The WiiDS Podcast

- Question Of The Week: If you could run Nintendo for a day...?
- News
- Wii Outsells 360/PS3/PSP Combined
- Pirates blamed for Nintendo shortages
- Factor 5 to announce titles soon
- GTA: Chinatown Wars details
- MadWorld fans strike back
- Main Discussion: Ocarina Of Time
- How well does it stand up ten years on?
- How does it compare to other Zelda titles?
- Which are the better Zelda games?
- Where should the series go?
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- Wii Shop Releases
- Topic Of The Week: DSi Games
- More

- Special guest: Our Man In Japan
- Question Of The Week: First game you bought
- News
- WiiMakes Give Us More Than We Bargained For
- Nintendo Trademark Blowout
- Apple Wants DS' Territory
- Crystal Chronicle Still Exists. Honest.
- Nintendo After Used Games
- Main Discussion: DSi Hands On
- How does it improve on the DS Phat/Lite?
- Are the new features enjoyable?
- Is it worth buying/upgrading?
- What would we like to see in the future?
- What We've Been Playing
- VC Shop Releases
- Topic Of The Week: Where's My Sequel?
- More!

- Special guest: Kid Dogg, Gaming Unlimited TV
- Announcement: Media Channel Coming Soon
- Question Of The Week: Animal Crossing
- News
- DSi sells out in Japan
- DSi equipped with 256Mb memory
- DSi to hit Europe before Autumn
- WarioWare Photograph announced
- Nintendo "still has a lot of work to do
- Main Discussion: Small Publishers
- Why do they focus on Wii and DS?
- What advantages and disadvantages do these platforms give them?
- What challenges do they face?
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Sections
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: 2D Mario Games

Jason The Wiki Davidson takes on the responsibility of handling our first dedicated review, playing his way through Obscure II, a title combining the survival horror and teen slasher flick genres generously supplied by its publisher PlayV. Listen in for the definitive WiiDS verdict on this upcoming Wii title...

- QOTW: Nintendo Games In Real Life
- News
- Sega Snags The Conduit
- Galaxy And Twilight Princess We're Not Up To Scratch
- New Games Rating System Gets The Green Light
- Japan Not Interested In DSi?
- Everybodies Theatre Channel Coming To Japanese Wii's
- Still Holiday Wii Shortages
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- Wii Shop Releases
- New Members
- The Big Discussion (Homebrew)
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: If You Don't Have The Gold Wii Wheel... 
- More!

- Question Of The Week: Scariest Game
- News
- Hardcore Responsible For Wii Success
- Homebrewers Hand Out Storage Solution
- Wii Cleaning Solution Confirmed
- Hudson's The Calling Sends Shivers Down Spines
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- New Members
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: I'm Kind Of Sold On Wii Music
- More

- Announcements
- Strong Bad Contest winner
- Logo Contest winner
- Secret Sauce Unveiled
- A farewell
- Question Of The Week: Favourite gaming enemies
- News
- DSi Region Locked
- E3 Did Not Do Wii Music Justice
- DSi did not meet analyst expectations
- No More Heroes 2 announced
- Main Discussion: New IPs
- What new announcements should you be looking forward to?
- Hear the worst pronounced Japanese game names in podcasting!
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Online Section
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: DSi face-mapping
- More!

- Reminders: last chance for contests!
- Question Of The Week: Wii MMOs
- News
- DSi
- Wii Storage Solution Announced
- Wii Speak Channel
- New Games Announced
- GameCube Wiimakes Revealed
- Wii Shop Releases
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: Is The Force Strong On Wii
- More!

We bring you a special edition of the WiiDS podcast, taking to upcoming developer Robert Pelloni and his single handed project Bob's game. We get all the info on the upcoming game along with plenty of exclusives. We also get to take a look at the DS development process and what it takes to turn an idea into reality. We also get to meet the man behind the game, hearing his story and thoughts and feelings on gaming today.

