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By Tracey John …Recchio thinks that it was the timing, the $39.99 price point, and the easy, Wiimote gameplay. She also attributes the game’s sales to the ever-growing demand for the Wii. “[Nintendo is] expecting to sell another eight million by the time this Christmas is over, and so the install base will...

By Stephen Totilo Wasn’t I just at E3 in July? Wasn’t I just there interviewing Sony’s top marketing man for American PlayStation business, Peter Dille? Weren’t he and I talking about the E3 announcement that the 40GB PS3 was getting cleared out to make room for an 80GB unit?

By Stephen Totilo Drake said that on the day “Rock Band 2″ is released — September 14 for the Xbox 360 version — a patch will be issued for the original game. That title update will add an Export feature to the original “Rock Band” game’s menu. Gamers who select that feature will be prompted to input a password, wh...

By Patrick Klepek Have a hot tip? Is there a topic that Multiplayer should be covering and isn’t? Do you think leading on Wii is the right move? Drop me an e-mail. “Harry Potter” is a series dictated by the most popular console. First, PS One. Then, PlayStation 2. For a while, Xbox 360. But now, Wii has taken over. Maki...

By Tracey John Okay, so maybe we’re not great at making our own box art (hey, you try squeezing in as many names as you can), but we do regularly take it upon ourselves to judge new releases solely on their appearances, regardless of their content. First up, the much-talked about “Too Human” … “Too Human” (X...

By Patrick Klepek Playing with NERF guns is one of my most treasured childhood pastimes. Somehow, I never poked my eye out. But I have a chance to risk it over again, thanks to Electronic Arts “NERF N-Strike” and what is probably the coolest add-on being released for the Wiimote yet. The add-on slips over the Wii...

By Stephen Totilo Kim didn’t seem moved by the request and Microsoft has shown no signs of changing. Microsoft sells millions of pieces of content over Xbox Live. I’m sure company executives believe the system works. I’m also sure people who don’t have credit cards like it quite a lot.

By Patrick Klepek Electronic Arts told me last week that they aren’t talking about any potential Wii version of “The Godfather II” yet. All of their focus is on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions of the mobster sequel which are slated for release in February.

By Patrick Klepek Nintendo Surprise At GDC - All These Western Developers Making Promising Games For Wii And DS Electronic Arts has a gem on its hands. It’s called “Henry Hatsworth In The Puzzling Adventure” and it’s one of the most creative uses of the DS hardware that I’ve seen. More than that, it’s not a gimm...

By Patrick Klepek Plus, did you think Nintendo invented the word Wii? You’d be wrong Are you hungry for video game food? Electronic Arts has some “Dead Space” eats to solve that problem Valve teased a content update for “Team Fortress 2″ on the console

By Stephen Totilo Wii Seeks — An advocate for the aboriginal people of Canada Nix-Ya-Wii — Memorial for Native American veterans WII — The companies Nancy Wii, William Wii- People in Papua New Guinea Wii in Uganda Wii Yatani Those are the highlights. And to think I thought Nintendo started this Wii stuff…

By Stephen Totilo I walked four blocks south and one block east from MTV headquarters yesterday to play some upcoming games from Midway. Among them was “TNA Impact!,” a September game for PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii based on the generally more athletic if not as charismatic company of wrestlers who compete ag...

By Tracey John I didn’t include the Wii as one of my options because of my love for “FIFA” and “Prince of Persia” on traditional controllers. To those who were suggesting the Wii, don’t get me wrong: I think that the system is an awesome creation where games such as “Wii Sports” bowling or even ping-pong can...

By Stephen Totilo Full Game Critics Awards winners listed after the jump) Game Critics Awards - Best of E3 2008 Best Original Game Mirror’s Edge DICE/Electronic Arts for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 36) Best Strategy Game Tom Clancy’s EndWar Ubisoft Shanghai/Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)

Microsoft Responds To July NPD Sales, Seems Pleased - Kotaku

Best of E3 2008 Game Critics Awards Winners - Gaming Bits

E3 awards: Fallout 3 = Best of Show; LittleBigPlanet = Best Console game - Joystiq

By Stephen Totilo Riccitiello gave a thorough answer to both and, for good measure, gave a quote about EA’s relationship to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo that made him sound like a character from “Metal Gear Solid 4.” (To wit: “They make the war. We make the bullets. We’ll sell to any of them. “)

[Game Deal Daily] Boom Blox (Platform: Nintendo Wii) - 35.95 - DODTracker.com New Deals

EA Chief: Slow-Starting Wii ‘Boom Blox’ Is Video Games’ ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ - MTV Multiplayer

EA: ‘Boom Blox’ Sales Have ‘Met Expectations’ - MTV Multiplayer

By Tracey John Both “Clone Wars” titles will hit stores in November. A long time ago (yesterday) in a galaxy far, far away (across the street in a Manhattan hotel), I got my hands on the Wii and DS versions of the new “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” titles. Based on the CG-animated movie due out August 14 and the upc...

