Kotaku: Wii Fit

After Mother's Death, Woman Finds Solace In Metroid

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:00:00 EST

In 2007, Brooklyn's Michelle Perl was struck with tragedy. Her mother, sick with cancer, passed away. But in her mourning, Perl decided to do something. She decided to change. More »

Man, Wii Skiing Is More Dangerous Than It Looks

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:00:00 EST

Wii Fit's skiing looks harmless enough. You ski by...leaning a little. Don't tell that to this guy's living room, though. More »

The Father Of The Fitness Video Game Passes Away

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:30:00 EST

Jack LaLanne, who appeared in a fitness video game long before Nintendo and EA made millions off the genre, has sadly passed away over the weekend at the age of 96. More »

Woman Credits Wii Fit For Parkinson's Diagnosis

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:40:00 EST

A British mother of two says she began to figure out she was suffering from Parkinson's disease only after stepping on a Wii Balance Board. More »

Wii Fit Helped This Woman Do More Than Exercise

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:30:00 EST

Eighteen months ago, Jo Collinge was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, which attacks the nervous system. Collinge had difficulty walking. And then, she started playing Wii Fit. More »

No, This Isn't Wii Fit For Babies

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:00:00 EST

Those babies might be fat, but this Wii Fit Plus campaign isn't for them. It's for their moms. More »

Helen Mirren Is Already Fit, Knows How To Party

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EDT

Nintendo has had its fair share of celebrity pitch ladies. There's been Nicole Kidman, Liv Tyler and Beyonce. The United Kingdom is getting the The Queen. More »

Hey Nintendo Is A Japanese Company, You Know

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:00:00 EDT

The Japanese game industry is dead. This week has been a flashback of last year's Tokyo Game Show — complete with gloom and doom from Capcom's Keiji Inafune. More »

It's Hard To Predict The Future, Even For Mario's Creator

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EDT

Shigeru Miyamoto is a video game pioneer. He entered the industry in 1977 and has been instrumental in changing the way we play games. He knows where we've been, but does he know where we are going? More »

Wii Fit Examined As A Concussion Rehab Tool In College Football

Owen Good — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:00:00 EDT

Researchers at the University of Maryland and Ohio State University are examining Wii Fit's suitability as "an effective concussion management instrument," in football, where the injury is increasingly a concern. More »

NSFW: Bald Man Humps Pillow For Android Exercise

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:00:00 EDT

Getting in shape is hard. Some people need motivation. Others need motivation. More »

What If Games Had A Super-Easy Mode?

Mike Fahey — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:40:00 EDT

Are video games too hard for you? College Humor imagines a world where all games have a super-easy mode, just for you. Check out the super-easy versions of The Legend of Zelda, Wii Fit, Battletoads, Sonic, and more. More »

Student Cockpit Concept Puts Wii Balance Board In The Pilot's Seat

Mike Fahey — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:40:00 EDT

How can the Wii Balance Board make life better for the pilots of international passenger aircraft? Graduate student Nicoline van der Vaart suggests they sit on it and spin. More »

Nintendo Holds The First Wii Olympics

Mike Fahey — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:40:00 EDT

Are you the best Wii gamer in the country? Nintendo gives you a chance to prove your mettle in the first-ever Wii Games: Summer 2010, and it all starts in the cradle of civilization: New Jersey. More »

Nothing Says Fit Seamen Like Wii Fit

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:00:00 EDT

New sailors! Time to get in shape. More »

Trump Hotels Hawk Training Sessions on Wii Fit

Owen Good — Sat, 22 May 2010 13:00:00 EDT

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For $90, you could buy Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board and use it forever in your own home. Or you could play it for 55 minutes with a personal trainer at one of Donald Trump's hotels. More »

These Nintendo Games Have Sold Over 20 Million Copies

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:30:00 EDT

Since the launch of both the DS and Wii, five games published by Nintendo have sold more than twenty million copies. Can you guess which ones? More »

Aussie Politician Wants Government To Buy Wii For Sick Man

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:30:00 EDT

A state minister from Victoria, Australia has been publicly rebuked after personally campaigning - in parliament - for one of his constituents to be given a Wii. More »

The Accidental Love Child of Wii Fit And WarioWare

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:00:00 EDT

EA Sports Active 2.0 is probably going to be a healthy product when it is released: software marshaled for good. EA Sports Active 2.0 as demonstrated for me last night was something else, something somewhat intriguing and probably, amusingly dangerous. More »

Nintendo Sued Again, This Time Over Wii Fit

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:30:00 EDT

That damn Wii Fit. Always getting itself into trouble. If it's not turning people into sex addicts, it's attracting lawsuits from companies that make interactive fitness equipment. More »

