BLAZE has today announced a dual charging dock for the Wii™. The dock comes complete with two Ni-MH rechargeable battery packs to solve the expensive problem of your Wii Remote eating up disposable alkaline batteries. The rechargeable batteries are designed to be inserted in your Wii Remote™ battery compartment. To recharge the pack, you simply have to place your Wii Remote in one of the two d... more.

Vidis has today announced a universal induction charging station designed to make it much easier for you to charge several different devices at once. The Inductive PowerStation can be used with five different device types: the Wii™ Remote, Wii Balance Board™, Xbox 360® controller, Nintendo DSi™ and DS™ Lite. Vidis will also be selling battery packs for the devices. The charging station ha... more.

BLAZE has today announced the release of the world’s first Wii™ Soft & Safe Sports pack, made of soft and safe foam materials. The pack includes realistic sporting accessories such as a bow, handle bars, a Frisbee, paddle and table tennis bat. All are fully compatible with Wii Motion Plus, Wii Sports Resort and all other Wii Sporting titles. The pack is very simple to use: all you h... more.

Energizer and Performance Designed Products® (PDP) today announced that they have come up with an ingenious way to charge your Wii Remote with the minimum possible effort or fuss, using their Energizer® Flat Panel Induction Charger, the latest in the Energizer Power & Play series. “Energizer is always looking at innovative solutions to power people’s lives and the Flat Panel Induction Ch... more.

As much as we hate to say we told you so, but… we told you so! Following on from our news story last week that Nintendo of America was releasing a black Wii Remote and Nunchuk, which prompted us to speculate that a black Wii console might be on the way sooner rather than later, Nintendo has today announced that a limited-edition black Wii bundle will be released in the UK and Ireland on 6th Nove... more.

After all that fuss yesterday about the new black Wii Remote, Nyko Technologies must have been laughing up its sleeve knowing what it was about to reveal today. The maker of the award-winning Wand® Remote controller for the Wii today unveiled four new colours for the Wand: black, blue, pink and purple. And as you can see from the photos, they look good enough to eat. The purple, blue and pink Wan... more.

Two of the biggest hip hop artists in the world, Jay-Z and Eminem, today revealed the full track list of their special 2-CD pack which will be exclusively available as part of the DJ Hero Renegade Edition, due out on the Wii on October 27th in the US. Jay-Z’s CD is actually his first ever “best of” compilation, and features one hit song from each of his 11 studio albums as well as a track ... more.

Want to know what to get your Wii for Christmas? How about a shiny new jet black Remote and Nunchuk? Yes, finally after three years, Nintendo of America has decided to introduce a new colour scheme in the US aside from the regulation white. “The Wii Remote revolutionized not only how people play games, but also who plays them,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice pr... more.

With the huge success of the Wii Balance Board and fitness software such as Wii Fit and Wii Sports Active it was only a matter of time before someone tried something even more ambitious. Step forward then, Bigben Interactive, which has actually gone the whole hog and bundled an exercise bike with their game! In, Cyberbike™, one of two fitness games that Bigben are about to launch onto the mar... more.

PDP has today announced a brand new NERF blaster for the Wii, the NERF SWITCH SHOT EX-3 with Red Reveal. By installing your Wii-mote in the SWITCH SHOT EX-3 you can use it to play any Wii Zapper-compatible game. The SWITCH SHOT EX-3 is also fully compatible with the new NERF N-Strike Elite Wii game from Electronic Arts – simply attach the Red Reveal panel to the blaster and then use it to decode... more.

BDA has today announced their latest POWER A™ branded Star Wars™ peripheral for the Wii™, namely the totally awesome-sounding Clone Trooper™ Blaster and Star Wars™ Light-Up Lightsaber™, out today to coincide with the release of the Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes game on the Wii™. Based on the weapons used in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, the Clone Trooper Blas... more.