Nintendo has announced that they will continue their relationship with IGN company GameSpy to take the Wii online. Nintendo currently uses the service for the popular Nintendo DS handheld. GameSpy’s technology will enable such features as ranking, friends, and matchmaking in finding opponents or teamates. Here’s the complete press release on the partnership:
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Joystiq recently reported news from Nintendo’s Takeshi Shimada about the Wii and possible upcoming changes, additions, and upgrades. Here’s what we found out:
Nintendo is considering adding a text-to-speech tool to the console that will allow the Wii to read text aloud. This would be most useful for news as well as emails while users can […]
GameDailyBiz has the numbers from February and they are inpressive. Here’s a piece from the article:
“On the hardware front the DS sold more than any other platform with 485K units, followed by the Wii with 335K units. The PS2 once again outsold the Xbox 360, 295K vs. 228K. Meanwhile, the PS3 sold a disappointing 127K, […]
Here is a complete list of all video games set to be released this week from GamerDeals:
Xbox 360
Call of Duty 3 Gold Edition
PlayStation 3
College Hoops 2K7
Nintendo Wii
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007
PlayStation 2
God of War 2
PSP
Call of Duty 3: Roads to Victory
DS
Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach
Herbie Resuce Rally DS
Spectrobes
Tags: DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Video Games, wii, […]
Ubisoft whould be thanking it’s lucky stars that the Wii has done so well. It has reported a 78% increase in its January sales according to Joystiq. For those who remember pre-Wii video game announcements, Ubisoft was one of only a handful of publishers who felt the Wii would succeed and adopted its technology early […]
Next week the Game Developers Conference will begin and there are expected to be some new announcements. GamePro has some solid news on what will and won’t be happening at the conference.
Topping the list of what I call “almost locks” is Microsoft officially unveiling the Black Xbox 360 (prior coverage here). Halo 3 multiplayer […]
Nerf has announced a new product line of foam attachments for the Wiimote that give it the striking resemblance (pun intended) to sports equipment. The attachments include a baseball bat, tennis racquet, and golf club.
The real reason for the attachments is mainly safety of users, most of whom have probably been clunked in the head […]
The authors over at Tweak Town have images of a black Xbox 360 at a Taipei game show. Here is one image from the Tweak Town post:
(via Tweak Town)
No word on whether or not this will market to market or when such a move would hypothetically happen. It would be a logical move for Microsoft […]
Joystiq is reporting that the craze game known as Guitar Hero will be debuting on the Wii platform most likely in early 2008. The announcement however, left open the possibility that the super popular game way move to the portable Nintendo DS. This move would be logical for both Activision, the company behind Guitar Hero, […]
The Nintendo Wii will be releasing variants of the console in red and black in the immediate future although no specifics such as dates or quantities were released. This follows most of nintendo recent consoles (think N64 to present) which were offered with varying colors in an attempt to appeal to a broader audience.
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