Preorders open for Japanese Wii Music (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Imports
Whatever you may think about Wii Music -- and we've heard what pretty much everyone on the Internet thinks about Wii Music, thank you -- there's no denying that it's an important, high-profile release. It's Nintendo's next big Shigeru Miyamoto game, and it's one of the cornerstones of Nintendo's whole Wii strategy.
Born for Wii: Dark Sector (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Born for Wii
Wait for it. Don't leave cover too soon. You're nearly surrounded. Bullets fly in from three directions, ricocheting off the paltry bit of cover protecting your crouched body. A grenade goes off nearby -- too close for comfort. And then it's time to strike back and slaughter another wave of enemy soldiers.
Don't tap the glass in Hudson's My Aquarium (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Video, Screens, WiiWareBecause you'd probably be scratching your television.As you can tell by the trailer above (and new screens below), Hudson's localized Blue Oasis (at E3 they announced it for North America under the name My Aquarium) doesn't require a rocket scientist to figure out.
Fanswag: Top Spin 3 (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Contests / Giveaways
It's that time again kiddies. It's time to give you some free swag. Our latest giveaway is highlighting 2K's Top Spin 3 for Wii. We've got two copies of the game to give away to a pair of lucky readers, so prepare to get your comment on.
Strong Bad freezing? Take your Wii out of widescreen display mode (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, WiiWare
We haven't heard much in the way of problems with Telltale's newest episodic game, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. One of our incredibly handsome commenters had some other kind of issue, but it's nothing like what ThatVideoGameBlog is reporting.
Mario pushes Olympic gold medalist to victory (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Fan stuff
That up there is Kosuke Kitajima of Japan. He's just won a gold medal for swimming the breaststroke extremely quickly in that ongoing sporting event you may have heard about. Congratulations are in order then, but what's his secret? Strict 5am starts? Hours of training a day? A controlled diet? All three, we'd imagine, but also: Mario.
The cost to Brawl just got a lot cheaper (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Sales
If you've been waiting for a good chance to purchase one of the Wii's best games, know that Super Smash Bros. Brawl has just received a price cut over at Amazon. Instead of the reasonable sum of $49.99 (seriously, the game is jam-packed with content), you can now subtract a cool $10 from the price, which brings the game down to $39.
The Visible Mushroom Man (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Screens
This new Mushroom Men screen demonstrates the intuitive and slightly gross "life meter" used in the game. Rather than displaying some life bar, Mushroom Men alerts you to reduced health in a slightly more "natural" manner, namely loss of cap. Pax's mushroom cap is divided into chunks, and a section disappears with each hit taken, revealing more of the brain underneath.
Capcom's Judd on VC Bionic Commando: Nintendo 'told us no' (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Virtual ConsoleIn this interview with 1UP, Capcom's Ben Judd tells the fascinating story of his start as the first Western-born producer at Capcom Japan and the origins of the new Bionic Commando games. But we don't care about that. (Professionally, anyway.
MadWorld, indeed: the backlash begins (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News
Britain's most hysterical newspaper and preferred litter tray liner the Daily Mail has caught wind of MadWorld -- and it wants us to know all about it. For our children's safety. THINK OF THE CHILDREN.In a piece entitled "Parents horrified as most violent video game ever to launch on 'family friendly' Wii," the newspaper illogically huffs and puffs about the forthcoming Platinum Games project, which it claims has "shocked anti-violence pressure groups.
Nintendo registers mysterious trademark for 'Piktura' (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: News, Rumors
Siliconera spotted an unidentified Japanese trademark application from Nintendo, registered in June. The trademark is for the title "Piktura." Of course, it could be absolutely anything, from some kind of EyeToy-style webcam to a WiiWare game that makes jigsaw puzzles out of pictures on an SD card to some internal technology that consumers will never know about and which won't show up in Nintendo hardware for ten years.
Batman: Arkham Asylum announced, possibly for Wii? (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Rumors
With The Dark Knight and Heath Ledger's stellar performance as the Joker still fresh in everyone's mind, who doesn't want to play a new, non-sucky Batman game? Of course, we have LEGO Batman to look forward to, but it's hard to feel like the Gotham bad-ass when you're controlling a plastic and deformed minifigure.
VC Tuesday: The Mysterious Nintendo Game (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Virtual Console, ImportsToday's Japanese VC lineup isn't as vast as last week's, but it's loaded with excellence nonetheless. The highlight of today's releases is doubtless Nazo no Murasame-jou, a Japan-exclusive game from Nintendo's famed EAD division, which appeared on the Famicom Disc System in 1986.
Wii Warm Up: Your thoughts on Strong Bad's first episode (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Wii Warm Up
Many of you were chomping at the bit to get your hands on Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (SBCG4AP for the cool abbreviation folk). Now that you were able to download and get a little play time in, what do you think? Some of you cared to offer your opinions in the comments of our review of the game, but we would like this to be the catch-all.
Wiimote used to launch something other than itself (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Mods, Controller
What do you get when you cross a device designed to track IR light and a computer-controlled missile-launching toy? A Wiimote covered in impossible-to-remove tacky duct tape residue! And also a fairly cool auto-aiming missile launcher.It looks like a simple enough project (now that someone else has written all the code): just tape a Wiimote to the sort of USB missile launcher found at ThinkGeek (for example), connect the Wiimote to your computer using Bluetooth, and use the GlovePIE code found in the tutorial.
Fanswag: Alone in the Dark goes to ... (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy) - Filed under: Contests / Giveaways
Sadly, we only had one copy of Alone in the Dark to giveaway. The lucky person who was able to nab it? Why, that's none other than:
Fin Diesel
Better luck next time to all of you that entered. And, to everyone, thanks for reading!Gallery: Alone in the
