Tag archive: Mario Galaxy

We just emerged from a colorful light storm at the cavernous Club Nokia, where Nintendo has lifted the veil on not just new games, but new hardware as well. Here’s a rundown of what the company revealed: While Microsoft hopes to eventually steamroll the Wii remote with Project Natal, Nintendo doesn’t plan to go quietly. The company revealed more details on its Wii MotionPlus controllers, which originally debuted at last… Read More

Market analysis firm NPD Group has released its video game industry sales figures for the month of November, and once again the Nintendo Wii easily takes first place as the best-selling video game console for the month, moving 981,000 units computer. The sales total marks the Wii's strongest month since the console was introduced a year ago, and is 60 percent higher than Wii sales figures for December of 2006. In comparison,… Read More

The National Institute on Media and the Family has issued its 2007 report card on the video game industry, and has reached some rather unsurprising conclusions: despite a few retailers' steps to curtail childrens' access to violent video games and new software and parental controls, these efforts have not kept pace with game publishers, and violence in video games continues to increase. Furthermore, the group warns the video… Read More

Nintendo has introduced a whole slew of games for its Wii console at E3, with Wii Fit asthe flagship title.   By the end of 2007, Nintendo expects to add around 200 titles to its more than 150 games, many from outside publishers, and will include titles that can be downloaded forits virtual console.   But the company hopes for great things from its Wii Fit game, in which players get to exercise the whole body, using the Wii Balance… Read More

I recall the arguments when Cable TV was first getting started which concluded no one would ever be stupid enough to pay for something they can get for free. Well there are clearly a good chunk of us who are terminally stupid because cable was a success although I think many of us probably wish it hadn’t been. With Cable you are typically locked in to what the cable company wants to use for hardware and the programming the… Read More

The name may be goofy and surely lends itself to a hundred different bad puns, but Nintendo's new console is a serious contender. It's so vastly different from the competition that it's debatable whether Microsoft and Sony really are competitors at all, meaning casual and serious gamers alike have a lot to look forward too in the Wii. Nintendo's theme at the show is “Playing = Believing,” and it's… Read More

Nintendo today showed off its forthcoming Wii gaming console at the E3 Expo, extolling the virtues of its unconventional wireless, motion-sensor controller while emphasizing the new system will appeal to everyone from hard-core gamers to audiences who might never have played video games before. “Not only is Wii compelling to current game players, but it also willentice new players with new experiences,” explains Nintendo… Read More