Nintendo Wii News and Views

MapWii Gets an Update

The MapWii Team gave us a heads up that MapWii.com, a site based on Google Maps where you can locate your friends by Wii number has made a big update. MaxConsole explains:
On MapWii.com you can now save the 12 digit Friend Code that each online Wii game has, along with your Wii Number. The friend [...]

Posted By Crum

Google Goes Wii

Somebody’s been making interesting use of their 20% time at the Googleplex. For those of you perhaps a bit less familiar with the inner workings and customs of Google employment, I’ll explain a bit. One of the things the Google-folk are supposed to do is use 20% of their time developing a [...]

Posted By Mike

VC Titles for Monday May 7th

Another Monday and more new titles for the VC. I don’t have any personal super favorites from today’s list that make me want to take the rest of the day off and go play. That said, I suppose the real peach in this week’s basket (IMHO) would have to be Final Fight [...]

Posted By Mike

Wii Cruising

The new Norwegian Pearl is one of the biggest, newest and coolest cruise liners on the planet. Why so cool? Well… in addition to a full 30′ rock climbing wall and Bliss - the super swanky Vegas-styled Ultra Lounge and Night Club, they also have Nintendo Wii available in the central [...]

Posted By Mike

Third-party Game Developers List

There is a list of third party developers listed at the CodeNameRevolution blog. It’s a pretty huge list and of course, the big developers like Atari, Capcom, Eidos, Lucasarts, EA, THQ, Raven and Sega are all listed. You also see developers like Shiny (Earthworm Jim, Messiah etc…), former Nintendo second party Left Field [...]

Posted By Mike

Wii Work Out

When I read about Mickey DeLorenzo’s Wii weight loss/workout concept back in January I remember wondering if the concept had any legs. In other words, would anybody else make an attempt at using the Wii as an exercise tool.
Subsequently, I’ve read a few articles basically panning the concept. However, Miyamoto himself is reportedly [...]

Posted By Mike