Nintendo News

Feb. 16, 2009

Outer space meets inner space at the Wii™ Shop Channel this Presidents Day. A new WiiWare™ title will have you soaring across the astral plane, while a vintage NES™ shooter for the Virtual Console™ invites you to battle your way through the innards of an alien creature. Choose a hot new WiiWare game or a Gradius spin-off. It’s what the presidents would have wanted.

Surprise:
In other news, the Wii-kly Update has a fun surprise coming soon for all our fans. We can’t tell you the secret just yet but maybe we’ll offer you some hidden clues. From AZ to NC, if you’re a fan, your applause could rattle your walls, windows, door. You might enjoy this news whether you live in a brick house or Vanderbilt dorm. Even people living along Route 286 in rural Pennsylvania ought to be excited. It’ll feel like a bunch of birthday greetings and, really, who could ask for more? But that’s about all we can say for now, so be sure to check future Wii-kly Updates.

Nintendo adds new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are:

What do you guys think the surprise could be?  I thought about it for awhile and couldn’t think of much.  ‘A bunch of birthday greetings’ makes me think it will be some VC games that have anniversaries coming up maybe?  It also mentions Arizona, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania–but I don’t know what those have in common.  Any ideas?

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Nintendo Wii: American Idol: Encore 2 $49.99 Disney’s Sing It: High School Musical 3 $39.99 * High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance $49.99 * MySims: Kingdom $29.99 …
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Wii Game Of The Year

Staff: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Readers: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Nintendo DS Game Of The Year

Staff: The World Ends With You
Readers: Kirby Super Star Ultra

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• same story, you’re a human that has been turned into a Pokemon
• Treasure Town returns, but will offer more features
• over 490 Pokémon including Giratina’s Origin Form …
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In Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Nintendo DS players get in on the action in Liberty City in a whole new way. But the more things change …
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Can’t wait for this game! Hopefully we’ll get a firm US release soon.

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Hey guys, just a heads up from our friends at Atari.  You can get $10 off Ready 2 Rumble Revolution when you pre-order from either Amazon or …
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According to a job listing on GamaSutra, they are looking for Wii experience on a supposedly PS3, 360 only game.

Additional Experience and Skills (highly desired): • Experience developing for …
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