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- Wii
- A popular video game console from Nintendo (www.nintendo.com) introduced in 2006. Pronounced "wee," it runs Wii and GameCube software and features a wireless motion sensing controller that looks like...
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- Nintendo wins Wii patent case
- Wii-maker touts early dismissal of infringement suit regarding parental controls on DVD video playback...which the Wii doesn't have. This is just one of 15-patent-related suits. Since the launch of the Wii, Nintendo has been the subject of no fewer than 15 patent-related lawsuits. While many of those suits are...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Parental Control, Nintendo Wii, Wii-maker, Wii, Nintendo, patent, legal, Brendan Sinclair GameSpot
- News items 2009-06-12
- E3 2009: Nintendo Wii Vitality Sensor
- Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata offers a sneak peek at the company's new Vitality Sensor.
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Sensor, Nintendo Wii, E3, Nintendo, Wii, vitality sensor, wiimote
- Videos 2009-06-02
- E3 2009: Nintendo Wii Motion Plus
- At E3 2009 in Los Angeles, Nintendo demonstrates the Wii Motion Plus, the latest update to its wireless controller.
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, E3 2009, Nintendo, Wii, Motion Plus, Sports, Resort, skydiving
- Videos 2009-06-02
- Game innovations at GDC 09
- Games enhanced by wind, vibration, and light, plus mind control and super-realistic motions. Check out the latest in game creation from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
- Tags: Innovation, Games, Personal Technology, News, game developers conference, gaming, xbox, ps3, wii, nintendo
- Videos 2009-03-27
- EA: Wii graphx sux
- EA: Wii graphx suxEA: Wii graphx suxSo does DR, but that doesn't stop EA from instituting it heavily, eh?Who cares, its a friggin game...Pffttt....RE: EA: Wii graphx suxI agree, Wii graphix do sux.Maybe.But why let them lie?
- Tags: Disaster recovery, Nintendo Wii, Electronic Arts Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-17
- Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 prices
- Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 pricesIt's about time this other shoe droppedIt's been anticipated for ages, in consideration of just how LONG the 360 has already been on the market. Even at these price points MSFT should continue to make profit on the hardware; you would think that after three years...
- Tags: Game players, Blu-ray, Games, wii, Xbox360, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., hardware, Blu-ray disc, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Intel chairman highlights partnerships around the world
- At the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco, company Chairman Craig Barrett explains how, by collaborating with teachers and doctors around the world, technology can improve lives. Demonstrated are an inexpensive digital whiteboard created from a Wii, and a cell phone that can read bar codes on a health ID...
- Tags: Partnership, Intel Corp., Business Structures, Finance, Intel, IDF, Craig Barrett, Wii, cell phone, healthcare, education, chairman, johnny lee, wiimote
- Videos 2008-08-19
- Welcome WiiWare
- CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi brings you the latest Nintendo Wii news and throws in some yoga and ski moves from a recent media party in San Francisco. Expect to see new WiiWare titles from indie game developers in the Wii Shop; slick third-party games from Lucas Arts and Electronic Arts;...
- Tags: News, nintendo, wii, major league eating, tower of goo, wii fit, mario cart, wiiware, kara tsuboi
- Videos 2008-04-15
- Microsoft says end of HD DVD won't hurt Xbox 360
- Microsoft says end of HD DVD won't hurt Xbox 360sony should refuse to permit microsoft to have blu raythey could be in deep s**t. or they could charge they a eye and a arm for it .........RE: Microsoft says end of HD DVD won't hurt Xbox 360"We do not believe...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Game players, Murphy, wii, HD-DVD, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, MICROSOFT SAYS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- The number one reason I may buy a Wii
- ...Mario Kart, details of which were announced today.This is a great game. I have a special place in my heart for racing games, but driving around as a cartoon character, throwing bananas and what-not at opponents and trying to avoid falling off the Rainbow bridge can't be beat (and is...
