Tag: nintendo
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.
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.
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…
Wii may be a "fad", but it's got Mario and Sonic in the same game
Much debate this week around the future for Nintendo’s Wii, which is still riding on a wave of positive publicity, despite rumblings about the continued lack of consoles actually available to buy.
Wii music overload with Orb MyCasting and Wii Loop Machine
You’ll have heard plenty of hype about Nintendo Wii’s capabilities as a games machine, but a music device? Yet a couple of applications released in the last few days have focused on Wii’s musical potential.
Wii fights back as PS3 launches
It’s all about PlayStation 3 today, as far as news goes. Yet despite the big splash being made by the launch of Sony’s console, life hasn’t stopped for its next-gen rivals.
Nintendo Wii's key strengths and weaknesses in the console war with PS3 and Xbox 360
Analysts may already be predicting that Wii will outsell its next-gen console competitors, but the battle hasn’t even started yet here in Europe: PS3 launches later this month.
Top games designer calls for joyful games
Top designer at Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto, has said that the video game industry's reputation has suffered over the past decade, and has called for game developers to deliver titles that bring joy to the widest possible spectrum of players. "I…