Earlier this week the above image did the rounds on American gaming websites pretty much confirming that the Black Wii will be arriving in the US in the near future. Honestly I didn’t think anyone really cared as it was blatantly obvious it would be making an appearance so really is this big news? Well according to the head of …

[Update: Core have confirmed that they are not expecting a price drop locally at the moment and they dropped the price by R1000 just last year] Gizmodo (the site who in the middle of the AppleGate* scandal) Australia has posted up an article this morning stating that the Wii in Australia/NZ will be receiving a AUD$100 price cut effective tomorrow. …

Happy Friday folks, it’s the weekend and we here at Lazygamer are all extremely revved-up and excited to go home and do absolutely toss-all. It also means that it’s time for our Flamebait Friday Debate. Motion controller thingamawhatsits are all the rage with the kids these days, aside from that damned devil’s music, what’s it called? Oh yeah, Hannah Montana. …

Free love, peace and saving the environment was a great excuse to smoke way too much electric spinach back in the 70’s, but as you all know, the whole environment this is back and bigger than ever, minus the copious amounts of stoned naked woman running around. Game manuals have always been there. Open your new game, look at the …

Videogame prices are confusing. A standard game goes from anywhere between R600 and R700 these days. In the US the standard price for a game is $60. Our favorite video game analyst (by that I mean the only one that we actually know) Michael Pachter answers a very good question on this weeks Pach Attack. Where does all the money …

Shigeru Miyamoto – creator of some of the most beloved franchises in video gaming history; like Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda – is somehow under the deluded impression that the stuff he’s done in the last 5 years is his best work. “Unusual” titles like Wii fit Plus and “Wii Sports Resort.” “Ten years ago I could never have been …

When the Nintendo Wii first launched, interests were piqued when a game called Red Steel was announced. Red Steel promised to be the first Wii game to make proper use of the motion controller to for and FPS experience that gave people the ability to wield their Wiimote like a real sword. The game was received very badly, with most …

Metroid: Other M isn’t something that has appealed to me over the last couple of months. I am not sure why but I guess I never got into the Metroid games and so a sequel really could pass me by without me noticing. However it’s a slow news day so I thought I would take a look at the new …