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This year the Madden team at EA decided the Wii version of Madden 10 would be better suited using cartoon-like players and more arcade-like gameplay. As you can see the players have a very exaggerated look too them, almost like caricatures. When I first saw this image it reminded me of how Valve recreated the [...]

Work has been enough stress than I’d like to deal with so why would I want to come home and tack on any additional stress to my day. Well I guess it’s just a question of what game you’re actually playing. I noticed I’ve recently been playing a lot of Nba2k8 online against random opponents [...]

The gaming scene has been pretty slow in recent weeks so the only thing to do is keep playing the games we’ve been playing since December until the good stuff comes out. Oh and my response to the recent Smash Bros. release is uninspired. I’m not saying its not a fun game but it definitely [...]

Wow that looks pretty tough. Luckily most of us won’t have to play this game with just a Wiimote. I can already see myself hitting the home button while trying to “Grab” my opponent and hearing a huge sigh of confusion as my friends look around for the culprit. In addition “Shielding” looks painful, but [...]

Let me just say right now that the Wii is still considered last gen in graphics and it seems like developers treat it last gen when it comes to features. The only reason the Wii can sometimes be considered next gen is because it was released in competition with the PS3 and Xbox 360.
So I [...]

I had a chance to play a little Wii Boogie last night and to tell you the truth I wasn’t too thrilled. I think the previews hyped it up a bit and the final product fell short of its potential. While, I didn’t get to play the “karaoke” portion of the game I’m just gonna [...]

I got the chance to check out Mario Strikers Charged today and I have to say I had a pretty good time for the 2-3 hours of play time. In the first 20mins you can pick up the controls and get by but its not until you have a concept of how to pass and [...]

Shaq says current teen aged kids are out of shape because of video games. Wii answers back with making those said kids sweat it out. Shaq is 12% body fat and you can be too. He plays ball outside while you play with yourself in your very own living room. This step peripheral, which holds [...]

After watching this trailer I think this game has definite potential. However, what I’ve seen from most of the Wii games so far is that the sensors are never really good. For instance in Cooking Mama some of the actions you need to perform look simple but when the sensor can’t read what you are [...]

Since most of the videos were utterly stupid this is no huge feat. Just imagine all the Nintendo fanboys scraping together a video so they can rain down congratulatory words towards each other and give high fives all around just because their video is posted on a Nintendo website. This film on the other hand [...]