Charles Arthur over at The Guardian's games blog has a cool post up explaining just who it is behind the Wii Remote's sensory abilities, and why getting to that information has been...well, a bit of a mess.

An article that appeared on the IEEE Spectrum tech site gave the credit to Italian Benedetto Vigna, who works for Swiss company ST Microelectronics (STM).

"We met Nintendo in March of 2005—our vision was in line with their vision, and we got married," he says. Two months later, ST delivered a prototype sensor, and 16 months after that, Nintendo launched worldwide sales.

All well and good. Except STM, in a confusing twist, only came up with the motion-sensors for the nunchuk. It's actually Analog Devices Inc (ADI) that are behind the "primary" motion-sensor, that found in the Wii Remote, and STM had hoodwinked the Spectrum writer into thinking it had been them.

Where's this all going, you might ask? Does this tale of intrigue end in murder on the high seas? Oh, no, don't be so dramatic. It's just handy knowing where the fancy tech inside your Wii Remote came from. And now you know. Luke Plunkett

Adventures in journalism: who really made the Wii's microelectronics controller? [games blog]