Nintendo Wii News Stories

EA: Spore Just For The PC

Posted September 11th, 2006

Electronic Arts are saying Will Wright’s Spore will be PC only for the time being. EA issued a statement on the matter following speculation that a Wii version was in the works.
“Right now we’re 100 percent focused on finishing SPORE on the PC and PC only,” EA said. “Though we’re investigating the [...]

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Ubisoft Reveals Wii Wheel; Announces Splinter Cell 4

Posted September 9th, 2006

Ubisoft has revealed their Wii Wheel accessory to IGN Wii. The wheel is developed by Thrustmaster and will be shipped with GT Pro Series. The accessory, however, is reported to be able to work with all racing games currently to be on the Wii. The Wiimote fits in the center of the wheel, and all [...]

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Wii Details To Be Revealed September 15

Posted September 3rd, 2006

Nintendo has confirmed that they will finally reveal the information we’ve all been waiting for regarding its newest console.
On September 15, they will go public with the wii’s official release date and most importantly, its price. They are also expected to reveal new details about the console. Those exact details are still a mystery [...]

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Nintendo Team Up With McDonalds…Again!

Posted September 2nd, 2006

GameSpot have revealed that Nintendo are teaming up with Ronald McDonald to provide Happy Meal toys based on their popular games characters Mario, Yoshi and Donkey Kong. Children are being invited to “Take the Mario Challenge” whatever that means, with the range of “active” toys that include flying disks, and bat and balls, themed [...]

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Wii.com Now Owned By Nintendo

Posted August 22nd, 2006

After previously stating that they weren’t interested, Nintendo have now finally secured the domain name wii.com (which now points to Nintendo.com) from the lumber company Weyerhaeuser Corporation.
Nintendo currently own somewhere between 60 to 80 Wii-related domain names, all of which point to nintendo.com.
According to the DNS records for Wii.com, The transfer took place on [...]

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Wii News Tidbits

Posted August 22nd, 2006

Japanese publication Nintendo Dream’s recent interview with gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed many things about the Nintendo Wii and some of Nintendo’s future plans. These includes the changing of the new Zelda’s controls and the possibility of GameCube games remade for Wii versions. Japanese publication Nintendo Dream also had an interview with gaming legend [...]

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California Games Returns

Posted August 19th, 2006

System 3 founder Mark Kale told GameSpot today that the company has secured the rights to the Epyx Games library and is looking to remake California Games for some of todays systems - In all their 2D glory.
"You gotta keep the gameplay mechanics the same or else it ceases to be the original game [...]

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Nintendo Confirms Free Online Play

Posted August 15th, 2006

In a recent interview with USA Today, Nintendo’s president and chief operating officer, Reggie Fils-Aime, revealed that the company plan on offering a free, non-subscription based, online service ready for the consoles launch. From the article:
“We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They’ll be [...]

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Prince of Persia Coming to Wii

Posted August 9th, 2006

Ubisoft has confirmed to both IGN and GameSpot that there is a Prince of Persia game in the works for the Nintendo Wii. It was purposely left out of the announcement of the seven Wii launch titles because the release date of the game is unknown and will likely be in 2007 or 2008.
"I [...]

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Wii’s Price is $299.99?

Posted August 6th, 2006

7-11’s new Slurpee promotion has a Nintendo Wii as one of the prizes, but interestingly enough, the promotion website lists it as an approximate retail price of $299.99. Now this tidbit goes against Nintendo’s statements of a price tag under $250.
Of course, the Wii could always be packaged with a game, but the problem [...]

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