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Jun 6, 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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May 30, 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

May 16, 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

May 11, 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