Who would have thought that playing video games might actually get you in the fitness groove? We do admit, however, that the Wii has gotten many couch potatoes off the couch in some ways, and while that won’t make you the biggest loser (after the reality show) in your family, it does burn a wee bit more calories than just sitting around, thumbing that joypad. Well, the Wii Balance Board Push Up B...
Sony's new motion control system, PlayStation Move, has been the talk of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, since demos and details were revealed Wednesday. The biggest charge that's been leveled against Move is that it's little more than a Nintendo Wii remote clone.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, at least from a business standpoint.
"Replicating upon the Wii's success is ...
Think twice before you say that using a game console to watch TV will never go mainstream because according to a survey from the Yankee Group , more people have a gaming console at home than a cable set-top box -- in fact the survey says that 2 percent more households have a game consoles than a set-top box. Now of course any survey that relies on normal people to report what technology they use,...
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This video captures a human machine drum jam, with composer Patrick Flanagan and his collection of drum-playing robots performing Jazari .
The piece is named after a 12th century Arab polymath, mathemetician, inventor, engineer and artist Al-Jazari.
Jazari is a great example of a growing trend of virtual musicians that play physical instrume...
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From website 4Gamer.net comes the news that Nintendo is developing new hardware, and Shigeru Miyamoto is working on a new Wii Motion Plus game.
The news is from a recent symposium in which Miyamoto discussed things like hamsters. 4Gamer does not quote him directly, but does state that Miyamoto revealed he is working on a game that uses Wii Motion Plus. This game is not the upcoming Legend of Zel...
Nothing Earth-shattering here. Just, dare we say it, really cute!
The venerable Altoids mint tin has become an icon of the maker culture. Browsing through past articles on Hack a Day, Adafruit or Instructables, you’ll find project after project for which these pocket-sized enclosures provided just the right fit. Eminently practical, affordable, but the aesthetics have occasionally left somethi...
Zangeki no REGINLEIV , the upcoming Wii action game from Japanese studio Sandlot, will be out on February 11. The game has been development for years .
In an recent round table discussion with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, Sandlot's Takehiro Honma said, "Because the project got the OK sometime between summer and fall 2006, development has been over three years."
To which Iwata replied, "Th...
It's tough to motivate yourself to keep remotes, add-ons, and games organized. But when the organization system simply depends on shoving a console and all that junk onto an acrylic base that actually looks good? Suddenly things are neat.
The Wii Pedestal Base will make your room look somewhat more stylish for a mere 25 bucks and as a bonus you might finally learn to put the controllers ...
A source within a major publishing company has reputedly shared some information regarding Nintendo's next gaming platform project, according to website VideoGamer. While not disclosing any specific details involving whether the new platform will be a handheld iteration or a home console, the informant acRead More...
Sure, that headline reads like "sky is blue", but retail data firm The NPD Group today released figures showing just how reliant Nintendo software sales are on, well, Nintendo games.
For the 2009 calendar year, total revenue for games sold on Nintendo platforms was $3.23 billion. Of which Nintendo games constituted $1.53 billion. Or, 47% .
In terms of unit sales, there were 72.4 million games...
Ez a játék eredetileg WiiWare-ben jelent meg először, aztán került át PC-re is. Egy Tetrishez hasonlító játék, nagyon egyszerű a koncepciója. A fenti futószalagon jönnek a különböző mágnesek és konduktorok, és ezeket olyan helyre kell pottyantani az alsó futószalag segítségével, hogy a blokkok eltűnjenek. Úgy tudnak eltűnni, ha a egyforma színű mágneseket egymással szembe rakom le, de lehet között...
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Ez a játék eredetileg WiiWare-ben jelent meg először, aztán került át PC-re is. Egy Tetrishez hasonlító játék, nagyon egyszerű a koncepciója. A fenti futószalagon jönnek a különböző mágnesek és konduktorok, és ezeket olyan helyre kell pottyantani az alsó futószalag segítségével, hogy a blokkok eltűnjenek. Úgy tudnak eltűnni, ha a egyforma színű mágneseket egymással szembe rakom le, de lehet között...
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