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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