Nintendo

Wii Fit Doesn’t Actually Make Kids Fit

It’s been close to 30 years since video games began their great leap from arcades to living rooms, and for all of those years parents and pediatricians have been counseling that kids spend too much time sitting on the sofa, controllers glued to their hands.


September 27, 2011
News

Uncharted, Wii Sports And A Wet Kitty

If you play Uncharted multiplayer at al, you’ll probably have heard at some stage Drake utter the strange line “Kitty got wet”. Ever wonder where it came from?


August 17, 2011
Nintendo

The Wii Gets A Redesign

This Christmas, the Nintendo Wii is a getting a slight, wait for it, Wii-design. I mean redesign!


May 4, 2011
Nintendo

‘Nintendo Selects’ Box Art And More Budget-Friendly Wii Details

Yesterday, Kotaku reported that Nintendo would launch a newly branded budget line of Wii software in May, re-releases of games like Super Smash Bros Brawl and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess at just $US19.99. Today, we have box art of the new “Nintendo Selects” line.


January 25, 2011
Nintendo

85-Year-Old Man Can Crush Us All In Wii Sports Bowling

He has bowled more than 2800 perfect games in Wii Sports bowling, which makes 85-year-old John Bates a world record holder. Impressive, sir.


June 22, 2010
News

Checking Out The Xbox 360′s Take On Wii Bowling

Kinect Sports comes packed with more than half-a-dozen ways to play, but my limited time with the game only gave me a chance to check out one of them: Bowling.


June 14, 2010
News

Don’t These Kinect Games Sound Awfully Familiar?

So the Microsoft Kinect is official, and we’ve seen a list of exciting new titles making their way to the Xbox 360 motion control device, but where’s the innovation? Is Kinect changing the game or delivering more of the same?


May 3, 2010
News

Black Wii Will Cost $199, Include Both Wii Sports Games

The black Wii console, which we already knew was coming, has today been officially revealed by Nintendo of America. It’ll still be $US199, and include not one game, but two.


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.


March 26, 2010
In Real Life

Who Remembers Their First Gaming Experience?

This Tuesday was a very important day. It was the first day my one-and-a-half-year-old son played his first video game.