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Any article based on Nintendo Wii titles, or Wii-based downloadable games.

Games You Probably Haven’t Played: Showtime Championship Boxing (Wii)

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Today on Games You Probably Haven’t Played, we have Showtime Championship Boxing. Developed by Nikitova Games and published by DSI Games, it was released in late 2007 for the Nintendo Wii. In addition, a game by the same name was also released on the Nintendo DS at the same time, although there are likely at … Read more

Games You Probably Haven’t Played: Guinness World Records The Video Game

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Back in 2008, developer TT Fusion and Warner Bros. Interactive put out a game that you probably haven’t played. It’s Guinness World Records: The Video Game for the Nintendo Wii. Guinness World Records: The Video Game was released on November 11, 2008. In addition to the Wii, a game by the same name was also released … Read more

The Wonderful 101: Remastered just smashed its Kickstarter goal

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Platinum Games is bringing The Wonderful 101: Remastered to PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch after smashing its crowdfunding goal. The fan-favorite superhero action-adventure game was originally released on the Nintendo Wii U. It came from Platinum Games, the same studio behind the cult classics MadWorld and Bayonetta. Hideki Kamiya acted as the game’s director. “In … Read more

Nintendo is no longer repairing Wii consoles

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While games like Just Dance 2020 are still getting released for the Wii, Nintendo has officially ended support for the console. The Wii first launched back in 2006. It’s still Nintendo’s most successful home console ever released. But as with many older consoles, the expenses involved with maintaining repair services do not always make sense. … Read more

Nintendo remains best-selling game hardware manufacturer as lifetime sales top 750 million

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Since it first released the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan in 1983, Nintendo has been one of the leading video game hardware manufacturers. Thanks to the success of the Nintendo Switch, the company just topped all-time hardware sales of 750 million units. The official tally of Nintendo hardware sales since the NES – both console … Read more

Just Dance 2020 out now, marking ten years of top-selling dancing franchise

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Just Dance 2020 is out today on PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and Nintendo Wii. It will launch on November 19 for Google Stadia. And, yes, you read correctly. Just Dance 2020 is available on the Nintendo Wii. The Just Dance franchise has, for the past several years, single-handedly kept the Nintendo Wii alive. The game … Read more

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD Review

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AiAi and friends are back after a five-year break. This time they’ve rolled onto on PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One. For the uninitiated, Super Monkey Ball is a game where you play as a monkey inside a ball. You roll around in mostly linear stages collecting bananas until you reach an exit portal. That … Read more

Ring Fit Adventure is out today on Nintendo Switch

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Nintendo’s new exercise role-playing game Ring Fit Adventure launches today on the Switch. In the game, you’ll explore a fantasy adventure world and burn calories while defeating a bodybuilding dragon using real-life exercises. It’s sort of like Wii Fit, except there’s an actual game here and not just a series of on-screen exercises. The game … Read more

Sonic is an unlockable character in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD

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Sega announced today that Sonic the Hedgehog will be an unlockable playable character in the upcoming Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD. “Playing as the world’s fastest hedgehog comes with some unique effects,” Sega says. “In addition to boasting incredible speed (obviously), selecting Sonic automatically changes all stages’ bananas to golden rings, complete with nostalgic, classic sound … Read more

GoldenEye 25 remake’s Silo level demoed in new video

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GoldenEye 25‘s developers recently released a video showing off their work so far on one of the more iconic levels in the game, a Soviet missile silo. GoldenEye 25 is a fan-made remake of the classic Nintendo 64 shooter GoldenEye 007 using Unreal Engine 4. The demo is a faithful recreation of the Silo level … Read more

Montage pays tribute to the history of Nintendo consoles and handhelds

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It’s fun to look back every once in a while at where we came from in video games. Few, if any, companies will be remembered as fondly as Nintendo. For a large percentage of us, Nintendo was our introduction to gaming. For many, the house of Mario remains their favorite to this day. A fan-made … Read more

Just Dance is single-handedly keeping the Nintendo Wii alive

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Nintendo launched a motion-control console named the Wii way back in 2006. Nearly thirteen years later, developers have abandoned the top-selling console of its generation… except for Ubisoft, which is still making Just Dance games for the system. Ubisoft confirmed during E3 that Just Dance 2020 is coming out this year for Nintendo Switch, PS4, … Read more

Wii Shop Channel’s closure shows why we still need physical games

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After twelve years in business, the Wii Shop Channel closed its digital doors for good today. Last year, Nintendo stopped allowing users to purchase Wii Points for digital products. Yesterday was the last day to redeem any remaining Wii Points toward purchases. While users can still re-download WiiWare and Virtual Console titles, as well as … Read more

GoldenEye 007 Recreated in Unreal Engine 4

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Have you ever wondered what GoldenEye might look like on the PS4 or Xbox One? A section of GoldenEye’s Facility level was recreated in Unreal Engine 4 by an aspiring environment artist. Jude Wilson says that the project was inspired out of his love for the game and a desire to add to his portfolio. … Read more

Editorial | The Latest Nintendo Direct Was A Beast

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Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct presentation was Nintendo’s first in 2015, and the publisher wasted little time rolling out its big plans for the first half of the year. It was not a “news bomb,” it was more like an air strike of announcements.

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Frankly, to re-cap yesterday’s Nintendo Direct is difficult, because so much was revealed: it almost felt like an E3 presser bundled into a brief presentation. By now you may have heard that the New Nintendo 3DS XL is finally coming to North America, or caught that release dates were confirmed for titles such as Majora’s Mask 3D, Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Xenoblade Chronicles 3DS, Splatoon, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, and more. Maybe you even spotted the upcoming “Wave 4” Amiibos, or the new Super Mario Edition lineup.

Just in case you missed anything, I will quickly tackle and summarize it all; I’d like to give a special thanks to Vlad N. for his contribution to this re-cap:

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