Ladies, forget “Sex and the City.”

Now there’s Wii Sports Boxing… and the city.

Last night, Nintendo invited women around the Big Apple to participate in a “Wii Sports Boxing in the City” competition (similar to last year’s Wiimbledon). The event was held at a bar and restaurant located in midtown Manhattan, and Nintendo touted it as a chance for females “to throw a virtual punch or two while unwinding from a long day at work.”

Seven women. One free Wii. Fourteen furious fists.

Click below to see images of the event, and who ultimately was crowned the “Wii-nner” (sorry).

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Grand Theft Auto IV” may have gotten some things wrong about New York City (we were only kidding, angry Rockstar fans!).But one of the things the developers got right was the home of MTV.

Our MTV building, where this very post was written, resides at 1515 Broadway at the heart of Times Square. Our office tower was faithfully recreated in the game as MeTV at 1717 Burlesque, in the heart of Star Junction.

We went outside, and then into the game to prove just how good a job Rockstar did representing us. It’s almost like our own virtual Cribs.

Check out some comparison photos after the jump:

(Video not viewable by anyone logging in to this site from Canada or the U.K. Sorry)

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Here in New York City, our trees aren’t invincible.

We actually have children and squirrels scurrying through our parks.

And the big amusement park over in Brooklyn, one of our five boroughs, is on the southeast side, not the west.

Such things are different in Liberty City.

“Grand Theft Auto IV” gets many, many things right about New York City, the metropolis upon which its Liberty City is based. And it gets some big things wrong that I can overlook.

But some of the game’s misrepresentations demand correcting. New York City, I will defend your rep, via a cheap numbered-list post.

“GTA IV” is — dare I say it — just a game. So it’s okay that it doesn’t have a Westchester County or any other land connected to its version of Queens (called Dukes)[EDIT: My mistake! I meant the Bronx/Bohan]. It’s sort of okay that Staten Island didn’t make it onto the Liberty City map. Some of these inaccuracies are forgivable, given that Rockstar Games did include authentic tai chi aficionados slowly twirling in Liberty Ciy’s parks and street preachers bellowing on the sidewalks. The developers really have made the most authentic video game city I’ve ever played darts in.

However, just as a major movie set in New York might convince some of out-of-towners to visit the Big Apple, “GTA IV” might bring some non-New-Yorkers to the real life Liberty City.

I don’t want you to come here with the wrong idea.

Here are eight things about New York City grossly misrepresented in Rockstar Games’ Liberty City:

1. We are not a car town: No sensible New Yorker uses a car as their primary means of transportation in the city, unless — maybe — they commute from the suburbs. Car ownership doesn’t make much sense. There are never any parking spots. Parking garages are prohibitively expensive. And, most importantly, the subway is a faster, cheaper and more efficient means of transportation. We don’t drive here. Niko, to be a real New Yorker, should rely on the subway. But what would he be left to grandly thieve?

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