Ubisoft has partnered with fitness franchise Gold's Gym to produce an all new fitness game exclusively for the Nintendo Wii. The game, entitled "Gold's Gym: Cardio Workout," focuses on cardiovascular exercises like cardio-boxing and running, and can be used in conjunction with the Nintendo Wii Balance Board. Similar to Nintendo's Wii Fit, the game [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Capcom's "Street Fighter IV" has knocked Nintendo's "Wii Fit" from the top of the UK All Formats Chart, leaving the fitness game -- and its record-setting five weeks in the top spot -- at number two. "Street Fighter IV's" debut at number one makes the game the fastest-selling "traditional beat 'em up" since GfK Chart [...]
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...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Though more than one CEO has cited an October retail slowdown in recent investor conference calls, such a slowdown happily does not seem to have afflicted the U.S. video game industry sales as a whole. Today, the NPD reports that game industry sales actually increased 18% year-over-year to $1.31 billion. The biggest winner, as usual, was [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 8, 2008
It is said that you should never look a gift horse in the mouth -- but if you choose to get your news from the same equine orifice, you might want to check the animal's pedigree. That's what GameSetWatch did in November 2006, when it noticed that PlayStation-friendly blog ThreeSpeech was a "semi-official" media outlet, and [...]
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...Monday, June 2, 2008
Nintendo's Wii Fit has already become a worldwide success story at retail, selling over two million copies in Japan alone. But for U.S. consumers, finding the oblong white box is an exercise in frustration; and according to the perennially outspoken Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter, Nintendo -- and the weak dollar -- are to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 19, 2008
Today, the Nintendo World Store is the site of the North American launch of Wii Fit, Nintendo's new game dedicated to tracking your BMI as you flail around on a wedge of white plastic. Wii Fit will be reaching the rest of us later in the week, on May 21st, but for now, if you [...]
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 [...]
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