Mario Kart a winner with the Kids

By hailierose11

Mario Kart is the best game on the console since Super Mario Galaxy

Mario Kart is a game that somehow combines elements of impossible stunts and gravity defying manoevers while injecting surreal mischief that typifies the best of Nintendo games

Mario Kart is a worthy addition to the fifteen year old serries, its a beguiling blend of high-octane control and superb fun for the player.

What initially appears to be a cartoonish romp is actually a technical challenge .

The 50cc stages are exclusively for Karts ,the 100 cc races are initially for bikes only .

To shave seconds off your time you will need to practice .

Multi Player and online options do most of what would be expected, with the latter making sence of the twelve vehicle races that can seem cluttered and pointless, when at least eight of them are computer controlled.

Mario Kart somehow combines elements of impossible stunts and gravity defying manoeuvres ,whilst injecting surreal mischief that tiypifies the best that Nintendo games has to offer.

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What's the Fuzz about Wii Fit?

Nintendo's fitness game for the Wii is on pace to become the fastest selling Wii game ever. The game, simply named "Fit", has outdone all previous records on Play.com by selling out its entire allocation in just one day.

The Fit Balance Board is a clever device that is pressure sensitive and detects shifts in balance in any direction. You put it in front of your TV, step on and use it to interact with the varied activities. The great thing about it it's wireless, so there's no chance of you tripping over a cable and picking up an injury.

Nintendo Wii is known for getting physical with the games but is it enough exercise to get you fit? Studies made on Wii Sports resulted in a weight loss of 12kg per year by using the included sports games daily, so with Wii Fit added to the consoles fitness arsenal we'll expect to see more people losing weight in front of the TV.

There are around 40 different exercises included in Wii Fit. They are divided into four categories: Aerobic exercise, Muscle conditioning, Yoga poses and Balance games. Examples of the training activities are:

Step Aerobic Exercise: In this game you need to step on and off the Balance Board to music being played in the background.

Muscle Conditioning: Wii fit features controlled motions using arms, legs and other body parts.

Yoga exercise: Make classic poses in this exercise to focus on balance and stretching.

Ski jumping: Squat as low as possible while maintaining balance and hen quickly stand up as fast as possible in order to do a good jump.

Balance Games: Wii Fit features fun activities, such as heading soccer balls and hula hooping, that challenge the Wii Fit player's overall body balance.

Nintendo has said it has at least ten games in development that support the board and not just fitness games either. Fighting and Sports games can also take advantage of the unique balance-based interface.

The wii Balance board can be used for daily Wii Fit tests. Wii Fit will evaluate two key measures tracked via progress charts:

Body Mass Index (BMI): A weight calculation based on a ratio of weight to height. Wii Fit Age: Mesured by factoring the Wii Fit player's BMI reading, testing the users's center of gravity and conducting quick balance tests.

Is Wii Fit for all overweight people? Unfortunately the balance board can only hold 136kg so people above that weight better start losing some weight in order to use this game. Hovewer when you get to that range using the activities in the game will surely get your weight down even further and you will acually have fun losing weight.

About the Author:

Patrik Gisselsson has been specializing himself in video gaming and is the author of The Ultimate Wii Guide. He also owns the e-bay store: BuyBestGameConsole.com. You can get the FREE Wii Tips and Trick report at the website TheUltimateWiiGuide.com.

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Mii Integration With Wii feature on New Nintendo DS

According to different sources a new version of Nintendo DS will be revealed atE3 2008 in July. It will feature Mii integration with the Nintendo Wii console, as well as other features.

The Sources are beginning to reveal further information in regards to what the new handheld could feature.

The most likely add-on will be Mii integratioin with the new Nintendo DS. This means that users will be able to create a Mii on the Wii or DS, and then have that Mii go back and forth between the two consoles.

This could allow Nintendo to create something along the lines of the PlayStation Network or Xbox Live where users can have their Mii act as their user name for online games via the Nintendo WiFi Connection.

We have already begun to see the Mii characters used in online games with Mario Kart Wii.

The Mii characters are also rumored to be involved in a new version of Pictochat, which will enable chat over a WiFi connection.

