It may be healthier than sitting on the couch, but an informal research project suggests the health benfits of Nintendo's revolutionary Wii video games have been slightly oversold. The still ...

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (Reuters) - For years, video games have been blamed for turning kids into idle layabouts who only venture off the couch to fill up on potato chips and soda. Nintendo Co Ltd <7974 ...

Video games and fitness – not two activities you would generally put together. But Nintendo’s latest innovation could change all that. Dubbed Wii Fit, the game uses a weight-sensing Balance Board that ...

Since its launch in 2006, the Wii succeeded in doing something few consoles could ever dream of: it got players off the couch. Sure, the movement required to make your Mii bowl of play baseball wasn't ...

Nov. 17 -- MONDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- The amount of energy adults expend playing active video games may equal that of moderate-intensity exercise, according to a new study. Japanese ...

Nintendo has bragged that its Wii game system gets gamers off the couch. But while the motion-sensitive controls do encourage arm movement, they're still easily performed while sitting. Now, the ...

It wasn’t so long ago that researchers reported that letting kids play video games — active “exergames,” that is — could help them burn energy. Now the latest study shows … maybe not so much. The ...

Dear Dr. Gott: My 12-year-old son has been bugging me to get him a Nintendo Wii. He reasons that it is not like other gaming systems because body movement is required to play the games, thus he will ...

REUTERS - Virtual boxing, tennis and dancing along with video game systems may not be helping children meet daily exercise requirements, according to a U.S. study. Researchers from Baylor College of ...

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