There’s no better way to get in all the gaming blogs than to announce a product so unwieldy and expensive that not that many people are going to actually buy it, which is why right now we’re hearing a lot about the Cyberbike , an upcoming exercycle/wii game bundle.  There aren’t a lot of details, but appar…

All I wanted was the perfect induction charger for my Wii remotes. Was that so unreasonable? Yet every charger I tried was flawed. Then I tried the Nyko Wii Charge Station IC, and while it may not be perfect, it comes so close that it makes me wonder; why could no one do this before? Read my review of the Nyko Charge Station…

If you’ve got a Target nearby and you’d like to pick up a few Wii games, there’s a sale this week: Buy two $50 Wii

Sales of the Wii console have taken a hit this year, doing somewhat over half the business of last year. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata blames the lack of big titles.  Meanwhile, an interesting ess…

Wow, this is a strange one. Tornado Outbreak is a completely new IP from Konami – home of Silent Hill and MGS – but it looks and feels like a Saturday morning cartoon tie-in. It’s hard to believe that this saccharine sweet title was once thought to be MGS creator, Hideo Kojima’s next project after Gun…

Have you ever stopped to think about what’s in your Wii remote? You might sensibly think it’s batteries, or circuit boards, or jam, or whatever witchcraft it takes to make Nintendo’…

Sadbear lives! Once again we’ve turned Crayola Frankenstein and breathed life into the greatest platforming mascot that never was. Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Alex Kidd – all pretenders crushed under Sadbear’s lumbering trunks. But is nostalgia for this unlikely hero – our avatar from the original DS Draw…

It seems Astro Boy returns every decade or so, and now American film makers have retooled the iconic character for another reboot. Albeit low budget looking and feeling, High Voltage Software put more life into Astro Boy: The

Poor Squeeballs. All these animated soft toys want is to be loved and given a good home. But they’re in for a world of pain before they can be placed on the shelf at the local toy store. It’s your job to make sure they’re fit for children by playing a set of minigames that ensures their wicked thoughts are …

After two mind-frazzling Wii beat-’em-ups (roughly 800 remote inputs to throw a single punch), things cool down in Dragon Ball’s latest. It makes sense: it covers the earlier pre-Z adventures. Simpler times deserve simpler play – so it’s out with finger gymnastics, in with mindless button-thumping as …