Tetris Party Deluxe Wii Amazon Pre-order Available

Amazon.com has updated its website to include a pre-order link for the upcoming Tetris Party Deluxe, the second of the famous block puzzler to support the Wii Balance Board.

Product Features

• Six new game modes including the explosive Bombliss and VS. Sprint that enables up to four players to compete for the first 40 line completion.
• Four new enhanced modes of play including an Edit Mode within Shadow that lets players create their own shadow puzzles to play.
• Online battles over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, and local multiplayer fun for groups of friends and family.
• New ways to play like never before! On Wii, use the Wii Balance Board, Wii Wheel, Wii Speak or your own personal Mii to customize the game experience!

To pre-order your copy of Tetris Party Deluxe, scheduled for release this June, click here: Tetris Party Deluxe

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10 Minute Workout Supports Wii Balance Board

10 Minute Workout Supports the Wii Balance Board, we learn today.

The Activision-published game promises a 'knock-out' body through exercise, 10 minutes at a time.

Product Features

* Quick, fun and stackable 10-minute workout sessions
* Customizable characters and activities
* Compatible with the Wii Fit Balance Board
* Health and diet tips for a deeper and all-encompassing fitness experience

Thanks a lot to Janne for the tip!

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Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll Review

A portion of the ElectricPig review of Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll:

"While it may not pack the punch of its forebears Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll does feature plenty of social gaming potential and is worth considering if you’re stuck for a light-hearted party game that can be effortlessly appreciated by all the family."

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Tetris Party Deluxe Wii Released June 2010

Tetris Party Deluxe has officially been announced for the Nintendo Wii, and of course, supports the Wii Balance Board.

Tetris Party Deluxe features:

- Six new game modes including the explosive Bombliss(TM) and VS. Sprint
that enables up to four players to compete for the first 40 line
completion.
-- Four new enhanced modes of play including an Edit Mode within Shadow
that lets players create their own shadow puzzles to play.
-- Online battles over Nintendo(R) Wi-Fi Connection, and local
multiplayer fun for groups of friends and family.
-- New ways to play like never before! On Wii, use the Wii Balance
Board(TM), Wii Wheel(TM), Wii Speak(TM) or your own personal Mii(TM) to
customize the game experience!

Tetris Party will be released in North America this June.

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Walk It Out Proving Popular On Amazon

Wow, well we kinda didn't expect this.

Konami's Walk It Out didn't have the greatest of press coverage, but that hasn't stopped loyal users of Amazon heaping praise on the Wii Balance Board-supported exer-game in user reviews. Here is just a selection of comments:

"This is a great way to get exercise during those long winter months."

"We love this game! It is fun to walk to the music and burn calories at the same time. We use it every day and have walked well over 100 miles."

"Walk it Out is really great. Before you know it, you have been walking for over an hour..."

Seems like Walk It Out's gentler form of burning calories is a dark horse in the fitness game genre. Why not check out what all the fuss is about?

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Tetris Party Deluxe Supports Wii Balance Board

Tetris Party Deluxe Supports Wii Balance Board, we learn today. It's the game's box art that gives the game away, as well as the information that the title will also support Wii Speak and... the Wii Wheel.

A full retail follow-up to the WiiWare-only Tetris Party, still very little is known about Tetris Party Deluxe. As soon as there are any more details, we'll let you know.

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Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll Review

A portion of the IGN UK review of Super Monkey Ball: Step and Roll:

"Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll, like the previous Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, is a fun ball-rolling design with a nice stack of challenges and a hit-or-miss pile of mini-games. There are some neat inclusions like the Super Mario Galaxy-like co-op mode where other players can shoot obstacles out of the players’ way."

Buy now at Amazon.com

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Super Monkey Ball Step And Roll Review

A portion of the Official Nintendo Magazine review of Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll:

"Step & Roll is a happy effort that proves more enjoyable when you ignore the Balance Board, in the single player mode at least. There's enough new stuff in here to keep long-time fans amused, with the multiplayer and mini-game modes being the standout features, as ever. A chimp off the old block."

Buy now from Amazon.com

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Super Monkey Ball Step And Roll Review

A portion of the KidzWorld review of Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll for the Nintendo Wii:

"Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll is great game that is fun to play on your own, with a friend, or with a whole party! It keeps everything that has made the series great and adds a lot of new and interesting elements to the mix. Well recommended."

Buy now from Amazon.com

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Fit For Fun Supports the Wii Balance Board

Fit For Fun Supports the Wii Balance Board, we learn today.

Described as a challenging workout with "countless exercises", Fit For Fun follows in the footsteps of many other exergames for Wii that want to free you from the stresses and strains of daily life.

Exercises include jump rope, jogging, gliding, and tabogan.

Fit for Fun will be published by Namco Bandai in Germany in March this year, but there's no news of an English translation as of yet.

We'll keep you posted

Thanks to Janne for the tip!

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Wii Fit Injury - Girl Breaks Foot on Balance Board

We've heard of all sorts of Wii-related injuries over the years, and here's another one to add to the ever-increasing list of exergaming mishaps.

In the United Kingdom, a healthy 14-year-old girl was presented to the emergency department at Horton General Hospital in Banbury (near Oxford), after having fallen two inches off the Wii Balance Board and breaking her foot.

In a statement, Nintendo of America said:

"The Wii video game system is often credited with getting people up off the couch. But, as with any new activity, people playing the Wii system should pace themselves and not overdo it. Nintendo is committed to the safety of its consumers."

Ever suffered injury thanks to the Wii Balance Board? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Vacation Isle: Beach Party Supports Wii Balance Board

Vacation Isle: Beach Party supports the Wii Balance Board, we learn today.

It may be chilly outside, but come it'll be shorts and t-shirt time come the game's release in June 2010.

In Vacation Isle: Beach Party, up to four players can compete in vacation-style games, ranging from wakeboarding to surfing and even fire dancing.

“Vacation Isle: Beach Party is a great escape with its family-friendly party games utilizing the Wii Balance Board,” said Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Development and Production, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Players of all ages and experience can surf, water ski and enjoy several activities of an exotic summer vacation in their living room.”

Anyone fancy a bit of Vacation Isle: Beach Party?

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Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll Mini-Games Trailer Video

Super Monkey Ball Step and Roll Mini-Games Trailer Video:

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"Wii Fit Saved My Life" claims Mother

A 38 year-old mum has claimed that Wii Fit saved her life after Nintendo's exer-game helped her lose 8 stones in just a year.

The self-confessed "beached whale" lost nearly half of her body mass, shrinking from a size 22 to size 10 in twelve months.

Lara Roberts from Hants, England, said: "I've become a real exhibitionist. And the best thing is the improvement in my sex life.

"As far as I'm concerned the Wii Fit saved my life."

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