So, via Rock Band I’ve gotten a much better understanding of how to play the drums, but I always sort of want a practice mode where I could just use my drum set as a midi drum set, and get the feel for playing drums without following along with the game. Nintendo’s new Wii Music [...]
Wii Music – Yet Again Something New From Nintendo
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Categories: Computer & Video Games · General
Tags: video games, wii
Wii Advanced Motion Control and New Wii Sports Game
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
This is sweet. They’re adding more advanced motion control to the Wii-mote via an add-on that will come packed with the Wii Sports Resort game. And the Wii Sports Resort game includes sword fighting.
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Tags: video games, wii
Wii and X-Box 360 — Like Chips and Dip?
July 5th, 2008 · No Comments
There’s an interesting snippet of an article over at Gamasutra about the Wii and X-Box 360. It’s an interview with the Director of Product Management for the XBox 360 and Live, where he posits a couple of things: Wii users as casual gamers might want to upgrade to the XBox A lot of Wii users [...]
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Tags: Games, rock band, wii, xbox 360
Wii Recommendation Service
June 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Kind of kewl, according to Gamasutra, Nintendo is adding a recommendation service to it’s channel on the Wii, allowing users to rate and recommend games. This is why Nintendo is rocking.
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Gamasutra Reports on Video Game News Leak
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Gamasutra has an article up about some very interesting game news leaked accidentally by a marketing company. Some highlights, for me: Spider-Man game using the Wii balance board Wii Yoga X-Box Live Mii-like Avatars Check out the link above for more info. Now, if only we could get a release date for Wrath of the [...]
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Nintendo Breaks Out the Legal Ninjas on the Nyko
June 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Nintendo is suing Nyko for making a wireless version of it’s Wii nunchuk controller. It does seem like Nyko must be violating some kind of copyright, because its controller looks EXACTLY like the regular Wii controller. I’m thinking if Nintendo has some kind of patent on the controller design, then Nyko should have probably negotiated [...]
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Tags: legal, nintendo, wii


