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ffwd is a video discovery system that allows wii users to watch internet videos such as youtube videos on their wii. It makes great use of the wii's strength by allowing users to navigate the site with their wiimote. Furthermore, it has a intelligent filtering system that filter out video sites that is using a more advanced version of Flash(8 & 9) which the wii does not support. ffwd provides users with a whole new experience of watching internet videos. In addition, ffwd are giving away 150 Wii Internet Channel for beta users to test ffwd on the wii.

Evan Wilson of Pacific Crests Securities predicts that the Next-Gen consoles and portable systems are coming in 2010. He says the Nintendo Console will come first, then the Xbox 720. He has no word on the PS4. He also says that new DS and psp systems will also be coming in 2010. He didn't say whether they're new systems or just redesigns.

DarkZero: Tony Hawk may be taking a bit of a break, but it seems Activision has other plans for the Call of Duty series as they will be making COD5 available for six different platforms (PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, Nintendo DS and PS2). Activision publishing president and CEO Mike Griffith comments "For Call of Duty, we're bringing the intensity of the recent Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare title to yet a new military theatre to engage our significantly larger user base which nearly doubled last year"

With Wii Fit encouraging gamers around the world to get up and active and selling like nobody's business in the process, Sony and Microsoft bigwigs, understandably, may be getting a bit hot under the collar. Without the same kind of product, the latter of the two has found another way, somewhat desperately, to build bridges between gaming and fitness - by sponsoring the BGCA's first-ever National Family Fitness Day and placing Konami's Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2 at the centre of it.

The Kid grows up. First-ever artwork for Factor 5's rumored project, starring adult Pit, revealed.

Fear not, Wii owner. There are plenty of cool games coming out this year that have nothing to do with Nintendo.

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Wii Fit will help you work up a sweat, but it's not as smooth and fun a workout as you'd probably like.

New features and a release due this Christmas for Guitar Hero 4.