News, Views and Speculation for Wii and DS

This developer video from EA showcasing “Tiger Woods 11” on Wii gives first insight into the new features the game will have this year. Among them is a first person viewpoint of swinging your clubs which looks pretty cool to us! This is only an option, so don’t worry you are not forced to use i if you don’t want to, however it certainly looks like this years game will be the most realistic golf game to date.

What do you think of the new first person controls? Let us know in the comments below.

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Either the person playing this is just very good at it or the game is very easy! Anyway this is the first look at WiiWare title “Darts Rage“.

The darts mini-game on “Super Monkey Ball” was one of my favorites where you held the wiimote as a dart and threw it. Not sure the controls on this game look so innovative judging by this video but let’s hope they are and it’s as fun to play as the monkey version.

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Not much was known about Artoon-developed “FlingSmash” until the recent Nintendo summit, despite being announced over a year ago. This Wii MotionPlus controlled game invites you to collect power-ups, break blocks and build up your score in side-scrolling levels by controlling a little yellow character.

The game is being published by Nintendo and though there is no solid release date, it is expected in the second half of this year.

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The next in the Bit.Trip series is “Bit.Trip Runner” and here’s some new footage to see how well the game is coming along at Gaijin Studios.

We’re fans of the old-school retro look to these games and this one doesn’t dissappoint either. Gameplay-wise this is more like “Cananbalt” on the iPhone compared to the last couple of shooters that we’ve had before.

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Now it could just be us, but the look of the handling of the cars in this “GTI Club World: City Race” video looks very dodgy indeed. In fact it looks so bad it almost made us laugh!

Ok, we should reserve judgement until we play it, however the ’sticky’ looking controls and unrealistic car movement looks like we’ll end up missing this one out. That is of course unless Konami prove us wrong with their latest Wii racer, but I reckon I’ll be sticking with Forza for the time being.

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Developer Virtual Toys have announced that their upcoming DSiWare tennis game “VT Tennis” is out on Monday in the US (also coming to iPhone and PSP Mini’s).

Head inside for video footage and press release. The game will set you back a puny 500 Nintendo Points.

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We already posted this “Super Mario Galaxy 2″ video yesterday except the quality was a bit poor, so here it is again in high quality video! We’re sure you’d like to see it again anyway!

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If you’re bored with all the news of ‘Super Mario Galaxy 2‘ and ‘Metroid: Other M‘ (we know you’re not really) then maybe you should try this video for size. Shown off at the media summit, ‘Art Style: Light Trax‘ looks like a fast, mesmerising and psychadelic little number. It’s headng to WiiWare later this year.

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If you are looking forward to “Red Steel 2” like us, then you might well want to check this video out. Then again you might not as it shows gameplay from about 4 hours in and contains spoilers. Up to you!

Personally we couldn’t wait, but now we wish we did! Damn this better be good!

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Trackmania TM” is coming for Wii and enables players to create their own tracks to race on. Ok so it’s not the Wii’s answer to “Gran Tourismo” or “Forza” but it looks like fun nontheless.

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101 MiniGolf World” gives DSi owners a “true 3D” miniature golf experience and developers Teyon have announced that the game will be released in the US on March 15th for 500 Nintendo Points.

Could be fun. Press release inside.

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As we just mentioned, Firemint’s highly addictive “Flight Control” is out Monday on DSiWare and here’s some footage of the game running on a DS.

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