All gamers know Nintendo makes a crapload of money. Between the DS and Wii, the company hauls in way more money than most people reading this will ever see in their lifetime. Still, the fact that they’re estimated to make $1.6 billion in profits this year alone is flat out ridiculous. Plus, with only around [...]

An Indiana teacher has begun involving video games in the classroom. While the MSNBC report fails to specify, one can assume he’s using Wii Sports. He uses the game as a math lesson, and to understand how to score in bowling can be one step short of calculus for some people.
The report goes on to [...]

During Nintendo’s E3 press conference, Reggie Fils-Aime proudly proclaimed that out of the 250 third party Wii games, all of 19 had reached 400,000 copies sold. That’s not a particularly good stat, though it’s not hard to why. We have definitive proof in shovelware like Big Beach Sports (apparently a cousin or something to Small [...]

This is how Nintendo works. Include an addictive pack-in game, one that you can bank the entire first generation of the system on. This time, it was Wii Sports. Then, when you think hardware sales may be slowing down, slap together a sequel, include a new accessory, and charge $50 for it. That’s what the [...]

Three separate studies profiled at today’s 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine showed that active video games appeared to be helpful in encouraging young people to exercise.
The first of the studies, done by Gregory Brown, Ph. D., FACSM and his study team, examined energy expenditure for active games compared to sedentary [...]

Yet another mini-game mish-mash for the Wii, Hudson’s Deca Sports fails where most of the other slapped together compilations do. It’s simply not fun, featureless, and few of the games actually work. The 10 sports included here don’t even make sense to be on the same disc as they’re all unrelated.
There’s little question Hudson is [...]