Video game fitness programs have in a way taken the world by storm, allowing users to turn working out into a game. One popular video game fitness program by Nintendo: Wii Fit is expected to release a new version of the game this fall that turns working out not only into a game, but also into a competition.

A show based out of Queensland called Dojo Monkey has become the first Australian show to go completely cross platform. The animated show is based on a character named Dojo Money. Dojo Monkey got his start as the ninja monkey in a video game, but the creator immediately saw the potential for a show and the ability to make that work on multiple platforms.

The UK is the first to receive prototypes of a new way to game: with your mind. How does it work? Basically, Brainwave allows you to control a game via a headset that translates your brain’s electrical activity into a language your game console can understand.

Giving new meaning to the term “the Royal Wii“, it seems the Queen of England has developed a fondness for Prince William’s new Nintendo Wii system. It makes me happy that England’s monarchy is revealing an unexpected technological savvy. Every country needs leaders and role models who promote technology and science as well as the arts, and what better way to do so than to show technology can be both fun and useful?

A few claims are floating around the internet this week examining the theory that the frequency emitted by your Wii will attract cockroaches. That’s right - nasty, vile, cockroaches. And we don’t mean the cockroaches you call friends that come over to scam time on your Wii and eat you out of house and home. We mean the creepy, crawly, insect creatures that many scientists think will one day outlive every life form on Earth.

Sony’s PSP handheld gaming/movie/music/web browsing system and more will get its own movie download service in 2007 to rival the video downloads iPod owners enjoy through iTunes.

According to an article at Boomtown.net, Sony Computer Entertainment America communications exec Dave Karraker has said that he believes the Wii is little more than a novelty, implying that it would soon wear off as gamers yearned for a real games console - although Sony said something similar about the PSP’s battle with the Nintendo DS.

Plans were afoot to ship 1 million Wii’s to the US this year, but an online news report says this is no longer the case.

But there’s a catch! You can now buy games from a local online store and burn them to CD or DVD legally - but instead of being able to do it at home, the store has to do it for you, and send you the burnt disc in the mail.

Should the TV networks be quaking in their boots? What about BitTorrent and p2p users?

The Nintendo Wii is launched in the US at last, with our own launch scheduled for December 7. All the next-generation of games consoles will be in Australia once the PS3 launches in March 2007, but the Wii will be hard to resist for purchase this Christmas!

Crazy antics in the US: people smashing a PS3 into pieces with one heck of a big sledgehammer. Read on for details and a direct link to the video of all the smashing action!

Want an HD DVD player without spending an absolute fortune on a standalone player? If you’ve got an Xbox 360, the HD DVD drive comes early next year to Australia.

Wondering what it’s like to play the PS3? It’s totally INSANE… this is definitely a next-gen games console that brings the fight to the Xbox 360 right down to the wire. Microsoft and Sony are set to FIGHT!

Fancy waiting in line at a US story to be the first to get your hands on a PS3? No? Well the lines have already started with only hours to go before the PS3 launches and they’re already all sold out.

A rumour had spread on the Internet that Halo 3 was coming this week into stores, but the opposite has happened. A multiplayer beta is due in the US spring, with the full game to come sometime in 2007. Understandably, Halo loving fans are disappointed.

While Nintendo promises the largest number of launch Wii’s will end up in the Americas, exact numbers aren’t available. Still, 400,000 will be on sale in Japan on December 2, with the US getting them two weeks earlier this Sunday on Nobember 19.

Sony said the PS3 was compatible with PS2 games, but it seems some are having audio problems, while others aren’t playing at all. But is this really a big deal to PS3 owners keen to get their hands on next-gen gaming, and who still own a PS2 after all?

Should Sony be concerned that an Xbox 360 game has graphics that look better and more detailed than its newer version for the PS3?

Remember the Opera browser? Now in version 9 for PCs, it’s free and has advanced features you won’t find in Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. It also works with a range of devices and not just PCs, meaning that ‘a night at the Opera’ can now be a 24×7 browsing experience!