Will the transition to the Wii boost Big Brain Academy’s brain-boosting power? And try saying that when you’re feeling sluggish.

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6 oz unsalted butter (room temperature)
2 cups granulated sugar
1 ½ tsp salt
3 1/3 cup cake flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 ¼ cup milk
¾ tsp vanilla
7 oz egg whites
½ cup granulated sugar

Looks like a random bundle of food stuffs to you, right? Well, think again as that’s all you’ll need to bake your very own Wii cake, just like Martha Stewart. Really, we’re not pulling your collective legs here. A blog post over at the New York Post website has given a detail run down of just how to bake your very own Wii cake.

Via New York Post

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I somehow managed to twist Gary Cutlack’s arm and forced him into his video debut for PSPSPS’s brother site, Tech Digest. If you’re a fan of his gaming-related rantings over at UK Resistance and gadgets and all-round thing-holding critiques at Idiot Toys, then you’ll love this video, where we discuss the pros and cons of each of the most-wanted gaming consoles of today. Enjoy, and try and keep the fanboy flamings to a dull roar, please!

Nintendo Wii
Sony PS3
Xbox 360
Nintendo DS
Sony PSP

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Now this is awesome! If those pesky birds from Duck Hunt ever did your head in like they did mine, you’ll appreciate this all the more. It’s a video of Ryu getting mashed up with some soon to be crushed up quackers.

In case you’ve never hear of it, this comes from a custom-made fighting game engine called MUGEN. It allows homebrew developers to pit their favourite game characters against each other on any background they choose. It seems the only limit is the imagination!

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Nintendo, obviously not happy with everyone else talking about their incredible success have decided to issue a little fact sheet outlining the 10 fast facts that cover the last six months! Perhaps we will see similar facts and stats coming from Japan and Europe it certainly makes interesting reading and it would be fantastic to get a more global view of exactly how popular the Nintendo machines and games really are.

If you ever needed more validation that our friends at the Big N are doing well just read on!

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It’s okay, kiddies! Kind old Uncle Nintendo has removed the nasty word hidden within Mario Party 8, and you’ll all be able to give Nintendo some more of your money on August 3.

The word in question was, of course, “spastic” - which is a perfectly common word in America, and all Nintendo should feel bad about is using an unchecked US translation. It’s only here in the UK that years of playground abuse has turned the word into a forbidden one.

Nintendo, however, is hedging its bets slightly, pointing out that “we cannot 100 per cent guarantee that every copy of the initial batch was returned to us and as such there may still be a small number of copies of the game in circulation”.

So you may still be able to get a rare, sweary original to sell on eBay yet.

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In June, 381,000 people in America decided, quite wisely, that the Wii was the new console for them. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 managed to sell just over half that, convincing 198k Americans to part with their dollars. PS3 managed half that again, coming it at 98k.

And do you even need to be told that DS kicked the hell out of the lot of them for fun? It managed a staggering 562,000 sales, proving that Nintendo’s weird idea for wiggly games is, if anything, getting more popular rather than proving to be the flash in the pan many were expecting.

And that’s today’s American business news. Now it’s over to John, with a cute human interest story about a baby…

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I thought we had completed the whole set already with Wii Boy and Dog but it seems I was mistaken, Wii Baby has now entered the foray and he’s kicking up more fuss that the last two put together. Not quite as involved as, say, the youngest Wii Sports player ever, this nipper has already bridged the gap between Internet phenomon and mainstream media star appearing on Jimmey Kimmel Live across the pond. The clip’s just cute-overload, so you should watch it too. Don’t be the only one in the dark when everyone’s talking about it. Source.

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We all know that the fitness game is nothing new, but lets be honest, it really is the Wii that has propelled the fitness genre into the public eye. With Wii Sports and the recently announced Wii Fit the public and even the medical industry are showing a massive interest in the potential of games to increase fitness and aid rehabilitation.

Gamedaily have compiled a list of the top 10 games to make you fit and half the list are titles from our good friends Nintendo! Does this mean that Nintendo have had gamers health at heart? We would like to think so!

Take a look at Gamedaily’s top 10 here and let us know if you think any fitness games are missing!

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The guys over at IGN are getting quite excited about Soul Calibur Legends and not without reason, this Wii exclusive is shaping up to be a great showcase for the Wii with great graphics and co-op play already confirmed the IGN team have been scratching the surface and come up with rather an interesting snippet of information.

In an interview with Namco Bandai’s, Jin Okubo games site ITMedia asked if WiiConnect download support was being planned for the title, the producer responded, “We’re not at a stage where we can discuss it, but we’re looking into it.”

Not much to go on we know, but “looking into it” is better than a flat no! All we can hope is that with the focus on quests and co-op play that new content will flow freely to Wii owners all over the world

that may point to he so far rather redundant WiiConnect service be utilised to supply the owners of Soul Calibur Legends with the Wiis first downloadable content.

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