Wii Sports - Best Selling Game of All-Time!

Just recently, Wii Sports has been named the best selling game of all-time! This has been figured out after a few calculations done by VGChartz. The previous record holder, was Super Mario Brothers for the NES. It should be noted that like Wii Sports, Super Mario Brothers was a game that was also bundled with its respective console. However, in the case of Wii Sports, it was not bundled in Japan or South Korea, where the system has a 45% attach rate.

To avoid confusion, we previously reported the Super Smash Brothers Brawl was the fastest selling Nintendo game of all-time, not best selling as many of you had implied (based on e-mails we have received).

Super Mario Brothers held the position has best game for 24 years before being knocked off the top spot by Wii Sports.


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Gameboy: A new hope?

Last year, we posted about the GameBoy being official declared as "dead", by Nintendo, but now the little system the could may now have one last huzzah, with the possibility Street Fighter IV being released for the handheld.

Though it wasn't confirmed Yoshinori Ono, the producer of Street Fight, did bring it up as a possibility saying:

"Street Fighter IV, as it stands now, would be well-suited for the higher-level platforms. But the game doesn't have to have these visuals in order to be fun.

So, will the Game Boy have one last swan song to finish off the one of gaming's most respected handhelds? Only time will tell...Get the GamersCast Newsletter! All of the quality news you would find here can be sent directly to your e-mail's inbox or Wii's Message Board the instant news is posted here! Simply send an e-mail to GCnewsletter@gmail.com or register GCnewsletter@gmail.com into your Nintendo Wii's Address Book to subscribe!

Halo 3's Reign of Terror Over?

Larry Hyrb also known by many as Xbox Live's Major Nelson works for Xbox Live. You may have seen him on the Inside Xbox feed on the Xbox Live blade interviewing people and showing many things Xbox 360 has to offer in Major's Minute. He posts many things on blog including updates on the Xbox Live Marketplace, his own podcast and what everyone looks at, the status of Xbox Live every week. He reports on the top ten original Xbox games played (Halo 2 is always on top), the top ten purchased Xbox Live Arcade Games, and the top ten most played games on Xbox 360 (this also includes demos and XBLA games). As you would expect, Halo 3 has been number 1 on the list since the week it launched. Since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare launched, it has stayed a close second place followed by some popular demos, Guitar Hero, and other retail games. For the first week ever, the order changed just slightly. For the week of 1/14/2008, Call of Duty 4 for the first time ever beat Halo 3 out of its place. Halo 3 came in second followed by the usual stuff. I personally like Call of Duty's multiplayer better than Halo because of the level system and I am also better at it. I rarely get the top spot in a team slayer match in Halo but when I play a team deathmatch game in Call of Duty 4, I usually get one of the top 3 scores. I knew this would come and the guys at Infinity Ward must be throwing a wild party. Call of Duty 4 is the first game ever to beat a Halo game for the most played Xbox game of the week via Xbox Live.
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Super Smash Brothers Brawl delayed!

Update: Japan has also been delayed from January 17th to January 31st.

Well, some of you may have noticed Adam reported on this, a few seconds after he found out. So, he was in an all-out rage, and almost killed 2 children (just kidding :-P). But anyway, the point is the message was edited, so that now it is safe for children to view. So, if anyone was offended by the content in Adam's post, I apologize.

But what you see is what you get. Super Smash Brothers Brawl has been delayed 30 days for unknown causes. Though the Japanese date currently remains the same, we here in the United States must now wait until March 9th to join the fray.

On the lighter side of things I do want to say this. I was gonna keep it secret until it was official, but considering recent events, I do want to bring some light to the situation. So, I want to let you all know that for a while now I have been working very hard to get an advance copy of Brawl, so this way, everyone could get an insanely extensive preview of the game. Not to mention loads of directly captured videos. But remain aware that it is entirely unofficial right now.

-- NINTENDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: This post once had use of some very unique and imaginative language. But due to complaints it has been removed from view. See the friendly version of this post here.

Goldeneye was WHAT?

