Nintendo Wii

Wii Fit is rookie stuff; real gamers use their Wii to pole dance! According to MTV, Peekaboo Pole Dancing is currently shopping for a partner to license its pole dancing game for the Wii. Peekaboo, for those who don’t keep up with the latest in stripper wannabe news, is the company behind Carmen Electra’s pole […]

The Nintendo Wii continues to plow ahead of the competition, posting record sales month after month. According to a recent set of stats released by the NPD group, Nintendo moved 720,000 consoles during the month of April. Whoa! As if that number wasn’t impressive enough, things start to look even crazier when you consider that […]

The Wii is a fantastic gaming system, but portable? Until now, the answer would have been a resounding No! Chinavision has just released a 7" companion screen for the Nintendo Wii. This little bugger clips on to the back of your Wii console, and sports a folding mechanism for easy stowage once you’re grown tired […]

Remember how jealous you were in elementary school of the rich kid up the block whose BMW-driving parents actually shelled out $650 so that he could rock a Neo Geo? Remember how you had to pick up an extra bike route just to scrape together enough dough for Super Mario Brothers 3 while this kid […]

The first three quarters of the fiscal year have been very, very good for Nintendo. The Wii has had incredible sales this year and of course it was one of the hottest gifts this past holiday season. Nintendo’s net profits for the nine-month period ending December 31 ballooned up to $2.43 billion as total Wii […]

If there’s one country in need of all the fitness gear we can get our hands on, it’s the US. The land of the free and home of the Whopper is also the only country that would spur speculation surrounding the possible meaning of the statement, "the Wii Fit is getting prepped for US release". […]

What does a good Christmas look like for the Xbox team over at Microsoft? Try selling 1.45 million consoles in a single month. How about 1.73 million Nintendo Wii’s? Yeah, it sounds pretty good. Both Redmond-based companies had a amazingly successful holiday sales season, pushing record numbers of consoles. Sony was less successful, selling only […]

These days, rumors about old products appearing in new colors is more a question of "when" than "if". Everyone from cell phone manufacturers to laptop companies are releasing old products dressed up in shiny new colors in an attempt to stimulate sales. The Nintendo Wii certainly isn’t in need of an artificial increase in demand, […]

Nintendo wants to help make the holiday season as painless as possible for you. Nice of them, no? The company has just updated the Wii Shop store to allow users to purchase Virtual Console games for other gamers. Gifting a game is as simple as entering the 16-digit gamer tag unique to each device and […]

It’s not all graveyards and anger for Sony’s Gaming division. Despite their lackluster Playstation 3 sales, especially relative to the success and demand for Nintendo’s Wii, the company is making strides in the handheld gaming market. Following the recent release of Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, Sony has seen amazing gains with their PSP. Last […]

….and it’s November 5th. Activision, the madmen behind this seminal game series has announced that the 4th installment of Call of Duty will be available to the general public on November 5th of this year. The game will be released simultaneously for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, with the poor Nintendo Wii getting the shaft. Sorry, […]

Think it’s difficult to find a Nintendo Wii now? Just wait until the holiday season. So says George Harrison, senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications for Nintendo of America, who said in an interview, "There is no guarantee that we are not going to have ‘out-of-stocks’ this holiday season. If you see one, buy […]

E3 is the time of the season when a gamer’s mind turns to how cheap they’ll get their next console; that’s how ingrained summer price cuts are in the mind of the gaming consumer. Hot on the heels of the rumored denied confirmed $100 price cut on the Sony PlayStation 3 60GB (and launch of the 80GB […]