Posts Tagged ‘Wii’
Sep 18, 2007
Smash Bros. Online
Sep 18, 2007
The official site for Super Smash Bros. Brawl has revealed that Nintendo’s four-player beat-’em-up will feature online multiplayer. The game will allow Wii owners to battle with up to three friends or complete strangers over the wi-fi connection. Playing with friends will require the exchange of Friend Codes in order to see each other’s names, [...]
Aug 26, 2007
Smash Weekly: August 26, 2007
Aug 26, 2007
As seen at NintendoSpin This is a weekly news feature you may find useful, informing you of the latest additions to the Smash Bros Brawl website and the juiciest info on this highly anticipated game. In the absence of our Smash Bros segment on the podcast, you can still check out the latest updates right [...]
Aug 25, 2007
Wii is king of the console hill in July again
Aug 25, 2007
-USA Today Sony dropped the price on its PlayStation 3 in July – from $599 to $499 for its 60-gigabyte model – and got a bump in sales, but Nintendo’s Wii continued to dominate by posting its largest monthly sales figure of 2007. Consumers bought 425,000 Wii systems in July, an 11% increase over June, [...]
Aug 21, 2007
DVD Playback on Wii
Aug 21, 2007
X-OOM software has release X-OOM Movies On Wii, a PC application that will allow you to convert DVDs to an acceptable format for playback on your Wii. Simply install the software, run a DVD on your PC and save the file using Movies On Wii to the appropriate format. Once done, it can be transferred [...]
Aug 19, 2007
Smash Weekly: August 19, 2007
Aug 19, 2007
This is a weekly news feature you may find useful, informing you of the latest additions to the Smash Bros Brawl website and the juiciest info on this highly anticipated game. Monday Pokemon Trainer The newest challenger in Brawl’s roster is the Pokemon Trainer, a non-descript male character from Nintendo’s monster-catching series. Rather than taking [...]
Aug 18, 2007
Devil’s Crush (Virtual Console)
Aug 18, 2007
Pinball is evil. Shooting for the next high score becomes an obsession that takes up weeks of a person’s life, and the task is not made easy when the ball keeps falling in the worst possible places. You could say pinball is a kind of hell. In Devil’s Crush, pinball is hell. No, really. What [...]
Aug 8, 2007
Wii System Update 3.0
Aug 8, 2007
Nintendo released the latest Wii System Update yesterday, upgrading some of the console’s core systems, including the message board and address book. The most obvious changes appear on the main menu, most notably the addition of a digital clock at the bottom displaying the current time. The news and weather channel icons now display the [...]
Aug 4, 2007
Nintendo Wii outsells Sony’s PS3 in Japan in July
Aug 4, 2007
TOKYO (Reuters) – Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s Wii game console outsold Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 by the ratio of over 4 to 1 in Japan in July, game magazine publisher Enterbrain said on Friday. Nintendo sold 396,752 units of the Wii in the five weeks ended July 29, compared with 91,987 units of the PS3. The [...]
Jul 22, 2007
WiiWare Roundtable
Jul 22, 2007
Saul: Nintendo’s recent announcement of WiiWare was certainly not unexpected but still very much welcome. Back when the Wii’s Virtual Console service was announced, Nintendo promised that eventually it would open up its doors to allow independent developers to create new content. This new content is intended to complement the growing number of classic titles [...]
Jul 19, 2007
Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam
Jul 19, 2007
Instead of getting Tony Hawk’s Project 8, the Wii got something entirely different: a downhill racer that just so happens to star Tony Hawk. This doesn’t mean Tony Hawk is no longer about the tricks, though. There are still trick attack events, but these play second to the race and slalom challenges. Even then, tricks [...]

