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Date archives for August, 2010
August 31st, 2010
Pelvic Floor Exercise Game Fills Gap in the Market
18:15 at nintendolife.com
The Wii has a huge audience, from little children to pregnant women, and so it's only fair that each gamer gets a game individually tailored to them. Kaasa is already working on Physiofun, a physiotherapy game for WiiWare that uses the Balance Board, but a PEGI rating has outed something rather more... specialised.
15:15 at twitter.com
Very confused when PlayStation Move is actually out in Europe - official Sony sites say Sept. 15th, every retailer says Sept. 17th!
Ready Your Guns for The Westerner on Monday
13:30 at nintendolife.com
Showdown at the Wii Shop Channel Corral
Fans of the Wild West may look enviously upon the titles released on HD consoles in the past year, notably Red Dead Redemption and Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, and wish for their own rootin' tootin' adventure to match. Well, they'll be waiting a long time yet, but here comes a more sedate cowboy adventure in the form of The Westerner, coming to WiiWare on Monday.
This is the Greatest Mario Collection We’ve Ever Seen
12:10 at nintendolife.com
1,000 plumbing items all under one roof
Mario's face has been on more merchandise than you can imagine, making it hard – not to mention expensive – for dedicated fans to track down those must-have pieces. That makes the achievement of 11-year old Oscar Bown from the UK all the more incredible, as he's amassed a Mario collection containing over 1,000 unique items.
10:50 at twitter.com
Oh, and if it sways you to read @movemodo, I'll be writing there a lot. (That ought to do it)
10:49 at twitter.com
A new site from the chaps @nintendolife launches tomorrow: @movemodo is all about PS3 Move! More info on Facebook: http://bit.ly/9wTknD
August 30th, 2010
Nintendo Download: 30th August 2010 (North America)
14:20 at nintendolife.com
Elastic on WiiWare; Piano, Notebooks and Cosmos on DSiWare
After a short delay the Nintendo Download is available, and sadly brings with it no surprises, meaning August ends with more of a whimper than a bang.WiiWare
Tales of Elastic Boy: Mission 1 (600pts, Lexis Numerique) – A platformer from the creators of the PooYoos games, this was released in Europe last week, so our review will be available very soon.DSiWare
Music On: Learning Piano (200pts, Abylight) – The third in the Music On series following Electronic Keyboard and Retro Keyboard, this new instalment takes a different approaching, attempting to teach the fundamentals of reading sheet music through fifteen classical pieces. We'll soon find out if this is worth a standing ovation or is simply A Musical Joke.
13:47 at twitter.com
Positions available @Wiidscouk, a fine site and no mistake RT @lucy_whufc: Enjoy writing? Like Nintendo products? http://tinyurl.com/34abblq
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My name is James Newton, and this is my website - a collection of my writings about
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