- Reminders
- Question Of The Week: Multiformat Purchases
- Nintendo Press Conference Announced
- New DS Bundles Announced
- Pokemon Still Going Strong
- Capcom Stop Exclusives But Maintains Support
- Ubisoft Knew About Motion Plus
- What We've Been Playing
- Wii Shop Releases
- Emails
- More!

- Announcements
- Strongbad Contest Reminder
- We've Been Nominated!
- Question Of The Week: Games That Should Be Films
- News
- Storage Solution "Better Than" A Hard Drive
- Animal Crossing Priced
- Nintendo Flattered By Xbox Avatars
- New Phantasy Star For DS
- Wii/DS Router Announced
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- Online Section
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: WiiDS Games Night
- More!

- Question Of The Week: Unreleased games
- News
- Disaster strikes on October 24
- Run the Gauntlet in October
- KORG DS-10 announced for October
- Wii and DS to lead TGS
- GTA IV on Wii
- Main Discussion: Nintendon’t
- 10 reasons why Nintendo is not catering for its core gamers
- Is Shigsy still up to it?
- Is the company about to see a radical shift in focus?
- Are hardcore games worth it?
- Where do third parties stand?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- Online Section, including e-mails
- Topic Of The Week: Imagine [insert random occupation here]
- More

-Question Of The Week: Desert Island Games
- News
- Nintendo Dismisses DS Remake Rumours
- New Consoles To Arrive Before Next Gen
- Core Games 2-3 Years Away
- Motion Sensing On DS
- Main Discussion: Yuletide Yearnings 2008
- What games should you keep an eye out for over the next few months?
- What games should you avoid?
- Which ones suprised us the most?
- What We've Been Playing
- More

- Question Of The Week: New Wii Channels
- News
- Censor call on MadWorld
- Ubisoft announces more shovelware
- Wii likes third parties
- Game Announcements
- Main Discussion: Live(ish) From Leipzig
- James reports from GC 2008
- What titles look promising?
- How many Wii/DS games are there?
- How are our favourites shaping up?
- Does he know any German?
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: Custom DS/ Game Boy On VC?

- Guest stars: Alex and Ben of the OMG Podcast- Question Of The Week: New Handheld Features- News- LucasArts Upset About MotionPlus Secrecy- Overlord coming to Wii, DS- The Name's Wii, Yatani Wii- Capcom: We're Not Shafting The Wii. Honest- Main Discussion: Wii Hacking- The Twilight Hack- The Homebrew Channel- Homebrew On DS- What counts as homebrew?- Is it right?- Nintendo's view- Should Nintendo encourage user-generated content?- What We've Been Playing- Online Section- More!

- We're Back!
- Question Of The Week: Favourite Bad Game?
- News
- Ex-Nintendo Xbox Rep: Wii is a gimmick
- Saints Row Wii: A bad idea
- Nintendo finds holographic storage solution?
- MotionPlus not exclusive to Nintendo
- Iwata: Miyamoto out of ideas
- Main Discussion: The Nintendo Difference
- Are Nintendo trying too hard to be different?
- Has this caused them to miss out on certain markets/successes?
- Virtual Console Releases
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- Emails
- New Members
- Topic of the Week: Forum awards

This episode is dedicated to those posters and owners who ask the, "What is there to buy for my Wii?" Question.

Mani and Jason discuss 25 titles that might have dodged a keen eye, or have been around a while perhaps have been forgotten about it?

Hopefully a normal WiiDS service will resume next week, as all of us are now returning from our summer migration to find sun, sanctuary or both!

Enjoy!

Here it is: the second part of the first ever WiiDS Podcast to be recorded live. Picking up where we left off, the team continue to speculate about the big game rumoured to be arriving this Christmas, as well as coming up with a few ideas of our own about what we'd like to see hit shop shelves.

After that, we move on into What We've Been Playing with a brief hint of the shennanigans we got up to and James can finally discuss that title he's had under embargo. Can you guess what is is?

