Living in Blighty, we’re more likely to watch Spaced or Phoenix Nights rather than The Colbert Report, but from what we’ve seen in this short clip of Stephen Colbert giving the Wii some muchly-deserved love, we might just start sending him fan mail. ‘Well guess what, nerds, I gots me one’, Best. Line. Ever. Erm, after our new WiiWii mascot’s ‘Schleeps for babiesch, gamersch play all night, that is!’.
Sega have confirmed that old skool faves Golden Axe and Ecco the Dolphin have been released onto the Wii Shop Channel, for $8 a pop. Don’t mind me, having a coronary here at the thought that Ecco was released way back in ‘92…(Via Gaming Age)
Having trubs with picking up WiFi on your Wii? Ungrateful sods, give us one - otherwise use this hack to make your pretty Wii really super-ugly, but super-signal-receiving too. (Via Informit)
eBay have released their Top Secret details on PS3 and Wii figures, the average winning bid for the former was $1186 (215% of retail), and the Wii went for $412, about 165% of retail, however the Wii sold far greater numbers of units. (Via Games Are Fun)
Red Steel fans should expect to hear an announcement soon about a sequel to the popular Wii game. (Via Kotaku)
Nintendo have made an official comment in regards to all the broken Wii-mote straps, which basically tells gamers to stop being such dolts and bloody well hold onto your Wii-motes firmly! And wipe that Ribena juice and Monster Munch powder off your hands prior to use! (Via Nintendo)
Is it possible to appoint a mascot for this blog, WiiWii? If so, we choose Thomas Falsetta, the ‘hardcore Wii fanboy’, who camped out for 5 days and nights, with no sleep, just to get his hands on a Wii. This is, without a doubt, the best video on YouTube related to the Wii that I’ve ever seen, purely for the scratchy lisp and hilarious ‘HEEEEEAAAYL YEH’ quotes. Our new WiiWii motto has now officially been stolen from this man - ‘SCHLEEPS FOR BABIESCH, GAMERSCH PLAY ALL NIGHT’. Rock on, our hobbit-resembling mascot, don’t listen to the downers who say you need a bath.
Some good news for us Brits, we can now stop salivating over the Wii camp-out stories from the US, and start making plans for our very own adventures. Yep, get your sleeping bags out of storage, and sign up for a YouTube account, because we’ve finally got news on where the big London launch parties will be held. Nintendo have partnered up with HMV and will be throwing a party at their flagship store (150 Oxford Street) at midnight on the 7th. Get down there early so you’re guaranteed a goody bag, and can rub shoulders with ‘top’ sporting ’slebs, including Jodie Kidd, Pat Cash, Ian Wright and Ricky Hatton. If you’re going to purchase The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (and really, why wouldn’t you!?), you’ll get a speccy limited edition tin to store the game in. We’ll be there, filming all the action, and err, no doubt greasing up the more recently bathed fanboys, so shall see you in your finest party garb!
We may have at least two years until we get a hold of the game, but that hasn’t stopped The Sims 3 teaser trailer from being leaked onto YouTube. It appears that Animal Crossing and The Sims 2 had a bit of a boozy night out recently, involving plenty of Cosmopolitans and the night ending on a seedy note with them being smooshed up together against a brickwall in a dirty backstreet alleyway. We hear that Animal Crossing seriously regrets having his smudgiest pair of beer goggles on that night, and even had to change his phone number to stop The Sims 2 from sending him so many pesky texts. Sigh. When will the kids learn about the foil-wrapped delicacies sitting on the shelves of pharmacies in Second Life?
Sega’s monkeys are taking over the universe! Mobile publisher Glu Mobile has just announced a new game called Super Monkey Ball Tip’n Tilt, which will be hitting phones in January.
It involves guiding those monkeys through 2D platform levels by tilting the platforms left and right, ensuring they pick up loads of bananas along the way to the exit.
But here’s the Wii link: apparently Sega loved the game idea so much, they included it in Wii Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz as a minigame. I can’t check this, as I don’t have a copy yet, but if you do, post a comment to let us know!
We’re not geeks, honest, but when the opportunity to hang out with several thousand gaming fanboys on Saturday night came along, well, what’s a red-blooded woman supposed to do?
I trundled off to Video Games Live, held at the Hammersmith Apollo, the first ever symphonic video game music concert held in the UK. The English National Ballet Symphony had obviously been brushing up on their Halo theme tune music, as it was all very impressive, especially when added to the gameplay being shown on the huge screen behind.
I expected plenty of Ninty songs, and didn’t walk away disappointed, with Martin Leung, aka, The Blindfolded Pianist, treating us to a rare 5 minute performance of his manic Mario theme-tuning.
Not long now till launch day for us Europeans. And while Wii owners in the US and Japan are happily getting stuck into their new consoles, we’re still at the eager anticipation stage.
Still, at least we can put that frustrating last week and a half to good use, preparing for the arrival of our shiny new Nintendo consoles. Here’s a list of the 30 things you’ll need for a cracking Day One – I haven’t included the Wii itself, as that goes without saying.
1. Crisps. They’re a major food group in their own right, y’know.
2. A tidy living room. Trust me, you need space for those sweeping Wii Sports Tennis groundstrokes.
3. A psychotic glint in your eye that warns you’re not afraid to kill. Mainly if you’re planning to collect your Wii at midnight and walk home through a dodgy part of town. Although it’s good for putting other players off their bowling aim too.
4. A few friends. Wii Sports wouldn’t be the same without them.
5. A copy of Heat magazine. You’ll need it as a reference to get that Dean Gaffney Mii just right.
All the other blogs are feverishly creating Hitlers, but we’re different (and we can’t get the hair right), so meet our ninth celebrity Mii: Saddam Hussein. What’s that? It’s tasteless to create cartoon avatars based on a dictator who’s just been sentenced to death? Nobody told me… As ever, created using this online tool.
Visual pr0n here, folks, just check out the sex god Shigeru Miyamoto working his shizz on the left there. He’s just received a late 54th birthday present from Time Magazine, who have called him ‘the Walt Disney of electronic gaming’, and named him in their list of Asian heros from the past 60 years. He’s included in the ‘business leaders’ category, other mentionables in different categories include The Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, and Freddie Mercury, whose parents were Indian. We knew Shigsy was a genius, but rubbing shoulders with the créme de la créme of history? Let’s hope he includes Freddie and ol’ Mother Teresa as characters in the next Mario Kart game, broom broom!
Some good news for us Brits, we can now stop salivating over the Wii camp-out stories from the US, and start making plans for our very own adventures. Yep, get your sleeping bags out of storage, and sign up for a YouTube account, because we’ve finally got news on where the big London launch parties will be held. 
Sega’s monkeys are taking over the universe! Mobile publisher Glu Mobile has just announced a new game called Super Monkey Ball Tip’n Tilt, which will be hitting phones in January.
Not long now till launch day for us Europeans. And while Wii owners in the US and Japan are happily getting stuck into their new consoles, we’re still at the eager anticipation stage.
All the other blogs are feverishly creating Hitlers, but we’re different (and we can’t get the hair right), so meet our ninth celebrity Mii: Saddam Hussein. What’s that? It’s tasteless to create cartoon avatars based on a dictator who’s just been sentenced to death? Nobody told me… As ever, created using 
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