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In My Fitness Coach for the Nintendo Wii, you create your personal profile and evaluate your improvement potential, then set up your objectives following the recommendations based on your personal profile. Log your progress on a daily or weekly basis, tracking your physical activity and nutrition habits. Use the Pedometer, a peripheral device that comes with the game and can be easily updated through your DS, it’s the best way to control your daily physical effort, challenge yourself and balance your food intake. As a reward, all the physical activities you achieve and good nutrition habits you acquire are converted into measurable distances based on real examples

Guitar Hero World Tour marries Guitar Hero’s guitar gameplay, with a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with revolutionary new online and offline gameplay modes. The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock and roll anthems, along with online Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands.” Guitar Hero World Tour is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more. Additionally, the game offers significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles.

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Let’s see, we’ve had SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt, SimLife, SimFarm, SimTower, SimSafari, and a bunch more Sim games over the years. So what’s next? If you guessed SimContrabass Quartet, SimSylvester Stallone, or SimCrime of Passion you are incorrect. However, if you happened to say “Sim Animals” then take a moment to shake your own hand, sir or madam, because you are correct! The game, which was the first shown during last years EA E3 press conference looks to continue the remarkable success of the life-emulating series with a game devoted entirely to the animal world.

The world of Sim Animals will be, obviously, inhabited by furry creatures everywhere, and, as producers pointed out during the demo, some of them will be friendly, whereas others…not so much. During the trailer shown for the game, i was introduced to an adorable bear cub that was hanging out with his mom and dad. Soon, the cub met a friendly squirrel and the two started to frolic, like fake animals of entirely different species tend to do. Interrupting all the fun was a wicked-looking fox who looked an order of magnitude scarier than any fox we’ve ever seen.

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If doctors were as slow at operating as Nintendo are at releasing Trauma Center games, the streets would overflow with the broken and half-finished. The irony of it is, New Blood is all about efficiency: four hands going at it in co-op operations where previously two sutured alone.

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Electronic Arts has put an end to the ongoing speculation regarding the company’s own Wii Fit rival by unveiling the firm’s newest title, EA Sports Active.EA Sports Active, scheduled for release Spring 2009, will come bundled with a number of peripherals – or sports equipment – such as a set of two leg straps, a resistance band, as well as a health book. EA says the entire product will sell for $59.99.

EA’s fitness proposal is markedly different to Nintendo’s. Sports Active is designed to burn calories and build tone and strength. It does this with around 20 dynamic exercises, such as running, bicep curls, shoulder presses, cardio boxing and squats.

In line with EA’s purpose of aiming the product at the female market, the software itself will have its own personal trainer in the guise of a virtual Bob Greene (Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer and exercise physiologist) who will offer feedback on the user’s performance.

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Hardcore gamers are split on “Wii Music.”

It’s not “Rock Band” or “Guitar Hero” — it’s something entirely different. Given the accessibility of “Wii Music,” however, it seems especially designed to engage the younger crowd.

A few weeks ago, I was speaking with Nintendo Treehouse employee JC Rodrigo, who was demoing “Wii Music” all day. He’d recently attended the Austin City Limits music festival in Texas and spent several hours with kids checking out “Wii Music.”

What kind of music did kids create with their Wiimotes?

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Wii Sports Resort is a new collection of fun sports games that anyone can pick up and play.• This sequel to the popular Wii Sports™ makes use of the Wii MotionPlus accessory, which gives players the most responsive and realistic experience possible. The Wii MotionPlus accessory, which is included with Wii Sports Resort, plugs into the base of the Wii Remote™ controller and, combined with the accelerometer and sensor bar, provides an experience that gives players an even greater sense of immersion.

• Just as with Wii Sports, people will love competing against friends and family. As the competition heats up, Wii Sports Resort is as much fun to watch as it is to play. First-time players will find it easy to pick up a Wii Remote and jump into the action.

I like the concept of granting players a taste of the connection created when you play music with another person, but the lack of a discernable goal in what I played did feel slightly aimless, at least in the jam mode. Sure I could see where I was supposed to play, but wasn’t really penalized (even in terms of sounding all that bad) if I just rocked out in my own world arms flaying wildly.

 Over 60 instruments will be available: A vast variety of string, woodwind, brass, and percussion options; the piano, too. For instance, the Nunchuk and Wii remote let you glide an invisible bow back and forth at your shoulder to play violin, strum invisible space to play guitar, or rattle away when you play tambourine. Various buttons perform a range of flourishes, both visual and musical.

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