It is a device which can store all your 3D games. It is a portable device made for PC game lovers. It is an auto stereoscopic device which means “glass free 3D”. Now, you can enjoy all your 3D games without wearing any glasses or unnecessary accessories. It displays high 3D effects without causing any harm to eyes. Nintendo 3DS is a whole new version of Nintendo family performing far better than Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi video games. It has got a very high standard as that of any of the play station’s available.  Nintendo 3DS XL is a new version of 3DS, whose screen is ninety percent larger than the 3DS one. The most exciting thing is that don’t need to learn anything in order to operate it. It is quite affordable as well.  It is a result of experiments performed with 3D technology in 1980s.

Provides safe 3D

You can carry your games in Nintendo 3DS as you go from places to places. It is the only 3DS handheld game accessory present in Nintendo family. It has got a new parallax barrier screen, which provides a totally new experience to the user. This screen has changed the gaming industry forever. It has got motion parallax and wider view angles. These properties make the device not to harm viewer’s eye. Parallax device acts like a barrier in front of human eyes because of which we can see 3D aspects of any object without the use of 3D glasses. It is a very versatile and easy to use handheld device. With so many features, it is the best device available with NDS family among the libraries of Nintendo devices. With all the gaming systems in market today, it is counting for the topmost position with impressive 3D aspect.

Features of Nintendo 3DS

It has got many features like:

• Camera.
• Activity log.
• Augmented reality.
• Backward compatibility.
• Virtual console.
• Streetpass and spot pass mode.
• Video content and internet browser.
• Nintendo network and many more.

Selling your device

You can sell Nintendo 3DS to any of the game shops. Selling it online will be a wise decision. Here, you can compare your device with other devices and get a clear idea about its price. You will not be able to get the full price, but you may get about three quarters of its total worth. If you are selling it to any of the GameStop’s, then they will pay you around half of what you paid for it and sell it at good discounts to the person who comes to buy a used one. This Nintendo 3DS has brought all the gamers to the yard. You can get many people outside with high offering prices for your device. This device has got a silver slider, which helps to intensifies or reduces 3D effect. Raise the slider when you are closer to the screen. On the other side, it is having an awesome feature known as activity log. In this log you can keep all your records of which game have been played at what time and for how long. With so many astonishing features, you can sell Nintendo 3DS at cool prices.

Nintendo created a unique home fitness program with the Wii Fit game. This is a home work out system that you could use to improve your cardiovascular health, strength and balance. Now with the Wii Fit Plus and balance board you get an extra 15 fantastic programs with balance training exercises, yoga, strength training and also the ability to create your own personal work out programs and set fitness targets.

With the run up to Christmas and this system being a choice many people will be purchasing here is a tuition guide as to great ways to get the most out of the system and gain fitness.

1: Choose Trainer

First of all you need to select a personal trainer for you. Pick a male of female trainer and this person will be your motivator and the onscreen coach that will be pushing you hard each work out.

2: Cardio

To get going and get your heart rate up and you moving you should be doing cardiovascular exercises. This will be for you fat burners out there. Use the balance board for step aerobics, hula hood, or boxing to get your heart rate up and the calories burning. You need to be doing at least 30mins of this daily to be making progress.

3: Strength

Choose strength training to get a proper work out. To start choose upper body, lower body and core for an all over body work out. You need to sand comfortably on the balance board and in the correct alignment for the lower body work out with exercises such as squats and lunges. For the upper body you will be doing a variety of push up exercises on the board. Yoga poses are very good for strength and balance and you will be going through a great deal with the program and getting that core solid.

You need to be doing strength training every other day as a day of muscle rest will help you grow as they repair the selves.

4: Balance and Core

Standing on the balance board and performing balance training exercises such as skateboarding and juggling with increase you body stability (your core) this in turn helps you train harder with other exercise.

5: Flexibility

Any areas in your body you find stiff or in pain stretching will help. Chest exercises will get your posture sorted as you aim to keep proper alignment on the board with the programs. You should perform stretching on a daily basis as well to help your muscles recover from exercise.

6: Routine

Ok now get yourself a routine set up from the above advice and create a work out and then follow your Wii coach and make sure you do 30-hour each day to get the benefits.

7: Diet

To gain muscle you will want to eat lots of protein and carbohydrate each day and to lose and to lose weight you want to keep a nice 500 calories deficit each day. You can use the Wii to calculate this and lose via the exercise programs and healthy eating. For good advice try this site on weight loss. Ok now get to it you will be fighting fit before you know it!

