Nintendo Wii Reviews

“What Bobby, perhaps unhelpfully said, was that those games were franchises which wouldn’t make $100m of revenue and generate sequels. If that’s his benchmark, then fine - and we’d love to aspire to the same benchmarks. But you know what? I would love to turn Ghostbusters into a $100m franchise, just to prove him wrong.” [...]

This Christmas, both Sony and Microsoft are placing their bets on a bunch of ugly aliens and a couple of anti-heroes who are almost as ugly. The massive gaming companies are going head-to-head in the build-up to the crucial holiday sales season with two much anticipated and very similar titles, Resistance 2 and Gears of War 2. The games, both sequels, are first-person shooters, in which the player assumes the role of the man behind the big gun and the main antagonists are sharp-toothed al

EA announced today that Skate It will be coming to the Nintendo Wii and DS on November 19. These semi-sequels to the original Skate employ balance board and stylus touch controls, respectively, and their platforms of choice makes them more likely to chase the casual demographic. This season is already swamped with games as we lead up to the holidays. Skate It will be hitting just ...

Does Nintendo have an old-school hit readied for a modern day Wii treatment? That's the rumour that Gamekyo (formerly JeuxFrance) is running, pointing to an impending announcement from the company — as in this Thursday. The property is "an old franchise that everyone is waiting for," clearly a thinly veiled reference to Gumshoe, which has Wii Zapper support written all over it. Nintendo has previously been rumoured to have sequels to both Punch-Out!! and Kid Icarus in the works. Nice idea, but

Does Nintendo have an old-school hit readied for a modern day Wii treatment? That’s the rumor that Gamekyo (formerly JeuxFrance) is running, pointing to an impending announcement from the company — as in this Thursday. The property is “an old franchise that everyone is waiting for,” clearly a thinly veiled reference to Gumshoe, which has Wii Zapper support written all over it. Nintendo has previously been rumored to have sequels to both Punch-Out!! and Kid Icarus in the works. Nice idea, but t

Rumor: Nintendo Bringing An "Old Franchise" To Wii Does Nintendo have an old-school hit readied for a modern day Wii treatment? That's the rumor that Gamekyo (formerly JeuxFrance) is running, pointing to an impending announcement from the company — as in this Thursday. The property is "an old franchise that everyone is waiting for," clearly a thinly veiled reference to Gumshoe, which has Wii Zapper support written all over it. Nintendo has previously been rumored to have sequels to both Punch

Our unofficial Sims Week ends today with a hands-on preview of MySims Kingdom. In case you missed them, we posted an in-depth preview of SimAnimals on Sunday, and we followed up Wednesday with one of the first SimCity Creator reviews to hit the Web. For some, the term “sequel” carries a negative connotation. Another dose of the same content, a product with no innovation, milking the established rather than creating something new; originality sticklers often paint sequels with this unfortunat