These release dates are only for the best of the best coming out up to this Christmas. *Please note, release dates are subject to change.

10/28/07 *'Guitair Hero 3'

10/29/07 'Battalion Wars 2'

10/30/07 'The Simpsons Game'

10/31/07 *'Manhunt 2'

11/05/07 'Fire Emblem; Radiant Dawn'

11/06/07 'Mario & Sonic Olympics'

11/06/07 'Lego Star Wars'

11/13/07 'Need for Speed: Pro Street'

11/13/07 'Smackdown vs Raw 08'

11/13/07 *'Medal of Honor 2'

11/13/07 'Tomb Raider: Anniversary Mix'

11/13/07 *'Rayman Raving Rabbids 2'

11/13/07 *'Resident Evil Umbrella Co.'

11/20/07 'Soul Calibur Legends'

11/20/07 'Ghost Squad'

11/20/07 'Trauma Center: New Blood'

11/20/07 **'Super Mario Galaxy'

12/18/07 'Nights, Journey of Dreams'

Stiill think there's nothing out there on the Wii to play?

***FYI*** Both Smash Brothers and Mario Cart, have been delayed until after Christmas.

CHINA TO LAUNCH NEW CONSOLE NAMED THE 'Vii.'

Apparently the Nintendo Wii isn't currently available in China. So, instead of sitting around and waiting for the console to hit their shores, someone simpily decided to copy it. The new Vii console, will be released some time this Christmas and will even sport a motion sensing controller which is almost identical to the Wiis.Nintendo is responding by sending a large shippment of Wiis that will arive some time next year.Any legal action by Nintendo is still pending and may not even be possible due to some shady exemption laws in China.

Click on the link below to take look at the Vii and some of  its games.

http://www.engadget.com/gallery/vii-games-free-craps-indeed/435319/

Mike

'Is the Wii too under powered?'

A lot of critics out there both professional and just your average game players want to know if the Wii's hardware will be able to compete in the console wars for the long term or will the Nintendo Wii and its new controller just fizzle out and become a forgotten fad?

Ok, before I get started on this debate I just want to mention that I don't know a lot about computers. I'm not one of those programer guys who talk about or can even understand most of the talk about processing power, or why this chip is better than that chip. I have a small background in computer graphics, but when it comes to talking specs I'm going to look at you like a deer caught in head lights. With that being said, I'm not exactly stupid either and I know what I like when I see it. This is my argument.

The Nintendo Wii is about a year old now and we are just  beginning to see what the Wii is truely capable of from a graphical stand point. Early in the Wii's life we saw very little reason to hope as the console was hit with rushed port, after rushed port, by devlopers looking to make a fast buck from game starved players. You see all the major developers thought the console was going to be a complete failure, but when the system became an instant hit and sold at an unbelieveable pace, those same developers were suddenly hit with a magical change of heart. This left us with such memroble titles as, Anibus 2 and Wing Island just to name a few. The knock on the Wii is that it's nothing more than a Game Cube with about another half of its power added to it. That doesn't seem like a bad thing at all to me. I owned both the Cube and the PS2. The GC seems quite a bit stronger. A good example would be the Resident Evil 4 port. It looks fine on the PS2 until you put it next to the Cube. The clarity on the Cube is a lot better and the smoke and other effects appear to be trimmed down on the PS2. Also, the PS2 takes A LOT longer to load this game and just about everything else I play on it.(Don't get me wrong I love my PS2, but if it is capable of generating graphics as good as 'God of War' the Cube has to be capable of doing it just a little bit better and thats not a bad thing.) So basically since I was playing games that were made for a technically inferior system AND still looked worse on the Wii, it was pretty obvious that something was wrong. Still, the fan boys at 360 and PS3 love to gloat about how weak the Wii is. Thankfully, Metriod Prime 3 came out and completely reinstilled my faith in the system. The game is absolutely gorgeoues and definetly looks next gen. The new trailers for games such as Resident Evil Umberlla Co. and Smash Brothers all look very promisng. Super Mario Galaxy truely looks like a god send and is going to shake the gaming world harder than anything since the first Sonic. A crap load of more games are finally nearing the end of their production and should be dropping like crazy for Christmas and early spring. After a long and brutal wait it's a very good time to be a Wii owner. It may not have the horse power of a 360 or PS3 but the graphics are at least without a doubt next gen.

Michael

'My console war'

I was one of the lucky ones to get the Ninetedo Wii relatively early last year. But in order just to get the system, I had to almost kill myself for the thing. At the time I was working two jobs, both of which were retail 'and will go unnamed.' I made it very clear to my boss that I was very interested in buying the new system and that I planned to wait in line for one. My boss told me that she would not sell me the system becuase I worked for the company and the console was so rare. Time passed and I wasn't able to get a system at launch. Eventually I recived word that our store was getting a very large shippment in, 200 to be exact. She agreed to put three or four aside for me and some of my fellow co-workers who were also trying to buy the console, but only if we worked an extended shift. I worked the shift even though it meant me working a full 24hrs straight between both of my jobs.I ended up with only two one hour breaks between jobs and none of us ever ended up with a system that night. I finally recived mine almost three weeks later and than with in a few weeks, you better believe that I quit that job.

Mike