Tag archive: Cammie Dunaway

Nintendo is looking to tap into the Facebook generation, announcing today that a new version of its Nintendo DSi Camera application will enable Facebook members to take photos with either of the DSi's integrated cameras and upload them directly to Facebook using the DSi's Wi-Fi wireless connectivity. Once users have taken a photo, they'll be able to tap a Facebook icon on the DSi's touch screen to have the images… Read More

Having consistently stomped the competing PlayStation 3 during 2008 and set sales records even during a recession, it should come as little surprise that the Nintendo’s Wii posted some pretty impressive numbers for the year – numbers that have never been touched by any other console. According to Nintendo, 10.17 million Wiis were sold in 2008 alone, a record-breaking figure for one-year console sales. That number represents 55… Read More

Drum roll, please! Nintendo has debuted Wii Music, a new game for its popular Wii gaming console that lets players mimic the motions of more than 60 real-life instruments using the motion-sensitive Wii Remote and Nunchuck controllers to learn to play along with more than 50 songs—and the game encouraged players to improvise, making their own music, mixes, and arrangements. “Music is a universal language that inspires and moves… Read More

Feel like swinging your Wii remote madly around in the air while trying to defeat a yellow, spike-wearing snaggle-toothed monster? Then Nintendo really wants you to know that Mario Super Sluggers is now available for the Nintendo Wii. The game, rated E for “Everyone,” enables players to swing the Wii remote like a bat or use it to make pitches in a Mario baseball game that sees Mario, Luigi, Daisy, and other Mario characters take… Read More

Nintendo has announced the official launch date for its much-anticipated Wii Fit home fitness title for its Wii game console—and it's May 21, only two days from now. The game, already highly successful in Japan, is another in Nintendo's efforts to create new markets for its gaming products. Instead of letting players blast aliens, solve puzzles, or engage in online play, Wii Fit is about getting players moving, stretching,… Read More

It takes a lot of clanging cash registers to set sales records with the company that brought out legendary games like Super Marios Bros. and The Legend of Zelda, but Super Smash Bros. Brawl has apparently done it. Nintendo of America announced on Monday that the title had sold a whopping 1.4 million units in the week following its launch on March 9 – a rate of two copies every second. “Super Smash Bros. Brawl has made the leap… Read More

Some folks like cerebral video games with stories, puzzles, cyphers, and complicated scenarios to decypher…and some prefer the “Itchy and Scratchy” school of video games: they fight and fight, fight fight fight! The new Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Nintendo Wii definitely aims at the latter group, bringing together diverse characters from the Nintendo gaming universe into one giant, action-filled free-for-all. Ever… Read More