Ubisoft has released a brand new set of screenshots of Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip for the Nintendo Wii today, including a selection of the game's four-player split-screen multiplayer mode:
Ubisoft has released another new trailer for Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party for the Nintendo Wii today, demonstrating one of its shooting mini-games. No Wii Balance Board on show this time, but entertaining nonetheless:
Get your copy of Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party from Amazon.com - click here!
Here's an interesting combination: a multi-touch screen and the Wii Balance Board used to control a first-person shooter. Makes you wonder when a developer might attempt similar Balance Board control on Wii...
With James Bond's latest outing hitting cinemas, Ubisoft has produced the following spoof of the series' famous opening sequence to promote Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party.
Get your copy of Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party from Amazon.com - click here!
You have to love the Japanese. After the unintentionally hilarious advert for G1 Jockey Wii 2008 is this, a TV spot for the Wii Balance Board-supported Shape Boxing Wii de Enjoy! Diet. Looks like it can turn you into a model if you put the work in...
Shaun White Snowboarding for the Nintendo Wii is released in just a few weeks time, so the promotional push from Ubisoft is really starting to gain momentum now. The latest material is this video, introducing us to the locations that the game's worldwide roadtrip has to offer:
A trio of videos emerged of We Ski World: Ski and Snowboard's stunts today - half pipe, ramps, and rails. We've pieced them all together in this one handy video. Enjoy:
We've been calling it Space Surfing all along (and it still might be if it turns out to be a mini-game in itself), but in a reveal of new fun to be had in Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party for the Nintendo Wii, is 'Rabbidly Stunts', which has Balance Board use written all over it:
Wii Music inventor Shigeru Miyamoto recently sat down with CNET to chat all about the new Wii Balance Board-supported title. Check out what he had to say in the video below:
New videos of EA's Skate It for the Nintendo Wii have emerged today. As well as multiplayer footage, the developer has put together a short film about the game's career mode. It explains the meat and potatoes of Skate It's gameplay, as well as how it's park editor will work:
We've seen previously how the Wii Balance Board is used to teach gamers how to drum through a series of lessons in Wii Music, but only in Japanese. Here's a nice 10 minute video from the English language US version:
With Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party out in the US on November 11, Ubisoft is beginning its promotional push with, fittingly, commercials for the moving picture box:
New footage in the form of an extended Japanese trailer for We Ski World: Ski and Snowboard has surfaced this weekend. We've had a lot of off-screen footage so far, but this video shows off the Wii Balance Board-supported title at its best yet:
Hula Wii is released in Japan on October 30, and developer MileStone is promoting the Wii Balance Board-supported title with a number of television spots. Check out just one of them here...
Here are the first screenshots of Overturn for WiiWare, which will allow players to use the Wii Balance Board in controlling battling robots:
With Wii Music now released in the US, you may have seen this TV ad cropping up now and again. Very clever it is too. Look closely and you might even spot Wii Balance Board drum kit use!
Remember, order Wii Music from Amazon.com before the end of October and you'll receive $20 towards your next videogame purchase. Click here to order your copy now!
Ubisoft has released new footage of Shaun White Snowboarding for the Nintendo Wii. IGN has picked it all up, including this - a slip-slide in the Swiss Alps.
Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip is released in the US on November 16. Click here to order your copy from Amazon.com now, and get $10 off your next videogame purchase too!
We haven't heard much from All Star Cheer Squad for a little while, but it now appears THQ is ramping up its promotional effort for the title with efforts such as this - sending a group of cheerleaders to the offices of GamesRadar to show the Wii Balance Board-supported game off:
Electronic Arts were at an event in Paris recently, at which the producer of the Wii Balance Board-supported Skate It was gave the title a 20-minute demonstration. You can check it out in the video below:
Big thanks to Mike for the tip!
Here's the debut trailer for The Incredible Maze, the second WiiWare title (alongside Tetris Party) to support the Wii Balance Board. There's no mention of the accessory in this footage, but developer Digital Leisure has confirmed that the game can be controlled using it:
Here are a selection of screenshots from The Incredible Maze, the Wii Balance Board-supported title made available for download on WiiWare in the US today:
The Incredible Maze was released alongside Tetris Party on WiiWare in North America today, and also supports the Wii Balance Board!
