Still having a hard time finding a Wii? Well, get used to it. According to analysts, it will not get any easier thruout the year…with the biggest fear being a shortage at Christmas time.
“Demand still appears to exceed supply, and we believe that shortages could persist through the remainder of the year, including the key […]

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Yesterday PC World unveiled their list of the 100 best products of 2007. Coming in a very strong 3rd is the Nintendo Wii. Not only is the Wii dominating the gaming industry, it is dominating the electronics industry itself.
Nintendo beat out a wide variety of products, including the 80GB Apple iPod and the RIM Blackberry […]

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The NPD sales figures were recently released for the video game market for the month of April with the Nintendo DS and the Wii pulling away from Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Nintendo’s April sales of 471,000 units of its handheld Nintendo DS along with 360,000 units of its Wii gaming console combine for over 800,000 […]

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In his GDC Mobile session, Using Touch, Sight and Gesture in Mobile Games, developer and academic Paul Coulton showed just a few of the innovative ways mobiles could be used to play new kinds of games.
RFID technology is known as an alternative to cash, and is used in shopping cards around the world. Mobile phones […]

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Nyko has announced that it will release grips for the Wii Remote and Classic Controller this Spring. The Classic Controller grip will come with a Wii Remote dock and cord-management system, while the Wii Remote grip will replace the Remote’s battery cover with a rubberized grip:
LOS ANGELES — February 23, 2007 — Nyko Technologies(R), a […]

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Nintendo Company’s Wii outsold Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 during January as consumers bought 436,000 of the gaming consoles.
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was the second-most purchased machine with sales of 294,000, followed by PlayStation 3 with 244,000, Credit Suisse analyst Heath Terry said in a report, citing NPD Group Inc. data.
Crunching the numbers:

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Nintendo, the most family friendly of the gaming companies, may be opening the door to interactive porn. Specifically, the launch of the Wii remote has caused a chain reaction of innovation in the market for porn. In addition to adult sites creating Wii friendly navigation, there’s also a Wiibrator, activated by USB […]

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Nibris have revealed more about the plot of their highly anticipated game Sadness, for the Wii.
You play as Maria, a young woman who has just survived a serious train crash, you are left in control of your younger brother Alexander who has been blinded from the crash and is beginning to act quite unusually. The […]

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An unknown source has revealed that Nintendo is working on a wireless version of the nunchuk add-on for the WiiMote. Obviously there would need to be a battery compartment for the nunchuk as well as a receiver for the WiiMote.
This would remove the problem caused by the dangling wire the currently connects the two parts […]

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It’s been almost twenty years since EA started making the Madden NFL series, and to be honest not much has changed other than the obvious developments in graphics. The game has always been controlled in roughly the same way with little tweaks to counter the changes in control pads from console to console, but now […]

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