Another week has come and gone leaving us with memories and a hoard of cool stories to throw your way for weekend reading in case you missed them over the week. An Asus 900HA netbook was hacked into a touchscreen slate on Monday and we really liked it. DIY gear is so cool, especially when it turns out this good. Monday also brought some details on the Blackberry Storm 2 piezo touchscreen tech. We really hope its better than the original Storm.
Nintendo’s inflatable horse controller not good enough for you? The company’s latest controller patent application has come to light, and as you might expect it’s another bizarre, exceptionally-niche device. Basically a squishy football with slots for your Wiimote and nunchuck, the controller would allow the Wii to estimate trajectory and distance from the force and angle with which you pretend to throw it.
If you just can’t live without the latest in Wii accessories, you’ll be pleased to know the Wii Steering Wheel II has been announced and is available now for avid Wii racing game lovers and those that just need each and every remote holder.
Whether or not you’ve had an Xbox 360 or not, doesn’t really matter when it comes to hearing about the dreaded Red Ring of Death (RRoD) situation, and for many people, it looks like it may be the bane of their life. At least when it comes to gaming. Game Informer’s printed magazine came out with a new report, after surveying 5,000 people, that shows a staggering 54.2% failure rate. We have the rest of their findings, which show some more of the grisly details.
Is there just a point where we should start feeling bad for the bigger companies out there? These guys are the targets of so many lawsuits that it’s almost ridiculous. Sure, most of them are probably justifiable, but maybe it’s the little guy just trying to take a piece out of the bigger guy.
Guitar Hero 5 is set to be the first Wii game to offer full loading from SD card, with Activision promising SDHC streaming for the upcoming music title. IGN sat down with the team to discuss the change, which will see over 800 songs together with audio quality, note data, album art, and any mo-cap triggers or song-specific displays fitting on a 32GB SD card.
If there’s one thing Nintendo – no, scratch that, the world - needs more of, it’s gimmicky Wii controllers. Thankfully the trusty patent system has given us a heads-up of what might be the next obscure gaming gadget to monopolize the holiday season, in the shape of an inflatable horse-riding controller.
Nintendo’s Wii Motion Plus wasn’t the only thing they announced back at E3, and while it may not be on everyone’s collective minds anymore, the Vitality Sensor is something Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata is excited for.
Activision have been showing off their latest peripheral, and this time they’ve set their sights on your pocket. Set to be included with every purchase of Band Hero DS, the upcoming musical game for Nintendo’s clamshell console, the Band Hero DS Drum Grip is a rubberized silicon sleeve that fits over the DS Lite.
What a difference a color makes. The humble Nintendo Wii, usually placid and undemanding in its standard white casing, gets a shot of danger, excitement and devil-may-care panache in its black Japanese variant, but that sort of illicit color-thrill is obviously far too much for the US to cope with. Nintendo have confirmed that they have “no plans to have other colors of Wii in the US.”
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