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As a News Editor for WiiDS.co.uk, you will be expected to post regular news updates from the wonderful world of Nintendo. You will rely on official press releases and media sources, news tips from our readers together with various other gaming websites via browsing and RSS feeds. You will be posting on a multitude of topics including gaming industry, culture and gaming media, together with being involved with writing original feature articles whenever possible.

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Review editors for WiiDS.co.uk will be expected to write reviews for the current releases on the Wii and DS platforms, including WiiWare, DSiWare and Virtual Console titles. Reviewers will be provided with review copies of various titles and expected to play through the game and write up a review to a strict time frame. Review Editors will also be expected to keep the site up-to-date with game release news and keep our release calendar up-to-date so we don’t miss anything out!

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or with some part of crazy strict religious cult you’ll know of Harry Potter. Like Haribo, kids and grown ups love it so. J.K Rowling’s certainly been doing pretty well for herself spawning seven books making billions out of it. Of course you can’t have a large worldwide popular franchise without some merchandising and spin offs. Harry Potter is certainly guilty of this. As the series grew so did the tone. Abandoning the more childish themes of previous books, The Deathly Hallows is a darker and more adult story.

For those who need a little catch up, The Deathly Hallows is the first part of a two part adventure which involves Harry Potter flunking out of Hogwarts due to the death of Dumbledore. Voldermort is rising in strength and it’s up to Harry and his friends to destroy the Horcruxes – items which give Voldermort his immortal power.

Throughout most of the game you’ll go through a third person shooter fashion with some small stealth elements thrown in. The main problem with the style of the game is that you’ll often be blocked by objects in the environment as you try to attack the enemies. Furthermore aiming is annoying. There’s no auto aim to aid you making the imprecise and inaccurate targeting cumbersome.

The game follows a linear fashion and this is one of the problems for the game. When you’re not being frustrated by the mass amounts of enemies constantly spawning, you’ll be annoyed by the repetitive look of the environment. This can get confusing as you’ll sometimes wonder which direction you were facing originally. The quests are also amazingly bland as you’ll often find yourself A: clearing out a room, B: Going from one place to the other and C: nothing else. The inclusion of trying to find people or items does little to add variety to the already bland objectives.

Furthermore the character designs are as soul-less and drab as their surroundings. You could say the characters lack character themselves.

The camera also poses a massive problem for the game. It’ll often pop to random places on its own accord and this is particularly frustrating due to the motion sensing nature of the game. This makes it particularly horrible when it comes to the cover system. The camera fails to take this into account and your screen will be blocked by an object.

If the book series were anything like this game, it would fail miserably. The game suffers from horrible controls, horrible design and horrible cameras. When it does make an attempt to add anything interesting it fails miserably.

+ Follows the story line in some ways at least
+ Should appease hardcore fans if they ignore the negatives

- Horrible controls
- Horrible cameras
- Amazingly bland

SCORE 2 / 10

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Like Arnie to Stallone or Brown to Cameron there have been many epic face offs throughout the history of man. One of them is Mario and Sonic. Both have met brilliant acclaim but Sonic always manages to lose to Mario. The past few years for Sonic have been pretty bad as he has met less than desirable responses for his previous games. Fortunately, Sonic Colours for both the DS and Wii rises above the negativity.

The main story is that Sonic and Tails need to go and save the day again. Dr Eggman has created an evil theme park in which he kidnaps and imprisons alien visitors known as Wisps.

The design for both versions is purely Sonic. The colours are vibrant and the designs of each level are quirky, fantastic and awe inspiring. Sure you’ll be zooming past each level in a fast classic Sonic fashion but that’s not enough to deter you from admiring all the beauty that each level has to offer. Whether it’s looking at the large multicolour mountains or the beautifully shaped planets Sonic Colours definitely lives up to the name providing a solid piece of eye candy. The DS version is different solely for the fact that its set in a 2D platform fashion but the innovative design prevents it from being too boring.

Like any Nintendo game end of level rewards are a big thing for Sonic Colours. By collecting Wisps, Sonic gains a temporary special power. Whether it’s the power of a drill or hover ability, this new element adds an interesting and diverse fundamental to Sonic Colours. It’s amazingly satisfying to finally collect a Wisp and be able to utilise its power for your own benefit. The DS version has an exclusive Wisp for you to collect.

Both games do suffer from easy boss fights however. After a few minutes it was rather simple to conquer a boss due to a fixed pattern.

Sonic Colours is a relatively short game especially for the DS but Sega have made it so you want to keep going back. You can go back to improve on your old score or the more interesting part of the game are the areas that you couldn’t visit before. The collection of Wisps only makes this journey back possible and it’s nice to see new areas in ones you’ve already explored.

