Here it is, Ubisofts Red Steel box art for the Nintendo Wii. Also confirmed at the bottom of the box is the Teen rating. Red Steel is not your ordinary first person shooter, it takes a much more ‘hands on’ approach requiring you to slash and point the Wii’s motion-sensing controller to control your character.
“We’re [...]

Opera have announced that their web browser software will be free on the Wii until June 2007. After that, it will be available to purchase on the Wii Shop Channel. From Opera’s press release:
Opera Software today announced details on its browser for Nintendo’s soon-to-be released game console, Wii. Opera’s full Web browser is available for [...]

Its official, Ubisoft have confirmed that Far Cry: Vengeance will be released as a launch title for the Nintendo Wii. This version obviously wont look as good as the Xbox 360 as you can see, but at least Wii owners will have this amazing game readily available. There is no online feature however it does [...]

For a brief period on friday, Amazon.com began taking pre-orders for the Wii Console, only to pull the offer from their site a few hours later.
Many believed Amazon had sold out of their initial quota, but according to a recent post by Amazon Video Game Editor “Jon G”, the offer was pulled from the site [...]

Nintendo are on a roll recently, having already announced the release date and price of the Wii console they go on to unveil a new Zelda: Twilight Princess trailer. Originally planned for the GameCube and probably one of most anticipated tittles for the Wii launch, it features motion-sensing controls and updated visual effects.

Nintendo UK has told Gameindustry.biz that the Wii will be region locked, despite the recent reports from Nintendo’s of America’s VP of Marketing, Perrin Kaplan, that ALL first-party Wii games will be region free.
From the article, Nintendo UK say: “We are region-locked,” and said the US arm of the company had made a mistake in [...]

Finally the answer Europe has been waiting for, Nintendo have revealed the European release-date for the Wii Console as well as the recommended retail-price.
Release Date: 8th December 2006
RRP: £179 / €249
Contents:

One Wii remote
One Nunchuck
Wii Sports

Software: £35-39 / €49-59
Launch-titles:

Wii Sports
Wii Play
Zelda
Rayman
Red Steel
Need for Speed
Tony Hawk
Super Monkey Ball
WarioWare: Smooth Moves

Click here for release-dates in other regions.

Thanks to Joel Johnson from Wired News we now have confirmation from Nintendo’s VP of Marketing Perrin Kaplan that ALL first-party Wii games will be without region locks. This means that all games made by Nintendo for the Wii will be playable on Wii systems from all regions.
This is what Perrin Kaplan had to say [...]

Nintendo announced today that the Wii will launch in Japan on December 2nd, priced at 25,000 Yen (around $215).
The Wii will be launching in the U.S. almost two weeks earlier, on November 19th, and will retail at $249.99. The U.S. version comes bundled with Wii sports.
The Wii will launch in only one color in all [...]

If Play-Nintendo magazine are to be believed, The Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console service will launch with at least 26 games.
Play-Nintendo say their information came from “A trustworthy source”, lets just hope they’re right because the titles they’ve given as the launch lineup are some of the best loved retro games ever created.
The full list of [...]