Wii Rally

You’ve speant hours searching for that elusive Wii now you can put it to good use. Heavy.com is holding a contest called the “Wii Would Like to Play” contest, prizes include 2000$ USD and a Wii prize pack to set you up right. To enter you need to film a video of you and your friends playing with a Wii. That’s all, just point, shoot, play, submit, sounds easy enough. Entries will be judged on creativity among many other factors. The contest deadline is February 28th and entries must be submitted by that time. Winners will be announced some time after March 5th. Go to heavy.com to submit a video or you can view all the official rules. Oh and an apology to my Canadian readers this contest is only for residents of the US……sorry eh?

From Heavy.com

With Wii, you’ve got a whole new way to play. Round up your friends, dog, neighbors, grandma and make a video of yourself playing Wii… Get creative! You have until February 28th to upload your video entry.
We’ll pick our favorite videos. If your video is selected, you get a $250 cash prize.
Then, tell your friends to watch between Monday, March 5 and Sunday, March 18 because the most watched video will not only become the featured Wii commercial on Heavy.com, but will also win the
$2000 Grand Prize and a Wii prize package.
What are you waiting for? Get playing already!

Click for—>Official Rules
Click for—>Contest page

Well the Nintendo Wii seems to be making the late night talk show circiut. First Stephen Colbert took out US Speaker of the House Nacy Pelosi in a Wii Boxing match. Than the other night talk show host Conan O’Brian challenged Serena Williams to a game of Wii Tennis. I think we all know how this one turned out.

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EA Big put out a new SSX Blur trailer today detailing some of the different characters that will be available. SSX Blur hits store on March 16th.

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A new trailer for Sonic and the Secret Rings showed up on GameTrailers today.

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Going off of yesterday’s press release I decided to track down some video footage for the more interesting titles that should be hitting the Wii over next few months.

I had some trouble digging up the first video. Ubisoft Montreal is developing a TMNT game to coincide with the new CG film being released this year. TMNT will be released for all platforms, but even multi-platform ports tend to play different on the Wii. Most websites have this game hitting store shelves in early March but upon doing some searching I found no mention of the game on Ubisoft’s official website Hmm. The video shows some early gameplay footage combined with kind of a behind the screens look at the development, Enjoy.

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Nicolas Guerin from EA Montreal takes you on a ride with SSX Blur. He explains how you will control you character with the WiiMote and nunchuck as you trick down the mountain slope. It’s defiantly interesting use of the WiiMote and nunchuck. You will be using the WiiMote to draw shapes n the screen to execute special moves. Get “Amped”(pun intended) for this one.

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I hate Thursdays! I mean really hate them, way more than Garfield hates Mondays. Anybody can hate Mondays it’s so easy but it takes a special cookie to hate a day so close to the weekend. So in the interest of impartiality and not writing a scathing post on whatever issue in gaming is bugging me, I’m proud to introduce “Video Thursdays”. Every week I will try and find some of the best Wii videos on the net. I hope that will save you all from my coffee fueled “I’m in the worst mood possible” rants. Trust me on this one you do not want to see my ugly side.

My girlfriend Jen and I have been together for just over 3 years, that said me and video games have been together for about 15 years. Now there isn’t any competition between the two loves of my life but once in a while, I like to combine them and play games with my girlfriend. Sometimes that can be difficult. Jen never really left the 2D era of games she is waaaay better than me at Super Mario and can even hold her own with many of the other classics, Mega Man being one of her favorites. So it’s hard to find 3D games that she would enjoy, at least until I introduced her to “Mario Party”. She loved the simple gameplay of the mini-games and the game board mechanic, plus any game where she can play as Daisy puts a smile on her face.

According to IGN “Mario Party 8″ is due to hit stores sometime in March with more mini-games than you can shake a WiiMote at. So I’ve compiled a series of videos showcasing the gameplay of probably on of the best multiplayer games that will hit the Wii this year, enjoy.

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Well I’ve been looking all day and today is a rare one. There is little to no Wii news out there so I’ve scoured the internet for some new Wii game play videos.

The first is for the upcoming Wii release of the classic cutesy puzzler Bust-A-Move. Can the Wii introduce one of the finest arcade titles to a whole new generation of gamers?

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I was reading my daily blog rotation yesterday and found many sites had lists of their favourite video of the year. I found a post on gaming blog Joystiq and found a post about Tech E Blog’s list their “Top Five Fan Made Game Commercialsâ€?. Two of the entries were Wii themed and are pretty cool uses of the WiiMote.

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I found this interesting yet hypnotic video of a Mii parade today. Mii’s are little avatar’s that are stored on your Wii console and are used to play games like Wii Sports or Wii Play, due in February. The music is relaxing and the parade of 117 Miis will put a smile on your face:) Try and spot the Storm Trooper Mii.