At the Hong Kong Electronics show there was a demo of a PC ping pong game that reacted to controller swings. I didn’t get a chance to try it out, but it looks like another company is trying to emulate…

Another Wii clone is about to enter the market and I actually tried it. The product is called AllSports (notice the similar font?) and it includes seven semi-motion controlled games. Tennis, Baseball, Golf, Bowling, Shooting, Dart and Ring (it’s actually…

Wii Tennis tournaments can draw a crowd. We’ve seen it work with the Wiimbledon, but wait that word just got trademarked! Mangia Technologies snapped it up for “G & S [Goods & Services]: Entertainment in the nature of Nintendo Wii…

A Singaporean company called Affineon aims to pick up where Wii Sports Golf left off. At CES they have a demo of a three axis motion tracking system used for a golf game. Their technology measures the position of the…

  Can’t get enough sport themed mini game compilations? Then take a look at Deca Sport for the Wii. As the name implies there are ten different sports to play in the game including: Badminton, Beach Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball, ATV…

Over the past few weeks Electronic Arts has been trickling details about EA Playground, a collection of motion controlled mini games for the Wii and Nintendo DS. You can play tetherball on the Wii and blow into the microphone to…

While Sony was quiet about Folklore, they didn’t even mention High Velocity Bowling, one of their first party downloadable games. It was pushed into a dark corner (no joke!) next to a facial mocap demonstration away from the center where…

Wii Sports Boxing was a great start, but while it is immensely fun it lacks depth. AQ Interactive hopes to refine the mechanics with a deeper boxing title based in the Hajime no Ippo (Victorious Boxers) universe. In the game…

Most of the winners of the Developer Choice Awards this year won’t surprise you. Gears of War won best game, Wii Sports got one for game design and the Twilight Princess earned an award for writing. Innovation was a different…

  At this morning’s keynote address Shigeru Miyamoto announced that there will be a new Wii channel where people can vote on their favorite Miis. Also he mentioned that people will be able to experience Super Mario Galaxy later this…

Packaged in my copy of Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn was a small brochure for Touch Generations titles on the Wii. The Touch Generations brand has been used by Nintendo to select games that gamers and non gamers can enjoy.…

While Wii Sports was bundled with every system in North America and Europe, it was sold separately in Japan. After ten weeks of being on store shelves Wii Sports reached the coveted million mark with 1,004,555 copies sold. It’s the…