Hooray for Family Ski and Snowboard, which eliminates many of the unpleasant things about real-life winter sports. It won’t cost you an arm or a leg, in either sense. The risk of serious injury from flailing your arms about while standing on a set of glorified bathroom scales is low, and at GBP 34.99 it’s cheaper than going to Austria.

You don’t have to leave your nice warm lounge. You don’t have to wear a padded shell suit. You can talk to your friends whilst playing, even if they’re better at it than you, instead of watching them whizz off down the mountain like adrenaline-crazed Eskimos leaving Grandma to die in the snow.

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Earlier this week, WiiBlog reported on an ‘unofficial’ announcement of Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympics. You can now turn the switch to ‘official.’ SEGA has released a website, featuring a debut trailer, and has issued a press release. (more…)

Well, this game was rumored, then it was confirmed. Can’t say I’m surprised at all by this, but I am hyped on it. The first Mario & Sonic Olympics was an amazingly fun title. Now that the Wii is a bit older and the balance board is in full effect, let’s hope and expect for some definite integration of that. That’s just a scientific guess based on snowboarding being the only sport shown in this teaser of course… (more…)

Atari plans to bring wintery Wii sequel Family Ski & Snowboard to Europe in February 2009.

As the title suggests, this Namco Bandai follow-up adds snowboards to the range of piste pursuits. And like Family Ski, control will be handled by the balance board, which will be turned sideways to imitate the fat uni-ski. Wiimote and nunchuk are waggled to pull off tricks.

There’s more content than before: two big mountains to plummet down, littered with half-pipes and rails, plus all sorts of activities for both radical snowboarders and leisurely skiers.