Despite recent setbacks profits-wise, Nintendo's success in this console generation is a hard thing to argue against. In recognition of the DS and Wii's dominance in their respective markets, BusinessWeek and management consulting firm A.T. Kearney recently gave Nintendo the top spot in their World's Best Companies 2009 list.

Homebrew coder WiiCrazy/I.R.on is back to release a new update for Crazy Intro, a homebrew tool that allows you customize the welcome screen of your Nintendo Wii, display your selected pictures and play music. The latest update has added new features and some other fixes.


Download: Crazy Intro v0.8

Homebrew coders Scip, Rodries and the rest of the MPlayer CE team has released a new update for the excellent Wiibrew media player application based on MPlayerWii and GeeXboX. The latest update of MPlayer CE is quite a hefty one with lots of new and improved features.


Download: MPlayer CE v0.71

A new update for WiiEarth has been released by homebrew coder Paul Wagener. This Wiibrew app allows you to use your Wiimote to navigate the Earth using Google Maps and similar services. The new update adds widescreen support and some more bug fixes.


Download: WiiEarth v2.2

AQ Interactive showed off the first screenshots for their upcoming Wii horror game, The Feel, at a recent press conference in Japan. The game still needs some polishing to get rid of the nasty jaggies, but the Ju-on atmosphere seems there. Well, the creepy little ghost kid's there, at least.

Because we here at QJ just can't keep ourselves from thinking of new ways to give you your daily dose of gaming news and updates, we've just cooked up a new way to get all the QJ goodness that you want - faster and easier. It's the QJ.NET Toolbar, packed with all the features and tools to make your Quick Jumps even quicker.


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Last month's school shooting incident in Winnenden, Germany, opened the floodgates for German government officials to fire criticisms aimed at violent video games. Some have called for tighter restrictions, while others have even demanded for outright bans. Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann, a frequent critic of violent games, falls in the latter category. In fact, according to GamePolitics, he think that violent video games are pretty much the same as drugs and child porn.

See the world from a bird's eyeview. That bird must fly very, very high up if that's the case. WiiEarth allows you to see the world Google Earth-style. Developer Paul Wagener added some more Google images for this release, giving you a bigger picture of the Earth. Demo vid in the full article.


Download: WiiEarth v2.1

The owls (or rather pigeons) are coming! As if Facebook and Twitter aren't enough, we've also got accounts for chat messengers: Google, Yahoo, and MSN.If you're a brew developer, publisher tipster, fan, anti-fan or whatever, here's a faster, faster way to communicate with the QJ Team. So add and chat us up, ayt? :P Help us fill our buddy list.

Who wants to be a Wii-llionaire? Congrats to Slumdog Millionaire, by the way, for owning the Oscars. As for Wii Quizz, Cashman just bumped it up to v2.05, and you can go shoot for a million in-game bucks and be a Wii-llionaire. Fixes and improvements for this version are directed mostly to connectivity-related issues. Changelog in the you-know-where.


Download: Wii Quizz v2.05