Protothea
- From Ubisoft (2005 remake), another shooter
- Launch title - 1000 points
- WiiWare could end up with a lot of shooters
- Needs to be faster, more enemies

Castle of Shikigami III

- Great according to Daemon
- Vertical shooter

Boom Blox

- Fun, also good for kids
- A bit overpriced
- Good party game
- Currently embargoed, review tomorrow

- Upcoming events at Sega, Ubisoft, Konami - news out of those events probable
- IGN will have 1 exclusive, Friday - Craig: “Pretty big,” unannounced - Wii & DS game, based off distinct property - video, screenshots

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Nintendo Everything created some sick photos from Metroid Prime 3 and made them 3D. There are more at the Link - a lot more!

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The Conduit:
-Washington D.C. is under attack by aliens
-The All Seeing Eye, reveals hidden locations, monsters, items
-High Voltage was going to show the trailer which ign thought looked cool, but High Voltage wants to delay the public release of the trailer to make the trailer better and fix up its issues.

Gyrostar :
-Looks like Tempest
-$7, Wii-Ware Launch title
-Visuals look better on a larger screen

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This are the VC games that will launch with the Korea Wii.

Famicom / NES (400 Wii Points)

Antarctic Adventure - Konami
Donkey Kong - Nintendo
Kirby’s Adventure - HAL Laboratory
Super Mario Bros. - Nintendo

Super Famicom / SNES (600 Wii Points)

Gradius III - Konami
Super Mario World - Nintendo
Super Metroid - Nintendo
Cybernator - Hudson
Contra III: The Alien Wars - Nintendo

Nintendo 64 (800 Wii Points)

Mario Kart 64 - Nintendo

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Best-selling Gamecube Software (Source: Wikipedia)

1. Super Smash Bros. Melee (7.09 million)
2. Super Mario Sunshine (5.5 million)
3. Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (4.67 million)
4. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (3.07 million)
5. Luigi’s Mansion (2.53 million)
6. Animal Crossing (2.32 million)
7. Mario Party 4 (2 million)
8. Metroid Prime (2 million)
9. Mario Party 7 (1.86 million)
10. Pokemon Colosseum (1.86 million approximately)

Best-selling Wii Software (Source: Wikipedia)

1. Wii Sports (17.85 million)
2. Wii Play (9.23 million)
3. Super Mario Galaxy (5.19 million)
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (4.463 million)
5. Mario Party 8 (4.35 million)
6. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (4.3 million)
7. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (3.4 million)
8. Super Paper Mario (2.16 million)
9. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (2 million)
10. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (2 million)

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“We still continue to work alongside the team at Retro and no official announcements as to its status have been made. All existing reports are rumour and speculation.” - Nintendo rep

Just in case you did not catch the original story. (Check It HERE)

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Retro Studios is beloved for producing three excellent Metroid Prime games. A rumor was sparked on the Internet earlier today that three key members of the Retro staff have left the company. IGN has confirmed this to be true: lead designer Mark Pacini, engineer Jack Mathews, and art director Todd Keller are no longer with Retro.

The reasons for their departure aren’t clear, but Retro Studios will continue working on Wii software. The developer is not shutting down. It is possible Pacini, Mathews, and Keller are planning on starting a new studio, but that is pure speculation.

Retro was founded back in 1998 in Austin, TX. It is a wholly-owned, first-party developer for Nintendo.

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Upon finishing all this cups, and with at least a 3rd place finish. The credits will begin to role and a pic is taken of your Mii in a race suit next to Mario and Princess Peach. The pic is then sent to the  Wii message board, much like the picture taking applications in Metroid Prime, where you can then send it to all your friends and declare your greatness.

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High Voltage’s The Conduit:
-Built from the Ground up for Wii
-FPS with Scifi Government Conspiracy Theme
-The Plan for Video Footage is suppose to be this week
-They are working on Other projects. Bozon wants to download and/or buy them
-The other projects are not big epics like Conduit, but they are still very happy with the other two projects they were shown. (WiiWare wasn’t strongly implied)
-30 frames right now shooting for a lock 60, all sorts of control schemes.
-Ign has largest Nintendo Fanbase out there, the Dev was immediately contacted from publishers and developers right after the reveal.
-Bozon wants to work towards industry glory and not just a PR puppet at IGN.

Line Rider Wii:
to see what it’ll be like. Check XBLA may be similar review style. [/i]

Q: Fatal Frame 4 News?
A: No, but they are excited because of Fatal Frame + Suda. Likely no news until E3.

Q: DQ9 no news in forever, whats up with that ?
A: Square hinted to Bozon info will come soon. Square likes to deal with one title at a time

Q:What can Nintendo do to get big western dev houses to jump on the Wii ?
A: Matt wants Nintendo to step up and Publish more games, like back in the day. Wants Nintendo to go out and find the developers to develop. Bozon states how he thinks the Wii is the place for the small guys to put forth big efforts to try and become the big guys. Matt also wants Nintendo to reach out for synergy marketing with other big publishing houses.

Q: World Ends with You or Mario Kart Wii?
A: If World Ends With You is your type of game, get it before its gone. Mario Kart you can get now or a year from now. If you own a Wii, you gotta get Mario Kart Wii at some time, but World Ends With You won’t be around forever.

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According to Gamereactor.com, John Woo be announcing at Comic-con NYC, two weeks from now, that he is working on the first Metroid movie. This rumor is not to far fetched, back in 2004 John Woo bought the rights to a Metroid film from Nintendo. Also The guys over at Gamereactor.com claim that they have the first trailer and movie poster, which is supposed to be showed off at Comic-con NYC. Both of them where taken on a cell phone, so he is waiting to get I higher quality one. Below is a screen show of the trailer. I guess we will have to wait 2 weeks to see if this comes true.

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