Woman Falls Off Wii Fit, Becomes A "Sex Addict"

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:30:00 EDT

According to a suspiciously brief newswire report, 24 year-old Briton Amanda Flowers has become a "sex addict" after falling off her Wii Fit board. More »

Nintendo And McDonalds: A Short History

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EDT

The king of fast-food. The biggest Japanese video game company. Nintendo and McDonald's have been in cahoots for years. More »

The World's Most Badass Exercise Video Game

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:00:41 EDT

The game you see here will include a calorie counter. Lose weight by delivering a punch to the gut, followed by a head butt. More »

This Is Exactly Why I Hate Peripherals

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:00:00 EST

They are gaming's extras. The add-ons. The bits that are outside the core elements. And I hate them. More »

Woman Loses 112 lbs., Thanks Wii Fit

Owen Good — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:00:00 EST

A 38-year-old British woman, once so large she was afraid to have sex with her husband, now parades about her home in sexy lingerie after losing 112 pounds, a dramatic change in physique she credits to a Wii Fit regimen. More »

The Wii Loses Some Of Its Fitness Thunder To Dance Town

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:20:38 EST

Show of hands. Who has heard of the video game Dancetown? You know, the video game that National Public Radio reports might better whip you into shape than Wii Fit. More »

Wii Balance Board Goes Forth In The Name Of Science

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:30:00 EST

While the Wii Balance Board's usefulness as a fitness device are questionable, there's no doubts over its ability to perform as a...rehabilitative "force platform". More »

Wii Fitness Shares Store With Dumbbells, Treadmills

Brian Crecente — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST

David Campisi's life is all about exercise and sports. More »

The Sports Authority Gets Its Wii On

Brian Crecente — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:40:00 EST

As we first reported earlier today, The Sports Authority is getting in the Wii-selling business in a big way. More »

Sports Authority Fitness Retailer Inks Deal to Sell Wii

Brian Crecente — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:07:52 EST

Starting this month, Nintendo's Wii gets its own section and pitch people at The Sports Authority stores nationwide, part of a movement to help make the country more fit, the fitness chain's president told Kotaku this morning. More »

Wii Fit And Wii Sports Exercise Weighed And Measured

Mike Fahey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:20:00 EST

A new study has determined which Wii Fit and Wii Sports activities actually qualify as moderate intensity exercise, as defined by the American Heart Association. Are you actually exercising? More »

Study Finds Wii Fit Produces "Underwhelming Results"

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Anyone who does proper exercise could have pointed this out, but it's always nice to have it in writing; the American Council on Exercise have claimed that Nintendo's Wii Fit produces "underwhelming results". More »

So, Shigeru Miyamoto Got A Cat

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:30:00 EDT

Remember when Shigeru Miyamoto started weighing himself everyday? We got Wii Fit. And before that, he had a dog. We got Nintendogs. And even before that, he took up gardening. We got Pikmin. Now, Miyamoto has a cat. More »

Beyonce Would Like To Make A Fitness Game

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:00:00 EDT

After trying her hand at fashion design and acting, songstress Beyonce has expressed interest in making a fitness video game. More »

The First Four Letters Say it All

Owen Good — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:40:00 EDT

Dumbbells - two pound dumbbells, to be exact. Your Wiimote is waiting to pump (clap) you up with this $20 "peripheral" available from Everlast, said to be compatible with a slew of exergaming titles. More »

Watch Major League Pitcher Play Wii Fit

AJ Glasser — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Remember that baseball player who wanted to slim down his Mii and wound up losing 25 pounds in real life? The Wall Street Journal chronicled his success story in a video. More »

Local Gym About to Get a Letter from Nintendo

Owen Good — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EDT

Looking to buff up or slim down in Tucson? Check out WE-FIT. If you have trouble finding it, it's the gym at 6437 N. Oracle Road - since that name might change in the future. More »

Games That Don't Exist, But Should: Humping Robot

Owen Good — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:40:00 EDT

This is, officially, hump-a-Wii day. First up was the patented hobby-horse-humper to which we all just went o_O. Last night, Robot Chicken put out this - Humping Robot on the Wii. It doesn't exist, but I'd rather play it. More »

New Life Sales For Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:00:00 EDT

Kyoto-based Nintendo Co., Ltd. has released sales data for its biggest selling titles during the April - June 2009 quarter. Let's have a look. More »

Have We Reached Exercise Game Saturation?

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:00:05 EDT

Get up off your ass. Move, move, move. It's summertime! No need to go outside. Video games can help you become active and maybe even lose weight. This is hardly new, but have we reached saturation? More »