If you're an old Amiga gamer, the term 'guru meditation' will bring back memories good and bad. Good, because it reminds you of a wonderful age of gaming focused on the Commodore Amiga, and bad because seeing a guru meditation flash up on the screen meant your awesome Amiga had just crashed.

New iPhone game Guru Meditation revives an Amiga-made peripheral released in 1982 for the Atari 2600 called the Joyboard, which is essentially a more primitive version of the WiiFit. The game involves sitting cross legged on the Joyboard while remaining as motionless as possible. By keeping still, the yogi on screen begins to float - move, and his concentration is broken and he floats back to Earth.

The iPhone version works in the same way; requiring you to sit in motionless meditation to allow the yogi to rise to video game enlightenment.
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SPOnG writes: Another week, another seven days at the top of the All Formats Games Chart for Wii Fit.

There's very little movement in the Top 10 this week, with the only new entry being Nintendo's Rhythm Paradise (reviewed here).
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The five best-selling Nintendo Wii games in Japan so far, according to Famitsu.
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The editor of gaming blog Rewiredmind.com is going to try and lose 67 lBs by October to raise money for charity. The catch, is he's only allowed to use video games.
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The motion-sensing video game peripheral 'jOG', compatible with the Nintendo Wii, has gone on sale in the UK today.
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The past six weeks have seen a variety of titles taking the top spot on the All Formats UK's software chart: Street Fighter IV, Killzone 2, Empire: Total War and Resident Evil 5 for the past three weeks. However, the latest Chart Track figures show that Nintendo's Wii Fit has climbed back to the number 1 spot with just a 1% increase in sales. Wii Fit equals Nintendo's own longest serving All Formats number 1 record from 2000 when Pokemon Yellow held the top spot for 10 weeks.

Resident Evil 5 drops to number 2 with a 38% decrease in sales while FIFA 09 moves up three places to number 3 (3% sales increase) and Wheelman climbs seven places to number 4 (41% sales increase) over the games' debut weekend.

The full Top Ten All Formats UK Software Chart follows below:

- Wii Fit (Nintendo)
- Resident Evil 5 (Capcom)
- FIFA 09 (EA)
- Wheelman (Midway/Ubisoft)
- Call of Duty: World at War (Activision Blizzard)
- Street Fighter IV (Capcom)
- Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo)
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision Blizzard)
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Rockstar)
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Examiner:

"Let's face it: your average adult is not working out with the Nintendo Wii. That doesn't mean they couldn't benefit from a more enjoyable exercise experience, but more that they don't take Wii Fit seriously as a legitimate exercise program.

Enter the ProForm 850 with GameFit Technology. What the eff does "GameFit Technology" mean? Well, it means that this elliptical has some sweet games built in that you can play while working out. When I say sweet, of course, I mean totally lame."
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A fit and healthy 25-year-old man, collapsed and died in front of his horrified girlfriend and best friend while playing Wii Fit.

Tim Eves was 'jogging' on Wii Fit when he slumped to the floor. Paramedics dashed to the house, and rushed Tim, who had been fit and well, to hospital but it was too late.

A post-mortem has been held, but the cause of death is yet to be determined. The family were told he could have been killed by Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
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MCV Writes: GDC 09: Global sales of Wii Fit and peripheral just a few million behind Sony console

Nintendo this morning told attendees to its GDC keynote that the Wii Balance Board has almost outsold the PS3 globally.

Iwata referred to the device as almost a platform in its own right, pointing out that developers now have more options for games development and hardware to target.

"Some developers are already taking advantage of this opportunity," before a Nintendo rep demoed new Wii Ware game Rock 'n' Roll Climber.
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Taking place on Thursday April 23rd at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, this year's MCV Industry Excellence Awards will be the most hotly-contested ever, with 17 accolades up for grabs, across a diverse range of categories covering the entire industry.

Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sega and Activision will battle it out for the Games Publisher Award, whilst individual titles Guitar Hero World Tour, GTA IV, FIFA 09, Fallout 3, Wii Fit and Call of Duty: World At War compete for Game Campaign.
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The Phoenix AdPi Audit combines brand performance, advertising performance, and copy testing. This latest one measured consumers' reactions to 30 ads that were in-market from October through December 2008. The ads were from top video game publishers such as Activision, Disney Interactive, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, MTV Games, Nintendo, Sony and Ubisoft.
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Padres Pitcher: Wii Fit Helped Me Lose Weight San Diego Padres pitcher Heath Bell lost 25 pounds in the off-season and who does he credit for his fitness break-through? Well, himself, obviously, but also Wii Fit.
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David Jenkins on Gamasutra writes:

"This week's slew of new releases in Japan has been unable to energize the charts in the same way as last week. Namco Bandai's Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 on PSP holds onto the number one spot -- although with only 45,000 units sold, as the overall market slumps back to previous mid-January levels.

The highest new entry of the week, at number two, was Sony's Demon's Souls for the PlayStation 3. Developed by From Software, the game is a spiritual sequel to the company's King's Field role-playing game series. It debuted with 40,000 units sold."
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Wii Fit has claimed the top spot in the the UK software sales chart for a fourth consecutive week, according to data provided by GfK Chart-Track.

Although the balance board title saw sales decline by 2 per cent for the week ended February 7, continuing the drop off after the hugely busy Christmas period, it was the smallest decline in entire top ten.
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Danny Cowan from Gamasutra writes:

"Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.

This week's charts, with data taken from February 5th, 2009, find Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War at the top of North America's Xbox 360 software sales charts, while Star Ocean: Second Evolution and Mario Kart DS drive sales on portables.

Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows..."
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01. [WII] Wii Play: Mario Tennis (Nintendo) 31,000 / 88,000
02. [WII] Fragile (Namco Bandai) 26,000 / NEW
03. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco Bandai) 25,000 / 316,000
04. [PSP] Zill'O (KOEI) 25,000 / NEW
05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Capcom) 25,000 / 357,000
06. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 20,000 / 1,614,000
07. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 19,000 / 3,196,000
08. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) 18,000 / 866,000
09. [NDS] Devil Survivor (Atlus) 18,000 / NEW
10. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (Nintendo) 17,000 / 684,000
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Nintendo announced today the development of Wii Fit Body Check Channel, a new Wii Channel program that will shortly be used by NEC, Panasonic and Hitachi for various health products and services. The channel serves two purposes. In addition to providing a simple interface for users to receive health instruction, it also connects to the internet to send Wii Fit player data to health professionals.
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The software chart for week ending 24th January 2009.

The chart for all platforms combined is below.

1 WII FIT (Wii) NINTENDO
2 MARIO KART (Wii) NINTENDO
3 MARIO & SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES (Wii) SEGA
4 LORD OF THE RINGS/CONQUEST (X-BOX 360) ELECTRONIC ARTS
5 SPORTS ISLAND (Wii) KONAMI
6 LORD OF THE RINGS/CONQUEST (PS3) ELECTRONIC ARTS
7 CALL OF DUTY/WORLD AT WAR (PS3) ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
8 MARIO PARTY 8 (Wii) NINTENDO
9 CALL OF DUTY/WORLD AT WAR (X-BOX 360) ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
10 BRAIN TRAINING (DS) NINTENDO

For specific platform (i.e. PS3, Wii, Xbox 360) charts please follow this link.

http://www.dutchcharts.nl/game_charts.asp
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Herald writes: "A YOUNG Wexford girl has learned to walk again thanks to her doctors -- and a computer game.

Nicole Cahill (10) from Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, took her first steps in four years years at a New York hospital late last year.

Since returning home on December 14, Nicole has stunned family and friends with her progress and is now expected to walk unaided by the end of the year."
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Nintendo's admitted being "pleased" at seeing Wii Fit get back to the top of the UK charts this week, and has claimed stock for the global smash has been constant since release.
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