“Punch-Out!!”
Genre: Sports
Developer: Next Level Games
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Wii
ESRB rating: “E10+” for everyone 10 and older
Price: $49.99
Grade: B+

Frankly, boxing games are kind of boring.

Well, most of them, anyway. The ones played just by mashing buttons over and over certainly are. Then Nintendo’s Wii came along with its wireless controllers…

Virtual pugilism is about to enter a whole new level of … well, weird.

The game “FaceBreaker,” now in development, promises arcade-style boxing with punches so over-the-top hard they rearrange opponents’ faces.

Literally.

Electronic Arts announced the title this week and calls it “irreverent fun.”…

Since Nintendo’s Wii console first demonstrated that video games could move more than a person’s thumbs, a growing segment of society has believed the Wii has opened new doors to physical fitness.

Wiis are turning up in retirement homes and physical rehabilitation…

It’s an Olympic year again, and what better way to highlight the thrill of victory and agony of defeat than to create a video game that mimics the Games?

Sega Corp. says it will take the lead on that with “Beijing 2008:…