After years of waiting for Club Nintendo USA, American and Canadians can finally get rewards by exchanging coins earned when buying officially published Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS hardware, software and games. Wii games such as Mario Kart and Super Mario Galaxy will earn you 50 coins and DS hits like Nintendogs and Animal Crossing will earn 30 Coins each. Even Wii Shop Channel games (Virtual Console and WiiWare) as well as Wii Channels will be earning you 10 Coins a pop. Some of the goodies you could be getting include an exclusive Game and Watch Nintendo DS pack, a Mario themed DS games rack and even a cushioned Wii Remote holder.

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If like me you have downloaded games from the Wii Shop Channel then you may have noticed that the internal 512MB’s of flash storage inside the Wii doesn’t take that long to fill up. When you fill up your Wii System with too many games you’ll have to free up space before you can spend any more Wii Points. At this point you only have two options; delete some games or copy them to a SD Card. Now the Nintendo shop channel is intelligent and any games you delete from your system can be redownloaded anytime without having to pay for them again, however you’ll still run into a storage crisis and end up having to delete your newer games to redownload your older ones.

As your Nintendo Wii has an SD Memory Card slot your best bet is to purchase a 2GB SD Memory Card and move your game flies onto it to free up some space. We think using SD Cards to manage your Wii memory is the best solution because your files are kept locally and you can move them about whenever you want. What happens if the Wii Shop Channel is closed for maintenance? That’s right; you’ll not be able to access your games library until its open again. Don’t forget that redownloading uses up extra internet bandwidth and if you are on a capped package, saving every megabyte can be very helpful to avoid those over usage charges.

As you may have heard, the Wii securely encrypts digital Wii games and channels and this process adds extra time to the copy process, this makes for unusual results across SD Cards as they’re generally designed for digital photos, not encrypted and compressed games. We’ve tried many SD Memory Cards over the last few months but have found only one to be consistently fast when copying from the Wii and copying back to the Wii. The SanDisk Extreme III with its ESP technology has a minimum speed of 20MB’s a second and its 2GB Flash capacity is four times that of the Wii itself. You could easily fit hundreds of Virtual Console or WiiWare games onto this SD flash card as well as backups of your Wii game saves if you want to protect your game progress from accidental deletion or corruption. You may see cheaper SD Cards on the market but their poor quality flash memory means slow transfers and even the risk of data loss. We can’t recommend the SanDisk Extreme 3 SD Card for Wii highly enough.

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If you’re a fan of the hit TV show then you’ll probably already know that it’s now only a couple of days until the Iron Chef America Supreme Cuisine release date of December 5th. Prepare to be pushed the edge of your cooking skills with Iron Chef America for Wii, you’ll be cooking competing against the clock to create up to six dishes with a choice of fifteen themed ingredients. We bet this is much more fun than watching Gordon Ramsey on Hell’s Kitchen USA.

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Codemasters have realised the massive sales of Wii could be a good thing for their bank balance and have decided to release next year’s Colin McRae Dirt for the Wii as well as the next gen platforms. With an advanced version of the EGO engine, seven vehicle classes and full online play we are really holding our breath for a great Wii conversion of Colin McRae Rally for Wii which could even use the Mario Kart WiiWheel for arm waving realism. Fall 2009 is slated as the Colin McRae Dirt 2 release date.

Missed out on the first game? Then why not treat yourself to Colin McRae Dirt for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC for as little as $26.

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Here’s a way of getting $10 worth of Nintendo Wii Points for free. Many of you may have been searching for free Nintendo wii point codes only to find yourself facing those sites that want you to complete 5 offers and sign away your soul to get just a few dollars worth of rewards, or download a Nintendo Wii Points keygen that’ll do unpleasent things to your computer. Safest to stick with a big discount stores and use their deals to your advantage so as to avoid some legal issues with Nintendo.

If you buy three 2000 Wii point cards on Amazon that not only will you be able to download all your favourite retro games such as Mario Kart and Donkey Kong on the Wii Shop Channel with a whopping 6000 wii points to spend, but also you’ll get $10 of Nintendo Wii Points knocked off your order using the special Bill Me Later discount code BMLSAVES at checkout. The Nintendo Wii Points workaround closes 30th December - get in there now for Christmas.

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Are you ready for the penultimate episode of Strong Bads Cool Game For Attractive people yet? If you’ve already played the previous three Strong Bad games then you’ll know to expect another crazy few hours with your red and black faced anti-hero. This time we see Strong Bad taking the role of an action hero come detective in Strong Bad Episode 4: Dangeresque 3 (The Criminal Projective).

You can download Strong Bad Episode 4 on WiiWare right now for 1000 WiiPoints. If you want to preview the game beforehand then feel free to download the PC demo which is near identical to the Wii version. If you’re running low on your Nintendo Wii Points then top up with a 2000 Wii Points Card for just $18.96.

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Ok imagine you’re a big games studio wanting to dominate the world, you suddenly notice out of the corner of your eye that Nintendo are making millions of dollars by selling a fitness game and peripheral for the Wii. Which of the following would you do?

A) Encourage gamers to play Wii Fit to try and perhaps get themselves on track with their overall fitness.

B) Jump on the bandwagon by developing your own software and peripheral.

If you said A it suggests you are a kind hearted person who tries to do the right thing. If you said B it suggests you are a ruthless in whatever it takes to make money.

Enough of the cynicism, let’s look at EA’s new fitness software in a little more depth. Called EA Sports Active, the game is exclusive for the Wii and it has been developed with the help of fitness experts with women’s fitness in mind, though just like Wii Fit it can be used by the whole family. EA Sports Active for the Wii will use Nintendo’s Wii balance board for certain exercises but generally focuses more on cardiovascular exercise rather than the balancing elements from Wii Fit. The game also comes bundled with special leg straps that will hold the Wii Remote and Nunchuck for the rigorous exercises like Running or Jogging; whilst unessential it’s a nicer alternative to placing them in the pocket of your jogging pants as suggested by Nintendo. We’ll keep an eye on the progress of this up until the EA Sports Active release date of spring 2009 - meanwhile check out the EA Sports Active trailer.

If you can’t wait that long to exercise in front of your TV then you can buy Wii Fit from Amazon as they currently have the hot selling device in stock (still rare, even after a year). While you’re there don’t forget to pick up a spare Wii Fit rechargeable battery pack for your Balance Board to make sure you don’t run out of juice whilst getting fit.

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We might not be getting Nintendo’s Disaster Day of Crisis on Wii in the US but Hudson Software are jumping into the void that’s left with their game Help Wanted. Well sort of. The story goes that there is a meteor heading towards the Earth, the trouble is the world’s governments are unwilling to fork up the cash to pay for the special equipment to save the planet. You’ve decided to do 50 odd jobs around the town to raise the cash to buy the equipment yourself and save humanity. You’ll be performing some of the weirdest and most frantic tasks imaginable; Farming vegetables, helping babies fall to sleep, interviewing celebrities and lots more. Help Wanted for Wii is looking fun, especially in the multiplayer mode, hopefully the Help Wanted release date of Summer 2009 will come around as quickly as the meteor is heading to Earth. In the mean time, Deca Sports for Wii is a fun little alternative to Wii Sports and is well worth a play (oh, and it’s by Hudson Software too).

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