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Family Trainer

A new peripheral was unveiled for the Nintendo Wii. It is another accessory for the feet and it was designed for an upcoming game called Family Trainer: Action World by Namco Bandai. The peripheral is called the Power Pad. A previous Family Trainer game was released on the Famicom system twenty years ago according gamepro.com’s [...]

Posted By Lee

Wii Zapper Controversy

It was reported recently that there were parents who are angry about the upcoming release of the Wii accessory, the Wii Zapper. They think that it will make children violent when they play games with this accessory because it simulates shooting games to another level. Susan Arendt from Wired.com noted some interesting comments and here [...]

Posted By Lee

Video Game Hardware Sales

The sale figures of video game hardware in August has been released by NDP. Once again, Nintendo won the competition as their Wii system took first place as the system that sold the most units in the U.S. The approximate figure of Wii systems that were sold in August is 404,000 units. The second place [...]

Posted By Lee

Crossbow Training To Come With Wii Zapper

The Wii Zapper looks like a gun from Star Trek, but the people who buy one will get to use it as a crossbow – a game called Link’s Crossbow Training will come in the same package. And as CNET’s John P. Falcone writes, “[W]hile I wouldn’t expect much more than a glorified ‘how to [...]

Posted By Doug Caverly

Prototype Wii Controllers

I recently found an interesting article about what could have been early plans for the Nintendo Wii controllers. At aussie-nintendo.com, they just posted an article about a technology from Gyration which shows two video game controllers. If they are combined, they look like the Playstation controllers except that the handles are longer. The right side [...]

Posted By Lee

Top Videogame Sales In Japan

The list of the top video game sales for the week of August 6 – 12 in Japan has been released. The data is based on a study by Media Create. For the Nintendo Wii, the first game on the list is Mario Party 8 and it sold 103,889 copies during that week. It ranked [...]

Posted By Lee