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When it comes to casual gaming there is one games console that’s miles ahead of all the others, and that’s the Nintendo Wii.

The Wii Fit has brought people onto the Nintendo Wii that may never of owned an Xbox 360 or Sony PS3, and there are many more accessories on the way to the Wii.

This is one such example, the Nintendo Wii Sqweeze controller. The controller will not be available to 2009, and InterAction Laboratories had this device on show at GFH 2008. This is what one blogger had to say:

The Wii Sqweeze brings exergaming to the upper body in the form of near-isometric movements the rubber handles allow for shoulder abduction and adduction (Max Range of Motion-ROM ~2-3 inches).

On the device I tried, they hacked the Wii and were running it via USB on a PC. However, I’m told that it will be a fully operational Wii controller by its 2009 launch. To start playing the demo-games IA Labs designed, each player self-calibrates the device by squeezing 50% of your maximum.

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It has been a few months since we were seeing high sales of the Wii Fit, but since the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Nintendo has seen a rise in the video games sales. Over the last seven days sales have jumped by 13 percent for the Wii Fit, the game has now occupied the top spot on four different occasions.

Fourteen weeks ago when the game was first launched people were having problem trying to get hold of the motion-sensitive board and game. Many of us wanted to become involved in the new fitness game. Wii Fit helped players improve their balance fitness level and strength.

It is thought that the start of the Olympics in Beijing is a major factor for sales increases of the game. A number of other titles for the Wii have also seen sales increases, these include Big Beach Sports and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.

I am now starting to feel a little guilty, as my Balance Board is stuck in the corner collecting dust. I am having trouble finding the time to get myself fit again; I bet there are thousands of other Balance Boards doing the same thing.

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You got to love results of game sales, it seems that market companies and the brands themselves always get confused and can never agree who is right.

Today we see some confusion over third-party games sales and who sells the most. Is it the Nintendo Wii or Xbox 360?

Nintendo made a claim that the Wii sells more third-party games than the Xbox 360, but now we hear that Microsoft claim the Xbox 360 is the real winner.

NPD sales figures have this to show: The Nintendo Wii has sold 33,394,311 third party games compared to the Xbox 360’s 67,929,999 third party game sales. If those results are right, it puts the 360 well ahead of the Wii.

So whom do we believe if we wanted to know who has sold the most third party games? It looks like things are never that clear with conflicting numbers like this. Read more Nintendo news here and Microsoft news here.

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Looks like the pensioners are here to battle it out with the younger generation and fair play to them, pensioners and teenagers love the Nintendo Wii because is mimics real life motion plus it keeps you active.

Well whilst visiting Times Online they have some interesting news that we thought you show read, pensioners are basically saying no to bowls and yes to Nintendo Wii, they talk about Doris who is 91 who loves playing Nintendo Wii games.

In a small town in Tenbury Wells, near Leominster in Herefordshire pensioners attend the Age Concern afternoon in a Scout hut where normally it used to be tea and biscuits, but now they have this gaming console. The pensioners play the games under the watchful eyes of a couple of teenagers (Brave they must be).

So it looks like gaming consoles are not just for the young but indeed for the older generation too, maybe we should all have a teenager versus pensioners gaming contest.

When I first laid eyes on the Asus Eee Stick I thought it was a couple of new controllers for the Nintendo Wii. Ok so I am a little dumb, but I bet I was not the only one who thought it.

The name that Asus has chosen “Eee Stick” is a strange one as they are a couple of sticks that are mated to a wireless receiver. So what is the Eee Stick I hear you ask, well they are basically a gamepad that has been split in half. This is something that Sony had hoped to launch at some stage.

The Eee Stick has motion sensing technology like the Wii Remote; I bet Nintendo wish that they had designed theirs to look as sleek as these. Asus has said that tailored games that require the Eee Stick will come bundled in the controllers.

As yet there is no idea when the Eee Stick will be released, but Asus reps have hinted that the UK could see them sometime in September.

Asus will make an announcement in the next few weeks.

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It has been a good while now since Wii fit has released, and it has been a huge success around the world. According to the latest charts over at digital spy, Nintendo Wii fit has managed to retain its position at the top on the Nintendo charts for the 4th consecutive week running.

