In today’s Star Tribune NewsBreak, I discuss my story this weekend about the Nintendo Wii and how the “family-friendly” video-game system is growing up. The evidence? In the first 26 months since its release in November 2006, the Wii has had only 20 games that were rated Mature (for players 17 and older). Yet since Feb. 3, five more such games have come out for it, including the sensational MadWorld from Sega of America. You can learn more about this interesting trend when the story goes online this weekend and by watching NewsBreak.

If you do the latter, please note: I’ve been playing video games for more than 30 years and writing about them since the early ’90s. And, yes, I am holding the Wiimote upside down in the webcast. I just didn’t realize it during the live-recorded segment until it was too late. So don’t e-mail me about it, OK? And, hey, it’s not as if the Wii was plugged in anyway. ;-) 

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