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Nintendo has released its list of goodies planned for the Wii and Nintendo DS in 2009. They include new DS keep-fit title, Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine? Which will help you on your way to walking off all those chocolates and puddings. An Activity Meter comes with the software which will enable you to record a week’s worth of data and compete with friends and other Walk with me! walkers all over the planet.

On the Wii, you can look forward to classics like Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis. Check out the full list below:

Nintendo Wii Software 2009

Chrysler Classic Racing (ZOO) 9 Jan 2009

Jeep Thrills (formerly Let’s Off Road) (ZOO) 9 Jan 2009

Army Men: Soldiers of Misfortune (ZOO) 16 Jan 2009

Skate City Heroes (ZOO) 16 Jan 2009

Story Hour Adventures (ZOO) 16 Jan 2009

Story Hour Fairy Tales (ZOO) 16 Jan 2009

NeoPets Puzzle Adventure (Capcom) 23 Jan 2009

Twin Strike: Operation Thunder (ZOO) Jan 2009

Riding Stables (dtp young entertainment) Jan 2009

Music Party (dtp young entertainment) Jan 2009

Ultimate Band (Capcom) 5 Feb 2009

NEW PLAY CONTROL! Pikmin (Nintendo) 6 Feb 2009

Hotel For Dogs (505 Games) 6 Feb 2009

NARUTO Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 European Version (TOMY / Nintendo) 13 Feb 2009

Deadly Creatures (THQ) 13 Feb 2009

CM 2 - World Kitchen (505 Games) 20 Feb 2009

The Destiny of Zorro (505 Games) 27 Feb 2009

House of the Dead: Overkill (SEGA) Feb 2009

Ben 10: Alien Force (D3Publisher) Feb 2009

Onechanbra-Bikini Zombi Slayers (D3Publisher) Feb 2009

Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars (SouthPeak Games) Feb 2009

