The most wanted gaming device (besides PS3 of course) comes from Nintendo and has the peculiar “Wii” name, by the way - it reads wee and not why.

The official Wii launch on US (NYC) is only a few hours/minutes away and there has been a great blogging reportage made by Gizmodo, props to them because that is where I picked up the photo for this post.

So with all the recent Nintendo Wii Launch news, I thought about giving you a resume based on their reports:

• there is a launch party for this console, it is being held at Times Square in NYC
• a lot of people are waiting, Gizmodo talks about 1,000 people
• there are a lot of Wii’s waiting for a new owner too, numbers point to 5,000 units

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Candy and video games are what kids love in equal measure, although with the upcoming release of the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3, the latter might just pull ahead. The Willy Wonka Candy Factory, noted for its range of chocolates and toothache-inducing candy, has released the WonkaZoid. This is no ordinary electronic handheld game as it acts as a refillable candy dispenser as well. This means you get to munch on your favorite candy while having a great time blasting away on the game.

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Any self-respecting arcade operator would have a number of pinball machines as their disposal, as there is just something special about the clanging bells, the shrill rings, and the thrill of watching your points edge closer and closer and eventually overtaking the high score, making you king of the hill until some pimply, pubescent kid comes by, drops in a quarter, and starts ringing up the score at the speed of the entire country’s Walmart cash registers operating simultaneously. Ultra Pin has introduced a new twist to a classic game, using modern technology to bring us digital pinball.

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In case you enjoyed some of the previous Sudoku cool gadgets that we talked about, like the Sudoku Toilet Roll to be used n the WC, or the popular 3D sudoku that works like a rubriks cube, I am very confident that you will also enjoy the touchscreen sudoku.

This sudoku game is different from all the others because: besides featuring a touchscreen which is a rare thing to see in simple games like this, (I haven’t seen a touchscreen tetris game, yet) the selected number puzzles were picked by Will Shorz, a columnist at the New York Times newspaper. I don’t know if this is suppose to be good or bad, but lets be optimist and think positive.
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Those of you who love puzzle games and like to occupy your time on the tube, bus, or even while waiting for your wife to finish her shopping with a good mind boggling puzzle will definitely fall in love with the ISIS Adventure Puzzle Ball. This unique puzzle is claimed to be the hardest puzzle of all time, where cracking the code is nearly impossible to do. I guess than means the traditional Rubik Cube and tons of Sudoku tiles you see everyday are child’s play compared to the ISIS. As an added incentive to get your brain juices flowing, the designers of ISIS have even put up some cold, hard cash for grabs - only if you’re smart and wily enough to break the ISIS code.

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You know how the gaming experience has evolved since the days of CGA graphics, which moved on to 16 colors in EGA and subsequently 256 colors in VGA, and the color palette just exploded from there. Sound cards were introduced to bring new levels of realism in gaming, followed by surround sound and a subwoofer to capture the effects of the low rumbling of a vehicle or the heavy thud of footsteps. We even have ambient lighting speakers today, but that’s another story for another day. SmartHome is currently selling its ButtKicker Gamer solution at a massively discounted price of $119.99 for gamers to play games with heavy bass that is close to home for the most realistic gaming experience possible.

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You know you play Halo on the Xbox, (also Halo II and Halo III one or two days after it comes out).

Now you can get your favorite HALO weapons as sweet replicas for an amazing Halloween adventure-punch sipping event.
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Video games, computers, and TV shows are letting kids spend more and more time indoors doing absolutely nothing (and they’re probably eating junk food). Doing that all day isn’t exactly the best health wise and it’s because of this, and junk food, that childhood obesity rates have soared in the past few years. An easy solution would be to limit the amount of time your child can spend on the computer, playing video games, and watching TV, or by having a mandatory 20 minute exercise “break” each day. Bet you never thought that another solution to this problem involves video games? Meet the Step2Play, which only lets your child play games if he does a bit of exercising first.
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