October 28, 2008

Laugh out Loud Wii lifestyle Photos : Golf

Us Wii Golfers don’t look that bad eh?

Via: Infendo

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August 23, 2008

Tiger Woods PGA 09 Trailer – Walk on Water!

You heard of the so called glitch on Tiger Woods 08, where Tiger takes a shot standing on water? Well now you can see it for real! EA, in response to the viral video, created an official Tiger Woods PGA 09 trailer called Walk on Water! Check out Tiger in action. He is that good!

If you missed the original viral video by Levinator25, do check it out below as well!

That is using social media for you!

Edit: Here are a few more great trailers and game play videos for you!

The new 1 to 1 swing with the developers.

Official E3 Presentation

Club Tuner feature

Hank gives you tips!

Filed by: MiiGolfer at August 23rd, 2008 under WiiGolf Moments
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August 8, 2008

Tiger Woods PGA 09, Out this Month!

Just a gentle reminder, that Tiger Woods PGA 09 will be out this month. According to Gamespot, it will be launched August 26 in North America, and August 29 in Europe to be exact.

So it looks like us PAL owners will not t have to wait that long for our copy!

I wait with bated breath!

EDIT: Tiger plugs the game in his August newsletter from TigerWoods.com

Later this month, we’re going to launch our new video game: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09. We’ve made some exciting changes, like the new “true one-to-one golf swing,” that I really think you’re going to like. In fact, the game just recently won the Best Sports Game of E3 2008 for the Wii. ~ Tiger Woods

Get well soon Tiger, we miss you!

Filed by: MiiGolfer at August 8th, 2008 under News
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The Wii Improves your Real Golf game, Honest!

play golf, I’m lousy at it, but I play golf. The main reason to why I haven’t really improved, a least I think so, is that I only play 3-5 times a year. The last couple of years I have played to a handicap around 48, which I’m not entirely satisfied with.

But in november 2007 we got a Nintendo Wii at work, so people can play in their lunchbreak and after work. I have played a lot of golf on the Wii, and on the Wii like in real life, I have a really bad slice. So game after game on the Wii, during the winter, I have tried to correct this slice, and I have succeeded. So a little month a go, when I was out playing my first real game of golf this year, to my big surprise, I did in real life as I did on the Wii, and my slice was almost gone. Now I have played a couple of more games, and each time to a handicap around 40 and almost without slicing. With this in mind, I have played a lot of Golf on the Wii for the last week, to prepare for the next game of real golf, which will be on sunday. This time I have focused on controlling my swing speed, to be more persistent. Hopefully It pays off.

Looks like there is evidence that Wii Golf does help your real golf game! Best of luck Bo and let us know how it goes.

Via: Bo Henriksens’s Weblog

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July 28, 2008

Study shows Wii Sports burn calories for adults—maybe not kids

Wii Sports, the popular sports simulation video game, may get you sweating, but it’s still no substitute for the gym.

That’s the conclusion of a study sponsored by The American Council on Exercise (ACE), which has just announced it’s research findings.

Conducted exclusively by University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Exercise and Health Program, the study, released Tuesday, shows that playing the five Wii games – golf, tennis, baseball, bowling and boxing – will burn anywhere from 3.9 to 10.2 calories per minute.

“While the caloric benefit was rather modest, the take home message from this study, as the researchers indicated, is that playing these games on Wii is better than sitting around,” said Thayne Munce, Ph.D, a professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition.
The study called for eight men and eight women between the ages of 20 to 29 years old to play the Wii games as they would be playing the sports in reality. The participants played the games for 10 minute intervals, and researchers recorded their heart rates and oxygen uptake every minute.

According to the study’s results, boxing burned the most calories, compared to the other games – 216 calories for 30 minutes of play. Wii Boxing is also intense enough to qualify as a way to improve or maintain cardiorespiratory endurance, according to the Indianapolis-based American College of Sports Medicine.

At the low end, 30 minutes of Wii Golf only burns 117 calories.

However, playing a real game of golf or boxing will burn more calories, experts said, and the skills used for playing Wii sports and playing real sports are not necessarily the same.

“While many of the Wii Sports games are fairly realistic, one should not mistake the skill set required to be successful in these games with the real thing,” Munce said. “I don’t think that anyone is going to become an all-star baseball player by skipping practice and playing their Wii.”

On the upside, Wii Sports are a great alternative for people, like senior citizens, who cannot play sports because of physical ailments.

“If we can get these older people to engage in a variety of movement activities, we can help them maintain better joint mobility,” said Cedric X. Bryant, Ph.D., chief science officer at ACE.

Interestingly enough, adults are more frequently the purchasers and players of Wii and its games, according to Chicago video game merchants.

“I don’t see many kids coming in here looking for Wii games,” said Cordero McCalure, an 18-year-old senior game adviser at the GameStop in the South Loop. Since the Wii was released in 2006 – and sold with the Wii Sports game as a package – more adults have purchased it than kids, he said.

Best Buy employees in the South Loop agree that more adults play with the Wii than do kids, but it’s hard to tell if adults are buying it for themselves or for their kids.

Nintendo’s newest Wii gadget, Wii Fit, is specifically targeted to adults as a workout device. And ACE is already researching its potential health benefits.

Even though kids are the stereotypical video game users, it appears that Wii games which promote physical activity are ultimately more popular with adults.

Xbox and Playstation 3 are more popular with kids, according to McCalure, because, “You can sit down and play instead of doing all the movements.”

“Kids don’t want to play the Wii,” he said.

Via: Medill Reports

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