Microsoft head honcho Bill Gates has a vision: “Imagine a game machine where you just can pick up the bat and swing it or the tennis racket and swing it.”

That’ll be, er, Wii then? Okay, so Bill isn’t being quite as shameless as to nick Nintendo’s vision and pretend it’s his own. Gates wants to go a step further, and use camera-based video recognition to let people pick up an actual tennis racket and swing it, with their moves translated into a game.

Nice idea. While Microsoft figures out how to make it actually work, we’ll stick with the Wiimote thanks!

(via Guardian Gamesblog)

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While Nintendo is hopefully planning to launch a richer gaming community at some point in the Wii’s lifespan, websites are stepping in to plug the gap in the meantime.

One such is WiiWasHere, which aims to make it easy for Wii and DS owners to exchange friend codes for Wi-Fi play. The site also lets you create online challenges for other people to try and outdo your exploits, while also awarding Achievement coins which can be exchanged for prizes. Nice.

WiiWasHere website 

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And if ever a headline summarised the story without any further text needed, it’s that one. You know Numa Numa, it’s the Europop song that That Fat Bloke mimed to, and became an Internet Superstar as a result. Anyway, someone’s been jigging about to the same song, Wiimote proudly in hand. See.

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