Wii Software Updates

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New Official Nintendo Channel

If you can somehow manage to pry yourself away from the recent release of Mario Kart Wii, you might notice that today Nintendo launched its personal, appropriately-named channel, the Nintendo Channel. Now, I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but after a brief 30 minute self-introduction, I’ve discovered that this is a channel [...]

7May2008 | JonTard | 0 comments | Continued
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New Graphics Engine Coming to Your Wii

This is very exciting! The guys over at High Voltage Software have just announced a project in the works for the Wii. This new game is called The Conduit, but more importantly is the fact that they have created a new engine from the ground-up for this game, named Quantum3.
Features:

Dynamic bump-mapping
Reflection and refraction
Light / shadow [...]

18Apr2008 | JonTard | 2 comments | Continued
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Super Smash Bros. World

Got your copy of Smash Bros. yet? You better. IGN announced today a new project that they’ve had in the works (we assume) since custom stages were announced for Brawl. Super Smash Bros. World is a new website where players from around the world can upload and share their level creations. All you have to [...]

11Mar2008 | JonTard | 1 comment | Continued
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Downgrading the Photo Channel to 1.0 to keep MP3 support

In a quick follow up to our recent post on the Photo Channel update we have found that you can downgrade if you think that it is totally lame that there is no more MP3 support. Here is a quick guide on downgrading the photo channel from Nintendo. Word on the streets is that this [...]

13Dec2007 | The Wiitard | 0 comments | Continued