Category: Gaming
Wii Guitar Hero III will use a guitar peripheral AND the Wiimote
Good news for Wii-owning rawk monsters. Not only is Guitar Hero III heading Wii-wards later this year, but it’ll come with the same guitar peripheral as other versions, and the connectivity that’ll allow gamers to play online and download new songs. What’s more, publisher RedOctane says the game will use the Wiimote too.
DXG's DXG-589V: it's the first digital camera with games!
We’re used to the idea of phones that do everything, but digital cameras? Surely they’re best sticking to shooting still pics and videos? Not in the view of DXG USA, which has just announced the DXG-589V, a five-megapixel camera that can also play games.
Pac-Man chomps his way onto Wii
The latest retro game to appear on the Wii’s Virtual Console service is perhaps the most well-known of them all: Pac-Man. The ol’ pill-chomper is one of three new Virtual Console games this week, alongside ActRaiser and Bonk’s Revenge.
How Web 2.0 friendly is the Wii's Opera browser?
You love Web 2.0 sites, right? And you’ve got a Wii? But how well do those two loves come together? WiiWii has been finding out, downloading the new edition of the Wii’s Opera browser and test-driving it with 15 of the biggest Web 2.0 sites.
China to force game companies to limit teenagers' game hours
The Chinese government has set a three-month deadline for Chinese online games companies to impose limits on the amount of points teen gamers can score once they've played for three straight hours is a day. It's part of their attempt…
Wii outselling PS3 in the UK, with publishers scrambling to adapt
According to leaked figures from Chart Track, 17,000 PS3s were sold in the UK last week, compared to 25,000 Wiis (and that’s with limited stock on the shelves for the latter). On the surface, its not great news for Sony’s console, although it’s still too early to claim it’s lost the next-gen console war.
Top ten list of female video-game characters you should idolise
Discussions to the tune of ‘zomg teh jubblies on teh Dead or Alive birds are da hax0r, w00t!’ are as commonplace on the ‘tinternet as rumours about the iPhone release date, so I’m not surprised to discover the latest top ten list of ‘the hottest game babes to date’ doing the rounds of the gaming blogs this week. Is anyone else tired of these inane lists, where every mammary-bulging heroine looks like a carbon copy of the one before her, with taut thighs glistening in sweat at every available opportunity? Whatever happened to having some nice wholesome girl-next-door type characters to idolise, that you can happily play a game featuring the vixen infront of your Dad, and not fear an embarassing pants-tent episode? Together with several other hot-blooded controller-wielding men from the Shiny game blogs, I’ve put together a list of who I think deserves to be on the Shiny Shiny Top Ten List Of Gaming Vixens who aren’t just featured for their 34-24-34 ratio and ability to knock out a vertically-challenged man with a simple quiver of the lady-lumps.
Virgin Radio first to make content available on Wii and PS3
In a first for a UK radio station, Virgin Radio is to make its content available on the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 games consoles. The station claims that it's possible thanks to the MP3-streaming capacity of its Virgin Radio…
Xbox 360 gets full access to Windows Live Messenger
Microsoft has announced that Xbox 360 owners will be able to connect to the Windows Live Messenger network as of 7th May, offering communication with PC and mobile users – and other Xbox 360 owners after the Xbox 360 Spring…
Enter Shikari partner with Xbox for Blue Dragon soundtrack
Not one to follow the music charts, when I heard Enter Shikari were working in partnership with Xbox, my initial reaction was “Enter what!? What’s a curry take-away got to do with the Xbox?!” Nevertheless, when I bunny-hopped over to their Myspace and joined the millions of others who’d downloaded their tracks, I became rather keen to see exactly why…