Many fans of Goldeneye 007 wanted to see a revival of the game from the Nintendo 64 to the Xbox Live Arcade. Believe it or not Goldeneye was in development for Xbox Live Arcade but because Nintendo who has the rights for the game and Microsoft could not decide how to split the profit, the game was canceled. The sad part is that it was canceled TWO WEEKS before completion. It is sad to see a game that could have been extremely successful go down the gutter.

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OMG! 10k+ downloads for June

Remember this January, I was freaking out saying that after two years, we hit 10,000 total downloads? Remember yesterday, I ended the Red Kawa mirror because of our bandwidth getting too high? Remember this...

It is now only seven days into June. And as of yesterday (stats take a day for me to see), I found out, that we had over 11,000 downloads this month already!!! In January we reached the 10k total milestone after two years. And now, we're getting almost 3,000 downloads everyday! Imagine, we did in 6 days, what it took us two years to do before! I am going to have to say, I am utterly flabbergasted! It's no wonder the bandwidth was going up so much! I thank you all for your immense support for the podcast. Episode 21 of the podcast should be released tomorrow afternoon. Also, because it is now clear we have the fan-base for it, I will be re-opening the tournaments VERY soon!

Surprisingly, only 10% of our listeners actually listen via iTunes, which is probably the only reason we're not in their top 100, because I know from the stats, that we easily could be if you all listened through iTunes. It would be nice if you all used iTunes, but the fact that so many of you listen is good enough for me. I, once again, thank you all immensly for your support of GamersCast!

Why is Pokémon popular!?

Remember back, almost ten years ago......
Almost everywhere you looked, there was Poké-fever! Trading Cards, Board Games, TV shows, Movies..... it was taking over! But the one thing, that REALLY was the shining point of pokémon, was the release of the Pokémon video games (version Red and Blue).
After a few years, the fever died down a bit, when some people started to consider the show, "kiddish". Some kids were made fun of a bit and trading cards weren't as hot of an item.
Though the trading cards did pick up some popularity, upon the release of the Nintendo e-reader, it was short-cut. But nobody, for some reason, ever through away their old cards.... perhaps they were fans in denial.

And now, here we are in thew year 2007, over a decade since the "Pocket Monsters" were introduced in Japan. And now, upon the release of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the hype considerably picked up again! But this time, it wasn't because of the TV show or trading cards. It was because of a single game (or rather a pair of games, which was essentially the same game).

Now Pokémon Diamond and Pearl have sold an almost unheard of 2 million copies after only a week on the shelves! (Wow, a game has beat a console's sales....) So, is Pokémon really just as popular as before, is it a phaze, or is it perhaps even BIGGER than before? Well, we here at GamersCast are wondering the same thing (so perhaps we shouldn't make shallow jokes during our reviews of the game.....?). So, we will soon be having a special episode (or maybe just a mini-episode) of GamersCast, posing these questions. The episode will have debates, a mobile edition of GamersCast, and we'll unveil a brand-new user interactive segment to the show! Get ready for it soon, and also be on the look-out for GamersCast's reviews of Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl.

DON'T "hold your wee for Wii"!!

Just recently in California, a radio station decided to hold a contest they entitled, "Hold your wee for Wii". It was your basic water drinking contest, but it was to see who could go the longest without having to urinate. One woman, entered to win a Wii for her 3 children. But she drank so much water that she passed away as a result of it, caused by "water intoxication". It looks like Sony's PlayStation 3 isn't the only system that has killed anymore.

Now, everyone should keep in mind that drinking lots of water isn't a bad thing. What killed her, is the fact that she didn't use the bathroom for so long. Nobody present at the contest currently knows how much water she drank, and all the details of her death has yet to have been released.

UPDATE: It was just revealed that before this contest started (on 107.9 FM) the hosts were joking about somebody dying from it. Then, a few minutes later someone called in onto the show stating that it was possible for the contestants to die from "water intoxication", but the hosts merely replied with:

- "We are aware of that."
- "They signed releases, so we're not responsible. It's OK."

Before the death of Jennifer Strange she said:

- "They keep telling me though that it's the water, that it will tell my head to hurt and then it will make me puke."

Obviously, there were signs of warning before this tragic event occured, so naturally the 10 hosts who were involved in the contest were fired. Many people were calling the local authorities asking for an arrest warrant, though the police replied saying there were no grounds to base the arrest upon.