With all our suggestions for games, DVDs, and comics, of course we’re going to help pick out the things that make your electronics that much better! So, we’ve gone ahead and created a list of all the wickedly awesome accessories that go along with your cool consoles, PCs, handheld gaming devices, and even your iPhone or iPad. Enjoy!

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After months of hype, and an aggressive marketing campaign, Kinect is finally here. With it’s main competition being the recently released PlayStation Move, one has to ask: will you be getting Kinect?

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For the past few days, I’ve been feeling an urge to get back and play Wii Fit. It’s been awhile and I’m normally a really lazy person so I don’t know why I felt like sweating, being sore, and making an ass out of myself.

I was going to play it back on Tuesday, but Chris came home from work early so I didn’t bother with it. Today, however, was a different story.

As the day dragged on, I got bored. I turned on the Wii, played about a half hour of Animal Crossing (in which our town is ravaged with weeds and looks like crap), and then popped in Wii Fit. I was laughing to myself about how I was stupid for doing this and how I wouldn’t be able to walk in the morning, like last time, but I ignored that and turned it on anyways.

After selecting my Mii the little Wii Fit Board character lovingly let me know that it had been 116 days since I had logged in, and how I failed to reach my goal. I can’t even remember what my goal was!

116 days….

(obviously you guys/gals can tell that we are truly getting our moneys worth with this game, hah!)

I then decided to go through the test they have to check my balance and check my weight. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had lost weight instead of gaining, like I had thought. Even though it was only 4 lbs, it’s still something! My balance was good, I messed up a little bit, and my Wii Fit Age went up by a couple of years but I didn’t care.

While playing it, I made sure to avoid the Lunges because the only time I did them, I got light headed and wanted to vomit. Instead I focused on the Balance and Aerobic sections. I unlocked a few games in the Balance category, one in the Strength, and one in the Yoga. My new favorite one for the Balance is where my Mii is in a bubble, like in Super Monkey Ball, and I control the ball down this river by leaning left, right, front, and back. It was so fun that I did it 3 times in a row! I was also shocked at how difficult the Advanced Step routine was compared to the original one. Kicks were added, and you even had to step on the board sideways! I’m shocked that I didn’t trip over my feet or trip over Donnie, who was running all over the place with his prized Squirly.

After playing for about an hour I knew I was done. I was starting to get sore and my back, which is horrible, started to hurt. Odds are, when I wake up tomorrow morning, I am going to hate myself for doing Wii Fit but hopefully I can get in the habit of doing at least a half hour a day.

I just wish that Nintendo came out with an update where you can play with your friends using the Wii Speak. No cameras, because that could be embarrassing, but on the “step” balance game, the running aerobic one, and on a few others you can easily do them with a friend and converse with them. It might make people want to play more because, like in real life, a buddy system is always successful.

I’ll let you guys know tomorrow if I have to hobble around the apartment like a 80 year old.

- She Who Has The Last Word

Well, since Monday was heavily focused on the Wii, and Tuesday documented a Wii-related experience, I figured we might as well make it Wii Week and run three more days of Wii blog posts.  I bet you’re all excited about that!

Lindsey and I have been playing a lot of Animal Crossing: City Folk since we got it.  It is the most played game we own now.  When we got it, I figured that would be her solo game, Super Mario Galaxy would be my solo game, and Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and Mario Kart would be our together games.

I’ve played more Animal Crossing than Super Mario Galaxy.  Not because Super Mario Galaxy is a lesser game (it’s an amazing game), but because Animal Crossing is so easy and relaxed that you can’t help but lose track of time.

Which brings me to the point of this post:  Our lives are being devoured by the Wii.

Devoured, I say.

It’s a serious problem.  We’ve started caring less about things we enjoyed before because we’d rather be playing Animal Crossing.  The biggest problem is that I am completely aware of this problem, and I’m not going to do a thing about it.  I need to have a perfect rating for our town.  It will happen, and we will reap the benefits.

We’ve both had our houses expanded after paying off our original mortgage.  Lindsey has been grinding fishing for extra money, and I’ve started manipulating the residents.  Oh, it’s so very fun.

Is it weird that I like this game so much?

