Tag: wii
More women own games consoles than men, survey says
That’s right. Ad agency JWT has been conducting a survey called, er, Denizens of Digitivity (try saying that after a couple of naughty-lemonades), and has found that 44% of female respondents said they own a console, compared to 39% of males.
“The idea of gaming being just for the 18 to 34 male set is now out of date,” says JWT’s Ann Mack. What’s interesting is that the message hasn’t quite got across to the games industry, judging by the huge number of grey, boring military-themed games staring out whenever I flick through a games magazine.
Wii gets hacked: modchip on the way imminently
I never buy the ‘backups’ excuse for modding your console. It’s about buying 20 pirated games from Dodgy Dave down the local market for £15, surely. Who backs up their games, seriously?
Anyway, there are reports that Nintendo’s Wii has been well and truly hacked, with a modchip coming out imminently called the Wii D2C Modchip Actel. However, it only works with around 80% of region-protected games, and it requires you to do complicated soldering stuff to install.
Wii gets X-OOM Media Centre to stream music, films and photos via Wi-Fi
Nintendo hasn’t exactly pushed Wii as a multimedia machine, preferring to focus on the gaming aspects first and foremost. But other companies have a different idea. X-OOM Software has just unveiled its X-OOM Media Centre product, which lets you stream music, movies and photos to your Wii from your PC, using Wi-Fi.
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams on Nintendo Wii to feature two-player modes
Some more news regarding the hugely-anticipated NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams game on the Wii, as we know your nostalgic bones have been jonesing for a fix lately.
WiiWii has written about some of the dual-player modes…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 19-Sept-07: Star Wars on Wii, Moore's Law, Republic of Macedonia, Google phone, Video games
– The Star Wars: The Force Unleashed game on the Wii will call upon the Wiimote as a lightsabre (Boing Boing Gadgets)
– Gordon Moore has predicted his Moore’s Law will end in 10 years (Engadget)…
Watch the Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games trailer here, now! Wahoo!
We don’t often post game trailers here on Tech Digest, instead leaving the privilege up to our brothers at Games Digest, WiiWii, PSPSPS and Xboxer, but this one is just too good to pass up. It’s Mario! And Sonic! Together at last!…
The Wee console which plays DVDs, not games
Now, on one hand you have the Wii, a games console which doesn’t play DVDs. On the other hand, you’ve got the Wee, a DVD player which doesn’t play games. If only someone would join the two together in holy matrimony and declare them Wii-Wee, all would be right in this universe…
Winamp 5.5 allows music to be streamed to your Nintendo Wii
As part of Winamp’s resurgence, they’re not just content with ripping off iTunes iPod compatability, oh no, they’re thinking even more outside of the box. Infact, they’re not even thinking about that box on your computer desk which houses all that software, bits, bytes and chips, they’re thinking about an entirely new box. Specifically, your Wii. Don’t get too scared now…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 14-Sept-07: Adobe Photoshop, Google, Nintendo DS, Programmers, Wii
– Adobe are launching Photoshop Express, a free stripped-down online version (Gadget Lab)
– Google is offering $30 million to whoever lands a robotic spacecraft on the moon first (Daily Tech)…
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….
