Trackmania, the most fun-filled racing game around, and currently played by millions worldwide, makes its big entrance into the console world a remarkable adaptation for the Nintendo Wiiâ„¢! Focus Home Interactive is pleased to offer the very first images of the Wii version of this now legendary racing game!

Using your Wiimote and your Nunchuk, your gamepad or your Wii Wheel - pilot racing cars at incredible speeds on spectacular tracks full of ramps, loops, turbo boosts and other crazy track-blocks. Race on more than 200 tracks divided into six drastically different environments and numerous game modes!

These are teh images of the Pink Wiimote and Nunchuk and images of the Blue Wiimote and Nunchuk

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These are the first images of the Nintendo Wii game EA Sports Active, the new title of Electronic Arts for Wii.

This game will offer various activities such as race, fitness exercises, tennis, boxing and more Wiimote / Nunchuk activities.

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AudiOdyssey is an experimental computer game designed to be accessible to both the visually impaired community and mainstream gamers. The user stars as Vinyl Scorcher, an up-and-coming DJ, on his quest to get club patrons dancing. Swinging the Nintendo Wii controller to the beat, Vinyl lays down the various component tracks of a song, and keeps the party jumping. If he does an especially good job, he can even freestyle! But beware - if dancers get too rowdy, they’re likely to bump into the turntables, messing up Vinyl’s tracks. Think you have what it takes?

Nintendo Wii Candy Dispenser, this is a great Wiimote shaped candy dispenser showcased at the All Candy Expo

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This is an excerpt from the Preview of the Nintendo Wii game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 by Eurogamer

For the Wii, Goedde says, “it’s all about accessibility. I want to make sure that my six year old nephew can come over and play the game with me, straight away. Our goal is to make it so that he can pick it up, play it, have some success and some fun - but at the same time, a golfer or a gamer can get all the depth that they want out of it. That’s a challenge that the whole industry has to take on with Wii, and EA is making a lot of changes to how we develop games in order to meet that challenge.”

The Wii version of Tiger Woods, arguably the EA Sports game most obviously suited to the controller, will be a fine test of the company’s mettle in that regard. From what we’ve seen, it’s shaping up to be a very interesting progression over its last effort in the field - and if not, perhaps, a “gamer’s game”, then quite possibly just the thing to get your dad waving his Wiimote again this autumn.

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This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii game Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition by Wired

Caught off-guard with the success of the Wii and looking for a quick fix, several publishers have tacked motion controls on to their existing games. It hasn’t turned out well. The difference with Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition is twofold: the game they started with is a masterpiece, and the Wiimote controls are implemented perfectly.

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This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii game Mario Party 8 by Vooks

All in all, Hudson’s 8th iteration of the Mario Party series is a solid outing, there’s heaps to do, it’s amazing fun with your mates and it is a great ice breaker for anyone playing. Unfortunately, the game does suffer graphically but it’s nothing you’ve haven’t seen before on Nintendo’s newest system. For fans of the previous games, this may be a bit much of the same to you, but for people who haven’t really touched the franchise since it’s first foray onto the Gamecube (Mario Party 4 or 5), it could be the breathe of fresh air that the series was desperately needing. All in all Hudson have definitely done a good job in making the game fresh enough to utilise the WiiMote controls without making them stale and repetitive.

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Nintendo Power - August Issue Info:

1. Capcom - no plans to bring Okami to the Wii

2. Ghost Squad - 25 weapons, thermal and night vision

3. My Word Coach - Dr. Tom Cobb of McGill University worked on the game, four cartoon coaches, 11 different exercises, 15,000-word dictionary

4. Carnival Games - 20 games, 15 bonus games, 4 player

5. Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground - Nail the Trick, Grab, and Manual. Create customized videos

6. Battalion Wars 2 - September

7. Soul Calibur Legends - development started in early 2006, wasn’t intended to be Wii exclusive at first. Timing is important to attacks. Egyptian themed level, gigantic bosses that take up the whole screen. “A 16th-century empire is on the brink of destruction and involves Siegfried with his gradual transformation into the “maleficent Nightmare” Takes place right after Soul Blade. 480p, 16:9 and 60fps

8. Tomb Raider Anniversary - Aim weapons in real time via Wiimote, nunchuk motion for quick dodge or grappling hook. Wii exclusive puzzles that take advantage of Wii controls.

9. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers - 4 character races return, main character is more of an adult. Story driven, very cinematic.

10. Team Ninja’s Itagaki interview excerpt: “(Note: he wants to see Pikmin 3 on Wii…) I think it’s (Wii) a very interesting piece of hardware, and it’d be interesting for us to challenge that area as well. The Wii has kind of carved its own niche within the home console arena. It’s almost in an entire category by itself. I do think that it’s totally different from the DS, though…I think it would depend on how you make it (a hard-core action title on Wii). You would really have to design it for the strengths of the hardware. If you used the kind of control scheme that most developers are using right now for the Wii and tried to do a really hard-core action game, I think people would just throw up their hands and say “No, we can’t deal with that”. The Wii has its own reason for existence. If you don’t adapt what you’re doing to fit that, then there’s not much point in bringing an action game to the platform. (regarding possible Wii action game) I’m currently brain-training about that right now (laughs).”

11. Eiji Aonouma would love to make a “Wind Waker” for the Wii.

12. Geometry Wars: Galaxies - 50-level, new enemies, new multiplayer component, eight hours of gameplay

Game Ratings:
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition - 9.0/10
Ratatouille - 7.5/10
Scarface: The World is Yours - 7.5/10
Harry Potter: OotP - 7.0/10
Pokemon Battle Revolution - 6.5/10
The BIGS - 6.0/10
Legend of the Dragon - 5.5/10

Next Month - Metroid Prime 3, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008.

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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption details from the recent issue of Play magazine:
- First level - You are attacked on a spaceship while meeting with the ship’s captain…action packed

- Play feels motion controls work better than dual joystick

- Super sensitive pointer in “advanced” mode

- Beam stacking ala Super Metroid

- Visor switch: Hold minus and flick Wiimote in certain directions

- Boss fight with Ridley at the end of the first level. Excellent difficulty curve by the time you reach the boss.

- Back tracking in MP3:C makes more sense than in previous Primes

- Extra development time was to give the game more polish. Nintendo wanted “Twilight Princess” levels of polish. Game is focused on Metroid fans and hardcore gamers, but still accessible to newcomers due to controls.

- Second level - floating city focused on exploration

- Larger environments, bloom lighting, better textures than Prime 2

- Corruption Mode not available in demo

- Play says it could be the biggest revolution in FPS gaming since Halo.