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Came across this site Nintendo Wii skins! Give your Nintendo Wii a makeover and the wiimote + nunchuck. There are some awesome skins, including a retro nintendo. I really like the black one. Here are some pics:

Click here for Nintendo Wii skins!

Wii play for the Nintendo Wii is a collection of 9 mini games that is to be released on 2/12/07. There are a few highlights to this game and I believe it will sell very well amoungst the growing popular titles. The kicker with this mini game collection is that it costs the regular $50, but it includes a $40 Wii-mote for free. You are really getting a $40 dollar wii-mote with a $10 game and with a total of 9 mini games, that makes it just over $1 per game, a screaming deal. Most Wii owners will be picking up extra Wii-motes for the future release of Mario Party 8 anyways, so this is a huge benefit.Another great feature with this title is that Nintendo has incorporated your fashionable, customized Mii characters as players in the mini-games. I know my kids love making Mii characters and being able to play them in something other than Wii sports is going to be very cool. Also, the games in the collection will be both single player and two player games.

The mini-games to be included in the package are:

A shooting Range (from the images i have seen this game looks similar to Duck Hunt)
Table Tennis
Laser Hockey
Billiards
Fishing
Charge (this has to be the cow racing game as shown in the recent edition of Nintendo Power)
Tanks
Find Mii (I would assume that this is like Where’s Waldo, but for your Mii Character)
Pose Mii

This new accessory is not yet available for the Nintendo Wii, but is coming soon from Mad Catz for a reasonable price of $19.99. This system stacker will clean up your Wii area by providing a place holder for games, controllers and other soon to come accessories. The dimensions of the system stacker are 17″ wide by 11″ deep. They do not list the height of the stacker, but from the image it appears to me to be about as high as 4 to 5 dvd/game cases. This stacker is designed to let your Wii “float” horizontally and provides proper ventillation to avoid possible overheating of your console. You can also put other audio / video components either below or on top of the system stacker because it is made out of “durable reinforced plastic”. It also has one side open so you can easily access your Gamecube controller ports as well as your memory card slots.

Read more HERE on the Mad Catz website.

Publisher expects full-year profits to increase by 20 per cent

Nintendo has raised its full-year profits forecast by 20 per cent, expecting net income to climb to 120 billion yen (EUR 774.9 million) for the year ending March 31st 2007.

The company raised forecasts for the DS, expecting sales of the handheld to rise 15 per cent to 23 million units, with software growing by 22 per cent, to reach 100 million games sold.

Targets for Wii software have also been raised, with Nintendo expecting to reach 21 million games for its new home console, compared to an earlier estimate of 17 million.

Hardware forecasts for Wii consoles remain at the previous target of six million units.

Nintendo now expects 900 billion yen (EUR 5.8 billion) in sales this year, compared to a forecast of 509 billion yen (EUR 3.2 billion) in October.

With the Combination of Datel’s Actin Replay, software called SDload, and the official Nintendo SD card adapter you can boot any of your emulators (that where built for GameCube) on your Nintendo Wii. It might not be major to some people, but it shows the possibility to run homebrew on your WII. Laymens terms… Anything homebrew that was made for GameCube can be loaded on your WII!

Play emulators on your Nintendo Wii

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Wiimote-to-PC script that turns the Wii remote into an HID (Human Interface Device) for the PC is now clicked at GlovePIE v0.29. The biggest features of this version is that it now supports Wiimote speakers and the function to minimize the button to the System Tray. The support for the Classic Controller (introduced in the previous version) is now more than just theoretical and finally fully tested to be working.

Here’s the full list of changes, tweaks, improvements, and additions included in GlovePIE v0.29: (more…)