Throw the likes of emails, virtual console releases, forum members, and topic of the week into the mix and the most epic episode of the WiiDS Podcast so far is finally complete. Enjoy!

This week, we have a very special show for you as we present the first ever live episode of The WiiDS Podcast. Recorded from a flat somewhere in the heart of Essex, the episodes features James, Tom, Mani and Dippy together for the first time. Along with all the usual banter, we covered the latest news, including rumours of a widescreen DS, a Wii version of Animal Crossing, Epic's comments on the Wii and UK trade body ELSPA's stance on those dreaded R4 cards.

The majority of the show is taking up by the main discussion in which we speculate over what we could be seeing from Nintendo at this year's E3, including Reggie's Big Game and a range of listener suggestions. As you would expect, the inane banter inherent to the podcast ensued with four hosts in the same room, so the second half of the main discussion, plus all of the usual segments, will be released later this week.

We apologise for any discrepancies in the audio quality, but the nature of recording live and channeling four microphones into a single feed means a slightly reduced quality that could not be fixed in the edit. We hope you enjoy the show.

- Normality restored!
- Question Of The Week: Dealing with online players
- News
- Chrono Trigger DS
- No More Brain Training
- Japan gives up on Wii Fit
- Sadness Release Date Announced
- Main Discussion: Putting In The Hours
- Wii playing figures revealed
- How much are people playing Boom Blox and Okami?
- Are people finishing Metroid Prime 3?
- How much time do people spend on Wii Sports/Wii Fit?
- Finally Revealed: Do people only buy Wii Play for the free controller?
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- New Members & Emails
- Topic Of The Week: Film Tie-ins
- More!

-    Announcement: The GamePlay Network
-    First Impressions: Super Smash Bros Brawl
-    What We’ve Been Playing
-    News
-    Star Wars Clone Wars – First Details
-    Nintendo Caters For The Core
-    DS Demo Stations Appear
-    Release Date Extravanganza
-    More!

Full shownotes at www.wiids-podcast.com
Minicast available at http://minicast.wiids-podcast.com

Question of the Week: What is your favourite NPC from any game?

Fischer’s Folly - Follow Up

Jack Thompson’s Career Coming to an End?

Freeloader Frozen!

Gamestation Prepares Smashing Tournament

Mr. Mod Chips, Cleared on appeal!

Virtual Console releases

What We've Been Playing

Online Section

- Question Of The Week
- News
- Microsoft interested in DS
- Resident Evil Zero to be Japan only?
- USB Devices for Wii
- Fischer's Folly
- Game Announcements
- Main Discussion: Nintendo's Advertising
- How difficult are Wii and DS to promote?
- How good are Nintendo at advertising?
- How do they appeal to the different audiences?
- Virtual Console releases, brought to you by www.vc-reviews.com
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- More

- Question Of The Week: WiiWare Franchises
- News
- Quit Smoking On DS
- No Street Fighter IV
- Clone Wars Exclusive To Wii/DS
- 100 WiiWare Games In Development
- Game Announcements
- Main Discussion: East Vs West
- Miyamoto on Western developers
- Are the culture differences?
- How do these affect different genres?
- How is Nintendo working with to bring the two territories together?
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- More!

- Question Of The Week: Best Box Art
- News
- Miyamoto: My Style Has Changed
- Animal Crossing rumoured
- Nintendo's 2008 conference plans
- Nintendo Channel released
- Main Discussion: Casual Acquaintances
- Nintendo Europe claims there are no casual gamers: are they right?
- What defines 'casual'?
- Should gamers be pigeonholed?
- How does a control system affect whether or not it is casual?
- Virtual Console Reviews, brought to you by www.vc-reviews.com
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- More

- 3 Special Guest's!
- Question Of The Week: What is your favourite Nintendo spin off?
- News
- Shenmue Wii Rumoured.
- Nintendo Apologies for Wii Fit.
- BNintendo to Pioneer Console MMOs?
- Madworld.
- Main Discussion: WiiWare
- What did we buy or Will be buying?
- A Heart Felt Plea from Mani!
- Virtual Console Releases, brought to you by www.vc-reviews.com
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Sections, featuring new members, email and topic of the week
- More!