Pirates versus Ninja (SouthPeak Games) Feb 2009

CID The Dummy (Oxygen Games) Feb 2009

Tenchu Shadow Assassins (Ubisoft) 5 Mar 2009

Yamaha Supercross (ZOO) 6 Mar 2009

Big Foot Collision Course (ZOO) 6 Mar 2009

Diva Girls: Princess on Ice (505 Games) 6 Mar 2009

Smiley World Island Challenge (ZOO) 13 Mar 2009

Jelly Belly Ballistic Beans (ZOO) 13 Mar 2009

Sim Animals (EA) 23 Mar 2009

Little King´s Story (Rising Star Games) 28 Mar 2009

NEW PLAY CONTROL! Mario Power Tennis (Nintendo) Mar 2009

Sonic and the Black Knight (SEGA) Mar 2009

MADWORLD (SEGA) Mar 2009

Diabolik: The Original Sin (Black Bean /Lago Srl) Mar 2009

Bob the Builder: Festival of Fun (Mastertronic) Mar 2009

AMF Bowling World Lanes (Bethsoft europe) Q1 2009

Runaway The Dream of the Turtle (Focus Home Interactive) Q1 2009

Job Island (Hudson Soft) Q1 2009

Kororinpa 2 (working title) (Hudson Soft) Q1 2009

King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga (Ignition) Q1 2009

Samurai Shodown Anthology (Ignition) Q1 2009

Jillian Michaels´ Fitness Ultimatum 2009 (Koch Media / Deep Silver) Q1 2009

Castlevania Judgment (Konami) Q1 2009

PES 2009 (Konami) Q1 2009

Cake Mania - In the Mix! (Majesco/Codemasters) Q1 2009

Escape The Museum (Majesco/Codemasters) Q1 2009

Rock Revolution (Konami) Q1 2009

Hysteria Hospital: Emergeny Ward (Oxygen Games) Q1 2009

Roogoo (SouthPeak Games) Q1 2009

Brave: A Warrior’s Tale (SouthPeak Games) Q1 2009

Line Rider 2: Unbound (InXile) Q1 2009

PurrPals II (InXile) Q1 2009

Nintendo DS Software 2009

Chrysler Classic Racing (ZOO) 9 Jan 2009

My Chinese Coach (Ubisoft) 15 Jan 2009

Petz My Monkey Family (Ubisoft) 15 Jan 2009

Petz My Kitten Family (Ubisoft) 15 Jan 2009

Lord of the Rings:Conquest (EA) 16 Jan 2009

Army Men: Soldiers of Misfortune (ZOO) 16 Jan 2009

Tecktonic (Koch Media / Deep Silver) 16 Jan 2009

Sim Animals (EA) 23 Jan 2009

NeoPets Puzzle Adventure (Capcom) 23 Jan 2009

Word Master (ZOO) 30 Jan 2009

The Woodleys - Sports (dtp young entertainment) Jan 2009

Best Friend - My Horse (dtp young entertainment) Jan 2009

Ultimate Band (Disney Interactive Studios) 4 Feb 2009

Scrabble 2009 (Ubisoft) 5 Feb 2009

Imagine: Ballet Dancer (Ubisoft) 5 Feb 2009

Johnny Bravo (Mastertronic) 6 Feb 2009

Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir (Nintendo) 6 Feb 2009

Harvest Fishing (Rising Star) 6 Feb 2009

XG Blast! (Rising Star) 6 Feb 2009

Hotel for Dogs (505 Games) 6 Feb 2009

Imagine: Movie Star (Ubisoft) 12 Feb 2009

My Pet Zoo Vet (505 Games) 13 Feb 2009

Buffy (505 Games) 13 Feb 2009

Rune Factory (Rising Star) 13 Feb 2009

Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine? bundled with two Activity Meters (Nintendo) 20 Feb 2009

Lux Pain (Rising Star) 20 Feb 2009

Pop Town (505 Games) 27 Feb 2009

Mahjong Quest (Astragon) 27 Feb 2009

The Chase: Felix meets Felicity (Atari) Feb 2009

Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell (Disney Interactive Studios) Feb 2009

Mushroom Men: Rise of The Fungi (SouthPeak Games) Feb 2009

Insecticide (SouthPeak Games) Feb 2009

Ben 10: Alien Force (D3Publisher) Feb 2009

Crazy Machines (dtp young entertainment) Feb 2009

My pet beauty salon (dtp young entertainment) Feb 2009

The Chase: Felix meets Felicity (Atari) Feb 2009

Diva Girls: Diva Dancers (505 Games) 6 Mar 2009

Yamaha Supercross (ZOO) 6 Mar 2009

Big Foot Collision Course (ZOO) 6 Mar 2009

Club Penguin (Disney Interactive Studios) 13 Mar 2009

Populous (Rising Star) 13 Mar 2009

Smile World Island Challenge (ZOO) 13 Mar 2009

Jelly Belly Ballistic Beans (ZOO) 13 Mar 2009

Emergency Room (505 Games) 27 Mar 2009

My Beauty Salon (505 Games) 27 Mar 2009

NARUTO NINJA DESTINY 2 European Versión (TOMY / Nintendo) Mar 2009

Bleach: Dark Souls (SEGA) Mar 2009

History^TM Great Empires: Rome (Black Bean / Lago Srl) Mar 2009

Diabolik: The Original Sin (Black Bean / Lago Srl) Mar 2009

Puzzle Quest Galactrix (D3Publisher) Mar 2009

Challenge Me: Brain Puzzles (Oxygen Games) Mar 2009

Challenge Me: Maths Workout (Oxygen Games) Mar 2009

Ducati Moto (Bethsoft europe) Q1 2009

AMF Bowling Pinbusters! (Bethsoft europe) Q1 2009

Dungeon Raiders (Focus Home Entertainment) Q1 2009

Sherlock Holmes “Le mystere de la momie” (Focus Home Entertainment) Q1 2009

Blood Bowl (Focus Home Entertainment) Q1 2009

Let’s Play: Firemen (Koch/Deep Silver) Q1 2009

Bomberman 2 (working title) (Hudson Soft) Q1 2009

Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry (Konami) Q1 2009

Rock Revolution (Konami) Q1 2009

Cake Mania 2 (Majesco/Codemasters) Q1 2009

Maths Blaster (Majesco) Q1 2009

Powerbike (Majesco) Q1 2009

Left Brain Right Brain 2 (Majesco) Q1 2009

Wonderworld Amusement Park (Majesco) Q1 2009

Babysitting Mania (Majesco/Codemasters) Q1 2009

Our House (Majesco) Q1 2009

Big Bang Mini (SouthPeak Games) Q1 2009

Brave: Shaman’s Challenge (SouthPeak Games) Q1 2009

Roogoo (SouthPeak Games) Q1 2009

De Blob (THQ) Q1 2009

Gauntlet (Eidos) Spring 2009

Winx Club Secret Diary 2009 (Konami) early 2009

See Nintendo for more details.

