http://www.wii-uk.net Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:49:25 GMT The latest news from Wii UK. en-us Copyright Wii UK Coranto using the Feed Builder Addon Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:49:25 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20150103492571887381 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20150103492571887381 I was rooting around on some old hard drives recently and discovered Wii UK. So I thought I'd attach some electrodes to its nipples and spark the old git back to life. A lot has happened in the last 6 years. Not least the Wii U. Maybe there's life in the site yet? Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:19:20 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20090109192024134818 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20090109192024134818 Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, and other seasonal greetings I've missed. It has indeed been a while. Too long. Looking at the site makes me feel a bit sad, as I haven't had time to keep it updated for a long time now. Therefore, unless my situation changes, I'm open to offers for the site. If you fancy nabbing yourself a Wii website, with all the content, images, videos, and associated pleasant feeling of warmness inside that you can only get from owning a charming, handcrafted gaming website - send me an email. You never know, though. James Editor Wii UK Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:53:59 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080717535984578775 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080717535984578775 Nintendo have announced that 'MotionPlus', a new add-on for Wii, will be released along with a new title, 'Wii Sports Resort', a game that sounds impossibly chirpy and bright. MotionPlus is a tiny unit that connects to the bottom of the Wii remote, granting far finer replication of movement than the Wii remote currently allows. Which means if you completely bugger something up in a game, you can no longer blame it on the controls. It's all YOU. Wii Sports Resort is, unsurprisingly, based around a similar premise to Wii Sports, albeit with a summery, island-resort style twist. There'll be a Jetski racing minigame ( thank god ), apparently developed by the same team behind the awesome Waverace games, and various other minigames including a frisbee-throwing title. Quite why Nintendo needed to release an add-on, presumably at extra cost ( unless you buy the game ) just to facilitate slightly easier throwing of a frisbee is beyond me. Perhaps they have some kind of higher purpose. People certainly aren't going to take too kindly to having to shell out for an extra peripheral. The whole point of the Wii remote is that it allows intuitive motion control out the box - the release of this 'enhancing' device somewhat undermines the effectiveness of the Wii remote in the first place. Madness. Leave your comments on our forum! Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:20:17 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080617201786703217 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080617201786703217 Our friends over at Gonintendo report that the latest Wii firmware update, amongst other things, prevents Datel's Freeloader from working - meaning that those of you who use the Freeloader to play games from another region will not be able to update your console if you wish to keep playing them. The update also fixes a glitch in Twilight Princess that allows for the creation of a 'Homebrew Channel', allowing for unofficial software and other cheeky stuff to be run on the console. The Homebrew Channel itself, if you've already created it, is reportedly not affected. If anyone can confirm any of this for us please e-mail me. Stay tuned for more news. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:33:47 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080616334791500447 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080616334791500447 Perhaps I'm being harsh, but titles like this really are not necessary. In any way. There's plenty of golf games on the Wii already. There is absolutely no need for another one, particularly one ( apparently ) being created by a bunch of barely literate insane people. Check this: "Now you can have... crazy fun in your own home thanks to Data Design Interactive - a successful video games publisher and games developer, who today announced a new title to be added to their Nintendo Wii label, Popcorn Arcade, kidz Sports - Crazy Mini Golf." Anybody putting a 'z' as opposed to an 's' on the end of a word to make it appeal to the 'yoof' shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a computer, let alone allowed to make a game. It goes on, though: "DDI have incorporated two game styles; for first timers it’s a case of hitting the A bottom when you are lined up, then moving your arm up and down before hitting the B bottom - simple. If you fancy a real challenge, you could try the Sim version where the hitting of the ball and its strength is down to you - once mastered, you will feel like a putting green King…" Really? Or will I feel like I've wasted my money on a half-arsed putting game? Especially as, from the look of the press release, you have to shell out for some kind of special controller that features 'bottoms' instead of buttons. Take a look at this screenshot. Does it look 'crazy' to you? No, it doesn't. It looks rubbish. I'm not posting any more of this crap. Maybe it's the heat making me cranky. Wii UK - the website that doesn't just regurgitate press releases ( we even read them ). Please, please - leave your comments here. Stay tuned for more news. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:55:01 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080616550197907523 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080616550197907523 Normally I couldn't think of anything more tedious than a horse-racing game, but the latest installment of Koei's G1 Jockey series promises to be at least slightly more interesting, thanks to it's compatibility with the Wii Balance Board. Here's what they have to say for themselves, the crazy people: "The Nintendo Wii and now the Wii Balance Board have enabled us to continue our desire to bring every facet of this fascinating sport into the homes of passionate horse racing fans and gamers who want to enjoy a sporting experience like no other." I'm struggling to see exactly how crouching and jumping on a shiny white piece of plastic gadgetry in any way parallels the experience of riding a horse, but top marks for trying Koei. It does sound like fun though, albeit in a ridiculous sort of way. The game also allows you to breed your own horses, although it doesn't specify if you can breed them with other animals to make some kind of hybrid, race-winning monster. Probably not. Presumably the Wii remote and nunchuck will be used to flog your equine partner, which might make it somewhat tricky to prance up and down at the same time. It'll be interesting to see how Koei deal with this - over complication of controls would definitely be a bad thing if you're required to move around a great deal. It's good to see developers utilising the balance board, even if it's so they can secretly laugh at how stupid everyone looks when they're prancing about trying to clear horse jumps. On their own. In the living room. Have your say on this story by clicking here. Stay tuned for more news. