Parkinson's UK has awarded a grant of £35,000 to Dr Cathy Craig at the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, to investigate whether using a Wii can improve the physical abilities and lifestyle of people with Parkinson's, and how its games...

Do you feel like you haven't got enough plastic in your living room? Are you not at all concerned about the state of the north Pacific gyre? Then you're probably a potential purchaser of Firebox's new Wii Fit accessories.

There's two on offer....

Wii Fit Plus hits shops across Europe today and brings new exercises for those that splashed out on the orginal Wii Fit system with its Balance Board accessory.

New Fit-ters can also buy the game bundled with the Balance Board to play the...

It's official, video games are good for you. The NHS says so. Well, one videogame, anyway. Nintendo's hyper-successful Wii Fit has been granted the health service's "Change4Life" logo.

The scheme aims to try and get families to be healthy,...

The Nintendo Wii is about to get two new fitness accessories, Cyberbike and Wii dumbbells.

If Wii fit or EA Active wasn't enough to entice you into doing exercise with your games console, games developers, Bigben Interactive, are hoping its...

Exspect has launched a new "Drop ‘N’ Charge" range of chargers that claims to make it even easier to keep Nintendo Wii controllers, Wii Fit board, and Xbox 360 controllers fully charged.

Exspect says users need simply replace the standard...

Nintendo is expected to release a new version of Wii Fit at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles next week.

According to reports in Japan's Nikkei newspaper, the Japanese company will release "Wii Fit Plus", a new version that will allow...

Reports from Japan have suggested that Nintendo has announced the development of a new Wii Channel called the Wii Fit Body Check Channel

The program, sponsored by NEC, Panasonic and Hitachi will be on hand to give you tips on how to best...

Nintendo's Wii Fit is proving ever popular with gamers, as it claims its place at the top of the ELSPA Gfk-ChartTrack All Formats chart for the fifth time.

However, it was closely challenged by Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: World...

Nintendo's president Reggie Fils-Aime had admitted there will be a shortage of the Wii Fit peripheral this Christmas.

This problem echoes the shortage of Wii consoles last Christmas, although Reggie assures us that Nintendo is prepared...

EA is set to make its debut in the Wii fitness marketplace, but will do so without the use of the Wii Balance Board, unlike many competitor games.

EA Sports Active will instead see players strapping the Wiimote and Nunchuk to their body,...

The Wii Fit is the must-have gift for Christmas - if internet searches are anything to go by.

According to Hitwise, the internet traffic monitoring service, Nintendo's Wii Fit is currently the most searched-for product by UK internet...

If you enjoy the yoga element of Wii Fit, this Wii Fit Yoga Mat has been spied out in the States.

Target is selling the mat for $30 (£17), but from what we can tell it's not an official Nintendo release.

Still, it can't be...

If you've bought into the Wii Fit craze, then Thrustmaster have created some fitness accessory packs that help you really make the most of your game.

There are two packs - the T-Fitness Pack and the T-Fitness Pack Pro.

The...

Cities revealed to be the fittest cities in the UK by Men's Health magazine have bought more copies of Nintendo's Wii Fit than anywhere else, according to an online auction site.

Bristol, London and Southampton racked up the most purchases...