The Nintendo Wii is starting to make big steps forward in the medical field. A study was conducted using the Wii in the rehab of patients with various mobility disabilities in North America, and medical professionals found the Wii can be used in the rehabilitation process of patients with muscle weakness, Alzheimer’s, coordination problems and [...]

Tim Eves, a healthy 25-year-old UK man, hung up the phone with his mother only to die abruptly several moments later while playing Wii Fit with his girlfriend. Your first thought may be to link the Wii Balance board (as many outlets are) to his death, but if you stopped there you would be doing [...]

In a stunning move, Nintendo’s Wii Fit sales have surpassed that of Halo 3 in the United Sates. Selling in total 6 million units in the US, Wii Fit now holds bragging rights over Halo 3 which has 5.9 million units sold in the US. What also should be noted is that Halo 3 has [...]

Plenty of studies have shown that playing Wii Sports or Wii Fit is good for you, to varying degrees. Some people don’t believe it, some people are willing to pay money to have someone teach them how to do it. What makes this study more authoritative? Well look, they used crazy breathing masks and machinery! [...]

It’s not just Marky Mark who considers the Wii to be a bit of a novelty. Xbox VP (and former CEO of Nintendo Europe) David Gosen has slammed Wii for its gimmicky approach when it comes to controllers – notably Wii Fit’s balance board as being little more than a set of “digital bathroom scales”. [...]

The Wii Balance Board covers shown above are the work of Amr Racing, and have been in the spotlight as of late, due to their racey nature — which clashes with the overall “family” brand of Nintendo — the company their product is made to skin. Gameindustry.biz obtained a comment from Nintendo regarding the skins, [...]

The Wii Fit Girl video has been around for a while now and has brought in millions of viewers, thanks in no small part to MTV’s Total Request Live. Lauren Bernat, the Wii Fit Girl herself, and her marketing boyfriend, Giovanny Gutierrez, showed up on the show this week to discuss their now infamous video. [...]

You knew it had to happen. There’s already a lot of copycat videos out there featuring girls shaking their asses in various states of undress while playing Wii Fit, including one from Playboy that’s not quite safe for work. I found these in particular to be funny. After all, turnabout is fair play. However, if [...]

Both mainstream and games press have reported today that UK women are breaking more than a sweat when it comes to Wii Fit. Trouble is, they’re all talking a load of cobblers.

Buy your girlfriend Wii Fit immediately. This video has been around for a few weeks now, but for some reason I just don’t mind watching it again — and for the record, I could care less whether it was a marketing ploy or not. In closing, let’s put things in perspective. While “Wii Fit Ass [...]

So the May NPD data is out and there are few surprises. The Nintendo Wii remains king of the consoles and Grand Theft Auto IV continues to dominate the software charts. Hit the jump for a more in depth look at the numbers.

Nintendo’s Wii Fit was released this week, and the craze surrounding it is already becoming comparable to the actual Nintendo Wii launch.

Wii Fit Helps Cartman Understand His Body Image In a recent interview with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto admitted that Wii Fit isn’t designed to make you fit at all.

2007 ended on a great note for Nintendo, with both the Wii and the DS being insanely successful. However, according to the first Japanese software chart of 2008, they’re just getting started.

While Wii Fit doesn’t have a definitive US release date, it’ll be here eventually, and the folks over at Nintendo World Report think that us Americans might be a little out of shape for the title. They may be right, so to help us out, they’ve compiled a list of games to help whip us [...]