In September we will all be looking forward to playing NHL 2K9 Hockey for all platforms, but especially Wii. NHL 2K9 will be the first hockey release for the Nintendo Wii this year. We’re stoked over here.
If you’re looking for a Wii Hockey fix, there’s about one whole title you can order.
Try Kidz Sports: Ice Hockey for Wii. That’s about it for now – hint, hint, developers!
It appears as if Nintendo isn’t very happy with Nyko right now. Nyko, the peripheral manufacturer, is being sued by the Nintendo Corporation for its wireless versions of the Nunchuk. Nintendo stated that Nyko’s Kama Nunchuk “wholly appropriates the novel shape, design, overall appearance and even the color and materials used in the Nintendo Nunchuk controller” in their federal court complaint.
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The good peeps over at Nintendic posted an article about a possible release by Ubisoft of Tom Clancy’s “HAWX” for Wii! Now THAT is something that we would want to play!
From the article at Nintendic:
“Tom Clancy’s HAWX marks the next evolution of high altitude warfare in the Tom Clancy video game universe,” said John Parkes, EMEA Marketing Director at Ubisoft at the game’s announcement for rival machines in April. “We are thrilled to take to the skies and provide a new environment along with an extension of a familiar storyline from our other successful Tom Clancy franchises such as Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.”
Excellent! Gamefly and Gamespot both have placeholders on their websites for this game!
I’ve been reading a lot of posts on various Wii blogs lately about a lack of storage space on the Wii. PC World just reported news of some hints that reveal that USB devices could be released for Wii that are supposedly going to help alleviatestorage space problems for Wii. With 512MB of onboard storage, I’m sure we all are wondering what is going on with external storage coming up in future months.
What do you think? Are you having a problem with storage on your Wii? We have not experienced any storage problems yet, but it’s coming, I can feel it. Let us know, post your comment or storage complaint in the comments.
The good folks at Wired just posted a great article about Wii Fit’s supply – and how it is nearly magical to obtain one lately! Keep an eye out for these if you haven’t gotten yours yet; right now, they’re going like gold, and for good reason. They’re excellent! People have their gripes about them – as do the editors here at WeKnowWii.com, but overall, it’s a fun accessory, and the game is a blast.
Get your Wii Fit over at Amazon – if they don’t have it, keep checking!
We check Amazon pretty frequently for Wii stuff. Here’s some deals for today:
Guitar Hero III Bundle: $69.99 (down 20 bucks!)
High School Musical will be making a splash on Wii, starting in Europe around Christmas of this next year. From the folks over at Nintendo World Report:
Disney Interactive is planning to release two new High School Musical games this holiday season to coincide with the theatrical release of “High School Musical 3: Senior Year”. The Wii game, High School Musical 3: Senior Year DANCE!, allows players to move and groove to their favorite songs from the series using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. There are also multiplayer modes featuring competitive and cooperative play.
We guess it will be a hit!
It looks like Activision is returning to the Monster Truck scene with their Monster Jam: Urban Assault for Wii, PS2, Nintendo DS, and PSP coming soon. From the article at Daily Game:
Monster Jam: Urban Assault will take Monster Jam monster trucks onto the streets and other urban settings, with players rewarded for the scale of the damage and destruction they wreak. Players will be able to virtually drive famous monster trucks including Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, Monster Mutt, El Toro Loco, Captain’s Curse and Blue Thunder.
Slashdot posted some information on a new game that Ubisoft will be releasing – a snowboarding game called “Shaun White’s Snowboarding” that uses the beloved Wii Balance Board and the Wiimote as the control media.
“During Ubidays 2008, Ubisoft revealed that its upcoming snowboarding title, Shaun White Snowboarding, will be coming to Nintendo Wii. More exciting, the publisher revealed that the game will support Nintendo’s Wii Balance Board. Although members of the press were not allowed to play the game at the event, an Ubisoft representative was on hand to demo the setup. The game is played with both the Balance Board and Wii-mote, using the latter to control tricks.”
We’re pretty big fans of the SSX Series of games here at WeKnowWii.com, so you can imagine our excitement!
We haven’t been able to get our hands on Wii Ski yet that also uses the Wii Balance Board, but we’re waiting to rock the slopes in our living room!
Go order Wii Fit and the Balance Board if you haven’t already – it’s even healthy!
