Whether you're a Wii fanatic or prefer pocket-sized fun with the DS, you're likely to find something worth getting excited about as Nintendo today announces its Autumn/Winter collection of games and other software titles, hitting stores from tomorrow, through Christmas and into the new year.

First up, Wii Fit Plus will hit European stores at the end of October, offering a range of new exercise features including personalised yoga and strength training routines, lifestyle routines, calorimeter, and a range of new training regimes.

On 20th November, Super Mario Bros arrives on Wii, featuring a fully-fledged adventure that up to four people can play simultaneously.

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Not wanting to be overshadowed by Microsoft's announcement that Project Natal is gaining support from a number of major games manufacturers, Sony has declared that its motion controller for the PS3 console will be available early next year.

Linking up to a PlayStation Eye camera, the system allows face, voice and body movement recognition in order to control games in a completely different way.

This motion controller (which doesn't have an official name yet) is equipped with two motion sensors, three axes gyroscope and three axes accelerometer that can detect the controller's angle and movement held in the user's hand.

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Logitech has today announced two new music game controllers designed for use with music games on the Nintendo Wii.

The Wireless Guitar Controller for Wii is constructed with a maple neck, rosewood fingerboard and metal frets, so it both looks and feels more authentic.

It features a noise-dampening design and fret buttons, plus a touch-sensitive slider on the fret board.

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That slimmer PS3 rumor from a couple of months ago has finally come to pass, with Sony announcing that a new PlayStation 3 will be released in September.

The new PS3 will feature a 120GB hard drive, Blu-ray drive, new system software (version 3.00) and BRAVIA Sync (for tying up to your Sony TV). It'll cost $299.

Sony's making a big thing of the re-branding, changing the name from PLAYSTATION 3 to PlayStation 3 (note the capitals — I've obviously been getting it wrong all these years as I've often referred to it the "new" way) and introducing a "PS3" logo to be engraved on the surface of the new console.

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According to a city analyst (not that they ever get anything wrong mind you), there’s rumours abound that Sony is to announce a price cut for their hardware, along with, perhaps, a non-Blu-ray version of the PS3. "Recent channel checks indicate increased speculation for a PS3 price cut announcement from Sony in the next couple of days" said Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey on Tuesday. (source – Edge). One of the easiest ways to reduce the price of the PS3 would (naturally) be to cut the expensive Blu-ray player feature out of the machine, resulting in (potentially), a saving that could be passed on to the consumer to the tune of ...
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  Nothing makes the gaming experience complete than to actually view the game in 3D.  Well, taking from Spatial View's terms... view it in 3Dee 19 inches!  If you like games such as: · Call Of Duty 2 · Counterstrike Source · Half-Life 2: Deathmatch · Need for Speed - Most Wanted · Moorhuhn Kart · Transformers - The Game · Unreal Tournament 2003 · Unreal Tournament 2004 · World of Warcraft you'd better grab Wazabee's 3Dee to view it in a blowout(!) video mode.  Yeah, games these days are kinda plump with visual acrobatics, but to actually see your play "leap" out of the box and get you the "I'm in the game" mode Wazabee's 3Dee is the trick. Check out these specs: Panel Size : ...
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  Woke up today to a Walmart ad about tens of thousands of Wii consoles available for US$249.  Take note that those are only basic console sets (console and a controller)... should it come with an extra controllers, games and other bundled items... the price becomes US$329.  While I'm not totally a Wii fanboy, I'd say this deal comes perfectly during the holidays.  I'm sure parents will take note of this and line up for one.  I do hope PlayStation 3, the Xbox and some other stuff follows suit. I've always looked for deals around this time of the year.  Walking around BestBuy, Target & Game Stop, I always see product bundles top shelf. ...
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Are you losing precious desk space for your additional PC toys?  Sure, you've got a huge desk and for now it all works well.  I think you need to check out the Ultimate Gaming Table below.     This set-up keeps all your gears within reach and looking really cool.  Top shelves for those three LCDs (gaming, work and the MTV channel).  And check out the second shelves, your blue tooth keyboard mouse and that gaming wheel for those lazy kick back moments. This is sold here  and surprisingly for just US$379, initially for Continental USA at the moment. If you have everything on eye level, you'd definitely appreciate this table to boost everything to visible access.  ...
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The following is a companion piece to my recent article on Jeff Gerstmann being fired. As I mentioned, there’s a wide variety of interesting points to look at regarding Jeff’s firing – at least if you believe the (arguably now defunct) conspiracy theory angle. Let’s just suppose though, that it were true that there are times when money can buy an opinion in the game world – or indeed anywhere else. You’d have a huge problem right? How could you trust what you read, see or hear? Well, I’ve got a big issue with this. Over in the UK, we’ve got a show called Film 2007 with Jonathan Ross. He’s an arguably funny-man ...
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As I recently covered on my blog, the eleven year veteran of Gamespot (the US version of the site) has recently been ‘terminated’ (their phraseology not mine) for apparently still undisclosed reasons which are at best purely internal. At worst, the reasons could stem from a rather insipid accusation levelled at Cnet – namely that they fired Gerstmann for giving a poor review when Eidos had bought a huge amount of ad space on www.Gamespot.com. At first, things looked incredibly suspicious – the background to this story being that Gerstmann was fired (apparently because of his criticism of Kane & Lynch), his video review removed (without a reason given at the time), his review text altered (again ...
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