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Cyberbike – Wii Exercise Bike
October 17, 2009
I’m not really sure what to make of this. When Wii Fit originally came out, I thought it was quite a good idea, then they announced the Wii Fit Plus, but I now personally think they’re starting to go a bit overboard with this new Wii exercise bike release!
It will be called the ‘Cyberbike’ and has been developed by BigBen Interactive who says it’s “The very first videogame that comes with an exercise bike”. Is that something to be proud of? Really? I think it might be the only game ever to come with an exercise bike for a reason!
Continue reading »Wii Fit Plus Announced
June 3, 2009
Can you really say that you’re surprised to hear news of Wii Fit Plus? Especially after Nintendo unveiled Wii Motion Plus at last year’s E3 event?
Wii Fit was a massive success following its release and has since sold over 15 million units so far. So why wouldn’t Nintendo release a ‘sequel’ to its biggest seller since the Wii was released.
Continue reading »E3 2009 Preview
May 29, 2009
E3 is less than a week away, so us ‘Zath-ians’ thought we’d share the joy that E3 could be bringing to the gaming world this year, seeing as though our invites got lost in the post. They’ll regret it, after we show our faces at this year’s Eurogamer Expo at the Royal Armouries in Leeds this October! 
As always with the big gaming expo’s, rumours fly around all over the place with most of them actually turning out to be true, but never official until the day the news is announced. So it comes as no surprise that all the main 3 players (and a possible newcomer) have new ideas or games to show us.
Continue reading »Wii Motion Plus Release Date
May 5, 2009
Well it seems like a long time ago since Nintendo first announced their Wii Motion Plus system as an improvement to their already successful motion-based control system for the Nintendo Wii console – and indeed it has been a long time, it’s nearly a year since E3 2008 at which it was first announced, but we’ve finally got word of the Wii Motion Plus release date.
I don’t personally have a Wii, but have played on them in the past and have been quite impressed by what they are capable of, however until I saw the videos over on our original coverage of the Wii Motion Plus system, I wasn’t aware of the limitations of the Wii motion sensors – mainly that it was only able to differentiate large sweeping movements, but then most games to date had been designed with this constraint in mind, so you may not have noticed it that much.
Continue reading »Is The Wii Drying Up?
April 17, 2009
Just perusing the Internet, as you do, and have been reading things about the Nintendo Wii that show that people are starting to realise that the Wii is starting to struggle.
Those views have been acknowledged by Nintendo themselves.
In Japan, the Wii has sold under 20,000 units each week for the past 6 weeks and although this may seem a lot, apparently, it’s bad news in the terms of console wars.
Continue reading »‘SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1′ Review (Wii)
April 12, 2009
Old Skool games always go down a treat, and this ‘SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1‘ title is no exception. All these games were released on the NEO GEO which is a console I never had the pleasure of owning, which is a shame as some of these games are really good.
What I found appealing was how they’ve not just put these games onto a disc and said, here you are, they’ve added little extras into the games to make you play them longer and have a reason for completing them.
Each game awards you with medals for completing certain things in the games. For example, complete a game on easy, medium or hard and you’ll get a medal. Each medal in every game unlocks something new. These extras include things like art work, music to the games, videos of secrets and move lists for the characters in the fighting games.
Continue reading »Ultimate Band On Wii & DS (Sponsored Post)
April 8, 2009
From the growing success of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Singstar, it should come as no surprise to hear that there is yet another adaptation of the virtual rock world coming to the gaming world.
This time in the form of ‘Ultimate Band’.
From the trailer is looks like a kids version, with High School Musical looking characters and modern day tracks, but nothing like Metallica I wouldn’t have thought, judging by the list I’ve seen on Wikipedia.
Continue reading »Sony Charging For PS3 Downloadable Content (DLC)
March 23, 2009
I never knew this, but Sony are charging publishers for people downloading FREE content from the Playstation Network! Yet doesn’t apply to content you have to pay for. This all started on October 1st 2008.
I found this quite shocking as Sony are the only console giant to do so. Microsoft and Nintendo don’t charge which is apparently why downloadable content (DLC) is released on the Xbox 360 a whole week earlier than the PS3 so that the publishers can try and save a bit of money.
They don’t charge thousands of pounds per download, but still, at $0.16 per Gigabyte on each download made, it all adds up. So if a million downloads are made, that’s $160,000 that the publisher has to pay to Sony for people downloading their ‘FREE’ content.
Continue reading »‘No More Heroes’ Review (Wii)
March 22, 2009
On July 15th 2005, Suda 51 developed a stylish, bizarre game on the Nintendo Gamecube called Killer 7 which was clearly aimed towards a more mature audience. Suda 51 have kept the exact same theme with their latest game ‘No More Heroes’ on the Nintendo Wii.
No More Heroes is a hack and slash adventure game that takes all the best bits out of Killer 7, and makes it into a whole new bigger and better game. The game has loads of blood, explicit language and very strange plot lines throughout. For example when you train your character at the gym, the gym owner always tries to get you to get naked before a workout!
Continue reading »‘Super Smash Bros Brawl’ Review (Wii)
February 3, 2009
Super Smash Bros Brawl has been one of the most anticipated games for the Nintendo Wii and now that it has arrived! It’s an amazing game that will please not only Nintendo fans, but new comers to the game. The game is simply every character ever created in Nintendo history brought together in a massive, fast paced, battle royal for victory.
The basis of the game is simple. You fight your enemy and smash them off the screen. The controls system uses only three buttons. One for basic attack, one for special attacks and a block button which rarely gets used! The controls can be customized to suit your game play and all control styles can be used like the Wii remote horizontal, Wii remote and nunchuck and the classic controller. Each fighter has a percentage on screen which increases as you take damage. The higher the percentage the higher risk of being smashed off the screen giving your opponent a score. The character with the highest score at the end of the battle wins the game.
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