I was in Game recently looking at all the accessories you can get for the Wii: the steering wheel, golf club, tennis racquet, shotgun, crossbow, fishing rod, the list goes on… But mostly these are simple extensions of the Wiimote; they don’t actually do anything. However the ‘balance board’ is coming to the UK and proves to step up beyond the capabilities of Wiimote prosthetics.

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Mobile phone games have been around … well … ever since mobile phones i guess, but Apple’s iPhone might have just given phone games an interesting technology boost. Knitware’s Doc Rogers talks with Steve Demeter, creator of Trism for the iPhone. read full post »

I think it would be true to say that Knytt Stories has almost a cult following on the net. Doc Rogers discusses the creation of a legend with it’s maker Nicklas.

Doc: Hello Nicklas thank you for taking some time to talk to the Knitware team, we know you’re really busy on several new projects so really appreciate your time. Let’s talk Knytt! read full post »

The increase in self-improvement games on the Nintendo DS shows no signs of slowing. Just on their own Nintendo has a large stable and the list is becoming increasingly unusual:

Brain Training - fine
More Brain Training - naturally
Sight Training - okay
Face Training - getting weird now…

But, just when you thought Face Training DS (a Japanese game which tells you how to move your face and uses a camera to judge your perfromance) could not be topped for weirdness, Nintendo have released Common Sense Training DS. Thing is if you have no common sense to start, the result is that it’s unlikely you’ll think it a good thing to buy the game to increase it.

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