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Nintendo reveals Wii Zapper

Described by Reggie as the "first offspring of the Wiimote and the Nunchuk", Nintendo took the wraps off of their Wii Blaster at today's E3 press conference. In addition to the controller hybrid, Reggie revealed some third-party titles in development...

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Nintendo teaching people how to use the Zapper

Maybe it's just us, but if we were writing a tutorial for the Wii Zapper, it would go something like this: Attach Wiimote. Aim. Pull trigger. Then again, perhaps we're underestimating the complexity of the peripheral, because if you saw t...

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Wii Blaster isn't Nintendo product

At the beginning of the month we were quite excited to see on Gamestop's website what we thought would be Nintendo's 21st century answer to the Zapper -- the Wii Blaster. Well, apparently GameSpot spent the last month hitting the refresh button on th...

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Rumor: Nintendo holding back more controllers

According to Dagbladet, Nintendo was hiding controllers from us all along! In addition to the zapper, Virtual Console gamepad, and different colored Wiimotes, Nintendo was showing replica Genesis, N64, SNES, TG16, and NES controllers that were compa...

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Joystiq hands-on: Link's Crossbow Training (Wii)

Reaching back to the glory days of light guns, the Wii Zapper steals the name of Nintendo's classic NES controller, but the two are fundamentally different. The previous light gun used a mechanic to essentially see what was on-screen, so the gun sigh...

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Link's Price Slashing

We thought that when the Wii Zapper bundle was released, Nintendo fans would hang on to Link's Crossbow Training and dump the included plastic handle, but it appears that the opposite is true. GameStop has just dropped the price of used copies of Li...

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Duck Hunt flocks to Wii U Virtual Console on Christmas

As the turkey takes the prominent spot at your dinner table this Christmas, Nintendo has another bird in mind for your TV. The Wii U Virtual Console edition of Duck Hunt, announced earlier this year, will hit the eShop on December 25. Once you're st...

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Real-life Duck Hunt video documents dangers of improper Zapper use

Remember when you were a kid and used to play cops and robbers? Sometimes you'd smuggle a Zapper out of your house, just to add that extra layer of believability to the whole thing. According to The Warp Zone, the Zapper is much deadlier than you ...

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Nintendo Fanboy Weekly: Oct 16 - Oct 22

First of all, check out our latest giveaways. On DS Fanboy, we're giving away one copy of Kirby Super Star Ultra. On Wii Fanboy, one lucky person will walk away with a free copy of SimCity Creator. Best of luck to you all! Now that's out of the way...

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Nintendo's Aonuma pitched Link's Crossbow Training 2

Aside from efforts like The Conduit and Call of Duty: World at War, Nintendo's Wii hasn't exactly enjoyed a glut of capable FPS titles. According to a recent interview with games™ (via NowGamer), Zelda director Eiji Aonuma recognizes this -- a...

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Wii Zapper and Link's Crossbow Training packaging, details

Along with releasing a boxart preview of its upcoming Wii Zapper (due 11/19/07), Nintendo also shed some light on its bundled game, Link's Crossbow Training, earlier today. The shooter will have 27 stages in total over three different modes -- ...

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Zelda Crossbow Training packed in with Wii Zapper [update]

[Update: Nintendo has made it official.] We've heard this from a couple of sources independently now, and we feel relatively confident about passing it along. Apparently Gamestop managers meeting for their annual conference have been told that the ...

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Nintendo secures Wii U-related domain names

Nintendo went on a domain shopping spree recently, grabbing a few domain names related to Wii games (like rhythmheavenwii.com and kirbywii.com) as well as a lot of domain names related to Wii U, referencing things like New Super Mario Bros. Mii an...

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