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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

Q&A: 100-plus WiiWare titles in development

Q&A: 100-plus WiiWare titles in developmentThat's frickin' great ...... now if we could just FIND the damn consoles to BUY one it would be even better!!(Yes, I am getting bitter about the complete and utter lack of Wii consoles ANYWHERE two months after Christmas. I mean, come ON! ...

Tags: WiiWare

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

'Wii Fit,' WiiWare due in U.S. in mid-May

'Wii Fit,' WiiWare due in U.S. in mid-May'Wii Fit,' WiiWare due in U.S. in mid-MayI'm curious as to which demographic will purchase this. Its a great concept but is it going to the lonely housewife, the hardcore gamer, or overweight person who wants to get in shape?RE: 'Wii Fit,'...

Tags: Nintendo Wii, WiiWare, Wii Fit, mid-May

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

Additional Resources

Zeebo - the fourth game console?

Zeebo - the fourth game console?This Would Flop Miserably In The USANot so much because of the console itself, but with ISPs imposing bandwidth throttling hard core gamers would suffer at the hands of the almighty data cap.Couldn't possibly use more bandwidth than XBLAThe bandwidth used by the Zeebo can't...

Tags: Games, Game players, XBLA, Zeebo, game, bandwidth, console, game console

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

It ain't easy being indie

Are indie game developers the next rock stars? They certainly think so. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi catches up with Kyle Gabler, a developer who may have just hit the jackpot with a Nintendo WiiWare contract. But the path to get there wasn't always easy.

Tags: News, kara tsuboi, tower of goo, kyle gabler, shalin shodhan, experimental gameplay project, etc, carnegie mellon, pittsburgh, gamer

Videos 2008-04-16

News to know: Microsoft interoperability; Bypassing FileVault; Woz; Black Hat; More benchmarks

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pledges interoperability--again Reading the fine print on Microsoft’s new open-source promises Larry Dignan: Microsoft’s real game: Open interoperability protects its stack Dana Gardner: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke? Dana Blankenhorn:...

Tags: Black Hat, Interoperability, Disk, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-22

News to know: Black Hat; VoIP design flaws; Vista SP1; Apple

Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs George Ou: Design flaw in wireless VoIP handsets endanger the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1...

Tags: Black Hat, VoIP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-21

The battle for the living room platform

The battle for the living room platformNow all three are at the party....Microsoft: XNA. Nintendo: Wiiware. Sony: LinuxDev kits. Who was first to sanction homebrew games? Ghu, was it possibly the PS-2 Linux devkit? Back in the previous console generation? Why, yes! Yes it was Sony that officially sanctioned homebrew....

Tags: Corporate communications, Games, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-06-28

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