Topic: Wii Fit

How Body Sensors Are Gaming the Health System

Marientina Gotsis Media Lab Manager USC School of Cinematic Arts Los Angeles, California Gaming the System Marientina Gotsis, 31, teaches "Games for Health" at USC, and with a grant from Health Games Research, she ...READ»

• Fast Talk: Making It Personal
• Fast Talk: Designing a Lifestyle App
• Fast Talk: Empowering the Patients

Inside Ubisoft's 'Your Shape' Fitness Game

Video game journalist Stephen Totilo has suggested that we may currently be in the self-help era of video games, with products on the market that promise to help you keep your brain young, quit smoking, and get in shape. The latter ...READ»

Why Games Are So Expensive, and Staying That Way

Recent earnings reports from Sony and Nintendo prove that the video game industry is not recession proof. So why do games still cost so much money?READ»

Nintendo's Innovation Console: A Q&A With Reggie Fils-Aime

For the past several years, Nintendo executives have been touting such books as "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "Blue Ocean Strategy" as a way to explain why they've been zigging while everyone else zagged. That's why at last month's ...READ»

Networked Body Smackdown: Fitbit vs. DirectLife

An uber-athlete, I'm not. But over the last year I have learned to balance long shifts hunched over a desk with regular time on my yoga mat and I begrudgingly took up running to whittle my waist. So nothing short of dread skipped down ...READ»

Trend: How Whole Foods and The Fun Theory Are Changing Our Health

The healthy lifestyle trend is about appealing to the customer in a creative way, not only creating new products, but calling them to action and bringing customers together on a whole new level. As a result, we're seeing positive lifestyle changes and surprisingly, an impact on...READ»

PS3 Sales Rocketing, Leaving Nintendo Lost in the Dust?

We knew it was likely to happen, we just didn't realize how big the effect was going to be: According to some reports, the PS3 make-over and price drop has resulted in sales rocketing 1000%. Is Sony beating its gaming rivals? The ...READ»

Jenny McCarthy Teaches Fitness on the Wii, with Semi-Annoying Real-Time Feedback

Like working out to exercise videos but wish they gave personalized feedback? Fan of Jenny McCarthy? If you answered yes to both questions, Ubisoft's new fitness game for the Nintendo Wii, Your Shape, could be for you. The key ...READ»

Technology: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Show-Off for E3

The three game console creators have kicked off this year's E3 -- the Electronic Entertainment Expo -- with their respective press conferences. As the console war heats up, these press conferences gain new significance as the gaming ...READ»

Video Games 2009: Who Will Win the Console War?

In 2008, titles like Grand Theft Auto IV (5 million copies) and Wii Fit (4.5 million) helped the game industry reach $21 billion in sales. But with the recession, gaming may struggle to stay on top in 2009. So how will the big three ...READ»

Sony Impresses, Nintendo Disappoints at E3

Sony unveiled the PSP Go, a motion controller, and a slew of impressive titles--including a new one from Rockstar, creators of the Grand Theft Auto franchise--during today's E3 video game expo. While Nintendo, maker of the leading ...READ»

• Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)

Wii Can Play, But for How Long?

Nintendo Wii is firmly in the lead in console sales, but without quality content that appeals to more discerning gamers, how long can it stay on top?READ»

Can LittleBigPlanet Save Sony's PS3?

To inject life into the flagging PlayStation 3, Sony is banking on a charmingly weird new game called LittleBigPlanet, from a scrappy UK startup called Media Molecule. LBP -- and its hero, an endlessly customizable little character named Sackboy -- brings social networking and user-generated content to console gaming. Meet the visionary geeks behind it.READ»

• LittleBigPlanet's Little Big Scandal
• Will Wright: The Simemperor
• The Rise of Corporate Games