We drive up walls in Ubisoft’s upcoming monster-truck racing game for the Wii. Despite receiving not-so-great review scores, Monster 4×4: World Circuit on the Nintendo Wii did well enough to warrant a follow-up with Monster 4×4: Stunt Racer. Ubisoft held a small press event at its office in San Francis…

We got our first look at Epic Mickey, Warren Spector’s take on the world’s most famous mouse. “Am I making Mickey cool today?” asks games guru Warren Spector at a recent preview event for Epic Mickey. Judging by what we saw of his latest project–a platformer-cum-adventure game–the world&#…

You might have noticed a less than offensive Nintendo tattoo donning the image space above this sentence you’re reading, and could very well be wondering why this is the case. As it turns out, the Super Mario Bros. -themed images of Princess Peach and a Star are a bit too graphic for use on Joystiq. They are, ho…

So, you’ve installed the homebrew channel on your Wii. Now what? Here are five applications to help you get the most out of your homebrewed Wii. Read: Homebrew: Five Essential Homebrew Applications . Homebrew: Five Essential Homebrew Applications originally appeared on About.com Wii Games on Tuesday, October 27th, 200…

If you’re anything like us, you may have felt a bit … underwhelmed by the recently released screenshots of Warren Spector-lead project Disney Epic Mickey , especially when compared to the magic-filled concept art leaked so many weeks ago. Speaking to 1UP in a recent interview, Spector says he works on creating concept art that will find the metaphorical “line” by “pushing past it.” For him, it is a question…

Remember when some crazy looking concept art for Epic Mickey leaked ? The kind of art that showed off tanks modeled after the Seven Dwarves in Snow White or a giant whale with Spaceship Earth on its back? Some of you might feel a bit disappointed that the official screenshots released to date don’t quite reflect on that crazy steampunk aesthetic, and during an interview, I asked Warren Spector to discuss the disparity between the leaked…

Some games can be played on everything from the PS3 to the DS, but other games come out only on one platform. Wii exclusives are especially notable, because without having to worry about making a game tha…

During a brief gameplay presentation, Warren Spector noted that there will be no Wii MotionPlus support for Epic Mickey — he even joked that MotionPlus would be something in “game 2.” In a follow-up interview, I asked him to talk a bit more about the Wii MotionPlus, and he stated, “Our goal for this game is to make sure it doesn’t break if you have one [meaning Wii MotionPlus] installed. I am intrigued by it, and…

Although many DJ Hero owners have barely scratched the surface of the game’s 90-plus mixes, there’s still more mash-ups and remixes on the way — and a lot sooner than you might expect. IGN landed an exclusive interview with FreeStyleGames’ Chris Lee, who revealed the first list of tracks and pricing details for DJ Hero’s initial slate of DLC. Two new mixes are headed to the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStati…

If I were foolish enough to open this review with a reference to an impossibly endless debate between strongly passionate sides that could completely derail whatever I had to say about the game itself, I’d probably do it like this: Spore Hero is a pretty good argument in support of Intelligent Design. Well, at least in terms of game design, because if going from Spore to Spore Hero was entirely a process of evolution, it was one that we…