-Because I said so

On Friday the 13th, Lindsey and I became the proud new owners of a Nintendo Wii system, along with Wii Fit, Wii Sports, Wii Play, Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario Galaxy, Animal Crossing: City Folk (with Wii Speak), and some accessories.  Needless to say, our weekend was very productive.

Very productive.

We have both been playing mostly Animal Crossing.  She has played this game in depth on multiple systems (Gamecube and Nintendo DS, I think that’s it), while I have only jumped in briefly on her DS version.  With the Wii version, I’ve become far more interested in it than before.  We both have moved into Korriban (her choice, as the dark side is strong in her).  She is Revan (see what I mean?), and I am Zim (DOOOOOOOOOOM!).  It’s been fun, so far.  We’ve both managed to pay off our houses as of yesterday, and we had a new resident move in to town!

I’ve played some Super Mario Galaxy, going so far as to beat the Dino Piranha star (first star after the Observatory), and I am having an absolute blast with this game so far.  The camera angles can get very disconcerting, but I think they’ve done an amazing job with the levels.

Lindsey and I have played a couple of team races in Mario Kart.  We lost our first two team races, but we won the third.  It took a few laps to get used to the accelerometer controls, but I think we’ve got it down pat, now.  With Animal Crossing, Lindsey came in with the experience.  Mario Kart is my game.  I’ve played Mario Kart DS to death, I loved Mario Kart 64, and while I never owned a Super Nintendo, I had a friend with one and we would play Mario Kart a lot.  I know how to Kart.  Lindsey is very good as well, which is great.  Between the two of us, we’re almost never out of the top 3 in any given race.

Wii Fit.  Fuck the Half Moon and fuck Lunges.  Everything else is cool, but fuck those two.  The Lunges really did a number on Lindsey, and the Half Moon is really painful.  I’m going to keep doing the god damned Half Moon, because it’s probably really good for my posture and spine, but fuck it straight to hell.  Other than that, it’s an amazing game that makes working out a lot of fun.  With the training tracker, graphs, BMI measurements, Wii Fit Body Age, etc, you get to have a lot of fun while having a visual goal.  We’re going to try at least half an hour each every day.

I enjoyed the Wii Play games (most of them), but Lindsey has given Wii Play a solid thumbs down.  I think the 7-2 score may have had something to do with that.

We didn’t do anything more in Wii Sports together, but I played a few frames of Bowling, as well as a couple of matches of Tennis.  I also did a game of Baseball, which is a lot of fun, even though I don’t really enjoy baseball too much.

We browsed through the Virtual Console games, and found some titles that really took us back, and some that made us go “Fuck that” at the same time (Ecco the Dolphin, anyone?  That’s another post altogether.).

Last night we rented two more games to try out: Metroid Prime 3 – Corruption and De Blob.  Metroid is Metroid, this we recognize.  De Blob, however, we have heard nothing about.  It looks like a pretty cool party game, maybe a puzzle game, we’re not sure.  We’ll try it out and see.

We love our Wii.

-Because I said so

Today was Valentine’s Day.  It was the second Valentine’s Day that Lindsey and I have had, and the first since we moved in together and since we became engaged.  The first thing we did was get breakfast.  Sorry, let me correct that.  The first thing I did was get breakfast.  The first thing Lindsey did was play Animal Crossing: City Folk on our new Wii.  After eating breakfast, we continued playing Animal Crossing.  She took a bit of a nap, during which time I popped in Super Mario Galaxy, which is very fun (but has extremely weird camera angles).  Next up was Wii Play, which I found fairly entertaining, but which Lindsey hated most of.  After that, we put our Wii Fit to use with a half hour of training for each of us, followed by Wii Sports Boxing.  Once Lindsey put me down to the mat, she went off to start cooking our Valentine’s Day dinner while I played some more Wii Sports and some Animal Crossing.  Finally, dinner was ready.  Lindsey made some amazing salmon, spaghetti alfredo, peas, and a great salad.  For dessert, she made a wonderful red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.  After dinner, we watched Memoirs of a Geisha, which she hadn’t seen for a very long time, and I hadn’t seen at all.  It just finished up about 10-15 minutes ago, when I realized we had yet to do a post for today, which brings us to the current moment!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

-Because I said so