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DS games are "fantastic" says, er, Sony VP
First we had last week’s Bill Gates / Steve Jobs love-in, and now Sony is praising its arch-rival Nintendo. If this spirit of love and togetherness continues, maybe the consumer electronics firms will sort out the Blu-ray / HD DVD confusion. Okay, maybe not.
Struggling with Wii Mario Strikers Charged Football? Here's some tips
Nintendo hit the back of the net with its excellent Mario Strikers Charged Football last week – it’s the first Wii game to be playable online, and as my review said, it’s ace. However, there’s already plenty of sharpshooters out there kicking sand (well, giant mushrooms) in newbies’ faces.
Wii online triumph: Mario Strikers Charged Football impressions
Today’s a momentous day for owners of Nintendo’s Wii console – it’s finally getting its first online game. Mario Strikers Charged Football is the game, and as you’d guess, it mixes traditional footy with all manner of Mario Kart-esque power-ups.
Japanese developers shifting focus from PS3 to Wii
That’s what Kyoshi Shin of the Japan-based International Game Developers Association says, anyway, suggesting that developers there are shifting their resources towards the Wii, and away from the PS3. It’s unclear whether this represents a wholesale ditching of PS3, or just an initial underestimation of how popular Wii would be though.
Wii News: Resident Evil 4, Tiger Woods, and drum demands
You can’t keep a good zombie down. Well, you can with a match and a can of petrol, but you know what I mean. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition has been given a UK release date of 29th June, and will hopefully be the scariest use for the Wiimote controller yet.
Opera blames Adobe for Wii browser's Flash problems
As you’ll know if you read Games Digest’s comparison of the Wii and PS3 web browsers yesterday, the only area in which Wii’s Opera browser struggles is any site using Flash 8 – which includes the videos on MySpace and Bebo. However, one of Opera’s senior technical service consultants says it’s Adobe’s fault for not including Flash 8 in the latest version of its Flash SDK.
Wii to get a hospital link-up for Wii Health game
Computer games make you fat, slothful and unhealthy. At least, that’s what my parents told me as they locked my C64 in a cupboard and sent me out on a 17-mile cross country run every morning as a child.
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.