Wii enhancements: Wee!

There’s good news for gamers, yet again. The Nintendo Wii is possibly the greatest gaming system ever in life (warning: the preceding was a completely biased opinion and no, the author does not care), and Nintendo has plans to make it even better. Hot on the heels of the wildly popular Wii-Fit, which is has revolutionized the lives of fat-bottomed (warning: the preceding was a Queen reference, who caught that?) gamers everywhere, Nintendo intends to enhance the standard Wii-mote with a wee, teeny box called the Wii MotionPlus. It’s supposed to enhance the Wii-mote’s response and precision, and to make playing games on the Wii an overall more intense experience – namely because it is much more motion sensitive. Nintendo’s also introducing Wii Music, which lets gamers play fifty different instruments, just the way they are really played. The balance board is going to double as part of a drum kit – it will be the bass drum. Ba-dum ching, baby.

One Step Closer to Controlling the World

It’s official: gamers are one step closer to really being able to (kind of) play God. This gamer is all tingly from the possibilities. No, it’s not a new, let’s-decide-who-lives-or-dies video game. It’s the next step in playing video games. Emotive Systems is coming out with a new headset system that’s designed to pick up your brain’s electrical activity. It can also pick up the movements of your facial muscles, as well as those in other spots. You can literally think about killing off a villain, and boom. It’s done. These will be out for Christmas, at $299 a headset.