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Black Wii resembles European model revealed earlier this year.

Nintendo is releasing a new black Wii model with a Remote Plus controller and nunchuk this holiday season. This model will sit horizontally instead of vertically and will not have backwards compatibility with GameCube games, nor will it feature the GameCube controller ports or memory card slots. Earlier, Nintendo announced a model similar to this for European consumers at Gamescom.

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Join Chris and Jason as they play through some original stages made by Kathrine in New Super Mario Bros. Wii Monday night. The PlayBit is over, but you can click through to catch the full rerun!

Remember Reggie!, the New Super Mario Bros. stage editor released back in 2010? PixlBit staff member Kathrine Theidy has used Reggie! to create 36 New Super Mario Bros. Wii stages, and Chris and I played through. Catch the rerun of the PlayBit inside!

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Join Nick, Chessa, Jason H, Jason R, and Chris M for our third PlayBit, this time, beginning at 2:00 pm EST

As we all know, E3 is right around the corner. Fortunately, most of the PixlBit staff will be attending the show, and even better, they will all be leaving from the same airport!

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Mario's latest 2D outting shatters the record for the fastest selling Wii game in Japan.

According to recent sales data from Famitsu (retrieved by Andriasang), New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the fastest selling Wii game with 936,734 copies sold in four days.

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The first one released the same day as the game.

Less than a full week after the launch of Super Mario Bros. Wii, a few ambitious people have managed to hack the game, creating a program that will allow gamers to create their own levels.

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