Nintendo Wii Archive

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    Epic Mickey Intro Premieres at Gamescom

    Posted on August 17, 2010 | 3 Comments
    Disney fans, rejoice! The introductory cinematic to Epic Mickey, the upcoming Wii title staring the world's most iconic cartoon mouse, debuted at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, and from the looks of it the title could easily live up to it's name. The adventure platformer, developed by Junction Studios, is a throwback to all things Disney from an era that your grandparents can only vaguely recall. Mickey, armed with paint and paint thinner of all weapons, must traverse "the Wasteland" of forgotten or rejected cartoon characters and worlds and complete various missions inspired by the Disney animation of yesteryear.

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    Madden 11 | Review (Wii)

    Posted on August 9, 2010 | 25 Comments
    It’s football season again, and I know most of you gamers are all shrugging and saying “who cares?”Well surprisingly a lot of people care. They care so much, that EA has been making football games for a long time. Every year kids and adults alike...

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    Six Wii Channels You Don’t Know Exist (and May be Getting Soon)

    Posted on July 20, 2010 | 7 Comments
    While casting my vote on the Everybody Votes Channel just the other day, I began to wonder why Nintendo hasn’t flooded the Wii menu with all kinds of channels. After all, they’re a lot similar to apps on the iPhone, aren’t they? You’d think that...

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    Klonoa | Review (Wii)

    Posted on July 19, 2010 | 5 Comments
    Time and again, I’ve found that the Wii bargain bin is always good for a laugh. Titles such as Ninjabread Man never fail to induce a smile not only because of the ridiculous concept, but the thought that somewhere in the world, the guy who...

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    Mistwalker Debuts The Last Story Trailer

    Posted on July 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
    This morning as I sat down for a cigarette and coffee, I dropped something: My jaw. Legendary game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creative mind behind Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon and the father of the Final Fantasy series, announced via Twitter that Mistwalker and Nintendo have...

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  • Kinect and Move Spark Growing Industry and Consumer Concerns

    Kinect and Move Spark Growing Industry and Consumer Concerns

    Posted on July 2, 2010 | No Comments
    At this point in the current console generation, players have come to know what to expect from each of the three contending companies, and players looking for a more traditional experience than the often criticized mechanics and software Wii has to offer have purchased the...

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    The Current Vitals on Wii’s Controversial Sensor

    Posted on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
    At E3 2009, Satoru Iwata introduced the Wii Vitality Sensor and stated that the focus behind the peripheral was to create software that would help players relax. According to Nintendo, the device “will initially sense the user’s pulse and a number of other signals being...

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  • Super Mario Galaxy 2 is One Small Step for Mario and a Giant Leap for Platforming Kind

    Super Mario Galaxy 2 is One Small Step for Mario and a Giant Leap for Platforming Kind

    Posted on June 13, 2010 | 4 Comments
    Once in a blue moon, there is a game in a genre that raises the bar so high for its peers that few will be able to reach it, let alone a spin-jump over it.  When Super Mario Galaxy released in 2007, players and critics...

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  • Achievements, Trophies and Nintendo

    Achievements, Trophies and Nintendo

    Posted on June 3, 2010 | 5 Comments
    Ask Nintendo why Wii doesn’t have some form of an achievement system and they’ll tell you that their players don’t want one. Based on the myriad of websites with forum posts authored by vehement former Wii owners who sold the system because it doesn’t provide...

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  • Nintendo, American Heart Association Partner: “Active-play” Branding is Born

    Nintendo, American Heart Association Partner: “Active-play” Branding is Born

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
    To quote the forthcoming Robocast 006, the ‘cat is out of the bag’ on the this morning’s mystery, Nintendo-centric press conference hosted by the American Heart Association, and contrary to the hopes of our podcast team, the Big “N” didn’t use it as an opportunity to...

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