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Nintendo announced the release of the Wii Fit, designed by famed game designer Shigeru Miyamoto at a press conference on July 11, 2007. Since then it has been a worldwide smash hit. Let's take a quick at it.

The Wii series is the 7th generation Nintendo gaming system. The major difference and feature of this system is its wireless controller called the Wii remote which detects motion and rotation in three dimensions and features sensory feedback.

The console is bundled with Wii Sports, a package of five sports games including bowling, tennis and golf. It uses a specialized platform peripheral called the Wii Balance Board to measure the game players' weight and centre of gravity and thereby enabling calculation of his/her body mass index known as BMI.

Game players can then compare their fitness with each other by using the Wii Menu, which tracks a game players daily Fitness Age by testing the body and using the game players age, weight and athletic ability.

The console has four categories of exercise with a total of forty activities: aerobic exercise, muscle workouts, yoga poses and balance games including Slalom Skiing. Other features of the Wii Fit are an activity log, which allows the game player to keep track of activities outside the gaming system whilst Fit Cash is the points system awarded to the players depending on their level of performance. This then of course encourages the player to do better next time and thereby increasing level of fitness.

It seems that everyone, from pauper to megastar has been buying and using the Wii Fit Balance Board for their fitness and even for basic coordination. If you haven't got one - get one. You'll love it.

John Milligan.

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When you look online for Starcraft map downloads, you will find that there are three types of maps. There are scenarios and campaigns and maps for multiplayers. The multiplayer map is the basic one and is good to download when you and a friend want to play together. This is just an inert map with some starting positions. All of the positions are carefully arranged so that you can play a balanced game. The unit stats and behavior are not modified in any way from the original map. The standard rules of the StarCraft game apply to playing with multiplayer maps and you can choose to play against yourself or another player.

For a single player, you can download a Melee map in which you play against a number of computer based opponents. There is a variation of these maps called free For All, in which you and all your computer opponents fight against each other.

Scenarios are different Starcraft maps that you can download. These maps have predefines locations, triggers, and dialogue. They also have different rules of play and different missions from the standard maps. The plot is usually linear with some skirmishes or a series of objectives that you have to achieve while dealing with several players. Most scenarios try to tell a story and stringing a series of scenarios together helps you create a Campaign. In order to run a scenario, you have to use the icon for Use Map Settings on the game in order to enable the special units and triggers. All the Use Map Settings are part of the hardware of the game and you have to watch for them as you progress through the game play. These are usually single player maps.

You can download thousands of Starcraft maps, some of which are maps created by Blizzard Entertainment and others are ones that players have created on their own. You simply browse through the list of maps and read about it to choose one that you want to download to your computer. If you are just beginning the game, there are started maps to help you get used to playing different scenarios and characters. Some examples of these maps are:

- Enslavers: The Rescue. This map is a single player version for the veteran player. The story of this map occurs just after the fall of the Confederacy and Alan Schezar, the infamous pirate, hires Ghosts to enslave a Zerg. In this episode Protoss and Dominion forces join together to put an end to his scheme. You do need Broodwar to play this map and both levels must be placed in the Starcraft campaign folder in your directory. There are two more episodes of this map that you can download to make a campaign.

- Precursor Campaign. In this map, you journey to the farthest part of the galaxy to take command of a group of Confederate marines. This game is for both the novice and the veteran as you become involved in a series of events that will challenge your leadership and your ability to lead your troops to victory.

To download a map that you would like to play, all you have to do is click the download button on the screen.

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