Tag: Wii

As 2011 comes to a close, the Winter Spectacular continues! The new year is upon us, but before 2012 hits, we *still* have another $600+ worth of prizes left to give away...

Today's prize is Activision's cute, and surprisingly high tech Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, in your choice of console. We're giving away a starter pack; which includes the game, the portal of power accessory, and 3 figures. Through the use of a cleverly inserted RFID reader, character data is stored directly onto the figures themselves!

How do you win this fun prize? It’s simple: find the hidden snowflake somewhere on our site (and no, the snowflake on this post doesn't count) Everyone who correctly identifies the location of the secret snowflake is entered to win! As the Winter Spectacular progresses, it will become harder to find the snowflake; if you get stuck, check out our Facebook page for clues. Submit your guess after the jump.

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Hot off the heels of a year long celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Nintendo has released the highly anticipated newest entry in the franchise, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Does it lean on its predecessors for success or is it genuinely a great game? The franchise has many longtime fans who would buy the game regardless of quality, but The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword won two awards at the VGAs this year, best Wii game and best motion game. Nintendo treats their fans well by releasing not only a good game in the Zelda franchise, but one of the first games to fully, and intuitively utilize the Wii Motion Plus. Read on to find out why Skyward Sword is a must own game, both for series regulars and newcomers alike.

Nintendo has purposfully kept so many of the old game elements that make the series memorable. Dungeon crawling for a new tool that will help Link pass through a seemingly impossible are of the dungeon, goofy characters that only have one voiced word or speak in gibberish, colorful level design and puzzles. These are the staples for a Zelda game, but each new title has added its own flair. Some have worked and some have not. Overall the gameplay is what players expect from a Zelda experience. The system has worked for years and will continue to work in the future. Skyward Sword adds a few new tools and an interesting dowsing feature to search for Zelda. They are fun but easy to learn and master.

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Square Enix announced the newest installment in the popular Dragon Quest Series, Dragon Quest X. The game is coming to the Wii in 2012 and the Wii U at an unannounced date. The Wii U version will be graphically superior, but players with both versions will be able to play together. Square Enix has only released one screenshot of the game, as of this writing:

The game will be an online RPG allowing both online and offline play. While offline players will be able to make allies with npcs to fill the roles that other players would normally occupy. The word massive was not used to describe the online play and any word on the scale of the multiplayer functions are just speculation. Players will create their own characters to use in this installment of Dragon Quest and players will be able to take on crafting jobs to create weapons and items for their players to use.

Voice actor Peter Dickson has been cast as the voice for Emperor Sorean, a leader of an evil cult in Xenoblade Chronicles. Dickson let looseoOn his official blog two important facts. He revealed that the game will be given an autumn release in "UK, Europe and USA." Up until this point no release date for the US version has been confirmed by Nintendo. The official Nintendo site says that the game has a yet to be announced release date in 2011. Check out Dickson's message on his blog here, it's about seven entries from the top. This is not an official message from the publisher so it may or may not be true, but many RPG fans have anticipated this game's US and UK release. Xenoblade is an Action RPG for the Wii.