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Wii Music

Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto demonstrated Wii Music at E3 over the summer. Wii Music makes it easy for up to four players to jam to tunes, even if they don’t know anything about music. Wii Music transforms the Wii Remote and Nunchuk™ controllers into more than 60 different instruments, including a violin, steel drums, electric guitar – even a cowbell. Players strum, shake, tap and drum along to the music in a pressure-free musical playground where there are no mistakes. They can improvise on their arrangements by skipping a note – or adding 10. The music always sounds great, but it’s up to players to come up with creative arrangements that they can then send to friends and family who have Wii Music. Those Wii Friends can then put their own spin on the arrangement and send it back and forth over WiiConnect24.

Creating a musical masterpiece is easy with Wii Music

• It’s easy to play improv jams. Musicians in your band jam by simply playing their instruments to the beat of a song or by improvising to their heart’s content. Play faster. Play slower. Skip a beat, or throw in 10 more. No matter what you do, Wii Music automatically transforms your improv stylings into great music. There are no mistakes—just playing for the pure joy of playing.

• Wii controls immerse you in the music. You can play most of the 60-plus instruments in Wii Music using simple motions with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers. Strum to play guitar, banjo and sitar. Drum to play jazz drums, congas and marching drums. Hammer away to play piano, vibraphone and marimba. Unlike most music games, Wii Music doesn’t make you use complex buttons. You only need to imitate playing the instrument.

• Wii Music offers virtually endless ways to make music. You choose the
song and instruments and decide whether to blaze through a rock take on classical songs, put a jazzy spin on folk tunes or transform Nintendo classics like the Super Mario Bros.® theme into Latin-flavored numbers. The song list is only a takeoff point—it’s how you improvise with the songs that matters.

• Send your band-jam recordings to Wii Friends who have Wii Music. They’ll see your Mii™ band members, your players’ improv styles and your instrument selections. They can watch your recordings, or play over parts of your song, then send their modified recording back to you. Improv jams can be sent back and forth over WiiConnect24 and changed again and again.

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Wii Music Trailer

Wario shakes up YouTube

Nintendo’s marketing team cranked it up full blast for a new ad for Wario Land: Shake it on Youtube. This is a must see viral campaign. We can’t do it justice by explaining it here, so see som sweet gameplay footage from the new Wii release Wario Land: Shake It! on YouTube. This is pure genius!

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Wario shakes up YouTube (for full experience go to http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii)

Tiger Woods on Late Night with Conan O’Brien

Last week, we had a series of posts about Tiger Woods including walking on water, expecting a second child, and putting a Rubik’s cube. Looks like we missed one. Tiger Woods appeared on the Late Night with Conan O’Brien a couple weeks ago promoting his new game.

Tiger Woods on Late Night with Conan O’Brien – Part 1

Tiger Woods on Late Night with Conan O’Brien – Part 2

Tiger Woods walks on water

As a response to a fan video from Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08, Tiger Woods and EA SPORTS demonstrate that the “glitch” Levinator25 thought he found in the game, is not a glitch at all. The Jesus shot is real. Tiger Woods walks on water. What can’t Tiger Woods do, even though he’s out for the 2008 season?

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Tiger Woods walks on water