Wii sells 600k in first eight days
NINTENDO PRESS RELEASEÂ
600,000 First-Week Purchases Attracting Veteran and New Gamers
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 27, 2006 – Built on a foundation of pure fun, Nintendo’s new Wiiâ„¢ video game system sold through to more than 600,000 consumers in the Americas in just its first eight days of availability. That’s a rate of nearly one per second continuously […]
Conspiracy announce two racers for Wii
Conspiracy races onto the Wii
Conspiracy Entertainment Europe is pleased to announce Baja Mania and Baja Destruction for release on Nintendo Wii.
Utilising the features of Nintendo Wii fully, both games will offer exciting and hard fought combat and driving skills where fortitude will win the day!
Baja racing originates from the Southern California desert on the Baja […]
Zelda UK advert
Wii worshippers in old Blighty should keep their eyes open for a rather tasty Twilight Princess advert that has been cropping up the past week or so.
As part of Nintendo UK’s Wii advertising campaign, the clip demonstrates some of the Wii-motes unique capabilities, including showing off Link fishing from his boat.
Click here to view the […]
More Wii scores
With Wii fever currently running rampent throughout the world, gaming magazines have cast their judgement on the latest titles available for the new console.
Up next, we have the latest scores from UK magazines Games Master and ONM.
Games Master:-
Zelda TP - 96%
Wii Sports - 80%
Super Monkey Ball - 86%
Red Steel - 79%
Rayman - 62%
Wii Play - […]
Virtual Console update
PRESS RELEASE
Two Classic Hudson Titles Now Available On The Wii Virtual Console
Hudson Entertainment announced today that for North America two of its classic TurboGrafx games are now available for download using the Virtual ConsoleTM feature on WiiTM: “Bomberman 93″ and “Bonk’s Adventure”.
The announcement comes after a delay in the release of the games, which were […]
Famitsu rate Wii games
Japan’s popular Famitsu magazine this week cast their verdicts on the Wiis launch titles.
It must be said that, minus one or two, its fair to say that the console has got off to a positive start among games journalists in its native region. See below for the full list.
Crayon Shin-Chan - 7/8/7/6
Elebits - 8/8/8/8
Ennichi no […]
Amazon UK: Wii sold out
The Nintendo Wii has broken records for the fastest selling item in Amazon UK’s history.
The console, which was finally available to pre-order yesterday morning, sold out in an amazing seven minutes - promptly letting down alot of eager punters in the process, who had hoped to bag a Wii for Christmas.
“We expected a high number […]
Backbone support the Wii
A recent job posting on Gamasutra confirms Backbone Entertainment will be supporting Nintendo Wii.
The developers, responsible for Death Jr, recently posted a job advertisement stating the following:-
“Backbone Entertainment is a part of Foundation 9 Entertainment, the largest independent game developer in North America. We are producing high profile titles such as Sonic Rivals for the […]
Freeloader works with Wii
Good news for anyone owning import games - the Wii is allegedly compatible with the Gamecube freeloader, according to a post from GameFAQs.
“By now everyone knows that the Wii is not region free, but fret not. I imported all of the Naruto games on gamecube and had to order a boot disk (Freeloader) to get […]
Wii launches across the US
Nintendo’s next-generation console finally made its US debut yesterday, as thousands of eager punters lined up in New York’s Time Square to mark the event.
“The first buyer, Isaiah “Triforce” Johnson, had been waiting in line outside the store for more than a week”, reported CNN.
“He wore a Nintendo Power Glove, a wearable controller that came […]