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Nintendo's Wii Fit helping seniors get healthy (News-Medical-Net)

While some emerging technologies can create environments that require very little physical effort, one Kansas State University researcher thinks games like Nintendo's Wii Fit can help promote physical rather than sedentary activities for people of all ages.

NEWS: High Voltage Betting That 'a Hardcore Market Exists' on Wii (Nintendo World Report)

CEO and Lead Designer believe that ports, and publishers who had "written off" the Wii, are to blame for the lackluster performance of "hardcore" games on Nintendo's console.

The Most-Awaited Games Of 2009: Wii (Gamasutra)

With nearly a full year of of game releases ahead, Gamasutra is picking out noteworthy titles due in 2009 for each home and handheld platform, this time for Nintendo's Wii. Despite claiming the largest worldwide installed base out of all three seventh-generation consoles, Nintendo still struggles to overcome the widely held belief that its Wii catalog suffers a surplus of unexceptional casual ...

Hospital using Wii Fit to help amputees (Computer Active)

A hospital in Leeds is using Nintendo’s Wii games console to help patients who have had legs amputated get used to using prosthetic limbs. Seacroft Hospital is using the Wii Fit balance board , which reads real-life movements and mimics them on screen, to help patients with rehabilitation and physical therapy.

Wii boosts UK games sales, music resilient (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

British retailers sold a record combined number of DVDs, games and music in 2008 despite the economic gloom, boosted by the popularity of Nintendo's Wii and single downloads, trade bodies said on Wednesday.