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Wii Warm Up: Wii humor

When it comes to the Wii, two things are pretty much undisputed: it's hard to find, and people make a lot of jokes about it. Everything from Wiimote-as-killing-machine to the name has been spoofed, and a dozen other things besides. But it's okay, bec...

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The greatest Wii gamer EVER

We have to admit, we've seen a lot of people playing Wii. Young, old and family relatives all the same; people playing Wii is so engraved in our minds that we see it every time we close our eyes. Now, we have an image (right) that will destroy all th...

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10 million accept Wii Play with Wiimote purchase

Nintendo brings word that its Wii Play software has sold over 10 million units in the United States. When combined with the 12.7 million Wiimotes sold individually, that's a whole lot of people waggling together in living rooms and old folks' homes...

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What to do with that old Wii wrist strap?

Reader Arun wrote in to us with the above image, showing us a use for that old Wii wrist strap. Sure, it's not strong enough to support someone playing a bout of Wii Sports: Bowling with all of their energy (see: playing like an idiot), but we're fa...

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Wii U's Virtual Console appears to be a big step back

Welcome to Living in the Past, a weekly column about what's new in old games. Now get off our lawn. There's a lot about the Wii U Virtual Console that's encouraging. Starting it off – even before the official launch of the service – with...

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Rockstar's M-rated Wii console

My, is this Manhunt 2-themed Wii ever disgusting. If not for the fact that the Manhunt 2 logo is clearly visible, and the nominal stickering of the Nunchuk, it would look pretty much just like a blood-stained Wii. And Rockstar is betting that yo...

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The Wii in motion (a Flickr photopool)

Nintendo should just gobble up the rights for the above image, slap some branding across the bottom, and run a nationwide ad campaign. Flickr user Michael T. Gilbert performed a Thanksgiving test on his father whose flannel shirt, Dickies, stoic fac...

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Queen Elizabeth II on Wii: One approves

We always suspected that the Wii, much like the toilet, could be a great social leveller. After all, no matter how blue your blood, anybody is going to look like a bit of a plum playing Wii Sports. Obviously, that doesn't remotely faze us (we're n...

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Wii Warm Up: Those old folks

We here at the Fanboy highly doubt that any of you have escaped the "Old People" phenomenon, by which Luddites of various ages, locked into their ways, miraculously pick up a Wiimote and slug it out in Wii Bowling. Many are so enthusiastic that they ...

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Old people experience Wii, could this help grandkids?

Given the way the Wii is selling, Nintendo can let their gaming drought go on for a good while. Their marketing scheme to diversify the gaming demographic is getting them good press. And from the looks of it, all old people need is Wii Sports to be h...

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Rumor: Old Nintendo franchise getting revived on Wii

For most people who aren't high-ranking Nintendo executives, the air is presently thick with speculation over what Nintendo will be revealing at its forthcoming Media Summit. Not if you're Gamekyo.com, though. The French site knows for certain what...

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Nintendo's Wii launch party (Universal Citywalk, LA)

We attended (and holy schnikes, are we tired of "Wii! jokes) the launch of the Nintendo Wii at the Universal Citywalk EB Games store in Los Angeles last night, and lived to tell about it. When we arrived at about 7PM, a Citywalk employee told us th...

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Rumor: Wii 'Peekaboo Pole Dancing' pitched

Peekaboo Pole Dancing is currently seeking partners to license its "make me a private dancer" product for Wii, reports Tech Digest. The company famous for its "Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit" and celebrity-endorsed "Electra Pole" has apparently reached o...

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Reggie chats up the Wii

As if the man has done anything else lately, Reggie has conducted an interview with AOL Games, discussing everything from the Wii to their goal of attracting non-gamers, as well as Reggie's ultimate fantasy career. What's most interesting about this ...

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MS gift guide suggests Wii controller

Ever since Peter Moore made his famous statement ostensibly encouraging people to buy a Nintendo Wii, the Wii60 ideal of Nintendo/Microsoft solidarity has become something of a phenomenon. The idea of the the two companies cooperating against Sony ha...

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