- Tags: Wii, Nintendo, Games
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Sony is / is not slashing the PS3 price
- Corporate approaches to media relations never cease to amaze me. Just last week, Sony's president, Ryoji Chubachi, claimed that no price cut on the PS3 was in the works. This morning, however, news from Reuters reported that the PS3 price WILL be slashed by $100.00...at least in the United States.That's...
- Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, Sony, PS3, Nintendo, Microsoft, Games
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- The battle for the living room platform
- Nintendo announced yesterday WiiWare, a program which will enable developers to create games that can be downloaded to the Wii console. Such games can be sold through the Wii Shop Channel, creating revenue opportunities for smaller-scale developers who wouldn't have the resources to create more labor intensive productions of a...
- Tags: Digital Media, DRM, Media Center, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Sony, Television, Wii, XBOX, XBOX 360
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- The race for low-cost HD players
- Sony recently lowered the price of its upcoming HD Blu-ray player, to $499.00. Though Sony claimed that this was due to lower productions costs for Blu-ray related parts, it is clearly a response to Toshiba's $100.00 rebate, which appears to have injected a lot of life into HD-DVD player sales....
- Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, Television, Sony, PS3, PlayStation, HD DVD, HD, Games, Digital Media, BluRay
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- XBOX 360 and HD-DVD
- In a recent discussion, a friend wondered why Microsoft had opted not to include an HD-DVD drive in the recent update to the XBOX 360 console (the XBOX 360 Elite). The logic would seem obvious. In the US, 94% of Blu-Ray players sold are included as part of the PS3...
- Tags: PlayStation, HD DVD, HD, XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, Sony, PS3, Nintendo, Microsoft, General, Games
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Game consoles are evil
- Richard Stallman is the godfather of the Free Software Movement. He is also maddeningly hard core in his beliefs, to the point where I wonder if he would allow doctors to work on him if the machines they were using run anything but open source software. The following is an...
- Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, PS3, Games, Wii, Sony, PlayStation, Nintendo, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Guitar Hero II on XBOX 360 released
- Activision has ported its popular PS2 game franchise, Guitar Hero, to the XBOX 360. Now XBOX 360 users can pretend they are musician gods of old, stopping meteorites with the force of their strumming and releasing endless streams of near-perfect albums because, heck, us moderns just cant do music anymore...
- Tags: XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, Sony, PS3, PlayStation, Nintendo, Microsoft, General, Games
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Clickable video hotpots and "Wii-motes"
- Most Internet surfers speed past the endless array of advertisements that litter our web experience like graffiti at a bus stop. Occasionally, however, something catches our eye, and that was the case when I decided to click on this ad as I prepared to watch a video on MSNBC. Basically,...
- Tags: Wii, Web Technology, Television, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- BluRay making up for lost time
- The BluRay disc format has made up for HD-DVDs early sales lead, exceeding the number of HD-DVD discs sold last month for the first time. Of course, as always, the stastistics are maddeningly short on real detail, as they dont announce how many discs in each format were sold. Discs...
- Tags: Wii, Nintendo, PlayStation, PS3, XBOX 360, Games, XBOX, BluRay, Sony, HD DVD, HD, Microsoft, General, Hardware Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Houston, Wii have a problem!
- Houston, Wii have a problem!Funny how we can all read the MS double speak you write...in order to 'suggest' a conclusion and then use the words of others to somehow support your conclusion. Go back to HQ and ask for another script that will help sell XBoxes.It's called sarcasm, Adrian.Funny...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Nintendo Wii, wii
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- Nintendo Wii pulls out ahead
- Nintendo Wii pulls out aheadWii pulls out ahead...I think Nintendo's franchises are getting VERY tired. Why doesn't somebody bring back Pong? Make it a hard nosed detective searching for that square blip... like a murder mystery game. Yes, I am a Sony fanboy, but at least Sony is attempting to...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3, game, wii
- Discussion threads 2006-11-27
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