Console Watcher

Two old rivals in the video game business are teaming up. Sega and Nintendo have agreed to pit their two high-profile mascots - Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario the plumber - against each other in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. It's the first time the snarky blue hedgehog and the pudgy Italian plumber have appeared in the same title. The game, to be released in time for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, will include table tennis, swimming and running, among other events.

1. Early designs had the Wii intentionally looking very similar to the DS. (Nintendo ultimately rejected the similar design for fear of confusing gamers, and possibility of collateral damage if the DS failed.)

Nintendo's Wii out-sold PS3 nearly three to one in Japan for the month of January. 148,000 PS3s have been sold compared to 405,000 Wiis. Nintendo is beginning to take a large chunk of the gaming market with its new system. Since the two systems were debuted in Japan, the Wii has outsold PS3 by nearly 2:1! These stats were compiled by Enterbrain, the largest video-game magazine publisher.

From the same team at Konami that brought us Elebits, Dewy's Adventure (tentative title) is a game coming to the Wii, starring a droplet of water. Well, Dewy, the magical drop of water, will be fighting off dark water which ...

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West Virginia, which has the worst childhood obesity problem in the United States, is stepping up plans to use Konami Corp.'s "Dance Dance Revolution" to battle the bulge in its schools. The state, which plans to put the popular dancing video game in every one of its public schools, said research suggested that it helped put a halt to weight gain.