By Stephen Totilo This was great news for me not just because the first “Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved” was my favorite game of the Xbox 360’s launch, but because the unheralded “Geometry Wars: Galaxies” on the Wii (classic controller is a must!) was one of my top 10 games of last year.

By Stephen Totilo Want to see some of the E3 coverage we aired on MTV? Check out this piece which aired earlier today and features top guys at Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony answering some of the tougher questions I asked them at E3. To Microsoft: Are Xbox Avatars cribbed from the Wii’s Miis?To Sony: How did you g...

By Stephen Totilo Nintendo President Talks ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Deal, Lack Of ‘GTA’ Wii Earlier this week GameInformer.com reported that third-party developers contacted by the outlet possess feelings of “annoyance and betrayal” regarding the new Wii MotionPlus controller add-on. The complaint is tha...

By Stephen Totilo The video here excerpting my E3 interview with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime includes me asking him where “New Super Mario Bros. 2” is for the DS. He says it’s in Shigeru Miyamoto’s brain. Click play for more banter on WiiWare, Wii hardware supply and more. Notice what makes h...

By Stephen Totilo Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told me at E3 that his company is not only aware of the complaints about the limited storage on the Wii but that they don’t think it’s just a problem for geeks and otaku. Multiplayer will have much more from our E3 interviews with the top gaming p...

By Stephen Totilo Multiplayer will have much more from our E3 interviews with the top gaming people at Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo as the week goes on. How did Nintendo get a “Grand Theft Auto” slated for the DS? What’s the game going to be like? And what can Wii owners expect of “GTA” now that DS owners are gett...

By Tracey John “Order Up!” (Wii) What the Box Tells Us: It’s some sort of game involving food. But do you make it? Serve it? Eat it? These oddly shaped cartoon people give me the creeps — not too appetizing. Pros: Simple design. Cons: Too simple. What is this? Love It or Leave It: Leave it.

By Stephen Totilo Just booting up an Xbox 360 or PS3 last week notified gamers that E3 was happening. Booting up a Wii merely explained that last week was a week in July. That’s a hint of what E3 means to Nintendo and what Nintendo thinks E3 means to its console user base.

By Stephen Totilo The critically-acclaimed EA Wii game “Boom Blox” is not a failure commercially, EA CEO John Riccitiello told me yesterday during an interview in his company’s E3 booth regarding the state of the games publisher. Instead, it’s a success with Pink Floyd potential. And he’d even like to do a s...

[Game Deal Daily] Boom Blox (Platform: Nintendo Wii) - 35.95 - DODTracker.com New Deals

‘We Make The Bullets’ - EA Chief Talks Console War And Activision Comparisons - MTV Multiplayer

EA: ‘Boom Blox’ Sales Have ‘Met Expectations’ - MTV Multiplayer

By Stephen Totilo We’ll find out at the Nintendo E3 briefing tomorrow morning. I was getting ready to go to Microsoft’s E3 press briefing when Nintendo decided to start raining on the Xbox 360’s parade. I got a text message from Nintendo revealing a new Wii remote add-on: The MotionPlus. This is how the device i...

By Patrick Klepek There will be two Stix controllers at launch, the 200 ($39.99) and the 400 ($49.99) models. The 200 is designed for 2D gaming, while the 400 will support fully 3D games, too. For example, while it sounds unwieldy, we were told you could load “World of Warcraft” and map 16 buttons across the two co...

By Stephen Totilo 3) Multiplayer’s Jason Cipriano laments 10 things that he feels are missing from “Super Smash Bros. Brawl,” a game he likes very much. 9) Our own Patrick Klepek reported that Microsoft is developing its version of the Wii’s motion-sensitive remote and published a sketch provided to him by...

By Patrick Klepek The games are set for an October release. It wasn’t long ago I was talking up Red Fly Studio’s “Mushroom Men” on this blog. Last week, not only did I play an updated “Mushroom Men” DS, but witnessed the Wii version for the first time. Because I couldn’t play “Mushroom Men” on the Wii, however, I si...