- Question Of The Week: Favourite cheat/hack?
- News
- Confirmed WiiWare launch line-up
- Nintendo sued for $21 million
- Beyond Good & Evil 2
- Game Announcements
- Main Discussion: Rare
- Does Banjo 3 betray its origins?
- Does it capture the Nintendo magic?
- Banjo decapitates Mario: a statement?
- What value does Rare have today?
- Virtual Console Releases, brought to you by www.vc-reviews.com
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Sections, featuring new members, email and topic of the week
- More!

Question Of The Week
Which games would you bring back?

News
DLC Comes To Wii
Wii Fit calls skinny kid fat
EA’s All Play Range for Wii
Nintendo Channel released in U.S.
Silicon Knights On Wii:
Protothea:
Sonic Unleashed on Wii:

Main Discussion: Downhill For The DS?
Has the DS had it’s peak?
Are Nintendo giving up on the DS?
Will we see fewer decent games on the DS?
Do we feel like we’re still waiting for anything on the DS?
When will we see a successor?

What We’ve Been Playing
GTA IV:
Brothers In Arms DS:
Dewy’s Adventure:
Pokemon Diamond:

Virtual Console Release, brought to you by http://www.vc-reviews.com

- Question Of The Week: How much do we play the DS?
- News
- Release Date Bonanza
- WiiWare accompanied by new channel
- No Price Cut For Wii and DS
- Main Discussion: Wii Fit
- Is it a game or exercise?
- How responsive is the board?
- Is it worth your money?
- Virtual Console Releases, brought to you by www.vc-reviews.com
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section
- More

- Question Of The Week: Virtual reality?
- News
- Zelda Team returns
- Golden Sun on DS?
- Most Wii Games Look Like Crap
- Main Discussion: Viral Gaming
- Is the Wii a 'virus', a passing infection?
- Does the console have staying power?
- Does/has the novetly wear off?
- Is the DS affected in the same way?
- Virtual Console releases, brought to you by www.vc-reviews.com
- What We've Been Playing
- Online Section, including N+ DS
- More!

- Question Of The Week: Favourite in-game weapons
- News
- Nintendo Media Summit
- Mario Kart launch
- No head tracking in Boom Blox
- Nintendo dismisses DS3 claims
- Main Discussion: Mario Kart
- How good is the online system?
- How accessible are the controls?
- Favourite tracks
- Biker or karter?
- Virtual Console Releases, brought to you by www.vc-reviews.com
- Online Section
- More

- Question Of The Week: Favourite Nintendo tune
- A special congratulations
- News
- Gauntlet DS
- Xbox 360 Wiimote Revealed?
- Freeloader foiled by Mario Kart
- Guitar Hero Replacements Available
- Kirby: World Of Shadows
- Main Discussion: BBC iPlayer
- What does this deal mean for Nintendo?
- How could it work?
- How could it be expanded?
- What similar deals could be done in the future?
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- Online section
- More!

Mani and Jason question Tom on the latest version of Mario Kart - Mario Kart Wii, hitting shelves in Europe on Friday 11th April. Tune in for insight and a special announcement involving one of the team!

- Special Guest: Kid Dogg
- Question Of The Week: Non-gaming hobbies
- News
- Trauma Centre returns to DS
- Wii Fit sales predictions
- GTA-wannabe for Wii?
- THQ's line-up
- Sam & Max
- Main Discussion: Blockbusters On DS
- Do big franchises work well on DS?
- What motivates publishers to bring their series to DS?
- How does the impact of exclusives on DS differ from those on Wii?
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console releases
- Online Section
- More!

- Question Of The Week: Favourite Mario Power-Up
- News
- Win A Mario Kart
- Driving Theory Training
- No DLC for Rock Band Wii
- Guitar Hero DS
- Main Discussion: Downloadable Content
- Wii Play & Pay Revealed
- DLC for DLC: A good idea?
- Wii Fit: Will It Sell?
- Future of DLC on Wii
- Downloadable Brawl Stages
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- Online Section
- More!

