remote into the plush equivalent of a tiny human child, or the fact that it uses the nunchuck as well.


May 21, 2010
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?


May 12, 2010
News

Waggles At Twenty Paces

This year’s E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles has two of the biggest game companies go literally head-to-head in… waggle.