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:56:39 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080613563911242701 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080613563911242701 It's been a long time since I've had the pleasure of sifting through one of Nintendo's adjective-packed Virtual Console press releases to bring you the relevant information, which would be this: Alex Kidd in Miracle World 500 points Platform silliness from Sega's awesome Master System. When I bought my Master System II many years ago, you had the choice of choosing Alex Kidd or Sonic to be built in. I chose Sonic. I chose wisely, as that weird knight bloke says at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Nebulus 500 points Larking around in submarines from the Commodore 64, which does sound like fun. Let us know if you snap this one up. Last Ninja 2 500 points More C64 action, with some incomprehensibly-named ninjas travelling through time. As they do. Fatal Fury 2 900 pints Beat 'em up from the NeoGeo. Apparently features 'colourful' graphics ( read: outdated ), and an 'engaging' soundtrack ( read: invokes murderous rage when you've heard it on a loop for the 57th time ). One for old-school fightin' fans. Ninja Combat 900 pints Clearly a bit of a Ninja / Fighting theme going on this week, with this NeoGeo ninja button basher. Kill lots of ninjas, basically. There's a co-op mode too. Well, that's this friday's update out of the way. As you can tell, Wii UK is somewhat 'back' - it's been a while. The forums are still kicking so head over and make yourself heard. Or just lurk. Stay tuned for more updates. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:06:08 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080611060813797888 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080611060813797888 As much as I hate to propagate the 'all gamers are drooling sex maniacs' notion, this story is fairly amusing: in a nutshell, some dodgy looking bloke filmed his girlfriend wiggling her arse around whilst playing the Hula Hoop game on Wii Fit. And uploaded it to YouTube. Whoops. Consequently over 2 million views got racked up of the afore-mentioned lady's hula routine, the boyfriend got an earful from a somewhat understandably narked off girlfriend, and Nintendo denied all knowledge of having anything to do with it. The boyfriend works in advertising, apparently. Cue conspiracy theories. What a lovely story. You can check out the video here... ...and you can leave your comments right here. Bonza. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:37:18 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080611371875729352 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080611371875729352 According to our friends BGB, the upcoming shooter Call of Duty 5 is set to feature graphics that a SNES wouldn't be embarassed to output, in what could be a earth-shattering event for Wii owners. More specifically, they report that the game "promises to look closer to its PS3/360 counterparts than any other franchise." Aha, that's the get-out clause then. It's hardly difficult to make a game look more impressive than most of the multi-platform ports the Wii has been inundated with since launch. Now we all know the Wii is technically underpowered compared to the Xbox 360 and the PS3. Unfortunately for gamers, however, developers aren't mentally underpowered - they realise full well that making lots and lots of money doesn't necessarily have to go hand-in-hand with thinking of lots and lots of good ideas and actually bothering to implement them properly, and neither does it mean they have to make any effort whatsoever in terms of graphical output. Because the Wii is 'all about the games,' they scream, whilst wiping their arses with £50 notes and giggling all the way to the Ferrari. No, it isn't. That's a poor excuse for money-grabbing apathy. A nice angry rant, but an almost completely justified one. Shame it's unlikely to change anything. The few Wii games that deliver the whole package properly put shame on all the others, but to apparently little effect. How would I sum up my experience with the Wii so far? A truly sad waste of potential. Have your say on our forum. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:41:21 GMT http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080601412109536478 http://www.wii-uk.net/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=20080601412109536478 There's an incredibly slim chance that Postal III, the latest incarnation of the violent series, could be coming to Wii, if comments made by the developer are taken with more than a slight dose of optimism. Speaking on website Scrawl, the developers had the following to say: "We are now in the early stage of designing POSTAL III for the PS3. Every developer has their own approach, so while we started first on the Xbox 360, we are now committing to the PS3 as well, and hopefully who knows maybe even the Wii." Hardly concrete evidence, but if nothing else it's a sign that the developers are showing interest in porting their title to the Wii. What is Postal, though? My main memory of Postal II is shooting one of the in-game characters in the head - a passer-by noticed, started vomiting, and then I smashed his head off with a shovel whilst vomit continued to flow out of the neck. Good stuff. The game was a subtance-less waste of time, though, apart from the ( admittedly ) entertaining violence - short-lived, poorly put-together ( with horrendous load times ), but ultimately quite stupid fun for a short while. I haven't heard anything to make me believe Postal III will be any different. One for the tabloids to scream about, but quite possibly one most gamers will toss aside without a second thought after they've had a bit of visceral fun.