Tag: wii sports
BAFTA Video Games Awards – Charlie Brooker rules out GamesMaster TV role
Charlie Brooker has ruled himself out of a role in the rumoured reboot of video game show GamesMaster. Tech Digest spoke to the Guardian columnist and Newswipe presenter at last night's BAFTA Video Games Award ceremony, where he presented the…
BAFTA Video Games Awards – Host Dara O' Briain on gaming and his love of Portal
Last night's BAFTA Video Games Awards were hosted by comedian and BBC Mock the Week chair Dara O' Briain. His second year in a row at the show, he waxed lyrical about his love of gaming, whilst joking about Call…
BAFTA Video Games Awards – Shigeru Miyamoto given coveted Fellowship Award
Shigeru Miyamoto, the mastermind behind iconic gaming franchises Super Mario and the Legend of Zelda, as well as being the brains behind the Nintendo Wii console, has been given the coveted BAFTA Fellowship award at the BAFTA Video Games Awards…
BAFTA Video Games Awards – The Winners
Drinks have been drunk, games have been celebrated and the BAFTA Video Games Awards 2010 have drawn to a close. Here's a list of all the winners for this year: Action Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Development Team Sony Computer…
Poll: BAFTA Video Games Awards – Who should win Best Game?
2009 was a stellar year for games, and just a quick look at this year's nominees for the Best Game at the BAFTA Video Game Awards will show you why. Assassin's Creed II, Batman: Arkham Asylum, FIFA 10, Call…
BAFTA Video Games Awards – Live Coverage from 6pm GMT
The annual BAFTA Video Games Awards take place at the Park Lane Hilton in London tonight, and Tech Digest will have live coverage from the event, as well as a run down on all the winners and losers. Follow all…
CAREFUL, OLD MAN: Doctors suggest "Wii Knee" will be crippling us all in the new year
You know when you think of a great idea, then realise someone’s already thought of it and done it before? And better? Back in 2006?
That’s what’s happened here. Doctors at the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and Leeds Teaching Hospital have teamed up to say they expect Wii-related injuries to rise, as the UK continues to go Nintendo MAD.
Calling the invented symptom “Wii Knee,” the boffins expect to see an increase in patients suffering from joint problems in the new year, all caused by enthusiastic Wii Bowling sessions. It’s almost as if Nintendo’s Wii is the first invention to have ever required a man to stand up and move about…
CES 2008: 10-in-1 Wii sports family pack
From the makers of the Wii boxing gloves comes the 10-in1 sports family pack, containing pretty much all the cheap knock-off Wii accessories you could possibly wish for. Sure, they may not be of particularly stunning quality – as the crazy angle of the official photos makes seems to imply – but just look how many you get in there!
Nintendo President Iwata admits he doesn't consider the Wii a success
Last week I mentioned that excerpts from a lunch conversation between the Nintendo President Satoru Iwata and a Ninty designer, Shigesato Itoi, were being published on Iwata's personal site, if you can cast your mind back that long ago….
Wii to get a hospital link-up for Wii Health game
Computer games make you fat, slothful and unhealthy. At least, that’s what my parents told me as they locked my C64 in a cupboard and sent me out on a 17-mile cross country run every morning as a child.