This is the first we've heard of Digital Leisure's game (which retails at 500 Wii Points/$5 USD), and it seems like a simple affair - leaning forwards, backwards, left and right to roll a ball out of a maze, collecting gems along the way.
Click here for screenshots and here for a trailer. It looks like a lot of fun!
Looking to buy Wii Music to bolster your Wii Balance Board-assisted drumming skills? It hits the US on Monday, October 20, and Amazon.com has a very tempting offer:
Order your copy of Wii Music from them and you'll be sent a voucher entitling you to $20 off a future video game purchase. The offer is valid until October 31.
Well, what are you waiting for? Buy your copy now - click here!
With Wii Music now released in Japan, user videos are flooding onto the Internet. With the Wii Balance Board being used in the game's drum kit lessons and simulator, check out this lengthy video to see what you can look forward to:
The Japanese box art of Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard has popped up this weekend, and by the looks of it, no one's going to be coming down on Namco Bandai's artists for being shy with their colour pallete.
And, as always warms our cockles, a handy logo shows that the winter sports sim is compatible with the Wii Balance Board.
Tetris Party will be released in the US on October 20, IGN has confirmed. And as part of a preview for the WiiWare title, they've compiled a big wad of gameplay videos, including this - the Wii Balance Board mode:
IGN has bagged itself another couple of new videos for Shaun White Snowboarding, three of which show off how the Wii Balance Board works with the game. We've grabbed the 'tricks' footage for you here:
Shaun White Snowboarding is released on the Nintendo Wii on November 16. Pre-order from Amazon.com - click here!
Wii Music arrives in North America next Monday on October 20 and in Europe on November 14. In details released in anticipation of the latter, the game's creator Shigeru Miyamoto has expressed how the title might impassion people to love music more:
“Why shouldn’t people who like music, but find playing instruments difficult, be able to perform music just by letting their feelings take control and simply waving the controller and pushing a few buttons to the rhythm? I hope that as people play, they will truly understand the joy of performing and develop a greater passion for music.”
Buy Wii Music from Amazon.com - click here.
Here we are with more footage of Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard. It's from the recent Tokyo Games Show in Japan:
Wii Music recently got a run out at the Zeitgeist Google Partner Forum. A formal setting for a largely informal product:
The gang over at MTV have been giving their impressions of Wii Fit in anticipation of its release on October 20 in North America:
Tetris Party for WiiWare will be released in North America this month, in October, the game's official website has today confirmed.
And another update: this new trailer that has to be seen to be believed... it's just oozing with cheese.
Just like Ubisoft has done for numerous other hot topical events, here they use the Rabbids from the upcoming Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party videogame to poke fun at the Canadian elections:
It's hard to tell if this Wii Music-inspired operation is fake or not, but here are a pair controlling the creation of music using the Wii Remote, Nunchuck and Wii Balance Board.
Yep, more Tetris Party action. This time, some 10 minutes of action from the WiiWare title that's compatible with the Wii Balance Board:
Can't get enough of Tetris Party as its WiiWare release approaches? Us neither. Check out some new screenshots from its official site update below:
Here's the Japanese trailer for Tetris Party, shown at the recent Tokyo Games Show. It's much the same as the English one, but with its own unique Japanese presentation:
It's already out in Europe, but as part of its showing at the recent Tokyo Games Show in Japan, KOEI released a handful of new screenshots for G1 Jockey Wii 2008. Unfortunately, the consensus seems to be that the Wii Balance Board controls don't add too much to the experience, but kudos to KOEI for giving it a go.
Here's the first official trailer for MileStone's Japan-only Hula dancing simulator, supported by the Wii Balance Board - Hula Wii: Minna de Hula wo Odorou. Erm, make of it what you will:
It doesn't look like there's much chance of Milestone's Hula Wii being released outside of Japan, but it's a quirky little Wii Balance Board title, and we'll report about it nonetheless. Here is the first video footage from the game, taken at the Toyko Game Show. Strangely, no Balance Board is in use...
We already knew that Wii Music will be released in Europe on November 14, but the official press release lets us know some juicy details about the game's Wii Balance Board-supported Virtual Drum Kit mode.
15 full interactive drum lessons will be available, in an experience which Nintendo is comparing to actually playing a real drum kit, complete with bass drum, hi-hat, snare and cymbals.
You'll also be able to jam along to more than 50 different songs on the Wii Music disc.