 - OUR 50TH EPISODE
- Question Of The Week: Which video game character would you be?
- News
- Manhunt 2 will see release in UK
- LOL offers "endless possibilities"
- Reggie Reveals All
- Sky Crawlers
- Main Discussion: Fighters
- How hardcore is the fighting genre?
- Is Brawl all that different?
- What can Wii and DS do for the genre that other consoles can't?
- Have beat-'em-ups become too complicated?
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- Listener mail/forum section
- A very special after-show skit
- More!

- Question of the week: do you get into the Wii?
- News
- Controversial Holocaust DS game
- Nintendo on Brawl failures
- Cheerleading game revealed
- WiiWare launch announced
- Main Discussion: Community Service
- What should Nintendo be doing to interact with its userbase?
- Does Nintendo’s website need improving?
- How can Nintendo market their titles to their new audience?
- How could the Wii Channels help?
- Could Nintendo benefit from a Major Nelson figure?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Xbox 360 price cut to trigger similar move from Nintendo?
- Virtual Console releases
- The forum section returns!
- More!

- Question Of The Week: Favourite Non-Nintendo Game
- News
- Mario Kart Communication Problems
- Wii Freeloader Revealed
- Resident Evil Zero Wiimake
- We Ski
- Main Discussion: Please Release Me
- Nintendo's attitude to release schedules
- Wii Fit/Mario Kart Vs GTA IV
- Strategically timed DS releases
- Q4 2007: Too much or too little?
- Delays, delays, delays
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console releases
- Listener emails
- Jason's Wrath
- More!

- Question Of The Week: Our very first game?
- GDC SPECIAL
- Wii Pay & Play
- WiiWare size problems solved
- Developer Choice Awards
- Lost Winds
- World Of Goo
- Wii Fit's Future
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console Releases
- Listener Emails
- More!

- Question Of The Week: What do we want to see from GDC?
- Mario Kart and Wii Fit Dated
- Miyamoto: Wii Fit doesn't make you fit
- Smash Bros Release Date denied
- WiiWare dated for U.S.
- Main Discussion: Virtual Console
- Is it what we expected?
- What benefits does it have?
- What influences our purchases?
- What We've Been Playing
- Mani's hands-on with our most wanted title
- Virtual Console releases
- Listener emails
- More!

- Question Of The Week - How much would you spend on WiiWare?
- This Week In Wii: EXCLUSIVE game announcement, only on WiiDS
- News
- Spore release date
- Wii's low review scores
- Smash Bros breaks record
- Factor 5 hint at Wii project
- Main Discussion: Going Through The Motions
- Which Wii/DS games best use Nintendo's controls?
- Is one-to-one motion control possible on Wii?
- Which genres can Wii/DS help or bring back?
- What We've Been Playing
- Listener Emails
- Virtual Console Releases
- More!

- Mario Strikers Tournament
- Listener emails and a reminder
- News
- Wii Civilization too much effort
- Dr Kawashima turns down Brain Training Royalties
- Rock Band Wii Confirmed
- Fatal Frame 4: Wii Exclusive
- Main Discussion: Online Cuts
- Why are companies dropping online support on Wii?
- Should Nintendo develop an MMO?
- What can Wii bring to the online landscape?
- This Week In DS: Brain Training Vs The North
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console Release
- More!

Apologies for the problems we've had uploading this ep. Hopefully, you've got it now!

