Archive for January, 2007

WarioWare: Smooth Moves Out Now

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Today, 25th January, marks the launch of one of the most highly anticipated Wii games so far. WarioWare has been somewhat of a mainstay for Nintendo over several console generations now, the most recent being the DS edition ‘Touched’, one of the games using the stylus and mic on the DS to it’s full capability. Smooth Moves uses the Wiimote in the same fashion and you find yourself using the controller in ways you couldn’t even have imagined.

If you do one thing today, head down to the mall and get WarioWare: Smooth Moves.

Stream Media from your PC to your Wii

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Nintendo in conjunction with opera has recently released the Opera browser (still in its beta stages). This has paved a path to digital media on your TV. Orb (www.orb.com) has just furthered its Orb MyCast to include support for the Wii. It lets you access Music, Videos, TV(requires TV card on your PC), Pictures and other documents on your Wii. It service can also be accessed from virtually any other Internet enabled device, (hopefully the DS is supported but this is untested) so if you want to listen to music at work etc. but have not got your iPod you can stream it straight from your home PC. (more…)