The new Nintendo DS and Wii may also be able to share messages of text, pictures, etc. Currently users can send messages from one Wii to another Wii. This could expand by sharing messages from the DS to the Wii.

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Wii Fit - Selling like hotcakes

Nintendo continues to deliver hot selling games and accessories. With the release of Wii Fit they really struck gold and many stores outsold their stock in one day. It surely has positioned it self as the fastest selling Wii game to this date.

Wii Fit comes with a pressure sensitive Balance board that you put in front of your TV. The board detects any directional changes in balance and is used to interact with the game in various activites. Ofcourse the board uses wireless technology to save you from hurting yourself stumbling over cables on the floor.

Since Nintendo Wii announced Wii Fit, there have been many discussions regarding whether this game really can get you fit. Studies have been made on previous games like Wii Sports and showed that uses is able to lose up to 12kg a year by a daily exercise given from Wii. Now With Wii Fit you could really get the physical side of Wii to the next level.

Wii Fit is divided into 4 categories of exercises: Aerobic exercise, Muscle Conditioning, Yoga Poses and Balance Games.

In total there are around 40 different activities included. Examples of the training are:

Step Aerobic Exercise: Step up and off the Balance board to the rythm of nice background music.

Muscle Conditioning: Controlled motions using arms legs and other body parts.

Yoga exercise: This excersise focuses on balance and stretching in classic poses.

Ski jumping: Squat as low as possible while maintaining balance and hen quickly stand up as fast as possible in order to do a good jump.

Balance games: Several cool activites, such as soccer ball heading and hula hooping that challenges the Wii player's overall balance


Wii Fit isn't the only game planned to be relased for the Balance board. Nintendo has announced that at least ten games are in development for the board. Not just fitness games but different kind of fighting and sports games that can take advantage of the unique balance-based interface as well.

The wii Balance board can be used for daily Wii Fit tests. Wii Fit will evaluate two key measures tracked via progress charts:

Body Mass Index (BMI): Weight based on a ratio of weight to height. Wii Fit Age: Measured by facturing the user's BMI reading, testing the Wii fit user's center of gravity & conducting balance tests.

Is Wii Fit for all overweight people? Unfortunately the balance board can only hold 136kg so people above that weight better start losing some weight in order to use this game. Hovewer when you get to that range using the activities in the game will surely get your weight down even further and you will acually have fun losing weight.


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Mario Kart for Wii Atlast Available in Europe

Yesterday was a good day for most of us Europeans as we all (hopefully) got to grips with the latest in the Mario Kart series and Nintendo's new "Wii-Wheel" controller extension.

With (what I deem to be) the first major Nintendo Wii title to feature online gaming (and let me tell you now - it works very well) I thought it was prime time for the members of NintendoLife.com to get togther and share their (annoyingly long) friend codes for the game.



I see from the Wikipedia page on the game that it will be released later this month in Australia and North America. When it does, run to the shop and buy it.

The Wii remote fits into the plastic wheel that comes with the game and works pretty well. It’s not required though as you can just as easily hold the Wii remote without the wheel. Extra steering wheels are reasonably priced at around €10, even if it probably cost Nintendo a fraction of that to make ‘em…

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New Mario Game - Mario Super Sluggers Comming up

Nintendo of America today revealed the first details on Mario Super Sluggers (Wii), the latest sports title to star Mario and what Nintendo referred to as "his unpredictable pals."

Mario Super Sluggers – a Mario Superstar Baseball (GCN) sequel slated to hit Japan this June – is also headed stateside later this year. While the details on this upcoming Wii title are still somewhat sketchy at the moment, we do know that Nintendo is hoping the game will provide the next step for the expanded audience brought in by Wii Sports, offering the same simple, motion-based controls, as well as Mii support (in addition to a gaggle of returning characters). Apart from that, all we have is the official statement from Nintendo below:

The ongoing excitement over Nintendo’s groundbreaking Wii system gets a suprise springtime boost with the announcement of a new game. Kicking off its semiannual media summit in San Francisco near the company’s new sales and marketing offices in Redwood City, California, Nintendo of America today revealed plans for Mario Super Sluggers for Wii, giving baseball fans even more reason to root this season.
“Mario is truly a one-of-a-king character; clearly fans can’t get enough of him and his friends,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. “We’re giving Wii users brilliant new ways to enjoy him while expanding our series of active-play games.”

