Wii Sports wins Game of the Year award in Time Magazine

 

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Once again, Wii Sports is the media darling of the mainstream press. Time is as big as they come. But Game of the Year? Many of us may disagree. As hardened, totally awesome gamers, we've come to expect grand adventures, interesting characters, nail-biting action sequences, and wonderfully infuriating logic puzzles. (And if you were wondering, dear readers, our own game of the year award goes to Twilight Princess, naturally.) But totally awesome gamers do not run Time, and thus, we don't think they really care about such nonsense.
Still, stepping off our pedestal for a moment, Wii Sports has brought more new and lapsed gamers to the screen than any game since Super Mario Bros. Having fun with friends and family; is this not the point of gaming in general? It's an interesting question, and one akin to comparing Old School with American Beauty. One may have been an inspiring, cinematic masterpiece, but which did you have more fun watching? Which do you guys think deserves the award?
[via Joystiq]

Source: Wii Sports wins Game of the Year award in Time Magazine
Originally published on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:00:00 GMT

Hudson talks Dungeon Explorer VC delay

 

Hudson's Dungeon Explorer missed its target launch date yesterday, leaving Urban Champion (NES) and Baseball (NES) to represent Wii Virtual Console's New Years releases. The muff doesn't sit well with TurboGrafx-16 fans who have already suffered through two Hudson VC blunders: a broken Military Madness and a pricey R-Type.
Speaking on Dungeon Explorer's tardiness, Hudson's John Master Lee cited "funky things" (bugs) appearing during last-minute tests. Lee wisely avoided suggesting a new release date, saying only that an update on the game's condition would be "coming soon."

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Source: Hudson talks Dungeon Explorer VC delay
Originally published on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:25:00 GMT

Nintendo Vs. Sony Stock In 2006

January 2nd, 2007 by Matt Stone

After a record year for Nintendo, both hardware and software wise, the value of its stock doubled in 2006. The DS has been e best seller all year long, while the Wii was the best selling new console this holiday season, where a reported 3 million were sold in five weeks.

Sony’s stock on the other hand, has had a rollercoaster ride in 2006, ending at the same value as it begun in January. There wasn’t one month without bad news for Sony, from defect laptop batteries, to PS3 production issues, delays, and even more delays.

Ubisoft Announces 4 For Wii In March

 

Ubisoft has announced four new Wii titles on the way for this March. The titles are: Cosmic Family, Driver Parallel Lines, Brothers In Arms D-Day and Spelling Spree. Spelling Spree? Oh boy! The others sound fine although they are mostly ports.

Source: Ubisoft Announces 4 For Wii In March
Originally published on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:59:23 GMT

Nintendo Partners With MMO Developer

 

Nintendo has announced a partnership with Nexon, a Korean MMO developer. The company has developed Maple Story in the past, and now we assume they will be making a new MMO for the Wii. More details when we have them.

Source: Nintendo Partners With MMO Developer
Originally published on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:44:29 GMT

Wii and the back-up conundrum

 

Contained in the embedded video, available past the jump, You Tube user Yadokingu takes us step-by-step through the Wii's security features and showing several backdoors one could use. Now, we don't condone doing anything that would void your warranty or get you tossed into jail, but this video is just too impressive to keep a lid on.
[Thanks Eoin!]

Source: Wii and the back-up conundrum
Originally published on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 10:35:00 GMT

Ninety makes other folks rich, too

 

 

Here's an interesting little factoid: the Wii is driving the Asian import/export market to record highs, and those are just the legal imports. No, we don't mean the act of one guy selling another guy a console, but rather the market surrounded the creation and transportation of our favorite new console. Nintendo had a big part in the record-setting month of November, when toy imports from China (where they build Wiis, as well as everything else ever) to Japan came in at a little over 200 million big ones (¥25.3billion). Apparently, the Wii was responsible for a good 40% of that amount -- nearly half! That's a huge effect, and according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shinbun, "No other video game console has had such a big effect on imports."
Well, take that, analysts. You may continue to sing the imminent victory of the PS3, but the Wii drives global commerce. We hear it also serves as a volunteer firefighter on off days. Now if only you could find one ....

Source: Ninty makes other folks rich, too
Originally published on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Nintendo: Wii Sports Is Time's Game Of The Year

 

by Jerry Mitchell Wii Sports is numero one, Zelda #4We promise, we'll stop writing about Wii Sports and The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess winning awards the second the Nintendo Wii games stop...well...winning awards. The latest comes from the always reputable Time Magazine, whose writers were utter delighted by Wii Sports and put the title at #1: ...it's hilarious, and it shows off the power of the motion-sensitive controller to put you right in the game, sweating and yelling and trying crazy spins and lunges and angles. The tennis game alone is worth the price of admission. Which is nothing, since it comes free with the Wii.

Source: Nintendo: Wii Sports Is Time's Game Of The Year
Originally published on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:58:33 GMT

It's (technically) Virtual Console Monday!

 

And you know what that means ... new games! Unfortunately, it looks like Nintendo has one hell of a hangover (we can't blame them, we were up till 6 AM ourselves), and they only managed to spit out two rather inauspicious titles: Baseball and Urban Champion, both for the NES. After five hundred points each, we maintain that both playing baseball and punching someone in the face are both far more enjoyable in real life in Wii Sports.
And by the way, fellow fanboys, Happy New Year! Did your megaton party involve raucous Wii-playing? As you know, there was a more important countdown in Times Square around a month and a half ago, so if you played right through midnight, wish yourself a happy belated 2007 and check the ball-drop on your TiVo. Just kidding. We know you've already erased that to make room for the next episode of Heroes.

Source: It's (technically) Virtual Console Monday!
Originally published on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:44:00 GMT