Wii Gaming

Sometime around 3 pm on Monday, I finally got my copy of Smash Brothers Brawl into my Wii. Aside from a brief break to cook dinner for my wife, I spent a solid six hours with the game. Since there is only one of me, I dedicated my time to the one player options today. [...]

Step onto your Wii Balance Board or grab your Wii Remote and Nunchuk and hit the fresh powder as NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., announces We Ski, an exciting skiing game for Wii. Now up to four skiers can experience the sweetest mountain runs in the comfort of their homes as We Ski’s highly responsive [...]

When the sun shines we’ll shine together, You can stand under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh eh. Yes Capcom must be singing tunes of happiness with this news, that comes as a bit of a shock to me, because quite frankly I thought Umbrella Chronicles kind of sucked. Seems like that didn’t affect sales [...]

Why is it that shaping familiar characters as Legos and putting them into a video game make them instantly more fun? Okay, so it’s probably because the folks behind Lego Star Wars actually made a really fun game. The novelty of the world in Lego certainly gives it an added appeal, but if the [...]

Hey, do you have a minute and forty two seconds to spare? I’m sure you do. Let’s face it … you’re surfing the internet, reading a blog. You’ve got plenty of time to spare. Let me advise you on how to spend the next 1:42 of that time. Below is a video via YouTube [...]

Just yesterday, I got somewhat righteously angry at Capcom for shoving Resident Evil ports down the Wii’s throat while holding out on us with Resident Evil 5. Now, I have to backtrack. No, not on the RE5 front — I’d LOVE to have been wrong about that. Turns out, I was wrong about Resident Evil [...]

What is it about the Wii that makes it appeal to the non gamer. In a word, it would appear to be this: “Wiimote”. Yes at least according to a few non gaming pals of yours truly, that is what it comes down to. This is amusing given there’s news on the internet today that [...]

As you’re no doubt aware Nintendo has been talking up the online capabilities of the upcoming Mario Kart game and Nintendo Europe has managed to let another little feature out of the bag: Mario Kart text chat.
Yes apparently the game will support text chat, where players can create rooms and text chat to other gamers [...]

So while Capcom doesn’t seem to think the Wii is important enough to merit a true new Resident Evil game, they apparently are super excited about giving the Wii as much old Resident Evil as possible. Before I start, allow me to say that I do love Umbrella Chronicles, and it was a nice [...]

This week Australia finally saw the release of Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros Treasure, I gleefully headed into the store and picked up my copy. I did wonder how this would go, because any friends I have in the US have raved this title so much I figured if anything it was going to [...]