Wii Sports dominates Bafta awards
BBC Technology - Nintendo’s Wii Sports has swept the board at the 2007 British Academy Video Games Awards in London. The energetic title took However, games for Sony’s latest console, the PlayStation 3 (PS3), did not manage to bag an award. Instead, titles for the Read more
Windsor Star - VANCOUVER - In just nine months, the Nintendo Wii has turned the video game industry upside-down. Sales of the console, whose players use their bodies as much as their fingers and thumbs, are far above even the most optimistic projections — the Wii Read more
Times Online - The console has been in fierce competition with the Wii from Nintendo, its Japanese rival. Cisco Systems , the maker of computer technology, has agreed to purchase Navini Networks, a Texas-based broadband wireless technology company. Nokia , the Read more
N-Philes - Autumn leaves aren’t the only reason your October is about to get a lot more colorful. The latest additions to the Wii Shop Channel deliver a brisk, eye-pleasing mix of classic gameplay for fall. Dive into this pile of vibrant titles for a timeless Read more
Softpedia - Yamaoka didn’t hesitate to emphasize the importance of the Nintendo Wii in the world of casual games, as it’s practically the most important console supporting such titles. Of course, as the man stated, Nintendo’s top-selling gaming device has Read more
The Inquirer - It is a game for the Wii that takes the console’s unique controllers into account, and uses them as the basis of the game. Blob The point is simple, you are a blob and you run into paint cylinders. These colour you, and you trail paint around and Read more
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Nintendo Co., maker of the top-selling Wii video-game console, said a Hong Kong court ordered a raid that led to the seizure of 10,000 game-copying devices and computer chips. The Hong Kong High Court barred Supreme Factory Ltd. and Divineo SRL of Read more
CNBC - In September, U.S. sales of Sony’s newest console lagged far behind those of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii. Still, there’s plenty of time left for holiday shopping _ and Sony is hoping a $100 price cut will encourage all you Santas to put a Read more
RTT News - MSFT) is also trading higher after the company announced that it plans to release a family oriented version of its XBOX 360 game console at a reduced price. It is hoped that the new version will be better able to compete with Nintendo’s Wii. Read more
The Independent - The two giants are desperate to recapture the initiative from Nintendo, whose Wii console is outselling the two combined by a margin of three to one. What a comeback. As recently as three years ago, Microsoft and particularly Sony dominated the games Read more