Wii Fit is tipped to be the fastest selling Wii game in the UK so far. £69.99 does seem very steep but when it comes to losing weight people are always prepared to pay. Game are also cashing in with an anti-slip cover, at an absurd £14.99. No PlayStation 3 or PSP games this week, …
Super Smash Bros. Brawl has finally been dated for Europe. That date is June 27th. US gamers got it on March 9th, although we have had Mario Kart Wii before them. The WiiWare Channel has been given a date of May 20th, with games starting from 500 points, while a new Nintendo Channel – which …
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Wii recently, and its surprising success. Richard wondered last week whether it could bring an end to the console war. I don’t think it’s dominant enough to do any such thing, but more than that, I think it would be a really bad thing if it did. One …
If you get used to something you can instantly tell when it has been tampered with. Like the time somebody broke into my house and put cloves in my Coco Pops. Those that have been playing Mario Kart since it was half a screen high were feeling a bit dismayed when Nintendo wheeled out Double …
Despite shortages, Mario Kart Wii has managed to stay at the top of the chart for the second week running. UEFA Euro 2008 goes in at #8 – and will no doubt rise over the next few weeks – while Sega Superstars Tennis has risen from #11 to #5. Presumably because Asda are doing the …
Over the years Capcom’s street fighters have faced a wealth of new faces to pummel, from Marvel Superheroes to SNK’s lesser known brawlers. Midway have now decided to make a belated jump on the crossover bandwagon, with Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. Shame it wasn’t DC Thomson Universe – we could have had Scorpion fighting …
There is, apparently, a shortage of official Nintendo Wii Wheels. But worry not – issue 23 of NGamer (which is due to reach newsagents next week) comes with a free steering wheel shaped piece of plastic. Which isn’t a bad freebie at all, really. In other magazine related news, Retro Gamer hits nifty fifty this …
The Nintendo Wii was the highest selling console in American this March. Nothing unusual about that, except that to win that title, it outsold the Xbox 360 by 459,000 systems. That’s a lot. Overall Nintendo sold 721,000 Wiis, which made it the biggest non-Christmas month for the Wii yet. The DS was shamed into second …
The DS RPGs just keep on coming, with Square Enix’s The World Ends With You making it out to stores this week. It’s set in Shibuya, Tokyo, and features a battle system that spans two screens. Apparently it works really well. If you own a PlayStation 3 and have some money to burn, then you …
Travis Touchdown is a curious fellow. He’s a sleazy anti-hero of sorts, who lives in a dingy motel packed full of anime figurines and is on a mission to become #1 assassin by taking out the top 10 one by one. Pleasingly, that’s about as complex as the plot gets. You can’t help but like …
This is a video of a man playing the Mario theme tune with bottles and a remote control car. That is all. Mario Bottle Theme
Chart Track are good are providing interesting statistical snippets, such as pointing out that Mario Kart Wii – which has gone to the top of the chart this week – has managed a launch bigger than all five of the other Mario Wii games combined. There are also four Mario games in this week’s top …
Nintendo can’t really cope with being popular, can they? After years of not exactly failure, but certainly not runaway success, they’re probably just out of practice. Mario Kart for the Wii is the latest product looking like it might be scarce. Gameplay.com had presold their entire initial allocation by midweek; Play.com and Amazon.co.uk have none …
How about converting your PlayStation 3 into a laptop? I’m not quite sure what to make of it. On the one hand, well done that man for spending 14 months squeezing his PS3 into a new case. Though, it does look wrong – not the design so much, rather the notion that someone would need …
Do you remember a year or two ago, Sega couldn’t stop buying and opening Western development studios, in the hope that the result would be more games appealing to the North American market? Well that’s starting to crumble already. Britain’s own Sega Racing Studio – based in Birmingham – only managed to produce the rather …
