That was fast. Hackers from SoftChip have introduced a new app that goes around some of the Wiibrew blocks Nintendo introduced in the latest Wii Menu update.
This program enables some of the benefits of the new firmware without actually updating. (Repeat, just for emphasis: this is not the actual update. It’s just a patch.)
This program […]

Here’s the final batch of entries from TehSkeen’s Wii Coding competition. This batch contains puzzle games: Rokoban, Portii, and Matches.
 
Rokoban from ZaloDS is a puzzle game similar to Sokoban. If you’re not familiar with Sokoban, think Chip’s Challenge. The game is in 3D, and while it has no sound, presents a fair amount […]

After hearing the story of the Swede teen collapsing after 24 hours of playing Wrath of the Lich King, this news comes to no surprise for me.
World of Warcraft’s second expansion pack has sliced its way to second place in the UK charts, topped only by fellow newcomer, Call of Duty: World at War. Incidentally, […]

Ah yes, it’s another study on the many effects video games have on their players. Violence, sex, drugs, …dog training, princess-making, and even baby-rearing; you name it, they’ve made a study out of it. Fact of the matter is, video games can influence you, one way or another. Now comes driving.
In New South Wales, Superintendent […]

 
Nintendo’s really cracking down hard on piracy, and on its warpath is trampling on Wiibrew grounds as well. The latest firmware update has gone live, with amendments to the Nintendo User Agreement, and stringent homebrew blocks.
According to the changes in the agreement form, the new firmware update will automatically remove modded save […]

  
More entries are trickling in for the ongoing TehSkeen Wi Coding Competition. For this batch of releases, we’ve got Smashing v1.0 by warpfish and CosmoRaketti v1.0 by Tapsa. Now, let’s take them one by one, shall we?
Smashing v1.0 is a 3D arcade shooting game that ’s got “amazingly fully rendered levels”. For this release, you […]

Not content with the success they had over Sega’s pullout of a Samba de Amigo ad with a chimpanzee as a cast member, animal rights group PETA has now set their eyes on Nintendo’s Cooking Mama (
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The year is down to its last few weeks, and Gamasutra reveals the top-selling games for the year so far. In the BMO Capital Markets Conference last week, Take 2 claimed GTA 4 has sold to 32 of PS3 owners, and 28 to Xbox 360 owners through the start of October 2008. Gamasutra […]

Folks at 1UP decided to dip their feet in the water to see how much spoiler content there is. As it turns out, the descriptions for For parents who simply want to check out what ESRB has to say about a game, this isn’t a problem. They won’t play the darn game anyway. Just don’t […]

Remember how Square Enix spoke about the “great opportunities in North American markets” when they announced that they would be publishing Supreme Commander 2? Well, it seem that was just a foreshadowing of their next move: A US-based Square Enix Studio.
The studio will be located in El Segundo, Los Angeles and right off the […]