Nintendo Wii Reviews

With the games industry still practising the insane sales technique of ‘release 80% of the year’s biggest titles in the two months before Xmas,’ it is no surprise to see that some of the casualties in this battle for shelf space are being heavily discounted. Recent releases like street racer Midnight Club: LA, parkour platformer Mirror’s Edge and even Blighty’s own Lara Croft in Tomb Raider : Underworld have seen their prices slashed by as much as 50% in a bid to force them under the tree th

Pissed off by the fact that gamers do buy second-hand games, Nintendo has announced that the voice chat accessory that will launch alongside Animal Crossing: City Folk this week will feature a code that will be used to download the Wii Speak channel. But more interestingly, the 16-digit code “cannot be replaced by Nintendo or your retailer if it is lost or stolen,” according to the title’s press release. MTV carries word from a Nintendo representative that the Wii Speak channel won’t be avail

More pointedly, by offering its new Re/Play service across some 160 stores from this coming Friday, HMV will accept second-hand games covering the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, PS2, PSP and Nintendo DS in return for store credit.