Wii Music is set to be one of this Christmas' biggest sellers, and it's released in the USA on October 20. Pre-order your copy from Amazon.com - click here!
What did a class of Japanese pre-schoolers make of Wii Music? Check out the following documentary and find out:
Gaming blog Kotaku managed to snap the following on-stage footage of We Ski World: Ski and Snowboard for the Nintendo Wii, in which a Bandai Namco employee shows off its nifty Wii Balance Board controls.
Ubisoft showed off the same three mini-games from Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party at last week's Nintendo Media Summit that it had been demo-ing all year - Beestie Boarding, Dance Game and this - Space Surfing, which uses the Wii Balance Board.
Want more We Ski World: Ski and Snowboard screenshots? You got 'em. It'll be released in North America in March 2009, and it's already looking like a lot of fun:
Tetris Party will be with us on WiiWare 'very soon' says Hudson. And here they are demonstrating how the Wii Balance Board controls will work in one of the title's game modes:
Brand new screenshots of the Wii Balance Board-supported We Ski: World Ski and Snowboard have emerged today. They show off both the game's snowboarding and skiing elements, as well as the ability to play the game as one of your Miis:
The first footage of Namco Bandai's We Ski: World Ski and Snowboard has been picked up by IGN today. The site also learnt that the game will be released in North America in March 2009.
The box art for RTL Games' Winter Sports 2: The Next Challenge has had a make over ahead of its release on November 11.
The biggest change? The fact that the art work now has a tagline that reads 'Supports the Wii Balance Board'.
Winter Sports 2 includes a number of activities that support the Wii Balance Board, including skiing and bobsleigh.
Buy Winter Sports 2 from Amazon.com here.
Wii Music was mocked to death after its official unveiling at the E3 Media and Business summit during the summer, and the tirade of video demonstrations since then haven't convinced many gamers that it'll be worth trying.
However, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime explained that Wii Music's difficulty wasn't properly communicated at E3:
"What's powerful in Wii Music is this juxtaposition of something that looks so simple but is wonderfully difficult to master," he said.
"We may have done that title an injustice at E3 by showing something that looked so easy. We made it appear too simple. Now we're showing the tremendous variety of instruments and tones and how challenging it is to make music that sounds good. We don't publicly talk about sales targets but our expectation is it will be one of our top sellers," he added.
Are you convinced by Wii Music yet? It's out on October 20 in the US and you can click here pre-order it from Amazon.com.
The video quality's pretty awful and it's off-screen footage, but if you can't get enough of Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip for the Nintendo Wii as its release nears, you might enjoy this:
Check out the newest gameplay video for the Wii Balance Board-supported Tetris Party for WiiWare. It flips through many of the WiiWare title's 18 game modes, including one dedicated to use with Nintendo's weight-detecting accessory.
The Wii Balance Board-supported Tetris Party was one of the WiiWare games shown off at Nintendo's US press conference this week, and amongst details of some of the title's 18 gameplay modes, developer Hudson Soft confirmed that the game will be available for download "very soon."
Previously, a 'Fall 2008' launch was all that was divulged. Tetris Party will cost 1200 Wii Points ($12 USD) and will see players leaning left and right on the Wii Balance Board to direct blocks and squating to flip them.
There might not have been many (read: none) new Wii Balance Board announcements in Nintendo's press conferences this week, but there was a smattering of info about games we already know about. Amongst it, this new trailer for Ubisoft's Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party:
Want more action from Skate It on the Nintendo Wii? You got it:
What do you get when you cross the Wii Balance Board with Microsoft's touch-sensitive surface? This pretty experiment:
Wii Music is released in just a week or two. To drum up support, here's Nintendo of Japan's launch trailer for the game:
Play-Asia is currently selling this - the Wii Balance Board keyring - a must for all avid fans of the Nintendo Wii accessory.
It'll probably stand if you break on it, but at just $1.90, it won't dent the bank balance too much.
Only in Japan... Akihabara's Refresh Club is offering paying punters the chance to play along in Wii Fit sessions with young ladies in sexy maids outfits. The cost? $25 for 30 minutes.
"Playing Wii Fit by yourself is lonely. But here, playing along with a maid makes exercising enjoyable," says the club's owner.
Indeed.
We're not sure that there are too many of you out there outside of France who love Survivor enough to want to import Koh-Lanta, which supports the Wii Balance Board. Still, if you are interested, here are the screenshots released of the game so far:
