Earlier this week word spread that EA Sports was working on a Wii version of the über successful basketball game NBA Jam from back in the day. If you were like me than your imagination went postal trying to conjure up what the new game will look like. Well you can give your brain a [Continue]
The most popular console on the planet has jumped on the Netflix gravy train…albeit months behind the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. It was announced today in the New York Times that Netflix and Nintendo have reached an agreement setting the stage for a spring release of the service on the Wii, allowing Netflix [Continue]
The Captain Obvious award of the day goes to a TellTale programmer who made that exact statement in the TellTale Games forums. Fans of the game “Tales of Monkey Island” had been complaining about framerate issues exeperienced in the WiiWare version of that game. “The voices and textures are the way they are because we’re [Continue]
I feel for you Nintendo, I really do. For the past year you’ve really been trying to reel in those hardcore gamers but it just hasn’t happened. Not with MadWorld, House of the Dead: Overkill and now The Conduit. See a pattern here? The Conduit, which was touted as the first hardcore FPS for the [Continue]
In an effort to make more content available to consumers MTV and Harmonix announced plans to launch the Rock Band Network later this year. A service that could be a game changer for the popular music rhythm series. The service itself is pretty straight forward. Artists or labels can submit their music in a couple [Continue]
Just as Nintendo was making some progress at building up a more ‘hardcore’ collection of games for it’s Wii, Grasshopper CEO Goichi Suda drops a nugget of painful information. The sequel to the sword swinging original may be the last No More Heroes developed for the Wii. He told Edge the following: “I really want [Continue]
Nintendo will be giving your eyes a break from that blah white Wii taking up space on your entertainment center. If you live in Japan that is. On August 1 our Japanese gaming counterparts will be able to purchase the all new black Nintendo Wii. Along with the new shade of Wii, Nintendo will be [Continue]
The other major showcase during Nintendo’s E3 press conference besides the Wii Fit Plus was it’s demo of Wii Sports Resort. The game was originally announced at last years E3 Expo. The game showcases the new Wii Motion Plus accessory that will be hitting store shelves later this year. Wii Motion Plus will make the [Continue]
Today Nintendo spent the majority of it’s press conference time at E3 to talk about it’s new Wii Fit Plus. Improving on what made the original Wii Fit a success, the Wii Fit Plus promises to “enhance and reinvigorate” your workout. Players will now be able to customize their workouts to their liking or pick [Continue]
The NPD Group just released it’s game console sales totals for April and it didn’t look good for the Playstation 3. The high-end console limped into sixth place, beat out by it’s 9 year old predecessor the Playstaion 2. The PS2 price cut is probably the biggest contributor to the 50% increase in sales, leading [Continue]
The hugely popular Legend of Zelda game is arriving today on Virtual Console for the Wii. Originally released in 2000 for the Nintendo 64, the game will set you back 1,000 Wii points. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask was the follow up to Oceania of Time, also one of the most popular titles in [Continue]
Activision finally released the full Guitar Hero:Smash Hits track list to the folks over at IGN. It’s mostly just a “Best Of” track list from the previous Guitar Hero titles like you’d expect. Surprisingly enough there is only one Aerosmith song on the whole list. Just one. But on the other hand they were the [Continue]
A new Red Steel 2 trailer found its way onto the Tubes of You. It’s main focus is to show off it’s integration with the new Wii MotionPlus. Let’s hope Nintendo finally got motion controlling right with this new accessory. We’ll have to wait and see. Red Steel 2 will be out sometime this holiday [Continue]
Harmonix and MTV games have announced that they will be releasing two standalone guitars for The Beatles: Rock Band game. Each will be priced at $100 making them a little on the expensive side. They are modeled after the Rickenbacker 325 and Gretsch Duo Jet, the guitars that John Lennon and George Harrison favored. These [Continue]
EA Sports announced today that they will be pushing up the release of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and Grand Slam Tennis to coincide the the June 8th release of the Wii MotionPlus. EA’s Todd Sitrin had this to say: “Fans deserve great games that use the new accessory, and now they’ll have two that [Continue]
