Nintendo Wii
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All Timer
Wii Sports gets the respect it deserves by joining the video game hall of fame
Four more games join the selection.
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BLOCK PROCESSING
Sonic’s four new Lego kits are traditional playsets for kids, not collectors – and that’s brilliant
Lego Sonic the Hedgehog sets are designed for under-10s - exactly as they should be. And it won’t stop us from buying ‘em anyway.
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SEGA STARS
Four classic SEGA Genesis titles are now available on Nintendo Switch Online
Say hello to Pulseman, Flicky, Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition, and Kid Chameleon.
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Echidna You Not
Knuckles spin-off finds its cast and a cowboy hat for the echidna
A release date hasn't been set as of yet.
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TOAD LESS TRAVELLED
There’d be no Mario Kart 8 Deluxe without Mario Kart Wii – here’s why
Often overlooked, but never without influence, Mario Kart Wii is a more important part of the series' history than you might think.
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MAMMA MIA
A short history of how Mario, gaming’s most famous Italian, almost wasn’t Italian
What if Mario had been designed as a generic European guy? What then?
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BRAWL CHOKED UP
Like it or not, the Smash Bros series wouldn’t be what it is without its most maligned entry
In defense of everyone's least favourite Super Smash Bros. game.
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THE COMET IS COMING
15 years later, Super Mario Galaxy is still the series' most stellar entry
The Wii game occupied a tricky space for Mario, no pun intended, but Nintendo managed to leverage the software to deliver an absolute blinder.
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PRATT FALL
We replaced Chris Pratt with Charles Martinet in The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer
Mario's original voice actor has quite the range.
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Poor Sheik
Metroid Prime developer's cancelled Zelda game was apparently "an experiment gone wrong"
The game would have starred Sheik, and had whack-a-mole style gameplay.
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Rebound
This Black Ops grenade launcher kill is a reminder of Call of Duty's legacy of stylish trick shots
An unbelievable shot brings back fond memories of trick shots long past
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No, time to die!
I can’t wait for GoldenEye 64 Remastered – though I have almost as much love for the Wii remake
As everybody collectively asks where the GoldenEye remaster is, I’m reminiscing about the other, just-as-interesting GoldenEye.
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come on over apathy
VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.2: Best game that nobody cares about
Can you think of a great game that everyone seemed to ignore? We came up with three.
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the incredible shulk
You owe it to yourself to play Xenoblade Chronicles before Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Nintendo’s beloved cult classic almost didn’t make it out of Japan and that would, really, have been a crying shame.
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Golden Wiind
The Queen's Golden Wii could be yours as it is once again up for auction
It will set you back a pretty penny though.
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OFFLINE
Ubisoft shuts down online multiplayer services for 90 of its older games
Offline features for each game are still available, but the games can no longer be played online.
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BLESS THE RAINS
Check out Africa by Toto being played on instruments in Majora's Mask
I hear the drums echoing tonight.
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Birthday Beats
The Wii is 15, so here’s 15 Wii games that deserve Switch ports or sequels
As it gets older, the best of the Wii becomes more difficult to play without tracking down original hardware and buying cables that can connect it to modern displays. For the Wii’s 15th birthday, here’s a list of 15 Wii games that deserve ports or sequels.