Wii Spot Podcast from WiiSpot.com

The Red Steel developer blog has gone live. The first blog entry is by Marie-Sol Beaudry, the producer of Red Steel. She talks about the challenges that come with developing for a system so focused on user interface and some of their goals for Red Steel. If your looking forward to Red Steel as much [...]

According to the latest edition of Nintendo Power, six Wii titles are slated to launch alongside the Wii this year. The titles are:

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Red Steel
Rayman Raving Rabbits.

I remember a few other titles slated to [...]

During a Q&A session at the Nintendo Corporation Management Briefing, Shinji Hatano revealed that the Wii development kit would be relatively inexpensive.
Question: I recall GameCube received a warm welcome by the software developers before the launch. Comparing with the pre-launch period of GameCube, how differently are the third parties evaluating Wii now, and does Nintendo [...]

The Wii’s controller is perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Nintendo’s new console. It’s provocative design attempts to break the barriers that separate gamers from non-gamers. At this years E3, Nintendo showed it off and the overall response for it was good. But in an interview with Famitsu, Shigeru Miyamoto hinted that the Wii controller [...]

Satoru Iwata announced today that the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS will be able to connect with each other wirelessly via wi-fi. Although not surprising, its nice to hear the official word. Nintendo’s first attempt at connectivity didn’t really go anywhere as it required a special cable to connect the GameBoy Advanced to the [...]

In an interview with Scott Hedrick, Executive Vice President of Opera for Devices, Cubed3 managed to extract some details about the Opera web browser being built for the Wii. I’m not a big fan of using any computer program on a TV display let alone a browser, but some of the ideas presented in the [...]

The one and only Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo, has shed some light upon the future of the Wii in an interview with technology enthusiast site Tech-On!. According to Iwata, Nintendo is not working on a next-generation console. Next-generation conveys a vision that Nintendo is not aiming for.
“Next-generation” implies that the console is an extension [...]

Nintendo has made their press conference downloadable from their very own E3 2006 website. If you missed it like I did, this is a great opportunity to watch a high resolution video of it. The video is encoded in H.264 so it scales extremely well and is probably iPod compatible.
Download the video
Goto Nintendo’s E3 coverage [...]

The Wiire got a chance to chat with Lance Barr, a Nintendo industrial designer, about the Wii’s controller. According to Barr, the Wii controller will run on standard AA batteries and will be able to accept alkaline or rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Although lithium ion will last longer, Nintendo has chosen only to include standard [...]

Square Enix, creators of the famous Final Fantasy series and many other titles, held a press conference today in sunny LA at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Three big announcements were made, two of which concerned the Wii.
The first, is the announcement Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors. A short [...]

The latest issue of Time Magazine takes a look at the Nintendo Wii. What’s interesting about it is the confirmation of a new WarioWare title for the Wii. If you’ve played previous WarioWare titles, you’ll know that WarioWare tries to take full advantage of the platform’s hardware. WarioWare Touch for example used the DS’s stylus [...]

The best selling WWii game is coming to Wii.

THQ CEO Brian Farrell said a few words about the Nintendo Wii today during a conference call. In the phone call, Farrell touched on the subject of game development for the Wii several times.
We showed in a press event recently a SpongeBob game using the Nintendo Wii and Wii controller,” Farrell said, “and standing there [...]

Many claimed that Nintendo was pulling a publicity stunt when they announced the renaming of the Revolution. The name “Wii” sounds ridiculous and many game developers agree. One of the main arguments was the fact that “Wii” still hadn’t been trademarked despite the fact that many Nintendo executives gave interviews and confirmed the rebranding.
Today, a [...]

The limb-less hero is making his way to the Wii… on a giant spider.