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Teen Gets Unwanted Surprise in Nintendo Box
Jodi Wykle knew her son would be thrilled when she gave him a new Nintendo DS for his birthday. Instead, he was rocked. According to WTSP-TV, the confused teen opened up his gift only to find bunch of stones and a rolled up Chinese newspaper in place of the popular handheld. Needless to say, mom [...]
Continue reading...Recent News Spells Trouble for the Wii
17. April 2009
In the three years since it first launched, the Nintendo Wii has sailed past competing systems from Sony and Microsoft to consistently claim the top spot in the console war. But if a recent rash of troubling stories about the Wii is a vision of things to come, the tide might be turning for the [...]
Continue reading...9 Year Old Whiz Creates Popular iPhone App
10. February 2009
You might think you’re pretty hot stuff because you’ve figured out how to change your Facebook status from your iPhone, but you’ve got nothing on nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen. This young prodigy from Singapore is fluent in six programming languages, according to a BBC report this week, and his newest creation, an iPhone drawing game [...]
Continue reading...Critics Say the Wii has a Major Flaw
24. January 2009
There are too many crappy games on the Wii. So says the global boss of 2K Games, Christoph Hartmann, and at least in the opinion of video game critics, he’s on to something. Using figures from review aggregation site Metacritic.com, almost half of Wii games released since the console launched in 2006 have scored below [...]
Continue reading...Wii Fit is unfit: A parental controversy
17. May 2008
When a 10 year-old girl from the South-East of Britain stepped on the scale of Nintendo’s new game Wii Fit, she expected to get the blood pumping with some fun, casual exercising. Instead, the game’s software told her she was fat. Understandably, her father wasn’t happy. “She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old [...]
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28. April 2009
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