What does get frustrating on both versions is the lack of checkpoints in later levels. The increasing difficulty adds to the frustration and you’ll find yourself going back a large distance. The co-op can be a little annoying too as the fast paced gameplay doesn’t suit it at all. If your partner goes too fast off screen, you’ll die and this can’t be helped at times due to the fact it’s Sonic.

Soundtrack wise, the music is quintessential Sonic. It’s fast paced and arcade like. It doesn’t get drab and it all adds to the intensity of the action.

Both games don’t need separate reviews. They’re both fantastically similar in their design, gameplay, action and storyline despite a few insignificant differences. Mario better look out because Sonic is coming at him fast.

+ Beautiful design
+ Relatively short but it has good replay value
+ Classic fast paced Sonic

-  Can get a little too difficult considering lack of checkpoints
-  Boss fights are a little easy
-  Co Op maybe unnecessary

Score: 8 / 10

If you’re even remotely familiar with puzzle games on the DS, you’ll have no doubt heard of the Professor Layton series.  An absolute runaway success of a franchise, the series has received outstanding critical acclaim, impressive sales and even a full-length animated feature film.  Impressive for any series, near unheard of for a series two games in, and on a handheld, no less.  And here we are with the third instalment in the series, Professor Layton and the Lost Future.

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Taking a break from puzzle-solving, the Professor and his apprentice, Luke are invited to a demonstration of an apparently fully-working time machine.  When the experiment goes awry, the machine is destroyed and both it’s inventor and the Prime Minister, Bill Hawks are found to be missing.  Soon after, Luke receives a letter from a familiar face – himself ten years in the future, warning him that things are soon to take a turn for the worse.  This just so happens to coincide with the disappearances of other various scientists.  It isn’t long before the Professor and Luke – both of them – find themselves embroiled in an adventure that, surprise surprise, offers more questions than it first seems…

If you’ve played the earlier games in the series, you’ll already know what to expect.  If not, here’s a brief rundown.  In each area you visit, you’re confronted with a static screen showing you the layout.  Tapping on various objects and people will reward you with dialogue, advancing the plot, hint coins and, most important of all, secret puzzles.  Successfully completing a puzzle rewards you with Picarats, used to unlock secrets.  Failing lets you try again, but reduces the number of Picarats you’ll receive at the end of the puzzle.  If you get stuck, you can always try again later, or, if you wish, you can spend your hint coins to receive increasingly more detailed clues on how to solve the current problem.  There’s three levels of clue, each costing a single coin, however, if you’re supremely stuck, you can buy a Super Hint for an additional two coins, that pretty much tells you the answer there and then.  Be warned, however, as hint coins are a finite resource, so you can’t rely on them forever.

For old fans of the series, this brings no real surprises.  It’s the same familiar mix of logic, maths and visual brainteasers you’ve fiddled with and sworn at before now.  The story itself is as good as you’d hope, taking more twists than you’d expect, but never quite in the direction you’d expect.  Downsides?  Other than the Super Hint function, there isn’t that much new to this instalment, gameplay-wise.  But considering the story’s as engaging as ever and the puzzles are every bit as sharp as previous games, that’s unlikely to phase too many people.  If this isn’t the perfect distraction from your annoying loved ones during the holidays, I don’t know what is.

+ A good mix of different types of puzzles
+ Super Hints ensure you shouldn’t be stuck too long

- Long-time fans might be put off by the lack of new features and additions

SCORE 8 / 10

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War games have always had their fair share of fan bases. There were the Command and Conquer series and the Dynasty Warrior games which brought Eastern Asian elements to the formula. Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes is Capcom’s offering with a Japanese anime twist.

In SBSH you are given a choice of several characters as you progress through their storylines. Each characters are given their own cut scenes and they all intertwine together. This is only the start of a long list of negatives though.

The voice acting is so terrible and cheesy throughout each scene that you can’t help but laugh. The often over exaggerated screams that some characters give are pure comedy rather than pure drama.

Even though the character’s stories intertwine with each other, there are points where they seem random and pointless. Often you’ll wonder why certain events came up and it seems the developers did this just to try and justify the story links but it fails.

If you’re looking for a challenge then you’ve come to the wrong place. The game takes minimal effort to play through. You can just keep pressing A and it seems the character will do the work for you. It seems like there’s no need to add any other type of button. There is no strategy involved at all. The boss fights are the only time when a degree of thinking is needed. Even then once a strategy has been worked out, you’ll find that it becomes repetitive and easy.

The use of a points system to level up and customise your characters gear is a nice touch and there’s a decent amount of it but it just doesn’t help the games repetitive nature at all. The game’s easy enough as it is without customising your items.

Visually SBSH’s graphics are nice. These are let down however by the linear nature of each level. Just walking in what seems like a straight line is all it takes to get through a level. Even though the overall environment is nice to look at, like the rest of the game you’ll get bored as you go along.

SBSH has to be one of Capcom’s more poorer offerings. The half decent customisation and points system aren’t enough to save the game from poor controls, boring and repetitive game play and horrible character acting. If I had a time machine and this was feudal Japan, I think I’d give it a miss.

+ Decent customisation options
+ Nice visuals

- Boring and repetitive
- Negatively simplistic controls
- Horrible acting

Score 4.5 / 10

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It seems that the introduction of games like Phoenix Wright have jumpstarted a certain style of gaming on the DS. Gaming where puzzle solving and storytelling are intertwined like Mario and Mushrooms. Phoenix Wright was pretty successful in its own right as was the later Professor Layton. Now how about getting introduced to Kyle Hyde?

Hyde gets fired from his job as a door to door salesman for the Red Crown. On the outside, the Red Crown seems like a normal business but on the inside, they collect “special” items. He arrives home to his crummy apartment to discover that it he has been served an eviction notice due to closure of the entire complex. Alongside this, Hyde discovers strange messages asking him to locate the Scarlet Star.

Last Window is played holding the DS on its side like a book. It’s a novel way (excuse the pun) of playing a game that is very much focused on its driving and captivating story line. Throughout the game you move Hyde with your stylus. On the left hand side of the screen is a first person 3D view and on the right is a bird’s eye 2D view. The left hand side is slightly pointless however as you’ll often be using the right hand side to play most of the game.

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What makes Wii Party different from the rest?

Wii Sports, Wii Play or Mario Party. Nintendo’s motion sensored console definately doesn’t have an absence of casual and fun multiplayer games. Who could blame Nintendo though? Their main target seems to be that of a more family orientated or casual gaming audience. Now Wii Party is the latest in the series of multiplayer games that the Wii seems to love.

So what is Wii Party? At first glance it seems just like any other Wii Party game. You can choose to play games from one to four players using your own Mii which is a nice personalisation as with previous party games although certain game modes are strictly for more than one player. You compete against each other through a series of mini games in attempt to come out on top.

Wii Party has many game modes. The first which are known as party games and are split up in five categories. Board Game Island requires you to navigate around a board attempting to beat your opponents just like Mario Party. Globe Trot is a game that requires you to use more of your brain as you aim to travel to places such as India, Egypt and the USA in order to gain the most souvenirs and photographs. Unlike Mario Party, Wii Party manages to make use of quick gameplay. There aren’t any traps that slow down the gameplay, just a nice, fast paced game although the ability to skip NPC turns would have been nice.

The variety of games throughout are brilliant. From can shooting, barrell stopping, jigsaw swapping and many more, you won’t find yourself complaining about a lack of games. They all make fantastic use of the Wii – mote and all are fun and quirky to play. It’s a shame that other party games can’t be placed on the same level. Modes such as spin off although you can play mini games often come out as rather bland and boring. You spin a wheel board aiming to win the most coins. It takes a while to finally play a game and you’ll find yourself often watching coins just going into the bank. The only way someone could possibly do that for a long time is if it was real money.

What makes Wii Party special though is not the quirky design and music which is trademark Nintendo but the house party games which bring a new level of interaction to party games. Games such as Animal Tracker which players lay the Wii – motes out and attempt to be the first to pick it up after an animal sound is emitted, or Time Bomb where players must pass the Wii – mote around before it blows up on screen are fun and interactive multiplayer games. They’ll often get everyone involved unlike any other on screen games making them very nice touches to any party game.

Wii Party is a fun game that should get any casual party going. The majority of the games are often fun, exciting and they will get everyone in on the action. If you like the social element of gaming then Wii Party should not be missed.

+ Large variety of games
+ Great social element
+ Makes fantastic use of Wii-mote

- Can be slow at times
- Can get boring at times

SCORE 8 / 10

The Nintendo Wii only takes up a fraction of game related injuries.

The American Academy of Pediatric’s found that 696 video game releated injuries occured from 2004 to 2009. 92 of those injuries were found from ‘newer’ forms of entertainment such as the Wii. Injuries more likely to be sustained included shoulders, ankles and feet with bystander injury being the highest with the Wii.

The Wii shows a warning message about safety before games start and they started offering free wii mote covers for better grip. At the launch of the Wii there were many cases of frantic wii-motes flying and hitting people’s TVs.

696 game related injuries between 2004 and 2009 [CVG]