Also, check out Wii Ski by Nintendo
We Know Wii’s founders have seen the Harmonix hit, “Rock Band,” and are looking at its fun-potential. Do you own Rock Band? How many people are in your household that play on a regular basis?
Drop us a line in the comments and document your Rock Band praises or demerits.
Here’s a great Joystiq article on the Wii edition of Rock Band.
We have to apologize up front for our absenteeism… But we’ve been plastered in front of the Wii!
Wii Fit, Mario Kart, Dance Dance Revolution are keeping us busy!
Look for some reviews, updates, and otherwise info-filled blog posts coming up!
Pardon our absenteeism lately, life and freelance work have kept us away from you, and our beloved Wii.
There’s some buzz lately about new games coming out at E3, and one of them is a Wii-centric version of the old favorite F-ZERO. Nintendic writes:
The F-Zero franchise has never been able to reach the heights of the original Super Nintendo game’s sales despite stellar efforts hitting the Nintendo 64 (F-Zero X), GameCube (the SEGA-developed F-Zero GX) and Game Boy Advance (F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, GP Legend, and the Japan-only Climax). But Nintendo has continued to push the game that pre-dated the WipEout franchise and has out-lasted the Extreme-G series of racers by bringing the SNES and Nintendo 64 games to the Virtual Console over the past year.
Real? Who knows. Hopeful? We are!
(for what it’s worth, Gametrailers.com has some good movie clips of F-ZERO on the Virtual Console. Good times!
Mario Kart Wii is coming in the second quarter of 2008 (we hope sooner than later in the Spring) – and Sterling McGarvey over at Gamespy.com has provided a good preview post of what we can expect to see from this very anticipated release. Support for 12 players online, a Mario Kart Channel on the Wii, and ridiculously versatile controls are all very positive points as we see it. An excerpt from Sterling’s article over at GameSpy:
There’ll be three new power-ups as well. The POW item looks like the old POW box from the original Mario Bros., and as in that arcade classic it causes havoc on the stage. If you’re in, say, fifth place, the POW will cause every car that’s ahead of you to spin out and lose control. The Lightning Cloud is even more devastating; it’s like a mixture of the Golden Mushroom and “hot potato.” You’ll get huge boosts of speed for a limited time, but as the clock ticks, you run the risk of being hit by lightning, which shrinks your kart. Fortunately (for you, not your fellow racers), you can pass the Lightning Cloud around to other people when you bump into them and leave someone else to deal with the consequences. Finally, there’s the Giant Mushroom, which, just like in New Super Mario Bros., allows you to super-size yourself and leave a trail of turmoil in your wake.
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March 25 of this year will bring us the long-awaited Okami Wii by Capcom. From Nintendic’s website:
In Okami, players assume the role of the wolf-embodied sun god Amaterasu to set the world straight after the legendary monster Orochi has come back to life and turned it into a wasteland. The action-adventure title was originally released for the Sony PlayStation 2 last year to great a great critical reception, so perhaps the firm’s decision to bring it to Wii will be more fruitful.
One of the most exciting things about the new release of Okami Wii is the high-er definition stats – Capcom confirmed this week that Okami Wii will support the 16:9 ratio at 480p for those Okami gamers who love their widescreen Wii gaming.
Interested in learning about the original Okami? Check out this article at Eurogamer for PS2.
Here at WeKnowWii, we’re into making our Wii gaming experience top-notch by making YOUR Wii gaming experience top-notch. This week, we purchased a Wii Component Video Cable from SuperMediaStore.com. What we should have done was fork out the $39 bucks for one of the Monster Cable Brand component video cables, but we wanted to see what the difference in quality was with the cheap ones.
Well Wii Fans, we were quite disappointed. There are a lot of grounding issues in this component cable. This issue can be fixed with a little solder and some time – unfortunately, time is something we aren’t surplussing in mass supply.
This is, however, good news for our WeKnowWii.com fans – we are giving away this brand new Wii Component Video Cable for FREE! If you comment on our blog, we will enter you in the contest for this cable. Who knows – perhaps it will work perfectly for you! Make sure that you comment before February 8, 2008 by noon. The winner will be contacted via email, and shipping is on us.