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Nintendo are set for world domination with the DS. Not only do they already teach people how to speak different languages and help them stop smoking, they can now be used to read entire books.

The Nintendo DS will now be able to be morphed into an eBook reader with its 100 Classic Book Collection package. Among the classics packed in will be gems from Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare, and Dickens. But if they’re not your cup of tea, you can use the Wi-Fi feature to download something more to your taste.

You can find the list of 100 titles below. If you’ve thought ahead and decided that this would be great Christmas present for someone you know, think again. For some strange reason, this package is set to launch on Boxing Day - clever, hey?

It’s £17.99 and available for pre-order from Amazon. It all works out slightly cheaper than buying one of the £200 Sony e-readers but the thought of sitting on a train whilst trying to read an entire book on that screen makes just popping to the library to pick up a paperback a much more preferable option. What do you think?

100 titles available in the 100 Classic Book Collection:

• Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
• Jane Austen - Emma
• Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
• Jane Austen - Persuasion
• Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
• Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• R.D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone
• Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
• Charlotte Bronte - The Professor
• Charlotte Bronte - Shirley
• Charlotte Bronte - Villette
• Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
• John Bunyan - The Pilgrim’s Progress
• Frances Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Frances Burnett - The Secret Garden
• Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass
• Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
• Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
• Carlo Collodi - The Adventures of Pinocchio
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Arthur Conan Doyle - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
• Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
• Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did
• James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans
• Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
• Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge
• Charles Dickens - Bleak House
• Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
• Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
• Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son
• Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
• Charles Dickens - Hard Times
• Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit
• Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby
• Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
• Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
• Charles Dickens - The Pickwick Papers
• Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
• Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
• Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
• George Eliot - Adam Bede
• George Eliot - Middlemarch
• George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
• Henry Rider Haggard - King Solomon’s Mines
• Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd
• Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Thomas Hardy - Tess of The D’Urbervilles
• Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
• Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
• Washington Irving - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
• Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!
• D.H. Lawrence - Sons And Lovers
• Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
• Jack London - The Call of the Wild
• Jack London - White Fang
• Herman Melville - Moby Dick
• Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
• Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
• Sir Walter Scott - Rob Roy
• Sir Walter Scott - Waverley
• Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
• William Shakespeare - All’s Well That Ends Well
• William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
• William Shakespeare - As You Like It
• William Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors
• William Shakespeare - Hamlet
• William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
• William Shakespeare - King Henry the Fifth
• William Shakespeare - King Lear
• William Shakespeare - King Richard the Third
• William Shakespeare - Love’s Labour’s Lost
• William Shakespeare - Macbeth
• William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
• William Shakespeare - A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
• William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
• William Shakespeare - Othello, the Moor of Venice
• William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
• William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew
• William Shakespeare - The Tempest
• William Shakespeare - Timon of Athens
• William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus
• William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
• William Shakespeare - The Winter’s Tale
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped
• Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels
• William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
• Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers
• Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
• Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
• Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

It’s time for another installment in our What to buy series. We looked at What to buy Dads last week and this week it’s the turn of another tricky customer…the teenage boy.

If you need inspiration, just take a look at these:

For the music lover - Everyone loves music. Get them an MP3 player and they can take music with them wherever they go. The top rated MP3 player on Reevoo at the moment is the 8GB iPod Touch. It’s currently around £100. If you were looking to spend a little less than that, the second highest rated player is the £70 Sony NWZA816 4GB. And for a complete bargain buy, grab some CDs. Prices start from as little at £2.

For the gamer - Why not go for a games console like the PlayStation 3 (£289)? If they already have a console, they might like a gaming chair (£100). It’s comfortable for extended gaming sessions and you can feel the action through it. It can also be used to listen to music and watch films. There are also lots of console accessories, like this PS3 charging station for £15. For smaller gifts, you could go for a video game (prices start at £2).

For Mr Sociable - A mobile phone so that they can keep in contact with all their mates. For a phone packed full of features, how about the Nokia N95 or N96? Or for a more classy option, how about the Samsung Tocco or the new iPhone? (All phone prices vary according to contract)

For the sporty ones - Some tickets to a football or rugby match will make a great gift. For something more original, why not try this Garmin Forerunner 405 (£169) GPS-enabled sport watch, which tracks your training and sends the data to your computer or for trips to the coast this fishing starter kit (£32)?

For gadgety types - A Wind-Up Torch with Mobile Phone Charger (£7) or some travel speakers for your iPod (£9).

And for the boy that has everything? - Give them this Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock (£24) - guaranteed to wake the laziest of teenagers.

