The benefits of the Wii and exergaming to patients in hospitals and elder-care facilities has been discussed nearly since the console’s release. Researchers in San Diego now say that Wii games can combat the onset of depression in elderly persons.
Are you a Wii bowler? You think you’re good at it? If so, 86-year-old Jack Davis of Vandalia, Ohio, would like to speak to your arse. Because he’s going to kick it.
Hey, you know what makes a domestic violence arrest funny and lighthearted? Wii Boxing. At least according to one supermarket tabloid’s interpretation of what went down between Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller.
The pre-concert ritual for metal rockers Judas Priest? Wii Sports.
A new study has determined which Wii Fit and Wii Sports activities actually qualify as moderate intensity exercise, as defined by the American Heart Association. Are you actually exercising?
What better way for insurance company Kaiser Permanente to promote a healthy lifestyle than strapping television monitors playing Wii Sports to the heads of its marketing team?
That infamous “Mama!!!” video where the Wiimote destroys the flat-screen has been endlessly debated: staged or real? In this, it’s safe to assume the Home Shopping Network did not intend to smash its own TV showing off Wii Tennis.
People buy sports on the Wii, the only console currently bundled with a sports-based video game. But how much do they play these things? And how do the Maddens, the fishing games and the mighty Wii Fit rate?
Newt Gingrich, putative presidential candidate (and in his party, who isn’t?) is getting his arse handed to him by a 7-year-old in Wii bowling and has asked for your help,