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Gamertell Review: Personal Trainer: Walking for DS

by PJ Hruschak on May 25, 2009 at 11:01 PM

According to the latest inclusion in Nintendo’s Personal Trainer “game” series, I am not a fat, lazy slob. Instead, I am as active as a Daytime Deer and, some days, an Evening Owl. Thank you, Personal Trainer: Walking. You make me feel thin… Continue Reading »

The DS supports Miis

by Jeremy Hill on May 22, 2009 at 01:08 PM

How would you like to take your Mii with you wherever you go? It certainly sounds like an untapped gold mine that Nintendo has yet to dig into. Well it seems that Nintendo has stealthily unlocked this Mii transporting ability for Personal Trainer: Walking for the DS. All you have… Continue Reading »

A force is unleased on September 2008 NPD charts

by Jason Townsend-Rogers on Oct 17, 2008 at 01:38 PM

The NPD report has been released for September 2008 and Star Wars fans sure made a Force-ful impact. Along with the positive news that total game sales were $1.27 billion, Star Wars fans had the pleasure of seeing their games place high on the charts. The console iteration of Star… Continue Reading »

Remembering Dance Aerobics, the spiritual predecessor to Wii Fit

by Neil Barbour on Jul 7, 2008 at 07:20 PM

It turns out that all the way back in 1987,  a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was tricking its unsuspecting users into exercise routines. Bandai’s Dance Aerobics is the spiritual predecessor to Nintendo’s Wii Fit and natural movement. The game features a few modes of following an instructor’s… Continue Reading »

Wii Fit calls British teenager fat, Nintendo issues statement

by Pulkit Chandna on May 24, 2008 at 01:01 PM

“You are fat,” the Wii Fit game stated matter-of-factly, as the world crumbled around a 10-year-old British girl, who had been excitedly standing on the game’s Balance Board peripheral until the heart-breaking pronouncement. However, her father hasn’t come to terms with the game’s assessment of her stepdaughter’s body weight and… Continue Reading »

The era of Wii-habilitation

by Pulkit Chandna on Feb 12, 2008 at 10:53 AM

Revolution was what Nintendo had initially christened the Wii. The Wii has apparently lived up to its initial name by revolutionizing the video games industry. Beyond its impact on the games industry, it has also been touted as a fitness machine of sorts, though many studies in recent times have… Continue Reading »

Canadian students find Wii workouts trail conventional exercises

by Pulkit Chandna on Jan 29, 2008 at 05:00 PM

In the later portion of 2007, a British study had rebuffed the Wii as a fitness solution and found that Wii gaming sessions can’t actually replace physical exercise. Now, on the other side of the Atlantic, Canadian students have seconded that opinion. Twenty-eight students at the Halifax-based Dalhousie University put… Continue Reading »

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