- Guest host: PeteyPie
- Question Of The Week: Which characters would we add to Brawl?
- News
- PaRapper Developer Disputes DS Lifespan
- Wii Civilization on Hold
- Exclusive Force Unleashed Levels
- Bestselling DS titles of 2007
- Main Discussion: The European Market
- What needs to be improved?
- Could we eliminate delays between releases?
- How does it compare to the other markets?
- What we've been playing
- This Week In Wii: Master System On Virtual Console
- Our Man In Japan
- Virtual Console releases
- More

- Special Guest: Steviepeas!
- Question Of The Week: Worst Gaming Moments
- News
- Mario & Sonic Boosted By Word Of Mouth
- 5 Million Wiis in Japan
- Smash Bros Roster revealed? Additional Pokemon appear?
- Main Discussion: Game narratives
- An interview with a games writer
- What does games writing involve?
- How to enter the industry?
- How well do Nintendo present their storylines?
- Could Nintendo do more with their storylines?
- This Week In DS: Disney GPS system
- What We've Been Playing
- More!

- With an opening keynote speech from Reggie
- Question Of The Week: Guilty Pleasures
- News
- Assassin's Creed DS
- Smash Bros Delayed. Again.
- Factor 5 Wiiturns
- Bioware Sonic RPG details
- Main Discussion: Controller Lawsuits
- Is Nintendo's technology stolen?
- Why do people file such lawsuits?
- What if Nintendo hadn't invented the DS/Wii first?
- Why is control so important to gaming?
- Our Man In Japan: PWiidictions
- What We've Been Playing
- Virtual Console releases
- Competition deadline

- WiiDS is back!
- Reader reviews
- News
- Konami's War On Terror
- Nintendo's double Emmy
- Wii are amused
- Wii figures from Japan
- The Big Issue: Predictions 2008
- What surprises can we expect in the next year?
- What will we succeed and what will fail?
- What does Nintendo need to do to stay on top?
- What we've been playing?
- NEW SECTION: This Week In Wii: Goldeneye 64 on XBLA
- more!

A little Christmas message from your favourite Nintendo podcast. See you all in the New Year...

- Carol singing gone wrong
- The original WiiD returns
- Reminders: Wiiject Appeal, new forums, competition
- Nintendo 2008 release schedule
- No More Heroes censored
- Photo channel update, Pokemon Snap arrives
- New Nintendo Website
- What We've Been Playing
- Main Discussion: One Year On
- How has Nintendo performed this year?
- What have they done right?
- What have they done wrong?
- How the WiiDS began...
- VC releases
- A message from Dippy, and two celebrity guests
- How to get involved
- The Best of WiiDS 2007
- more!

Music:
- Starfox Godspeed, The Wingless (OCRemix)
- Super Mario Sleigh Ride, Dale North (OCRemix)

- Ghostbusters Wii
- Pokemon Snap for VC
- DSVision
- ActiBlizz
- What We've Been Playing
- Main Discussion: Shoot-'em-ups
- Are shooter's that important anymore?
- What makes them disappointing?
- What has Nintendo done to improve the genre?
- Why are Nintendo consoles best for shooters?
- Competition: Your gaming moments in MS Paint
- Online Section
- How to get involved
- More!

Games Discussed: Ghostbusters, Pokemon Snap, No More Heroes, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Metroid Prime, Geist, Goldeneye, Halo 3, Red Steel, Paper Mario, Sin And Punishment, more

Music:
- Starfox Godspeed - The Wingless, OCRemix
- Robotobots Wiimixes

- Super Mario Galaxy first week sales
- New Nintendo Channel
- Nintendo on the R4
- Greenpeace vs Nintendo
- What We've Been Playing
- Main Discussion: Wiimakes
- What counts as a Wiimake?
- Are Wiimakes worth our money?
- What would we like to see wiimade?
- 2D to 3D: worth the effort?
- Virtual Console releases
- Our Man In Japan: Wii Fit Interview - Part II
- How to get involved
- More!

Games discussed: Super Mario Galaxy, NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams, Turok, Endless Ocean, Phoenix Wright, Link To The Past, Ocarina Of Time, Zelda II: Adventure Of Link, Resident Evil 4, Killer 7, Okami, Final Fantasy III, Jet Force Gemini, Goldeneye, more...

Music:
- Starfox Godspeed, The Wingless (OCRemix)
- Robotobots Wiimixes