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Individual songs (200 Wii points)

* “Brother” — Pearl Jam
* “Alive (Live: Drop in the Park)” — Pearl Jam
* “State of Love and Trust (Live: Drop in the Park)” — Pearl Jam
* “Space Truckin” — Deep Purple
* “Bad to the Bone” — George Thorogood
* “Cream and Bastards Rise” — Harvey Danger
* “Forever” — In This Moment
* “Closer” — Lacuna Coil
* “Swamped” — Lacuna Coil
* “Mica” — Mission of Burma
* “That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate” — Mission of Burma
* “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver” — Mission of Burma
* “Gone Away” — The Offspring
* “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)” — The Offspring
* “She’s a Handsome Woman” — Panic at the Disco

Well, we just heard about Shia’s opinion on the Wii, “It’s kind of an amateur console”, now lets see what his Transformers co-star/better half has to say about the console, Nintendo, and gaming in general. I suspect this interviews are to take our attention away at how bad the Transformers 2 video game is and the not so raving reviews about the new movie itself….

WhatThePlay.com interviewed her, here is a portion:

What videogames did you like playing growing up?

Megan Fox: My first gaming console was the Super Nintendo when I was about nine, and my first game was Aladdin. I remember playing that as a wee child. I’ve always really loved video games. Some of them, unfortunately, I’m not very good at playing, but some of them I’m kind of a badass at.

So which games are you badass at?

Megan Fox: Anything Mortal Kombat. I have that down and I don’t cheat. That game just works well with my brain. The way my brain fires signals works well with how that game works. And I’m just really good.

And you memorized all the Fatality moves?

Megan Fox: Most of them. Not all of them. The Mortal Kombat that just came out (Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe), I hated playing as Superman. His combos were so weird. I don’t know, I just thought it was lame.

What are your thoughts on the Wii getting kids active?

Megan Fox: I’m totally a fan of the Wii, I’m just not good at it. I actually have a Wii Fit and it’s actually a really hard workout. It’s pretty interesting. I think it’s amazing you can combine exercise and gaming. There really are games like Raving Rabbids and there are these little missions that you have to do where you run. You’re running with your arms but I swear to God I was so out of breath after every time I completed a mission. It really gets your cardio workout and it’s a video game, which sounds crazy. But I think that’s amazing. I hope we keep heading in that direction.

They just came out with Punch-Out for Wii.

Megan Fox: Yeah, you’ll have to punch in the game, which will be exhausting.

And EA Sports Active just came out which adds cardio workouts like crunches to the mix.

Megan Fox: Oy Veh. I don’t know if I can keep up.

What do you like playing on Wii for fun?

Megan Fox: I love Lego Star Wars. You can play in tandem. Except the one thing I don’t like about that game is that if one person is lagging behind and wants to check something out, and you’re running ahead, you drag the screen with you. You can’t stay separate when you’re playing on a team together. That becomes annoying.

Have you played the other Lego games?

Megan Fox: Indiana Jones and Batman? Yeah, I’ve played all of them. But Star Wars is my favorite.

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This has been rumored for months (maybe even a year now), its the same political dodge we’ve seen a handful of times when devs are questioned. They don’t confirm anything, but they don’t rule it out. In my opinion I’d love to see GTA Wii, but if we never get it on the Wii I’m hoping No More Heroes 2 can fill that open world void.

Eurogamer asks Ben Feder from Take-Two about a GTA Wii game. :

What about the Wii? One of our readers was disappointed that GTA: San Andreas Stories wasn’t announced for the Wii during the Nintendo conference. Are you looking at the Wii as a platform for a GTA game?

Ben Feder: Nintendo’s been a terrific partner for us. We always look at ways in which we can bring our games to platforms that make sense for our games. We’re eager to work with Nintendo to bring our games to their platforms. We just haven’t yet defined the right title for the right platform.

When asked about the current 3-D Metroid games from Retro, Sakamoto noted that although he’s not involved he’d be curious to see a sequel to Metroid Prime 3.

“With regards to the Prime series, if the team at Retro comes up with an idea that does bring a sequel to the series to fruition, I by all means encourage them to do that. … In terms of the Metroid series stories that I’ve told, the games that I’ve been involved in, I started with the NES Metroid and took it through Fusion. I’m hoping to tie the Super Metroid and Fusion stories together, and until I do that I can’t think about what happens after Fusion, but if the concept does come to me I’d like to continue the story and see how far it can go.”

[IndustryGamers]

What videogames did you like playing growing up?
Mortal Kombat, Doom, Donkey Kong, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario Kart

What’s your favorite videogame memory from when you were younger?
I remember playing Mario Kart with my Dad for the first time and this is after years of my Dad just s****ing on videogames. Just like you’re a loser. Finally, after playing Mario Kart, my Dad looks over at me and says, “I like playing as the mushroom.” That’s all he had to say. It’s one of those memories you remember for the rest of your life like when your Dad uses a cell phone for the first time or text messages you for the first time. That type of stuff. Yeah, I like playing as the mushroom.

What’s the last game that really impressed you?
Sid Meier’s Civilization.

You play everything including real-time strategy?
Buddy, I’m a gamer. Not just the fake ones you read about.

How much time do you spend gaming these days when you’re not acting?
Oh man, last night I spent all night playing The Godfather II game. It’s solid. I like that game because I like Godfather. I really like the map. My problem with Grand Theft Auto is the map is too large. It takes too much transit time to get into action. Godfather, it’s large enough to be interesting and have variety, but not too large to where you feel like you’re driving the whole game. Which is cool. In the first Godfather game the cars were too slow. In this Godfather game the cars move faster. Not that this is what we’re supposed to be talking about, but it validates my gamer cred.

What are your thoughts on Activision’s new Transformers game?
Just in terms of the variety of choices with the Autobots and Decepticons that you can play, the movie has been infused with a bunch of new faces and the game is the same world. A lot of the updates you have in the movie you have in the game, so it should be a better game.

Have you checked out the Wii Transformers game?
I haven’t been able to play the Wii game because my hand is broken. I’ve just been playing Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I would imagine that the Wii experience will be like…I don’t mess with the Wii, to be honest with you. It’s kind of an amateur console. I’m not into the Wii thing.

What’s wrong with the Wii?
This is how in a simple way you can find out if it’s a gamer you want to play with. Ask them if they have a Wii. If they say yes, get the f*** out of there.

Is that why you wouldn’t play LEGO Star Wars with Megan Fox on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?
Correct. Who wants to play the Wii version of LEGO Star Wars. I’d rather eat glass.

[More Interview from BigDownload.com]

While the camera-based motion-sensing tech shown by Sony and Microsoft during E3 definitely impressed a lot of gamers, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata had more of a “been there, done that” attitude.

Speaking to the Financial Times, Iwata said that they’ve actually already made experimental games controlled by camera-based sensors. That tech was eventually rejected, however, since they got better results out of the accelerometer-based tech now used in the Wiimote.

Iwata also seemed to welcome the competition, saying that he was happy that motion controls are starting to become an industry standard. “Companies whose people said that motion-sensing wouldn’t work are now proposing motion sensors,” he said.

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