By Jason Cipriano The mechanics for potion creation were intuitive, and along the lines of what you would do when cooking in real life, if you were mixing almost any recipe. For example, if you need Harry to pour in a certain amount of armadillo bile, you angle and “pour” with the Wii controller. If the recipe in...

By Stephen Totilo Other key features include “hero buildings.” These buildings influence the architecture of the buildings near them, spreading influences as wide-ranging as Las Vegas glitz to stone-age… stony-ness. The game includes motion-triggered disasters (strike the Wii remote down for a mete...

By Patrick Klepek “Rock Band“ The Wii version was released today. It’s not the same “Rock Band” that appeared on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 last fall. Harmonix and MTV Games used the PlayStation 2 version of “Rock Band” as the foundation for their Wii version, so there are a number of features aren’t in “Rock Ba...

By Stephen Totilo One week after Nintendo made public the usage stats for its downloadable Wii games in the U.S., I’ve been able to crunch some numbers to learn just how fervently — or not — gamers are embracing the WiiWare service. Anyone who has a Wii can do this analysis for themselves. Log onto the Nintendo Cha...

By Tracey John Multiplayer: Did Nintendo offer any support in the creation of the “Active Life” pad? Multiplayer: With the Wii Balance Board out, among other games (”Guitar Hero,” “Rock Band,” “DDR,” etc.), do you think that there are too many peripherals for the Wii? How will the new “Active Life” pad s...

By Tracey John While Gutierrez and Bernat’s stunt has gotten them a lot of attention, they maintained that they were not in cahoots with Nintendo in any way. The fact that the pair works at the same ad agency caused people to think that Nintendo was one of their clients. “I wish Nintendo would contact us,” Gu...

By Patrick Klepek “Boom Blox was a true test of the potential for third-party success on Nintendo Wii. It appears that success on the Wii will remain difficult to achieve,” said analyst Evan Wilson during his NPD analysis for this month. “Wii Fit sold more than 10 times the units with on-third of the days at ret...

[Game Deal Daily] Boom Blox (Platform: Nintendo Wii) - 35.95 - DODTracker.com New Deals

‘We Make The Bullets’ - EA Chief Talks Console War And Activision Comparisons - MTV Multiplayer

EA Chief: Slow-Starting Wii ‘Boom Blox’ Is Video Games’ ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ - MTV Multiplayer

By Tracey John On the other hand, there’s the Xbox 360. Since MTV Multiplayer broke the news about a possible Xbox 360 motion-controller, he revealed that Peekaboo isn’t ruling out the console as their platform of choice, particularly with its heavily male audience. Kay: “On the Xbox 360, the game could...

By Stephen Totilo I recently picked up “Mario Kart” for the Wii, and while I’d never utilized the online play option for any of the other game’s I’ve played on the console, I decided to try my hand at whooping ass internationally, against players from around the world (well, that’s not true – they’re mostly f...

By Patrick Klepek “It’s quite hard to compare difficulty levels between Wii and Xbox 360,” said Loppin. “The gameplay is quite different as a result of the different strengths and control systems of the consoles, but we’ve tried to keep the experience consistent. If it gets too hot you can always use the chap...

By Stephen Totilo Early last week a Konami representative asked me if I wanted to do an interview about the 10th anniversary of “Dance Dance Revolution.” And before I could fully process the notion that the game was launched in Japanese arcades in late 1998 and wasn’t released for consoles in North America u...

By Tracey John Harmonix claimed that the Wii version of “Rock Band” wasn’t an afterthought and that white plastic is meant to get dirty. Meanwhile, we confirm “Guitar Hero: World Tour” will have licensed downloadable tracks. Zen Studios, an XBL developer, defends Microsoft’s de-listing policies.

By Stephen Totilo Nintendo’s “Wii Fit” gives gamers a chance to turn the Wii Balance Board sideways and treat it like a snowboard, but it’s publisher Ubisoft that is backing the first game that makes such a feature its focus. I was given a demo of the Wii version of “Shaun White Snowboarding” at a Ubisoft event...

By Tracey John “Rock Band” on Wii is slated for release on June 22, and the first volume of the track pack hits stores July 15. Yesterday afternoon, I played “Rock Band” for the Wii in a demo room used by MTV Games (it’s not as easy for us as you’d think — I had to walk five blocks to another building). Harmonix Com...

By Patrick Klepek The disappearance of an arcade on every corner, however, means that Jarvis’ target demographic has changed. It’s not difficult to find a copy of “Target: Terror,” though. You just have to be looking in the right place, like your local movie theater. The last two theaters I’ve attended have b...