There is a new website out there that records recent Wii injuries, broken electronics, and household items that have been broken by the use of the Wii. The site includes pictures of damaged items and humorous Wii comics and images. The blog is called “Wii Have A Problem.”
The welcome message reads:
“Wii have a problem” is a blog focused on bringing you the latest trend in gaming violence. That of damaged electronic loved ones caused from Wii related activities. Why? Because we’re fanboys that’s why.
The blog even has a damage toll separated in the following categories:
Broken Straps: 10
Televisions: 6
Laptops: 2
Walls: 1
Ceiling Fans: 1
PDAs: 1
Windows: 1
I wonder when the human injury pictures will start flooding in…
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Bungie will allow all North American Halo fans to sign up for the Halo 3 beta on Monday, although only a fraction will be selected. The site halo3.com will be open for registrations on Monday, while the beta will start sometime in the spring of 2007. Bungie will test the multiplayer part of the game, and use feedback to tweak the final product.
In addition, Bungie and Microsoft also revealed that the new Halo 3 commercial will air on ESPN during Monday Night Football, and on Xbox.com for the rest of the world. It will be released on Xbox Live Marketplace shortly thereafter.
Namco President Takeo Takasu has said that Namco will need to sell at least 500,000 copies of its games worldwide in order to gain a profit. Takasu says that the price of the graphics alone for Namco, based in Japan, is one billion yen. That is the equivalent of 6.5 million Euro or 8.6 million US Dollars. This, according to developers and analysts, is over double the amount that graphics for the Wii would cost. Worldwide shortages of the PS3 is not just a big problem for gamers, but developers, as Namco’s two PS3 games, Ridge Racer 7 and Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire, have only sold only 22,000 each.
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This is an interesting video of all consoles running the same game at around the same areas. Obviously the Wii won’t look as good, but it has its moments, as do the 360 and PS3 versions, naturally.
Reports coming out of Minnesota radio station KDWB-FM 101.3 indicate that parents were willing to give up their own children for 24 hours in exchange for a Playstation 3. That’s right, these parents were willing to give a complete stranger their own children for 24 hours. Now, some people did realize it was a gag when they called in, but others thought it was for real. More than a dozen people called into the radio station. The radio show’s host at the time, Dave Ryan, said that they “got more calls then they could handle.” A quote from Twincities.com:
“People with babies of all ages — including a 2-day-old and a 1-week-old — made it on air. One of the more serious sounding calls came from a woman named “Katie,” who agreed to give up her 1-month-old for three days. She wanted to sell the PS3 on eBay to make some extra money for the holidays.”
After the radio show hosts were done with their prank, and announced that it was just a joke, “Katie” apparently called back, saying, “So, does that mean I don’t get the PlayStation?”
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NPD Research has just released a list of the top selling PC games for the week ending on November 18th. The Sims 2 took 3 of the 10 spots, with Blizzard and Sega, as well as others, making showings as well. Here is the full list:
- The Sims 2 Pets – Electronic Arts
- Medieval 2: Total War – Sega
- World of Warcraft – Blizzard
- Neverwinter Nights 2 – Atari
- Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe – Microsoft
- EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer – Sony Online
- Battlefield 2142 – Electronic Arts
- Call of Duty 2 – Activision
- The Sims 2 – Electronic Arts
- The Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff – Electronic Arts
Today, Blizzard announced a new feature for their insanely popular MMO, World of Warcraft. The new stat tracking system that allows players to track activity on the server over the past seven days. There a are plethora of trackable stats, which are listed below:
- Bestsellers — the most auctioned items
- Crafter’s Corner — the most created items
- Fierce Creatures — the most dangerous enemies in WoW (i.e., the creatures that are killing the most players on a given day)
- Gold Rush — the most gathered items
- Big Booty — the most looted items (drops from creatures in the game)
- Heroes for Hire — the most completed quest on a given day
You can check out the stats here.
In an announcement posted on the Official Steam Website, Valve has just released information that the supernatural shooter Prey will be released Thursday on Valve’s Steam content delivery service. The price will be $49.95, however, people who already own a copy of Prey will be able to simply enter their product key to activate the Steam version for free.
Earlier this month Medieval 2: Total War and Dark Messiah Might And Magic were released on Steam as well, both are retailing for $49.95.
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Speaking to Reuters this Wednesday, Nintendo president, Reggie Fils-Aime, has said that he expects to see one more holiday in the Gameboy’s console life cycle.
“We think that Game Boy Advance certainly has at least one more holiday season left in it. For us, it continues to be a great stepping stone for five-, six-, seven-year-old consumers to have their first great handheld gaming experience and then transition right into DS,” Fils-Aime told the Reuters Media Summit in New York.
Of course, primary focus has switched to the Nintendo DS, but Reggie states that profits are still strong on both consoles, not just the DS. He concludes the talk by stating that black Friday weekend saw excellent sales of both handhelds.
“For as great a Black Friday weekend that we had on DS, we had just as good a selling season so far on Game Boy Advance,” he said.
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Following the shooting at a public school last week, where a former student (and supposedly a Counter-Strike player) walked in and shot several children, the German government is looking to ban violent shooters, titles like Half Life and Crysis. German developer Crytek (Far Cry, Crysis) spoke about the issue in an interview, where CEO Cevat Yerli said if the new law was passed, Crytek would leave Germany. Currently the developer employs some 130 people, most of them working on Crysis.
Via 1UP