At the moment it is keeping Mario Kart off the top spot, so it must be still very popular among its fans. Just how many of our readers are still very much into the craze of Wii Fit? Do you still all gather round for a daily spot of yoga or aerobics with the family, or is your Wii balance board locked away gathering dust.

Personally I like to enjoy Wii-fit with some friends and enjoy its social aspects, rather than consider it a real weight loss application and spend hours stressing over spinal twists or various squat procedures!

It would be interesting to find out just how many of you are still addicted to the wonders of Wii Fit so leave a comment below.

Recently the CEO of EA, John Riccitiello has spoken out and believes that EA has “the best title plan of any company in the industry”. He is talking about the way creative teams for EA have been let free and become imaginative when creating games, rather than previous methods of just bringing out licensed sequels.

When he spoke to MTV Multiplayer he stated, “I think that a lot of the intellectual property we create are better than the licenses. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for great licenses. There’s room for both. I think what you’re noticing is that in years gone by we haven’t had as many great, original intellectual properties. There’s a lot more of that this year from EA and I think from here forward”.

His comments above signal good news for all you EA fans out there as there looks to be a lot of good potential games due to be released. Riccitiello also stated that the company made errors when perhaps rushing certain games, “I think what redeems our industry is quality, and I think we take a step back every time we take a license and exploit it with a crappy game. That’s not what we’re about,” he said.

Let’s hope he isn’t kidding, and we can look forward to some special games from EA, on the new generation of consoles.

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The Star trek Universe has many fans and they embrace every new TV Show, movie or game that’s created for this world. Today we hear that the worst kept secret massively multiplayer online role-playing game has been saved.

This MMORPG game is based on Star Trek and will be developed with Cryptic Studios since Perpetual closed down last year. We have been told that “Star Trek Online” will be made for PC and console formats.

Now just what games consoles do they mean: Sony PS3, Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii?

It could be all the formats. But would gamers want another Star Trek game? We remember the last Star Trek game on the Xbox 360 the graphics were a joke.

The new Star Trek Online will let gamers take the role as a starship captain for The Klingons or the Federation. The fun starts when you can train a crew, recruit new members and customize your ship before entering space battles.

As a Star Trek fan, this game will be hard to resist. It will be set in a time after all existing Star Trek TV shows and movies.

There will be a fight over publishing Star Trek Online. Publishers know this is a guaranteed earner of a game.

If you want to see a gameplay video then you will be able to if you visit Las Vegas on 10th August for the annual Star Trek convention.

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The Nintendo Wii may not have the online features that the Sony PS3 and Xbox 360 had from the start but it does offer excellent interactivity that the other next-generation games systems do not.

The PS3 had a bigger hard drive than the Xbox 360 at launch, but the Nintendo Wii’s internal space and SD card options are laughable. Although to be fair, hard drive space was never a factor with the Wii.

Now days, Wii gaming is very different and a hard drive is needed. Wii Gamers need more space for Virtual Console and WiiWare. Nintendo know this and has said it’s “working to find a solution”.

Virtual Console has over 200 games in Europe and WiiWare games are getting larger. The 512MB of internal space and supported 2GB SD cards will not do.

There is a sense of urgency to solve the Nintendo Wii storage problem. Are you affected by a lack of hard drive space on the Nintendo Wii and what solution would you like to see?

Read more Nintendo Wii news here.

We see it all the time, whenever some news is reported on Product Reviews, N4G, Digg, Game Trailers and other sites; gamers have to run each games console down.

Why do some gamers have to dump on systems? The Xbox 360 has its advantages over the Sony PS3 and also the other way round; the Nintendo Wii makes up in gameplay what it lacks in graphics.

We can understand why some people will hate a certain system, I personally had RROD on my Xbox 360 and although that was a downer, you cannot knock how good Microsoft’s software, in game chat and other cool features are.

Why do you think we see gamers compelled to run down another games system that they may have not even owned?

Just looking at a post yesterday about a guy called Chris who CLAIMED to have worked on the first Xbox 360 prototype and has now switched to the Sony PS3, while this is a rumor about why RROD may have happened, the comments were taken over by console bashing.

It’s getting much more common today for this type of console bashing to happen between gamers, lets try and keep things more clean from now on. Have you had enough of people just running down consoles for the fun of it?