Part of the reason I love the Wii (aside from Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) is the way you control games by moving the motion sensor controller. Suddenly Nintendo has leveled the playing field and made video games that everyone can play without memorizing which color button reloads and which one pistol whips. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but simplicity goes a long way when you’re a video game company that wants to sell your product to as many people as possible.

Now, Nintendo has gone and improved the controller with the Wii Motion Plus add-on. which more accurately senses how the arm moves in using the Wiimote. All it takes is plugging a little square device into the bottom of the remote and now your movements register with more precision than before.

The device is set to debut with a new game called Wii Sports Resort, in which players (or, rather, their Miis) go to the beach and have fun… with more precision than ever before!

If the idea of playing frisbee with your dog at the beach doesn’t float your boat, the Wii Motion Plus will certainly help out your Sith-murdering ability with the upcoming Star Wars the Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels game that was a no-brainer from the day the Wii was unveiled.

What do you all think? Are you excited for Wii Motion Plus or would you rather see Nintendo get going on a Wii Hardrive?

Some box art images have surfaced for Mario Kart Wii, but we are skeptical. Here is the suspected box art:

Although it looks really cool, this image has been around for a while:

Now do a quick image search for “Wii Wheel” and on the first result page you have this:

So with some clever photoshopping, you can make that box art easy. It is really cool looking box art, and I would be glad if it was, but it looks to be photoshopped (I still could be wrong though :P)

Also, there has been some murmurs that you will be able to use your Miis in game. This could be pretty cool, especially if you were able to attribute stats and what not to each driver. Here is a screen I came across, but I won’t claim this as true yet, but it is fun to speculate!

Every one be warned now - DO NOT GET THE DREAM GEAR GAME BLASTER! It is common knowledge now that there are Nyko Perfect Shot, but it is more important to know that this horribly designed Zapper from Dream Gear called the “Game Blaster” is the worst on the market. I couldn’t find a larger picture (sorry) but this one will do well enough. If you look you can see that the trigger finger is designed to sit on the z and c buttons on the nunchuck instead of the b button on the wiimote. This is stupid for at least two reasons.

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