I really like the way that you can play tennis, bowling and do a daily fitness routine with the default game it comes with.  As soon as I saw that Mario Kart for the Wii was coming out (last week), I knew that I had to have it.  One of the best games created by Nintendo without any doubt, I knew it was going to be a hit for the Wii.

I cruised right over to Amazon.com and put my pre-order in (with extra wheel) and within 2 days of release it was at my door.  If you don’t have it yet you should check it out.  They also have a new channel that you can preview games and even download games to your Nintendo DS.  The channel is free and allowing you to preview games is a certain marketing home run for the folks at Nintendo.

The Nintendo Wii really has a unique system with the remote and nunchuk, so it isn’t any surprise to me that games are limited.  The ones that I see coming to release do look excellent and really how can you beat a game that reacts to every single move you make?  And with games like Rock Band to come out this summer, it looks like Nintendo Wii is all about doing what they can to please!

Do you have the Wii?  What games are your favorite?

JAKKS Pacific Atari 10- in-1 TV Games

Most of us first started playing video games on the Atari 2600 video game console. While low tech, many games offered hours upon hours of enjoyment. JAKKS Pacific has created a plug and play TV game that looks exactly like the old Atari joystick, except for the fact that it includes 10 great games and connects directly to your TV set for instant play. The 10 games stored on the device are all classics and include:

Breakout, Gravitar, Real Sports Volleyball, Pong, Yar’s Revenge, Circus Atari, Missile Command, Asteroids and Adventure.

Namco Super Pac-Man Plug and Play TV Game

The all time king of video games is of course, Pac-Man. Not only was the original Pac-Man popular, but the franchise grew to include Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Land, Baby Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, etc. Today, you can play amazing Pac-Games on the Namco Super Pac-Man Plug and Play TV Game.

This TV game uses an attractive yellow pac-esque joystick to not only control all the fun, but also store all five Pac-Man games in this small unit. This device easily hooks up to your TV set allowing anyone to start chomping the dots quickly and easily.

Commodore 64 30-in-1 Joystick Plug and Play TV Game

While the Commodore 64 was an extremely powerful and versatile computer for the 80’s and perhaps the best selling computer of all time, many of its end users did not use it to program computer code or do homework, instead it was used by millions as a glorified game system. Today, the Commodore is back. You can now play many of the wonderful games that made Commodore 64 the must have computer of its time.

The Commodore 64 30-in-1 is simply a joystick that includes all the hardware and software to play 30 classic games. Set up is a breeze and this lightweight device makes it extremely portable, able to connect to practically any TV set.

The 30 games included within the joystick are:

Impossible Mission, Impossible Mission 2, Jumpman Junior, Cyberdyne Warrior, Cybernoid, Cybernoid II Paradroid, Pitstop, Pitstop 2, Gateway to Asphai, Tower Topler, Uridium, Eliminator, Surfing, Exolon, Firelord, Flying Disk, Summer Games, Super Cycle, Silicon Warrior, Ranarama, Winter Games, Speedball, Zynaps, World Karate Championship A, World Karate Championship B, Bull Riding, Sumo Wrestling, Championship Wrestling and Sword of Fargoal.

What the artist actually does is control the characters, camera and sets in order to create short movies, most of them quite funny. The reason many artists choose this form of making movies is because it’s quite cheap and it provides a wide array of possibilities with limited resources.

There are many machinima groups out there but one of the most known is ILL clan with famous productions like Hardly Workin’ and Apartment Huntin’ . For more quality machinima visit www.machinima.com.

I’ve been reading about this for a while now and opinions still seem to be parted. Here is what happened: A Belgian user of Second Life was forced ( by using a so called “voodoo doll” that is a piece of code that takes the form of a regular object as a cup or pen or whatever but in fact gives control of your avatar) to perform sexually explicit behavior. In theory a user must give his consent in order for other player to take control of his avatar, but using one of the above mentioned voodoo dolls and some persuasion you can make a user (especially a new one) to give access to his avatar.

Things like these happened before as stated in this article about a similar event that took place in an older text based mmorpg. It was discussed at the time but no real action was taken. Well this time police was involved as you can find on the second citizen forum and in all the others articles covering the story.

The debate seems to revolve around the nature of this act. Is it really a ‘rape’ or only harassment? Well it’s surely a violation of the Terms of Service for Second Life and not only, as one can see it’s still discussed if it’s a legal offense or not.