In the same spirit as other sports-themed Mario games on Wii like Mario Strikers Charged and Mario Kart Wii, Mario Super Sluggers blends richly interactive baseball action with eccentric characters and elements from across the popular Mario universe. Players can swing the wireless Wiimote just like a bat or wave it toward the plate to deliver a masterful pitch, enjoying the same intuitive, easy-to-learn controls that helped make Wii Sports a living room hit. With Mario and his unpredictable pals filling out the roster, imagination and active-play innovation are sure to dominate the diamond in this lively title, scheduled for release later this year.

New fun Wii Game - Battle of the Bands

"Battle of the Bands" for Nintendo Wii - a music games simular to "Guitar Hero" and "rock Band" but with a Twist.

Battle of the Bands is the first time a musical mashup game has been delivered on Wii, allowing players to battle it out with their preferred musical style. The game features both an exciting two player versus mode and an extensive single-player campaign where players take on the role of one of eleven bands trying to topple the nefarious big boss Mr. Battle of the Bands is the first time a musical "mashup" game has been delivered on Wii, allowing players to battle it out with their preferred musical style. Battle of the Bands features both an exciting two player versus mode and an extensive single-player campaign where players take on the role of one of eleven bands trying to topple the nefarious big boss Mr. Battle of the Bands is Newcastle's Union's response to the excellent local music scene. We want to showcase the range of talent and build a relationship with local artists, offering them a stage, an audience .and a $300 prize.

Battle of the Bands is one such title throwing its hat into the ring. What Battle of the Bands does differently is it does not use any special peripheral; it relies on the Wii remote’s motion sensing technology instead.

The game, which is rated "T" for Teen and will ship with about 30 songs, lets whoever's leading the head-to-head match choose which of five genres these popular songs will be played in: rock, hip-hop, country, Latin, and marching band.

Can "Battle of the Bands" carve out its own niche along side other music heavyweights like "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band." we'll find out when it launches next month for about $50.

Give us a Wii HD, Nintendo!

Many Wii owners have tearsed the lack of a harddrive peripheral for the console, and now Harmonix has jumped on the bandwagon calling for the add-on.

"Come on Nintendo, we need a hard drive," important Rob Kay, design director at Harmonix and on Repetitive rock music Amalgamate in an speak with CVG. "That's what we want. The whole problem is there's nowhere to store it."

"If the platform could do it, we'd jump on it. It's something that we championed to Nintendo, that we'd like to do it," Kay added.

"Who knows what will happen down the line, I don't know what's coming down the line, but that's the reason there's no DLC in Wii Rock Band."

Harmonix's title will hit the console in North America on June 22.

Wii Fit pre-orders outsold in a day

Source: Pocket-lint

Poised to become the fastest selling Wii game ever, "Wii Fit" by Nintendo has outstripped all previous records on Play.com by selling out its entire allocation in one day.

Launching in the UK on the 25th April, Play.com says it has been "overwhelmed" by demand for the new fitness game.

Debuting in Japan four months ago, the exergame sold more than one million copies in the first month in a nation with around five million Wiis in use.

Gian Luzio, head of games at Play.com, comments: "It's fantastic to see exergames in big demand. Nintendo 'Wii Fit' is going to be huge - let's hope that we can keep up with demand. We are expecting more stock before launch."

Wii Domination - Xbox 360 & PS3 falling behind

A games analyst has predicted the Nintendo Wii will keep on its domination in the year to follow, shifting more consoles than the Computerized game 360 and PS3 combined.

Daniel Ernst of Hudson Barn dance Research said that, while the PS3 will be a strong meat this year as it continues to overtake the Electronic game 360, the Wii will be far and meet one's maker the dominant force.

"Microsoft got the jump on the industry with a one-year headstart, but nine agess a thousand times its launch, the Nintendo Wii overtook the Xbox 360 on a global basis," Ernst said.