All done. Pretty painless, just as shopping should be.

If you’re purchasing online, follow our top tips for online shopping this Christmas.

Just a quickie on what we might be fighting in shops for this Christmas - The old, familiar Wii Christmas shortage is back. US games retailer GameStop predicts the shortage unless Nintendo has a massive increase in supply in the next couple of weeks. It’s unknown as to whether this will lead to shortages here in the UK but we can use wii-consoles.co.uk to stay up-to-date on the situation.

But if you don’t fancy a Wii, both the Xbox and PS3 seem to be in plentiful supply…Check out the games console reviews to find out what people think about them all.

Well, first we found out that those helpful folks over at Nintendo were helping people to stop smoking. Now we hear that they’re helping Japanese students with their English too. A teacher at the Tokyo Academy for Girls has introduced the Nintendo DS into English lessons to help students concentrate.

The DS helps the students with their writing, listening and vocabulary but they are under strict instruction that all the machines must be handed in at the end of the lesson and no other games, apart from the English aid, are to be used.

Despite the lack of fun games, the students do seem to be enjoying the new method of teaching and they’ve even commented that they’re finding the lessons more interesting and engaging.

This is still a trial at the moment but what with all these new ways we’re discovering that consoles can help people (the Wii fit helping people to lose weight, the DS helping people to quit smoking etc.), who knows where the possibilities will end.

If you’re in two minds over whether to get a DS or not, try reading the Nintendo DS reviews first.

It’s official. Women may like to spend money on expensive handbags and shoes but when it comes to the living room, boys shell out the most cash.

According to the latest research from Reevoo, kitting out a bachelor pad with huge plasma TVs, top of the range laptops, games consoles, high-end stereos and other gadgets puts the bill up to £4,678.97.

Reevoo looked at the highest rated products with over 30 reviews to compile the research. According to shoppers, the best wide screen plasma HD ready TV is the Panasonic TH50PZ70B which can be nicely accompanied by the top DVD recorder, the Sony RDR-HX510. Just these two cost over £1,500.

Every man’s need and desire to put as little effort into living as possible has been accounted for. There’s the Proline TTR 65 P mini beer fridge which can be plugged in right next to your sofa so that cold beer is only a short stretch away, the Hewlett Packard Pavilion DV9605 laptop, so you can check up on your stocks and shares while you’re watching the footie and an Xbox 360 Elite for when you run out of DVDs.

Other items to complete the perfect bachelor pad include the Philips HD7810/60 coffee machine, the Blackberry Curve 8310, and the Miele G1222SC
dishwasher, so that you don’t have to get involved in any of that mucky washing up.

So girls, next time you get an earful off him indoors, direct him to this handy bit of research before you head for the shops.

Here’s a full list for those who want to create the perfect pad:

Panasonic
TH50PZ70B 50 inch HD ready plasma screen TV £1,351.00

Xbox 360 Elite
games console £250.00

Panasonic FZ50 digital
camera £306.00

Sony DCR-SR 32E handycam
camcorder with 30GB hard drive £259.00

Blackberry Curve
8310 mobile phone £274.99

Denon D-m 35 DAB hi-fi
mini system £150.00

Apple iPod touch 16GB black
£229.00

Wharfedale
Diamond 9.1 bookshelf speakers £129.00

Hewlett Packard Pavilion
DV9605 laptop £699.99

Pure Talksport DAB
radio £40.00

Proline TTR 65 P mini
fridge £69.99

Philips HD7810/60
Coffee Machine £50

Miele G1222SC
dishwasher £493.00

Philips HQ8150 electric
shaver £78.00

Sony RDR-HX510 DVD
Recorder £299.00

This week’s gadget watch should be re-named ‘copy-cat watch’. If rumors are true, Microsoft, rather than admitting they missed a trick with the Nintendo Wii remotes have decided to just reproduce some of their own instead. Last week we reported that Microsoft faired pretty poorly in the 2008 Brandjunkie awards but with mixed reactions, it’s not certain whether this move will help or hinder their cause. One comment on MTV news states “This should be an indicator that Microsoft has run out of innovative ideas”. However, there are lots of positive comments too…”I’m glad Microsoft sees that and puts up some real competition for
Nintendo. I’ve held out getting a 360 but I might have to buy one now,
if this new controller gets good support”

The rumors indicate that the remote for the Xbox 360 is being developed by Rare, the Microsoft-owned studio, and will supposedly be released by the end of the year. What does everybody else think?