Skate it On Wii and DS

I am a huge fan of skating games and Tony Hawks skating series is one of my favorites. The latest installment in this series was Project 8 which was not that good but the previous installments like Underground and Underground 2 were superb. Another game like Tony Hawk is Skate by EA which was released last year and it was nice. The second installment of Skate, Skate 2 is going to be released on Jan 2009 and judging by the screen shots it is looking way better than the previous skate. That is too late. However, EA has announced that a version of Skate is going to be released on Wii and DS on Nov 09 2008. The Wii version will feature unique control scheme and players will be able to perform tricks using the Wii remote or Balance board. Only time will tell what it has in store for the gamers.

WII Music

Very soon we will be able to play the new game of Nintendo WII Music on which a lot of different types of instruments are available for us to develop our hidden talent !!!
There are more and less 66 instruments from the piano, going through the guitar to the trumpet, and even playing an old japanese guitar !!! By having such more choices, WII will not only make us discover instruments but let us the choice to practice even the less famous one.
WII Music will include around 100 music partition which include like “Chariots of Fire” – Vangelis, “Daydream Believer” – The Monkees, “Every Breath You Take” – Sting, “I’ll Be There” – Jackson 5, “I’ve Never Been to Me” – Charlene…
Meanwhile to dream to be a new famous artist, we will have to wait until next month to be able to play it !!!!

Dead Rising for WII

This is a great news for all WII players, indeed Dead Rising will be adapted in this game console. Dead Rising is a shoot-em up where you have to kill zombies and where a lot of players have been able to test it during the TGS 2008.
But people, who tested it, were not satisfied because the gaming was very light, zombies to kill very few, exploration very short and so on… During an interview done by Seth Killian, Senior Community Manager de Capcom, he said that the game at TGS was only and a simple demo where the actions are limited and it cant represent the real game which will come out soon !!!

Nintendo Point Won’t Be Transfered Between Wii And DS

I am a big fan of all the nintendo gaming consoles. I first started playing games when I was kid on a nintendo gaming console named Terminator. Thats a strange name. Well, i grew up playing nintendo games and i still like playing games on my Wii console. Here is a news for Nintendo gamers like me. The news is that nintendo has announced that it will not allow the transfer of points between DS and Wii. The point system on Wii which was called Wii Points will be changed to Nintendo Points and it will work on both Wii and the DS. But, you won’t be able to transfer points between these consoles. This means that if you will buy a card of 200 Nintendo Points. You won’t be able to spend 100 points on Wii and 100 on DS. You will have to make sure on which system are you going to spend those points before buying them. So, make a wise decision when you buy the points if you own both the consoles.

2GB SD card for WII

Satoru Iwata from Nintendo has announced that they will put in the market a storage card for WII. If you have the Nintendo WII, you should know that the 512MB internal memory is not enough to store datas. For example, the simple fact to save 1 song or 1 partition for the game Guitar Hero, you will need more and less between 30MB and 100MB so it will let us around 400MB and i am not going to tell you about saving datas from other games.
To solve this problem, a SD card of 2GB will be available, moreover the card will allow the player to load, to play and to download games directly on this storage. It will be very useful for players who consume a lot of data spaces.

Star wars, the force unleashed

This new game in the Star Wars tradition will bring us to play a jedi and in some moment the player will be able to play Darth Vader. The action is occuring between Star Wars 3 and Star Wars 4 you will have to play an apprendice jedi of Darth Vader on which his mission is to track and to kill all good jedis. This game will use new graphic technologies and a new IA.

Wii Play GameCube

Nintendo’s newest console could be reviving the games for the system that it replaced. It seems the Wii owners I know are playing more GameCube games than ever before. With the backward compatibility of the Wii, the gamut of games available to play is huge.

A trip to the local video game store will reveal that GameCube games are more affordable than ever. The same games on the PS2 are usually at least twice as much. So, with Wii games retailing from $50-$60, Wii owners can buy 6 or more GameCube games for the same price. Best of all, Wii owners do not have to use the Wii controller but can use their old GameCube controller, too.

I find it interesting that so many of the Wii owners I know are playing so many GameCube games, games that are thought be more for kids than adults. These same people never owned a GameCube but now have learned that there are some great titles for the game system.

While there won’t be any new games for the GameCube, it’s nice to see the games for the what is considered a kid’s console getting respect from adult Wii owners.

Play videogames and get fit?

Over at Collabofit they just added tracking your video game playing time as a fitness activity. You don’t get a lot of points for it but at least they acknowledge that you can actually work up a sweat playing.

I’m one of the developers for Collabofit and thought that it would make sense to add that as an activity you can track. If you want an invite so you can start tracking your own fitness stats, let me know (send me an email to gserafini [at] gmail.com and I’ll send you a free invite).

With the Nintendo Wii this may actually be useful.

Read the whole story about how they’re the only fitness site to consider playing videogames to be a fitness activity here.