"Throughout the PS3 has struggled out of the ingress, we note from here days beyond recall last occur, the cheer has gone outselling the Xbox 360 in Europe and in the highest rank two months of back year has even outsold the Computerized game 360 on its home turf, in the U.S.

"With its strong slate of software scheduled for the coming year, we expect a material acceleration for the PS3 this year, but we believe the Wii will sell more than the PS3 and Xbox 360 combined this year."

The global sales for the three next-gen consoles are expected to reach 23 million Wiis, 12.5 million PS3s and 11.2 million Xbox 360 machines in 2008 reported by GameDaily.

Nintendo Wii sales on top - 3 to 1 against PS3

Nintendo's Wii game console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) by three-to-one in Japan in March but its DS handheld machine fell behind the PlayStation Portable for the first time in six months, according to research by gaming magazine publisher Enterbrain. Nintendo sold 265,542 units of the Wii in the five weeks to March 30, compared with 81,579 units of the PS3.

Nintendo's Wii Play was in third place with 289 700 copies followed by the Wii version of Activision's Guitar Hero III which sold 222 900 copies. Sega's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games for the Nintendo DS moved 205 600 copies to end in sixth place and Microsoft's Lost Odyssey for the 360 landed in seventh with 203 600 copies.

Sam & Max Confirmed for Nintendo Wii

After almost a year of teasing gamers around the world, it seems that the fan support has clearly paid off since Telltale Games has at long last confirmed that it will be bringing its immensely popular Sam & Max: Season One to Wii later in 2008.
Despite Telltale Games talking several times about how it prefers to go down the route of episodic content, as illustrated with its Sam & Max games released on the PC so far, obviously the strong performance of recent release ‘CSI: Hard Evidence’ from Ubisoft has given the company the nudge required to turn out its adventure series on Wii as a full retail release instead.

All the comments from the developer have pointed to Sam & Max eventually coming to Wii at some point, but it is only now that Gamespot has been allowed to break the official story. However, JoWood Productions actually released a Press Release piece a month or so ago confirming the project, so we all knew about its existence in Europe at least, anyway.
As Gamespot states:
“Telltale Games is hoping to stoke the Sam and Max resurgence even further. Today, the developer confirmed for GameSpot long-standing rumours that it would be bringing its episodic series to consoles, and specifically to the Nintendo Wii. The canine-lagomorph combo’s début on Nintendo’s console will come in the form of a port of the PC first-season compilation, from pilot episode “Culture Shock” through to “Bright Side of the Moon.” Telltale representatives said the game’s release on the Wii is due in large part to fan demand, in particular an e-mail campaign launched prior to the début of the Sam & Max episodic series on the PC. Rumours and speculation of a Wii port helped spark publisher interest in bringing the series to Nintendo’s platform.”

Sam & Max: Season One is due to be published over in North America by Dreamcatcher and The Adventure Company, just as with Agatha Christie’s And Then There None on Wii, whilst over in Europe it is none other than JoWood Productions, as per the original Press Release for a couple of months back. For Europe there will be added French and German voice-overs, as well as Italian and Spanish subtitles. Gamers can expect to get their hands on this tasty Wii project in the Autumn time in both territories.
For those unaware of the details surrounding Season One, below is a synopsis of the storyline, courtesy of Wikipedia:
“The overarching theme of this season is hypnosis. In Culture Shock, Brady Culture is hypnotising the Soda Poppers. In Situation: Comedy, Myra has been hypnotised by the villains of episode 3, the Toy Mafia. And in episode 4, it seems that the Toy Mafia was merely one piece of an overarching plot by someone who has infiltrated the U.S. Government. This “person” is revealed in episode 5 to be The Internet itself who, it seems, was only a puppet of the true mastermind - Hugh Bliss, who has been attempting to hypnotise the entire world into becoming followers of the Prismatology cult. The cult itself being a parody of Scientology, with Prismatology primary theology based on Emetics a parody of Dianetics. In episode 6, the last episode of Season One, Sam and Max confront Hugh Bliss himself, who happens to actually be a colony of bacteria that feeds on “true bliss”.”
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