Playing Wii games on PC

I’m usually not that impressed with console emulators on PCs. At least, I haven’t been impressed with ones I’ve seen in the past. While they can do a serviceable job of allowing you to play that rare game for a console that you put away in mothballs years ago, their performance won’t typically wow you nor will you get perfect compatibility, resulting in a number of glitches or an outright failure to run. Read more

Wii tells pitcher ‘you’re fat!’

During the off season, San Diego pitcher Heath Bell got a revelation…from his kid’s Wii. When trying Wii Fit, the game recognizes whether or not you’re fat by giving you an appropriate sized game avatar. If you’re fit, your avatar will be fit. If you’re corpulent, you won’t like what you see on the screen. Apparently, neither did Bell, who checked into training camp a svelte 245 pounds, 25 pounds off his playing weight of 270 pounds.

“It said I was obese,” Bell said. “If you’re obese, it makes [your character on screen] obese. I was disappointed that I was that big. I literally took the game to heart. I did the work but I kind of credit the Wii Fit.”

It’s funny that a Wii could do something that the myriad of professional sports trainers, coaches, doctors and nutritionists probably tried to do, but couldn’t. Now if only the Wii can tell him he needs to improve his command on the mound. Now that would be something.

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Onechanbara: a new low?

Game publisher D3 recently reaffirmed the release of two titles, Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers and Onechanbara: The Bikini Squad. T&A game titles aren’t anything new, but in a surprising development D3 announced that these titles are for the Nintendo Wii game console.

This announcement seems to be somewhat at odds to the console maker’s marketing campaign targeting casual gamers, women and families. Nintendo Wii’s best selling games are the Wii Fit and games from the Mario Brother’s franchise. A title where you take on the role of a bikini-clad, zombie killing, katana weilding female protagonist tends to stick out like a sore thumb. Is this an  intentional strategy to market against type or has Nintendo just missed the boat on this one? Read more

Girl Gear: pink gaming accessories

Okay, I’m speechless. I saw this article from Kotaku and it seems it’s not a joke article.  Somebody get the marketing guy who thought of this stuff off the drugs.  I don’t know a single gaming girl that would buy any of that stuff.

So I did a bit of research to see if this was a real company, and came up with some interesting results. Girlgear.com is just being camped; one of those web sites that have links to what you were trying to find, but isn’t really a site in of itself.  Girl-gear.com (note the hyphen) is one of those NFSW sites. Their “gear” runs more into the S&M type variety. The first site that came up after googling ‘Girl Gear’ was this site: Pink Tool Belts. Pink Tool Belts actually does produce pink accessories, but not for games (at least I didn’t find anything on the site). It also publicizes itself as being part of GirlGear Industries, so perhaps we have our culprit.