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11 Jul 2006

Free Game With Wii

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Toys'R'Us in Australia are now taking pre-orders for the Wii at US$249, and that will include an unspecified free game! Could Nintendo be including Wii Sports as so many have speculated?
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21 Jun 2006

Wii launch titles

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US magazine Nintendo power claims that the Wii will launch with just 6 games later this year, They are Zelda: Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Red Steel, Monkey Ball, Dragon Quest and Rayman. It seems strange that if this were true, Nintendo would release without Mario or Wii sports and I would expect that Tony Hawks and Madden 07 would also be launch titles along with excite truck.
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6 Jun 2006

Confirmed: Wii Hardware Stores Player Caricatures, Profiles

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Wii - Wii Sports - Confirmed: Wii Hardware Stores Player Caricatures, Profiles

In an inrview with Game|Life Katsuya Eguchi revealed that the Wii hardware will include a feature by which players can create "profiles" of themselves that include not only personal information but a caricature of their face that any Wii game will be able to access and use, as seen in the demonstration of Wii Sports Tennis.
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30 May 2006

Get your Wii face on

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It's looking increasingly likely that you'll be able to map your face - at least, in cartoon form - into Wii games. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that the caricatures used for the Wii Tennis E3 demo were more than just a publicity stunt. At Nintendo's recent pre-E3 conference, the tennis game from Wii Sports was demoed using “cartoonalikes” of Nintendo honchos Miyamoto, Satoru Iwata and Reggie Fils-Aime as the onscreen tennis players. When recently asked whether this ... » Read More

16 May 2006

The Shigsy Spielberg love match

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Monday 15 May 2006 One of the most remarkable sights at last week's E3 wasn't a next-gen game or even a scantily dressed booth babe, it was the sight of two of the world's greatest minds in entertainment waving around a couple of remotes in front of a screen as Shigeru Miyamoto and Steven Spielberg played a game of tennis in Wii Sports. Spielberg, who is a long time fan of videogaming, was one of the 60,000 attendees at E3 2006 and had the powers of Wii demonstrated to him by the creator of ... » Read More

11 May 2006

E3 06: Wii Sports

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As demonstrated by Nintendo main man Shigeru Miyamoto himself on the stage of Nintendo's pre-E3 conference, Wii Sports is the brightly-coloured multiplayer, multi-event title designed to entice lapsed or new gamers into getting to grips with Nintendo's new console. Incorporating golf, baseball and tennis, the gameplay in Wii Sports has been kept deliberately simple so that players can use just the Wii-mote and not bother with the nunchaku part of the controller. So in the tennis game, for ... » Read More