Archive for the ‘Wii’ Category

Awesome Tech Demo for Wii by High Voltage Software!

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Kotaku presents us an amazing graphics tech demo from High Voltage Software showing off the real capabilities of the Wii. While it still doesn't compare to the best that the XBox 360 or PS3 can offer, it does show that good graphics ARE possible from the Wii. This is the ...

‘Mario Kart Wii’ lives up to the hype, and then some

Friday, April 25th, 2008

When Mario Kart Wii was delivered to my doorstep, I wasn't sure what my reaction would be to the latest in the popular franchise. Would I love it? Would I hate it? Would it be just another title that couldn't live up to the hype? After ...

Super Smash Bros Brawl released on 27th June in Europe

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Having puffed out its chest about Wii hardware and software sales and announced European WiiWare details this morning, Nintendo has also issued a bunch of release dates and SSBB was among them.read more | digg story

Nintendo Wii Virtual Console games just ROMS and HTML files?

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console games have been fully dumped, decrypted, and extracted. We found there are ROMS in the virtual console games and they are even playable in emulators (ex: Snes9x). Most of all, the documentation for a virtual console game that is viewable on the Nintendo Wii is just ...

Epic won’t ever develop for Wii: “we go forward, not back”

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

When asked whether there would ever be a time when Epic would be forced to give in and create a game for the Wii, Mike Capps said, “no, we go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech.” As for why he believes ...

See how the Wii Lightsaber works

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

LucasArts has ahem, 'unleashed' the latest web documentary for Star Wars: Force Unleashed, showing just how you swing a Lightsaber with the Wii Remote (and stylus).read more | digg story

Wii : IGN Manhunt 2 Preview

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

It's the goriest game we've ever seen. Find out why the Wii is the definitive version. First real Wii screens included!read more | digg story

The NCC allows the Wii in

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Filed under: News Apparently, travelers to the Taipei, Taiwan airport over the last few months, whilst carrying a Nintendo Wii, have had their console confiscated. The console is no doubt destined for a cold chair in a dark room, to be interrogated under a single light, confessing to numerous crimes. “I ...

Bethesda VP chats up Wii, says Oblivion not possible

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Filed under: News, Interviews For those of you who thought that Oblivion could grace the Wii (the game is coming to the PSP, so why shouldn’t it be doable on the Wii, right?), you might want to take a seat. Oh, wait, you’re already sitting, aren’t you? Right, right … well, ...

Wii Sports and Wii Play sell one million copies each in Japan

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Filed under: News, Imports Congrats are in order to Nintendo: both Wii Sports and Wii Play (Hajimete no Wii) have sold in excess of one million copies in Japan. Having two million-sellers already trumps the Gamecube, on which only Super Smash Bros. Melee reached that particular milestone. We know that the bundled ...

Reggie downplays Wiimote’s TV wrath, 360’s European sales

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Filed under: News NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime, ever the iconoclast, had some choice words for the San Jose Mercury News about the success of the Xbox 360 in Europe. In effect, he claimed that the 360’s success in Europe is localized to the UK, while the Wii is (obviously!) doing great ...

Capcom has more planned for the Wii

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Filed under: News Capcom has laid it out on the line and one thing has made us especially happy (well, just me really): Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles is still on-track for a 2007 release. Yes, we know what the game is, but we just don’t care. If it has the name ...

VC Monday Madness: post-game wrap-up 3/19/07

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Filed under: Virtual Console, Features Another week has delivered us some goodies on the Virtual Console service and another week we have played them and prepared a post that explains which you should download and which you shouldn’t. This week, our job is pretty easy because you need to download all ...