In a letter to the New England Medical Journal, Karen Eley of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust details the case of a 14-year-old girl who fell off her Wii Fit Balance Board and fractured her foot.
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Ubisoft is now shipping their Academy of Champions soccer game for the Wii. Fun for the whole family, including the little ones. Academy of Champions has sports great Pelé and U.S. soccer champion Mia Hamm.
Academy of Champions is compatible with the Wii Balance Board and Wii Motion Plus. The game packs 12 action packed mini games, 5-on-5 soccer action, story-driven playing experience, and unlockable characters like Sam Fisher and Altair.
Geared towards kids, but fun for the whole family. What better way to introduce your young gamers to soccer and multi-player fun!
The US Department of Homeland Security has spoken to IncGamers about recent reports that its FAST initiative uses the Wii balance board to bolster airport security.
"This is just one of the things we’re trailing and is just a prototype at the moment out of a range of ideas we have," said Amy Kudwa from the Department of Homeland Security. Find out more after the link.
Atrocious wordplay and puns aside, indie game developers Code Monkeys have plonked the latest news for this WiiWare game in our lap like a fortuitously-fallen coconut. Keep an eye out for Manic Monkey Mayhem later this month.
Trained in the noble and ancient martial art of Banana Flinging, players control one of eight of these finely-honed monkeys. Up to seven other simian antagonists can play together, and you can honor the rules of combat across eight differently themed landscapes. The rules are simple: last monkey standing wins. You’ll be positioned on a small podium and separated from your opponents via a series of six floating breakable wooden crates. Each crate contains power-ups and ammunition, so use your zen-like banana flinging skills to knock your opponents off their podiums. Then you can exalt in your glorious victory and be crowned king or queen of all the monkeys!
Even better, Manic Monkey Mayhem can be played with a Wii balance board across the single player modes. The game even supports local multiplayer or Nintendo Wi-Fi across a variety of chimp-tastic game modes. Just don’t slip on any skins!
The game will be available for purchase in the Wii Shop from 30 October.
The biggest game this season has pretty much been determined. Half of the expected holiday release schedule has been pushed to next year in an attempt to get out of Modern Warfare 2’s way. Infinity Ward’s newest trailer has not only confirmed that part of the game will take place on US soil, but it showed a heated battle in Washington DC. In fact, the battle in Modern Warfare 2 could be what leads up to the events in Fallout 3. That being said, there is one thing that Modern Warfare 2 doesn’t have: Pelvic thrusting.
In Nintendo’s never ending quest to sell a gaming console to non-gamers, Wii Fit is already getting a sequel. Wii Fit Plus has fewer menus and 15 new mini-games, all aimed to get you in even better shape. Plus, lower-impact games have been added in order to make the game more senior-citizen friendly. Apparently the only demographic that isn’t swimming in Wiis is the nations retired folks. With a new price tag and a game aimed towards seniors, expect ads in the AARP and a Wii in every retirement home.
I am a bit skeptical myself. I mean, its a bit humiliating to get told that I need to lose some weight from a video game, when they are definitely a contributing factor. One of the mini-games has you standing on the balance board and waving your arms wildly like a chicken. This is the most humiliating thing happening to gamers at the hands of a chicken since getting swarmed by them in Zelda. Still, you can’t argue with results, and a trimmed waistband is always nice.
Nintendo have finally announced when Europe will see the next instalment in their keep fit series. Wii Fit Plus will hit European stores on October 30th.
Wii Fit Plus includes a whole raft of new features to make keeping trim even easier. As well as new routines, a calorie counter, continuous workout routines and balance games, Nintendo have added the ability to customise you yoga and strength workouts so you can concentrate on those problem areas.
Nintendo are also boasting 50% more content than that of the original Wii Fit software. This includes 15 new balance games and six new strength training and yoga activities. Whether or not it will make you 50% harder will be up to you though.
This new addition to the Wii fit series boasts multiplayer for up to eight players. Now you can all compete against one another in a variety of balance and training games. Choose to run an obstacle course set across a series of floating platforms, throw snowballs at your mates or watch your friends flap their arms to land a hilarious chicken character as close to a series of targets as possible all in the name of fun and fitness
Wii Fit Plus will be both as a pack bundled with the balance board and on its own for those who braved the frenzy and picked up Wii fit the first time around.
Looking to use your Wii to get in shape, but haven’t quite found the celebrity fitness coach that’s right for you? Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum might have been a little imperious for your taste, and Daisy Fuentes Pilates? Forget about it. Maybe what you’re looking for in a virtual personal trainer is someone who could put you in a one-armed neckbreaker slam, followed by a diving huracanrana?
That’s exactly what developer Frima Studios has in store for us with Stratusphere Yoga — a new workout game for the Wii starring former WWE wrestler Trish Stratus. The game is still extremely early in development, so aside from Trish Stratus being in it, very few actual details have been revealed. They did mention, however, that it’ll make use of the Wii Balance Board and “other new and innovative Wii peripheral devices.”
Stratusphere Yoga is currently without a publisher, but Frima hopes to finish development and have the game available in the second quarter of 2010.
Gamervision reports: "It’s a Nintendo-themed night here at GV. Courtesy of our spies deep within the higher ranks of the Gamestop hierarchy comes word that Wii Fit Plus will be shipping on October 4th. Not only that, but the stand-alone game will retail for $19.99, and the game with balance board will cost $99.99. Not sure what makes them think this year’s version of the game is worth $10 more than the original, but I bet it has something to do with the fact that they could charge a hozillion dollars, and people would still buy it."
Torrence Davis of The Bitbag writes, "Daisy is releasing a new Pilates game for the Wii. This will sell millions to the soccer moms because it’s more serious than Wii Fit and definitely targets women. I would get it but I’m still too FAT to use my Wii Balance Board. At least I can watch this video hundreds of times. I love you Daisy!"
