A UK government TV ad which is part of a fitness initiative against obesity, appears to show video games under a bad light, a position which has annoyed the country's industry. MCV reports that an "insider at one of the world’s biggest producers of fitness games software" has dismissed the ad as an "example of naive [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 14, 2008
EA recently announced its Wii-based home fitness game, EA SPORTS Active, will be hitting a store near you sometime next spring. EA's press materials harp on about the game "offering the promise of a better you in just 20 minutes a day" (a better me you say? impossible!) and boast of a more "Western approach" [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
I have to admit -- when GameCyte analyzed the dangers of Wii Fit almost two weeks ago, we hardly considered the impact of the device on personal property. We figured once you place the Balance Board on the ground, it doesn't move, and so it follows that you're not likely to accidentally throw it at [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 5, 2008
For now, it may be a moot point; it's unlikely the majority of U.S. parents -- even those who managed to snag the Wii itself -- will be able to locate a copy of the popular virtual exercise machine in the middle of a massive, possibly deliberate shortage. But when supply does finally catch [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 16, 2008
As Jesse so succinctly mentioned in our new episode of GameSpyte, the Wii Fit has taken some fire recently for calling a ten-year old "fat" based on nothing more than a BMI calculation. Today, Nintendo issued an apology via an article in the UK's Daily Mail, but not before Tam Fry of the National Obesity [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
Told you so. Eurogamer has reported that EA Sports' Peter Moore has revealed the company's development of a "fitness game" that will use the balance board peripheral from Wii Fit. Moore detailed the game's design and intent at a company showcase in Vancouver, saying the unnamed title would focus more on "western fitness" than Wii [...]
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