Accessory company NYKO has produced a solution for a “problem” that apparently exists with Wii users – the really small cable that goes from the wiimote to the nunchuk. NYKO has created a wireless transmitter that takes that cable completely out of the loop and makes the Wii completely wireless. Once again, NYKO has brought another innovative product to the world of Wii. From the NYKO website:
The Cord-Free is a unique wireless adaptor for the Wii Nunchuk that easily converts your wired Nunchuk in to a wireless peripheral for your Wii remote. The ergonomic sleeve easily holds and organizes the Nunchuk, cable and batteries providing a compact, clean and convenient conversion system for the Nunchuk. Once the Nunchuk is inserted in the sleeve, you can now enjoy full wireless freedom with all your favorite Wii games without the hassle of any wires tethering your hands together.
Well, Wii Gamers, if you have the desire to take every single cable out of the loop between the player and the console, this new item from NYKO is your solution. What this writer has to ask about this new product, all of its awesomeness put aside: what kinds of excellent games are you playing that require no wire?
2008 IGF finalist World of Goo is now slated to be released on the Nintendo Wii, PC, Mac and Linux platforms.
According to a blurb on developer 2D Boy’s website, the title will hit PC and Wii in 2008, and will be coming to Mac and Linux at a later, unannounced date.
Normally this is the kind of information that would fly under the radar, but as you can see from the above video, World of Goo is a seemingly inventive, adorable amalgam of Lemmings and Worms wrapped in a strikingly well implemented physics system. Plus, to use a technical term, it’s wicked cute.
World of Goo Official Site (2D Boy, via WiiNintendo)
Any of you Nintendo 64 fans remember 1080° Snowboarding? Nintendo has released 1080° Snowboarding this week for Wii’s Virtual Console. Any of the old-school snowboarding gamers might remember this title as one of the first “truly realistic” snowboarding video games, with the famous Shigeru Miyamoto on the design team for 1080° Snowboarding. You might know Shigeru from such classic titles as the Mario Brothers and Super Mario series, Legend of Zelda, as well as a ton of the super-selling games for Nintendo’s Wii. Oh heck, here’s a full list of Shigeru’s games for Nintendo.
1080° Snowboarding allows players to choose from one of five characters (male and female) that each offer their own flavor of unique attributes and tricks. The player is also able to choose from a selection of boards before heading down the slopes.
From the official Nintendo 1080° Snowboarding website:
Once you’ve got the gear, six different modes of play, including Match Race, Trick Attack, and 2-Player Versus, await. Pick a course and get ready to experience a sensation of speed that’ll make you forget all about the cold—but it might just send a shiver down your spine. Throw in hidden characters and boards, varying weather and snow conditions, multiple paths through each course, and a variety of tricks to master—topped off with rock-solid play control—and you’ve got a recipe for winter fun that you can enjoy any time of the year. It’s all the fun and excitement of the sport, without the bruises and frostbite!
This classic Nintendo 64 game is available on Wii’s Virtual Console via the Shop Channel. Remember, you’ll need some Wii Points to purchase games from the Shop Channel, so go get a card!
Dassault Systèmes has announced that it has released its Virtools package of prototyping and full game production tools for the Nintendo Wii, giving developers for the console access to the Behavior Engine and the VSL compilation, as well as new Wii dedicated functionalities.
Dassault says the Wii solutions are “add-on libraries of building blocks specifically dedicated to Wii game prototyping and game development. Game developers will be able to test on the console anytime during the development, using the power of Virtools 4 and its 500 building Blocks and accessing the Wii Remote information from a Virtools application running directly on the PC.”
The company says its Wii-dedicated package will aid in the prototyping and production of not just retail Wii games, but also those for its forthcoming download service, WiiWare.
It also notes that developers will be able to prototype with the WiiMote and tweak the gameplay directly on PC, as well as test output on the console at any point during game development.
“Virtools Wii solutions give the developers the opportunity to validate game design decisions much faster and focus on gameplay production and optimization, creating games with outstanding graphics and cutting edge interactivity,” said Dassault.
thanks Gamasutra!
A current rumor of interest is the fact that a Wii user supposedly sent their console in for repair and it came back with the Repair Disc version 1.3 still in the drive.
I’m not sure if this rumor is a hoax or not, because the disc photo could have been easily doctored. The image originally surfaced on #wiidev on IRC/EFNET. If it is real, I’m sure someone will be posting pirated version on the net in the near future. Nintendo is extremely secretive with their software, so I’m sure they will not be happy about this.
Thanks to Gaming Today for the article.
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