Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Activision puts Wii first with 'Wee 1st' programhttp://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/activision-puts-wii-first-with-wee-1st-program/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/activision-puts-wii-first-with-wee-1st-program/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/activision-puts-wii-first-with-wee-1st-program/#commentsFiled under: ,

Do you get pissed off when companies try to pass off piss-poor ports as original Wii games?. Well, urine luck! Activision's new "Wee 1st" program is designed to guide a stream of attention to games where the Wii has gone No. 1 in the developer's mind. Games like Little League World Series 2008, Rapala Fishing Frenzy and Dancing with the Stars: Get Your Dance On will be the first to try to make water out of the campaign. The program might seem like a piddling concession to the success of Nintendo's oddly-named system, but it's backed up by a national television and print ad campaign that will begin leaking out this fall. What a relief.

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]]>ActivisionadvertisingmarketingurineweeKyle Orland2008-07-09T13:29:00+00:00Woman dies of 'water intoxication' after radio contesthttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/13/woman-dies-of-water-intoxication-after-radio-contest/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/13/woman-dies-of-water-intoxication-after-radio-contest/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/13/woman-dies-of-water-intoxication-after-radio-contest/#commentsFiled under: ,



A preliminary autopsy states that a woman died of "water intoxication" following a water drinking contest for a Nintendo Wii. News10 in Sacramento reports Station 107.9 The End's "Hold your wee for a Wii" contest had contestants doing exactly what the title says. The winner was the person who didn't release their bladder the longest. According to the woman's co-worker, after the contest, "She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad ... she was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her." The co-workers contacted the woman's mother later on to check up how she was doing and she discovered the body. No word yet on how much water the woman consumed.

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]]>deathradio contestsacramentoweewiiAlexander Sliwinski2007-01-13T18:00:00+00:00Need a wee during the World Cup final? Just bring your PSPhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/05/need-a-wee-during-the-world-cup-final-just-bring-your-psp/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/05/need-a-wee-during-the-world-cup-final-just-bring-your-psp/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/06/05/need-a-wee-during-the-world-cup-final-just-bring-your-psp/#commentsFiled under: , ,

I'm not exactly what you'd call football's number one fan (that's soccer to Americans), but a lot of my friends are close. That's why I'm slightly depressed to bring you news of a World Cup themed feature for the PSP that I know a lot of my footie-loving friends would love to get their hands on. The aptly named (at least for this post) P-TV, the portable TV service for PSPs, is offering all 64 World Cup matches for viewing on the PSP for around a dollar per game. A visit to the "jardin" during a match will no longer be a problem: if you live in Japan. Yep, the deal's exclusive to the land of the steel phallus.

In all seriousness, Sony could sell a bucketload of PSPs in the UK if they combined a "don't miss a single shot" marketing line with this promotion. There's no problem with access either: a lot of pubs now serve up wifi with their pints. Unfortunately, unless Sony ends up bringing this deal out of Japan, then footie fans will have to resort to that other boring, but tried-and-tested method for minimizing water breaks: not drinking so much damned beer!

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