I’m sorry this is late coming but it was a story I thought was worth sharing. My in-law’s came to visit me over Christmas and of course the Wii was involved. My father-in-law hasn’t really enjoyed a video game since he bought a Sega Genesis for the kids. Well i showed off a few games (I learned to start with other games before Wii sports otherwise the other games get left out) and then we moved on to Wii sports. It was an immediate success. He loved bowling and golf the most. On Christmas eve my wife, mother-in-law, and I all went to do some shopping and left my father-in-law at home. We left him playing the Wii and found him playing the Wii. By the end of the day over 13 hours had been logged on the Wii and most of it was him by himself!!! He was a pro in 3 sports! All i heard afterwards was how much he wanted to get one. Well on valentines day we got a call from him saying guess what i got for valentines day?? Truthfully not knowing we had no idea what could make him this excited, and yep you guessed it his wife bought him a Wii!

IGN Wii is reporting on a Squar-Enix Party to be held in Japan this coming May.  Here are the details:

Square Enix will be holding a big gaming event for the Japanese this May, the latest issue of Famitsu reveals. The Square Enix Party 2007 will be held on 5/12 and 5/13 at the Makuhari Messe, just outside of Tokyo. Admission is free, although you’ll have to, of course, arrange for your own transportation.

May seems far away, but it will be here before we know it.  This news is almost generic, but I’m sure there will be plenty of Nintendo news at the event given their close relationship with Square-Enix.

Source: IGN Wii

CHERTSEY, Surrey, – February 28, 2007 – Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS) announced today that the SimCity™ franchise is returning with SimCity™ DS, developed especially for the Nintendo DS™ platform. In addition to creating and growing their very own pocket sized city while being on-the-go, players will be able to leverage the unique action features of the Nintendo DS system, discovering an entirely new way to play this internationally acclaimed franchise. The product will make its debut to consumers worldwide in summer of this year.True to the SimCity series, players will be able to create and control their city in the palm of their hands…and much more. Maximizing the stylus and built-in microphone controls of the Nintendo DS, SimCity DS brings to the franchise like never before the feeling of personal involvement with your city—from blowing into the microphone to put out fires in the city to signing off on mayoral proclamations with your stylus. By enabling the players to communicate with each other, the “wireless data exchange” feature brings additional interactivity into the game. As an added bonus to SimCity fans around the world, the game also offers a wide array of recognizable international landmarks to spice up your city.

“We are very excited to bring the SimCity experience to the Nintendo DS platform,” said Takahiro Murakami, Producer of SimCity DS. “The unique Nintendo DS functionalities inspired us to incorporate many new features to delight the most dedicated SimCity fans. The game is filled with fun surprises that will appeal to new and existing fans of the franchise.”

About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for videogame systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA SPORTS BIGTM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2006, EA posted revenue of $2.95 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.

Electronic Arts, EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS BIG, POGO and SimCity are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Nintendo DS is a trademark of Nintendo. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source: gonintendo

This may not be big news to you guys. For me, I was really looking forward to this with as much anticipation as a four year old at Christmas. My Mii’s Birthday!!!! I had no clue what to expect some type of Bday parade, a happy dance, a singalong? All I new is that it was going to be cool!

Well my dreams where crushed today. Infendo is reporting that nothing happens when you hit your mii’s b-day. Nothing!!! No big celebration on your/mii’s bday. Then why in the world did we give a birth date to our mii?!?!?! Hum? Hum? Answer me that Nintendo???? Sorry I was really looking forward to something exciting from my wii, on my mii’s bday. I guess I will have to settle with the little reminder I put on my wii calender on my Birthday.

Source: Infendo

Cubed3 is reporting on a method that allows import Gamecube games to be played on the Wii without a modchip. I don’t know how one would figure this out, but here are the steps to load an NTSC disc on a PAL Wii system (these are the steps for PAL systems, not for the American Wii systems):

1. Shove in a PAL GameCube disk
2. Enter the Disk Channel section
3. Point your Wii Remote at the start button but DON’T start the game just yet.
4. Press the eject button on the Wii then, after a second or so, click on the on-screen start button on the Wii.
5. The speedy bit: the moment your Wii chucks out the PAL disk, quickly whip it out and shove in the NTSC disk (you have to be VERY quick).
6. The game should boot up as normal.

The technique takes a little while from what C3 say, but they say it works just fine. For everyone with a PAL Wii—check it out and see if it works. Let us know in the comments.

Source: Cubed3

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A ton of screens and game art has been released for Megaman ZX Advent for the DS.  Check out the link for even more screens/art.

Source: Game Watch

Nintendo was really not lieing when they stated that their systems are reaching new audiences that were once uninterested. Specifically the Wii, which today has met unbreaking ground in the console champ grasp against competitors such as Sony, Microsoft, and Infinium(HAhaHh). Today the Wii has reached incredible feet, similarily to the NDS Lite being used in schools, and museums, the Wii not only is being used by libraries but also buisiness (sorry I’m a bad speller). Maybe this is why the Wii remotes are all being sold as faster then they hit the shelves.

Furthermore some subsidaries in this specific company, Colgate-Palmolive are using the Wii and its remotes for presentations, which indeed is very interesting.

Link: SAP network

Nintendo has launched the site for their custom robo game on the nds. Its the american version of the game as the japanese version has been already out for months. I think this game is going to be so kool, when it comes out im gonna check it out, see what the big deal is. Did i mention its ONLINE!!! I hope they do away with the friend codes on their online games, PLS NINTENDO!

Custom Robo Arena

I thought you guys might like this site, its kinda kool go check it out!

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Amazon recently replenished their stock of Wii on their site. But, as usuall the Wii’s were gone within ten minuets of being posted, which leads me to ask this: Why can’t Nintendo meet the supply? Also i was at the near EBGAMES today and i asked for my controler, before me were 18 people ahead! Thats eighteen people who are also waiting for wii controllers on a list!!! Twleve were waiting in for nunchuks! Is the Wii some sort of Nintendo Crack or something?