Nintendo Wii News and Views

Wii Domination: Rated AO - Suitable Only for Adults

A wise man once said “April is the cruellest month”. Sony and Microsoft would probably agree with him now that April’s Console sales numbers have been released. The NPD Group, released its April 2007 report for hardware and software monthly sales numbers. We’ve been hearing for a while now about how badly […]

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Capcom Announces First Wii Exclusive

Capcom has long been considered a giant in the game industry. With iconic titles like Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Mega Man and others on their resume, it’s always exciting to see whats next from Capcom. Last night they issued a press release (to follow) about their first Wii-exclusive title. It wasn’t […]

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Ultimate Duck Hunting for the Wii

No, it isn’t the old school official Nintendo version of Duck hunt, but Detn8 Games has announced “Ultimate Duck Hunting” for the Wii. Ultimate duck hunting is not the cartoony affair that the words ‘duck hunt’ will conjure in the minds of most of the NES crowd.
This is a duck hunting sim where […]

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Lara Croft Going Wii

Lara Croft, one of the original Playstation’s biggest stars from the 90’s now has an upcoming Wii title called Tomb Raider: Anniversary. Lara Croft’s appearance on the Wii is no huge surprise really. The Tomb Raider series first hopped on to the Nintendo platform back in 2000 when they released a Game […]

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Nintendo’s iwata on Hardcore Gamers, 2nd Life and More

Nintendo has recently posted an English translation of Nintendo President Satoru Iwata’s Q&A session with some Nintendo investors. In the course of the transcript Iwata comments that Nintendo is aware of the desires and demands of the ‘hard-core’ audience. According to Iwata, “[Concerning] when we will fulfill the hard-core gamers’ titles lineup: […]

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Ubisoft Devs <3 Wii

Here’s a news byte running quite contrary to the sporadic rumors of the Wii being the object of developer disdian and dread. Ubisoft President and CEO Yves Guillemot recently told RedHerring that Ubisoft developers were actually part of the driving force behind Ubisoft’s adoption of the Wii platform. Said Guillemot; “We had a […]

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