Above is a screen show taken from the “Check Me Out” channel, which shows the top 50 Mii’s. Look who is standing among Batman, Indiana Jones, and Snoop Dogg?

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“It’s popular with youngsters and older people because of its ability to translate a player’s physical movement onto a screen. This is not just a machine for hardcore gamers (which tend to be young males); it takes video gaming beyond that select group. Adults love it too. The Wii is simple to use and you have to get physical with the remotes that have motion sensors. Play tennis, for example, and you use the hand-held Rumbler remote as a racquet which provides tactile feedback.” Liesl Loubser, CEO of HDI Youth Marketeers

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Nintendo’s Wii console unveiled its own slate of original, downloadable games this month, and the service promises to broaden this unique machine’s appeal still further. With low distribution costs and little barrier to entry, it’s a hit among smaller, risk-averse developers.

But after being bewildered by bizarre interfaces, confused by storage limits and inexplicably accosted by orange Marios, we’re left wondering: could this be the Wii’s first blunder?

For me the only problem I have with WiiWare is the lack of storage space. I only have room fro two more small WiiWare games, or one large one. Come on Nintendo give us a Hard Drive!!

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Hey Wii owners, listen up! Since Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People will be coming out on WiiWare as well as PC, we thought the time was right for a little make-a-Mii contest. Just pick your favorite Homestarrunner.com character, fire up your Wii, and do your best (or worst) to make a Mii that looks like that character. You can pick from any of the main characters. Three lucky winners will get a copy of the first SBCG4AP episode, Homestar Ruiner, when it launches on WiiWare. Woo!

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Pretty long article but a good and interesting read. Just to give you something to read over the Memorial day weekend.

Resistance Is Futile

By SETH SCHIESEL
IT’S O.K. to liken Shigeru Miyamoto to Walt Disney.

When Disney died in 1966, Mr. Miyamoto was a 14-year-old schoolteacher’s son living near Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital. An aspiring cartoonist, he adored the classic Disney characters. When he wasn’t drawing, he made his own toys, carving wooden puppets with his grandfathers’ tools or devising a car race from a spare motor, string and tin cans.

Even as he has become the world’s most famous and influential video-game designer — the father of Donkey Kong, Mario, Zelda and, most recently, the Wii — Mr. Miyamoto still approaches his work like a humble craftsman, not as the celebrity he is to gamers around the world.

Perched on the end of a chair in a hotel suite a few dozen stories above Midtown Manhattan, the preternaturally cherubic 55-year-old Mr. Miyamoto radiated the contentment of someone who has always wanted to make fun. And he has. As the creative mastermind at Nintendo for almost three decades, Mr. Miyamoto has unleashed mass entertainment with a global breadth, cultural endurance and financial success unsurpassed since Disney’s fabled career.

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Alex Loyd driving the number 16 Indy car placed 25th today during the Indianapolis 500 today. Next up for Wii Fit cars is NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600, driving is Sterling Marlin. You can check the race on Fox at 5 pm et. I will update this post when the race is over.

Update: Sterling Marlin placed 31st in the Coca-Cola 600

Speaking of video games, there are few certainties in life but this is one of them: The Wii is headed for the biggest and most expensive class-action injury suit since Navin’s eyeglasses made everyone cross-eyed in “The Jerk.” - Bill Simmons, ESPN

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Check The Other 10 HERE

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Kids are attracted to visual, interactive forms of communication. It’s not going to be easy for sport to counter that… You won’t hear me saying sport is not fun — it is. But it requires austerity and discipline. The answer is achievement. You will never achieve in a video game. It is not really success.

I guess I can kiss my dreams of seeing Video games in the Olympic games. Well, that is until a new Olympic President. How do we do that?