It’s about damn time the Wii gets a price cut. The system has been out for almost three years now and has been the same price. But that’s about to change in two weeks if this Toys R Us ad is correct which says it’s going down to $199.
Nintendo’s now offering the Opera-powered “Internet Channel” for free. The Wii web browser formerly ran 500 Wii Points ($5). Aside from the new price tag, the browser has also “been updated to support an upgraded version of Adobe Flash player.”
Nintendo has officially announced Wii Fit Plus, a somewhat incremental upgrade to its wildly-popular Wii Fit exercise program. The price of the Wii Fit bundle, which will include the new Wii Fit Plus along with the Balance Board apparatus, will remain at $99 while the standalone version of the game will cost $19.99. It’s set to release here in the US on October 4th.
Nintendo! What are you doing? Don’t get us wrong, it’s great that you’re shipping the black Wii remote to North America sometime this month. Our white ones are getting kind of dingy after a couple years of drunk Wii bowling. But what do we have to do to get the black Wii?
Oh boy, another accessory to buy for the Wii. This one is a soft football that holds a Wii-mote and Nunchuk. It’s actually just a patent so far (submitted by Nintendo), so it may never make it to market in the first place.
Metroid was probably my most favorite game in the mid to late 90s for the NES and today, Nintendo released Metroid Prime: Trilogy for the Wii. Announced back at E3 in June, Metroid 3: Corruption is packed together with Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2 Echoes all of which is encased a shiny blue metal case. M3 brings updated motion controls and widescreen (16:9) to the Wii. It’s available now for $50.
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Want to run some homebrew games, apps, a DVD player, or emulator on your Wii? Too bad! Nintendo doesn’t want you to. Fortunately, their console is far from un-hackable, though the latest versions aren’t vulnerable to the original Twilight Princess hack. Lucky for you there are other ways of going about it. This new hack, which should work on any Wii, works by injecting some “malicious” code into a banner on your home screen. Though it’s not really malicious, is it? They should have called it “friendiferous.”
Microsoft might have scored an exclusive deal to keep Netflix Xbox 360 only and off both the PS3 and Wii. But if you’re willing to forgo the fancy UI on the Xbox, there is still a way to get Netflix on the PS3 and eventually the Wii too.
Hey, Wii fans! Ready to ride a burro? Well hop on the probably-will-never-be-made Wii inflatable controller, a soft rubber pillow that you can ride on like a total and absolute freak of nature.
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Quick Version: A fool and his money are soon parted, or so the saying goes. I just dropped five bucks on River City Ransom for the Wii Virtual Console. Foolish? Or near-endless retro fun?
Spoiler: Totally worth it.
It’s pretty obvious that you guys have interests outside of tech and gadgets just like the crew at CG. Yes, we’re deeply in love with our gadgetry, but we like to nerd out over other things, too. Or maybe it’s just me. I, for one, will be playing a slew of videogames including Battlefield 1943 (Xbox 360), King of Fighters XII (PS3), Pac-Man (PS3), Prototype (Xbox 360) and G-Force (Xbox 360).
I will also be catching up on some reading, like Robert Kirkman’s Invincible and McFarlane’s Spawn. I picked up Tyrese Gibson’s Mayhem and it was pretty boring. I’m on the fence about Avatar’s Absolution, too. I should probably finish catching up on DC’s Blackest Night series as well.
What about you guys?
We’re gonna need another cliché to describe the Nintendo Wii. It seems the little system isn’t as much of a money-printing machine as it once was, with Nintendo’s profits down 66 percent (!) from the same quarter last year. Now, the video game industry is a little weird because in no single quarter are you guaranteed to have a hit game. There’s no law that says a new Mario or Zelda has to come out every May.
So Capcom just revealed the box art for their upcoming Wii RE title, but there’s a mystery character in the shadows that won’t be revealed until the game comes out. Any guesses as to who it is? That’s Steve Burnside hanging tough in the back with the mystery guy and I hope you know who the two in the front are.
The downloadable game libraries on current-gen consoles are making for a lot of “indie developer makes good” occasions. Cave Story, one of my favorite games ever, is coming to WiiWare after years of being PC-only freeware (recently ported to Mac). And now La-Mulana, also known as “the game so hard that I just gave up… twice” is coming as well. If you’re a fan of Metroid and Castlevania-type games, La Mulana is the holy grail. It’s unbelievably huge and totally uncompromising.
Kind of weird that it’s coming to Wii then, right? Zing!
In what may be the most thorough and energetic unboxing of a video game in the history of the internet, everyone’s favorite enthusiastic gamer, DiiFii, unboxes Wii Sports Resort.
And we’re talking a major unboxing here: the cardboard, the advertising inserts, the look and feel of the box itself, the simplicity of the actual game disc, and more. There’s also a quick fondling of the MotionPlus peripheral and, of course, some gameplay footage.
To enjoy this video as a drinking game, take one drink every time DiiFii says “awesome”.
Wii Sports Resort Unboxing [YouTube]
Not to be outdone by Gamestop, Walmart is now offering one free Wii title with the purchase of a Wii system for $249. But are the games any good? Hit the jump to find out.
Disney Interactive Studios announced today that French dev Etranges Libellules has begun development of videogame adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s beloved Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to complement Tim Burton’s upcoming film, Alice in Wonderland. The Wii, DS and PC title take place a few years after both stories in Underland and players must help Alice battle the Red Queen and Jabberwocky.
The Wii and PC titles will follow the storyline of Burton’s film while the DS version pits Alice against the Red Queen’s Army. All three titles are due out the same week as the film release. A “promo” app will be released this December with a full release for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Java/Brew devices in February of 2010.
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Launching in September for the Wii, DS, PC and Mac is a childhood favorite of mine, Waldo. Yes, the striped sweater wearing dope is making his triumphant return to the world in the form of a videogame. The question is: where the hell has he been for the last 21 years? I’d like to buy him a beer.
What? Did you really think that Nintendo was going to send the US something as cool as a black Wii? Straight from the horse’s mouth via GameDaily.
We contacted a Nintendo representative as to when and if this sexy system will arrive Stateside, and he says there are “no plans to have other colors of Wii in the U.S.”
Anyone in Japan can pick one up on August 1. Does anyone want a black Wii?
If you’ve ever been CPR certified, you know that it involves a lot of demonstration on a dummy that isn’t the best at giving feedback. But that’s the way it’s been done forever and it’s likely not going to change — although some undergrads at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are looking at a way to make the process a little more high-tech. They’ve designed a program, or “game” if you will, which integrates the Wiimote into the motions of the CPR training and lets you know if your compressions are deep enough, if you’re doing the right amount, etc. Sure, they could implement accelerometers and wireless data connections in the dummies, but we know that’s not going to happen.
