Weird Wii News

Wow, here we are with an exclusive for Wii Centre as we talk to one of Animal Crossings busiest ladies–Gretchen Gruntch–and get all the fashion gossip Trinny and Sussanah style as she comes to us live from the red carpet of the First Annual Nintendo Game Fashion Awards.
Hi sweeties! Gretchen Gruntch here live blogging for [...]

I still remember when the Revolution became the Wii and even in my evil mature female gamer mind, there was a silly giggle as I pictured myself playing with my Wii or going into a game store to ask for a Wii controller.Since then I’ve come to love the name and all it entails, especially [...]

So Nintendo is officially everywhere. Completing the cycle from undisputed King (NES) to unfortunate afterthought (Cube) back to King, Nintendo’s little giant put in an appearance at the place to be last night — the Oscars. Yes, everybody who is anybody was there, and the Wii apparently is in. The generally amusing Jon Stewart, host [...]

 
Here we are with the Wii Centre – Valentine’s Day Wii special. If you’re lucky enough to have a partner that’s a gamer, you’re sorted for Valentine’s Day, especially if it’s raining and miserable outside or you just can’t be bothered with those Valentine’s Day crowds. If on the other hand your partner (be they [...]

Namco Bandai is closing between 50-60 arcades in Japan and they’re citing the Nintendo Wii as the blame for the closures. Essentially reports are stating they’re suggesting a lot of the games played in the arcades can now be played at home. By this we can only assume they mean light gun titles and other [...]

Another positive admission for the Nintendo Wii comes from US rehabilitation doctors who are reportedly using the Nintendo Wii as a rehabilitation tool, coining the term “Wiihabilitation”. It is thought that the discomfort usually felt by patients undergoing physical therapy is somewhat lessened because of the interactive nature of the Wii.
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I don’t like reporting on things I haven’t actually seen, tried myself, but it’s a writers job to write so sometimes you need to just base things on all the information at hand, in this case a press release.
Future, the special-interest media group – has announced the second issue of Girl Gamer, the UK’s first [...]

Honestly I have no reason to write this post, other than it amuses me. I hope it’ll amuse you too, because otherwise I’m wasting my time. Allow me to introduce you to the Huddersfield Daily Examiner — a paper I knew nothing about until today. Okay, so I still no nothing about it, except that [...]

It must be one of those days today, I went on a YouTube crawl, you know what I’m talking about, you’re sitting in your office, boredom creeps up - bitchslaps you and before you know it you’ve spent a good half hour clicking from one related YouTube clip to another.
Rather than let this time be [...]

Dalhousie University students have taken it upon themselves to run a study to see if the Wii is more of a workout than walking and apparently it is. Sure we know all these so called ‘studies’ can also mean little (or perhaps that’s just the ones I took part in during my uni time), but [...]