Wii Sports

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• 2K Sports announces Baseball Blast! for the Wii; Shovelware or fun MLB party game?

  Baseball Blast! has been announced by 2K Sports as a MLB themed party game for the Wii.

• Behold: baby Miittens

  How to make a baby cuter? Give it perfectly spherical Mii hands!

• Top 6 Rejected Wii Ideas

  The Slobs wonder: what Wii ideas weren't safe for kiddies?

• The Top 14 Faces to Give to Your Mii

  Even more addictive than collecting coins and rings, Wii owners love to create Miis on their systems.

• Confirmed: Wii .ISOs Full of Junk Data

  The average Wii game disc contains over 4 GB of data for just about every single title on the market. How much of that data is meaningless junk? For some titles, up to 90% of the .iso is simply doing nothing.

• Nintendo Wii is Gaming Fit For a Queen (of England)

  British tabloid the People has issued a shocking new column full of gossip about the royals that's actually quite fun: apparently the Queen of England really likes her some Wii Sports bowling.

• Wii in 1/05/07 Family Circus

  Perhaps the ultimate sign of the Wii's mainstream clout-- the Wii is the subject of Bil Keane's Family Circus strip for 01/05/07.

• Nintendo Wii invading retirement homes

  According to the Christian Science Monitor, the Nintendo Wii and Wii Sports are quickly becoming a commonplace feature in many modern retirement homes.

• Wired Knows Why You Can't Find a Wii

  Wired's Chris Kohler talks to Nintendo representatives about the Wii shortage: why it happened, what to do about it, and why it's bad for everybody.

• Wii: So Easy a Caveman Can Do It.

  The Caveman Show.

• GamePro Presents Boot Camp!

  There has been a lot of discussion going on in the press lately about the beneficial (or detrimental, depending on your viewpoint) effect that video games can have on real world behavior. For instance, part-time lawyer and full-time crazy person Jack Thompson has famously posited that violent video games can train people to be better killers, and studies have shown that video games can help improve hand-eye coordination and reaction times.