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The Wii Fit balance board mat is now a hot commodity thanks to Wii Fit. People are starting to recognize that games can be healthy and Nintendo has proven that time and time again with their Wii franchises. First there was Wii Sport, and ...

If you are into characters and fighting games, Soul Calibur 4 looks pretty like a decent game to own. But the funny thing is that, of all things, Namco has decided to do something "special" in their marketing campaign, or should I say in the game development.

As we all know, HD-DVD has finally lost the HD format war. That essentially left thousands of consumers with a device that will soon become obsolete as the industry chooses to distribute movies on Blu-ray discs. For all those who had bought a HD DVD player, there's good news ...

Gibson Guitar Corporation yesterday sued Wal-Mart and five other major retailers that sell the Activision Guitar Hero game, claiming it violates a patent it holds. A federal lawsuit filed on Monday claims Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, Amazon.com, GameStop and Toys "R" Us should stop selling the game. Gibson has already tried to stop video game publisher Activision from selling all versions of the game, claiming it too closely matches a musical virtual-reality patent from 1999. The guitar company said in a released statement that it took “this action reluctantly, but is required to protect its intellectual property".

The trumpets have sounded, the debris has been cleared from the battlefield and Sony's Blu-ray format has been declared victorious in the "high definition DVD" war. There were a few souls who tempted fate (and lost) by taking the plunge on Toshiba's HD DVD players, especially after prices dipped below $500 just before Christmas. Most people, though, were happy to stand on the sidelines until a winner was declared. Now that Blu-ray's time has come, Sony has a raft of players lining up for your home entertainment dollar. The latest of these is the top-shelf BDP-S500, which is strikingly similar in design and features to the $699 BDP-S300. With the S500's higher asking price come numerous advanced audio options delivered by the updated HDMI 1.3 interface.

Schools in UK will soon be using the Nintendo Wii as part of the curriculum for PE lessons after plans were approved by the Department of Health. A report by the Independent on Sunday revealed that the Wii has been successfully used in trials in five schools in Worcestershire, with ...

The highly anticipated Super Smash Bros. Brawl is no doubt the current best selling Wii game of all time. It sold 1.08 million copies since it launched in Japan, in only two weeks time!