A portion of a Pocket-Lint review… The Balance Board support helps nudge this one right to must-have status for those with a Wii Fit gathering dust. A cracking control method rounds off a fantastic all round package that anyone with a penchant for fun will absolutely adore

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Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip - review

Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way - Freedom Train - Let Love Rule - Mr. Cab Driver Steve Miller band - Space Cowboy - The Joker This is from a posting that was on the official Rock Band website, only to be pulled soon thereafter

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RUMOR: Lenny Kravitz, Steve Miller band tracks heading to Rock Band

Get ready to be excited!

“Retailer Amazon.com this week began offering a ‘Buy 2 Get 1 Free‘ game deal in a new video game promotion.

In the new offer, customers who purchase two eligible Wii titles will receive a third at no additional cost.

Titles include Guitar Hero: World Tour, Call of Duty: World at War, 007: Quantum of Solace, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and Dancing with the Stars.”

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Nippon Ichi Software, or NIS, has announced that they will be developing titles for Wii and WiiWare.  Although what they are specifically working on hasn’t been announced yet, given their history in RPGs (Disgaea for example) they are bound to continue in that tradition.

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A former Microsoft Executive sounds almost certain that the Wii will offer some sort of movie service in the future.

“(Nintendo) Wii hasn’t delivered any movie services, but once they do, and we expect them to do that, they will have a much broader set of content.”

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One can imagine it would be similar to the streaming service that NetFlix currently provides to its customers.  There is currently a way to hack your Wii into playing DVD movies (although I’m not certain if the latest 3.4 update has put an end to this).  If you want to take the chance that it will work, the step by step directions are here.

Good news for people of Australia! If you are looking to buy a Full HD TV from Panasonic, you score a free Wii as well. Americans aren’t included in the deal though apparently…

Panasonic Gives Away Free Wiis With HD TV Purchases

and for the UK people! here is a chance to win a Free Wii fit by answering a very simple question.

Also, the Wii Fit stock seems to continue to be on high demand as evidenced in this article that states it will surpass the sales of Grand Theft Auto 4 very soon.  That is a very high achievement!  Here is an excerpt from the article…

“Sales of “Wii Fit” are on track to surpass those of one of 2008’s most best-selling titles, “Grand Theft Auto IV,” by the end of the year, according to projections by Wedbush Morgan Securities.It’s a very popular game that’s in high demand, says Kyle Lamfers, customer assistant at Best Buy in Sioux Falls. “They’re very rarely here, and when they are, they’re gone quickly,” he says. “We haven’t been able to keep it in stock. We’ve had up to 150 in the store at once, and they were gone in a half an hour.”

Wii Fit Stock Still Hot

One last thing.  Here is a random picture of a cute female gamer enjoying working out with Wii Fit on a Wii that was set up where the game launched in New York.  Isn’t she cute?  Those women sure love their Wii!

Animal Crossing takes last week’s sales chart overseas…

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“It’s a Wii game at the top of the chart, but it’s the DS which dominates the Top 10, with six of the titles featured appearing the handheld gaming platform. The highest of these is Chrono Trigger DS from Square Enix, which is new at No.2 thanks to unit sales of 271,000.”

“The Japanese Top 30 features 12 titles on Nintendo DS, five on Wii, four on PSP, four on PS3, three on PS2 and two on Xbox 360.”

Japan sure does like their handheld games.  At least there are more Wii titles on the chart than PS3 or the struggling 360 titles.

http://www.videogamer.com/news/27-11-2008-10048.html

It looks like Gamestop has been holding back its supply of Wii Fit all week in order to save them for Black Friday.

http://blogs.courant.com/george_gombossy/2008/11/gamestop-holding-back-wii-fit.html

Sure, they have the legal right to do this.  But I can understand the frustration some people must feel, especially if they don’t feel like fighting over the crowds.  Anyways, who decided that everyone must shop on Black Friday anyway?  It seems like a silly tradition to me.

The Wii continues to draw in people who we normally wouldn’t think of as gamers, including these senior citizen centers that instead of forming leagues for a traditional bowling alley, have instead formed leagues to play Wii Bowling.

http://www.benningtonbanner.com/local/ci_11086878

http://www.scntx.com/articles/2008/11/26/southlake_times/news/62.txt

Are people like that ultimately hurting the video game industry as a whole though?  Does the very chance that Nintendo can attract old people in their 80s who wouldn’t otherwise think of video games cause Nintendo to be lazy in making hardcore games like Mario and Zelda?  Think about it.  Nintendo could pay a small development team to create something like Wii Sports and it will sell the exact same amount as when they pay a lot more for a large development team to make Zelda.  This gives Nintendo less incentive to put effort in their older franchises, no matter how hard they say they are still working on them.

Also, I mean let’s face it, the most hardcore of gamers will buy almost anything that is new.  So if one day they decided to dumb down Zelda in order to attract a larger crowd, would we not still buy the new Zelda, just because of the name alone?

Since the release of the Wii we have seen loads of pictures of $2,000 TV’s broken because of gone wild WiiRemotes. Even now with a better wrist strap and a WiiRemote protector Jacket your TV isn’t safe while playing games on your Nintendo Wii. What you need is TV Screen Protection from TV Armor. It’s made from 1/4″ thick crystal clear plastic and it protects your TV from objects flying around in your living room. It’s also an easy way to prevent your kids from making your precious HDTV all dirty with their little hands.

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