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Since the release of the Wii we have seen loads of pictures of $2,000 TV’s broken because of gone wild WiiRemotes. Even now with a better wrist strap and a WiiRemote protector Jacket your TV isn’t safe while playing games on your Nintendo Wii. What you need is rent a car bulgariaTV Screen Protection from TV Armor. It’s made from 1/4″ thick crystal clear plastic and it protects your TV from objects flying around in your living room. It’s also an easy way to prevent your kids from making your precious HDTV all dirty with their little hands.

It won’t damage your TV, and it maintains your TV’s high definition picture. It’s easy to place one of these TV Screen Protectors on as well, you just need to strap it on your TV with easy to use velcroTM straps. The TV Armor is now available for 30-32″ screens for just $129 to screens from up to 50-52″ for just $169. There’s also an option to get a larger custom build.

Ever wondered how many calories you’re burning while playing some Wii Sports on your Nintendo Wii? The American Council on Exercise is a little late with their ‘Wii Sports fitness study’, but they did some great research. Here’s an overview of the calories burned per minute when playing the real sport compared to the numer of calories burned when playing Wii Sports:

Tennis:
The real sport: 8.1 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 5.3 calories per minute

Boxing:
The real sport: 10.2 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 7.2 calories per minute

Golf:
The real sport: 3.9 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 3.1 calories per minute

Bowling:
The real sport: 7.2 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 3.5 calories per minute

Baseball:
The real sport: 7.3 calories per minute
Wii Sports: 4.5 calories per minute

Off course everyone expected that real sports make you burn more calories than the Wii Sports games, but during their research they certainly didn’t play too active. The just flicked their wrists and didn’t throw their whole body into the game.

Source: Ace Fitness

There are a lot of nice Wii Fit accessories on the market that make exercising with the Wii Balance Board a lot more comfortable. A silicone skin for your Wii Balance Board is definitely a must-have, and a rechargeable battery for the board works good as well. When you buy all those cool Wii Fit accessories separtely you’ll have to pay a lot of money. Amazon is now offering a 5-In-1 Fitness Bundle made by DreamGear for Nintendo’s Wii Fit. These are the Wii Fit accessories included in this pack:

• Wii Balance Board carrying case
• Wii Balance Board socks
• Wii Balance Board rechargeable battery pack
• Fitness Mat
• Wii Balance Board silicone skin

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Since the Wii has come out, more and more women are trying out video games. Especially Wii Sports and Wii Fit are very popular among women and especially among hot babes like this one! Check out how this hot chick plays some Wii Fit rhythm boxing and some Wii Fit snowboarding in her bikini.

Today Majesco Entertainment Company has announced its first Wii fitnessgame due to come out in 2009. Jillian Michael’s Fitness Ultimatum 2009 is in development with the help of fitness pro Jillian Michaels from TV shows like The Biggest Loser. Players can choose different programs like Weight Loss, Strengt Training, Intervals and Hill Climb (condition training). There’s different levels for both starters and people in shape. With the WiiRemote players have to climb ladders and row a boat to unlcok new tips from Jillian. In Competitive Party Mode you can play against a friend. Read the rest of this entry »

Nowadays video games are big business for companies like Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. In GAME BOYS: Professional Videogaming’s Rise from the Basement to the Big Time from author Michael Kane, a New York Post reporter, we go through the journey of elite videogaming teams who get paid to play as they try to break into the sports mainstream and earn money with their hobby. GAME BOYS goes on sale June 23rd 2008.

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“For a sport that many consider to be marginal (if a sport at all), gaming is highly competitive and full of players who are just as idiosyncratic, determined, and flashy as any other pro athlete. Kane does a nice job of catching us up in the excitement—no easy task, as we are reading a book about people who play a game on a computer screen. Like any good sports book, this one is about the game and the personalities in equal measure.”

–Booklist

The husband no longer rules over the TV, game chicks need some game time as well!

Source: 2P Start

The Lake East Hospital in Painesville is one of the many hospitals using Nintendo’s Wii to help patients recover from a disease or an operation. Now that Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board are available, they have a cheap and fun way to help patients to gain more balance. Check the video above and you’ll see how much fun they’re having!

A lot of gamers want to know how much the Wii Balance Board can carry. A NeoGAF member purchased Wii Fit with the Wii Balance Board and the game told him he was too heavy and it wouldn’t register his Mii-character. The Wii Balance Board is supporting up to 660 lbs, Wii Fit supports weights up to 330 llbs and the NeoGAF guy trying out the game was 350 lbs and 6′8″ tall. There are many other gamers who can’t play Wii Fit because they are too heavy. We sure hope that Nintendo will publish another Wii Balance Board in the future that has a higher weight limit. If Nintendo doesn’t do it, a third party publisher will certainly do it anyway.