Archive for the ‘Mii’ Category

The Top 14 Faces to Give to Your Mii

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Although the Mii creation tools seem pretty limited, gamers have tweaked and stretched the system to the limit - all for the sake of bringing their favorite celebrities and video game characters to life.read more | digg story

Friday Video: Makin’ those Miis

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Filed under: Video Yeah, you’ve probably seen this one already, and that’s okay. You don’t have to watch it again if you don’t want to (but we think it’s pretty cool). But Nintendo’s latest Wii ads are not only effective, but they reflect the Mii craze that is such a big ...

Nintendo team playing with Miis in Twilight Princess

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Filed under: News, Interviews During an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, MTV’s Stephen Totilo threw out a speculative question: Had Nintendo experimented with using Miis in Zelda: Twilight Princess? Miyamoto answered that, in fact, the developers at EAD had in fact been playing with that feature! After completing the game, the team ...

Get your Mii on your Mac

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Filed under: Homebrew, Channels Created by Mike Cohen, this handy little application lets Mac users transfer their Mii from the Wiimote directly onto their Mac, allowing them to easily share them on community sites such as MiiPlaza.net and edit them using Mii Editor. Now, we haven’t tried this yet, but apparently ...

Japanese Wii owners to receive some celebrity Miis

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Filed under: News Turns out America isn’t the only place that Nintendo is using the appeal of Mii creation to market their console. In Japan, Nintendo in enlisting the aid of Japanese celebrities Akashiya Sanma (the man with the immaculate cheek bones) and Shuuzou Matsuoka to generate buzz amongst the public. ...

Mii Popularity Channel coming April

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Filed under: News, Channels Nintendo recently filled the inboxes of Japanese Wii consoles with a message about the “Mii Popularity Channel’s” upcoming release. According to Siliconera, Wii owners will be able to download the new channel and vote for their favorite Miis as early as April 29th. Whether or not this ...

Presenting Nintendo’s new Mii commercials

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Filed under: Fan stuff, Video Nintendo recently sent out a press release stating the company would be airing some new commercials, focusing on Mii creation and the fun one has during. We never posted a story about it because, let’s be honest, it would’ve been a waste of everyone’s time. Now ...

GDC 07: Miyamoto keynote video

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Filed under: News, Video There are dozens of clips floating around from Shigeru Miyamoto’s keynote yesterday, but IGN has streaming video of the entire event available for your anxious eyes. You won’t find any megaton announcements or landmark revelations, but the presentation is full of insights on “the Nintendo Difference” from ...

Popularity Channel? A Wii Fanboy staff reaction

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Filed under: Features, Channels var digg_url = ‘http://www.digg.com/gaming_news/Reaction_to_the_announcement_of_a_new_Channel_during_the_Miyamoto_keynote’; Miyamoto’s keynote revealed that he is making a new Channel. This new Channel will allow people to compete in popularity contests with their Miis. Now, we don’t have any concrete information other than that, nor do we have ...

Nintendo: PS3 Home is a “Mii-too” solution

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Filed under: Interviews Sony revealed a virtual world for the PS3 yesterday, perhaps in the hopes of duplicating the success of the Nintendo Mii. And while one might assume Nintendo would just brush off the announcement, they actually had something worthwhile to say. A Nintendo spokesperson commented that it was a ...

Fist of the North Star Pachinko uses Miis

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Filed under: News, Imports We brought you the story that an EA producer was not given access to Mii code for My Sims, and that according to him, no third parties were. The situation seems to have changed, because Sega Sammy is using the little guys and gals in its Jissen ...

Mii pants hacking

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Filed under: How-tos, Homebrew Blogger David Hawley has apparently uncovered, using a hex editor, the future of Nintendo avatar pants: “Special Miis” with pants of gold. If you can get your Mii over to your PC, then you can edit it in hexadecimal to create such a Special Mii. Special Miis ...

Your birthday means nothing on the Wii

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Filed under: News This threw us for a curve ball. See, we all know that when you enter Pictochat on your DS during your birthday, there’s a message there waiting for you, so we always assumed that on the Wii something similar would be done. Why else make you input your ...