Queen Victoria Day Gaming Marathon!

Just finished a gaming marathon hosted by Duc Tran this Saturday. Duc's game collection blew my mind. It dwarfs my own, which is a respectable accomplishment.

Here's some video of us playing Wii Tennis on Duc's mammoth plasma screen

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and late...

Canadian Console Sales for April

Number of Consoles Sold

Wii 42,100
DS 34,900
PS2 18,000
360 12,800
PSP 12,100
GBA 7,900
PS3 7,200

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Sales Figures
DS - 471K
Wii - 360K
PS2 - 194K
PSP - 183K
360 - 174K
GBA - 84K
PS3 - 82K
GameCube - 13K

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I was down at Superstore last week, and behind the counter on the shelf were two PS3's. I asked the clerk how long they had been there.

"bout a week and a half," he said.

I haven't seen a Wii in stock anywhere since it was released six months ago. Nintendo is still, half a year later, literally selling every single unit they produce before it even makes it to store shelves.

My mom even wants one! Never in a gazillion years, would I have thought that I'd be receiving phone calls from my mother, who harped at me for years for playing too many video games, asking me if I had located the new Nintendo system for her yet.

And I still can't get over the satisfaction I'm receiving over how much of a flop the PS3 has become. How much must it hurt that the Gameboy Advance generated more coin than the PS3 did?

The sales of the PS2 are interesting, and are undoubtedly attributed to the great final generation games coming out for that system. The PSP seems to be rallying quite well also, which is something I didn't predict. The dramatic price drop Sony finally leveled on their portable undoubtedly contributed to its unlikely success, but I'd love to see the profit margin on those sales. I'd also be interested to see how game sales are for the PSP, since most of them are complete crap.

Couldn't resist posting this from 2P Start!
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Young Vocalist from Nelson BC, Kicks Ass.

Not game related, but thought this was too good not to post. Asper Switzer, younger sister of a couple friends of mine from high school in Nelson BC, just released a new CD.

Check out her Youtube debut below and then buy her CD here

Sneak Peek of Resident Evil 4 - Wii edition?

The exciting announcement that Capcom will be releasing a Wii-version of Resident Evil 4, is nothing new.

This video shows how the Wii-mote may be utilized for the repackaged version of the Gamecube original.


Another gamer, successful in getting his Wii-mote to work on his PC, was able to map the wireless controller's buttons to the PC version of the game. While he was able to map motion sensing actions to the game, he was unable to configure the infrared functionality, and thus wasn't able to use the Wii-mote to aim with... a function that is very likely to be included in the Wii version of the game due out later this year

Rez played with Wii-Mote

So someone configured their Wii-Mote to work on their PC, nothing new. They then mapped the buttons to a Dreamcast emulator, and booted up one of my all time favourite games, Rez.



Now the project author claims that he's mapped the motion of the target to both the nun-chuck analog stick, as well as the motion sensor in the Wii-mote. There's no way to prove that he was actually successful in getting the target to respond to the Wii-motes movements, but I'm sure it's not impossible

The project is cool, if only to show what can be done with the Wii-mote, and how it has got some people to re-examine some of the old games, and see them in a new light.

More info here

Need for Speed (in the USSR)

Just had to flag this newly released game from Play-Publishing
Check out the preview here
See the game site here