From family-friendly puzzles to crackling combat, this week’s additions to the Wii™ Shop Channel offer a mix of downloadable delights. Fight fans can even choose between futuristic space missions and retro-styled martial arts battles. Take your pick and kick off the summer with an invigorating dose of Wii action.
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:
This week’s poll is all about the Virtual Console and what Nintendo might have up their sleeves for 2008. There are many classics from Nintendo’s back-catalog, but which ones are …
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Virtual Console Rankings Rank (Last) – Game Name
1 (1) – Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) 2 (2) – Super Mario Bros. (NES) 3 (3) – Super Mario World (SNES) …
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WII-KLY UPDATE: TWO WIIWARE GAMES AND TWO VIRTUAL CONSOLE GAMES ADDED TO WII SHOP CHANNEL
May 26, 2008
This week’s Wii-kly Update pretty much covers the full spectrum. Maybe you’ll want to blast away with an arsenal of old-school weapons. But then again, three-day weekends are a good time to relax. So maybe you’ll take a wild road trip or settle in for some table tennis. And if you overdo it, we have a physician standing by.
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:
Super Famicom – Ganbare Goemon 2: Kiteretsu Shougun Magginesu (Konami)
PC-Engine – Fire Pro Wrestling 2nd Bout (Spike)
NeoGeo – Ninja Combat (D4)
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Top 20 VC
1 (1) – Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) 2 (2) – Super Mario Bros. (NES) 3 (4) – Super Mario World (SNES) 4 (3) – Double Dragon …
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“With some differences in the amount of hazardous chemicals and materials, all three manufacturers failed the green electronics test set by Greenpeace. In the Nintendo Wii, beryllium alloys were not …
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Top VC
1(1) – Super Mario Bros. 3 2(2) – Super Mario Bros. 3(4) – Double Dragon 4(5) – Super Mario World 5(3) – River City Ransom 6(6) – Mario …
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Defend Your Castle 1-4 players 500 Wii points 121 blocks [121 needed] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King 1 player 1500 Wii points 287 blocks Pay-to-Play …
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Every weekend it seems like someone gets their hands on that Monday’s VC press release before it even comes out. I have stayed away from it for the reason that we have never seen an actual press release, just a mention of the games that are coming out. With no VC releases this week, because the launch of WiiWare, Nintendo has released a press release to announce the six games that are coming out. From here on out we can probably expect a VC/Wiiware press release announcment every Monday.
REDMOND, Wash., May 12, 2008 – Nintendo’s Wii™ console has already changed the way people play games. Now its new WiiWare™ service decisively tears down limitations for how developers create games – and the way people receive them.
Starting today, Wii owners with an Internet connection can download new, creative games from a wide range of developers, from large publishers to indie shops. By reducing the barriers that make console game development prohibitively expensive, WiiWare showcases original ideas in the most democratic environment in industry history, connecting the people who make games more directly with the people who play them.
WiiWare frees developers from the traditional constraints of video game development. WiiWare lets developers experiment with big ideas and small budgets to the benefit of players everywhere. Newer, smaller teams now have an outlet for their creative ideas. The constantly growing WiiWare library will have a regular flow of unique video gaming experiences consumers might not otherwise have access to.
“WiiWare is to the video game industry what independent films are to Hollywood,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “WiiWare lets developers experiment with new ideas and experiences. Combined with our collection of classic Virtual Console games, Wii provides one-stop shopping for the greatest games of the past – and the future.”
1(1) – Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) 2(2) – Super Mario Bros. (NES) 3(3) – River City Ransom (NES) 4(15) – Double Dragon (NES) 5(5) – Super Mario World (SNES) …
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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
We have seen the videos of people using the Twilight hack to transfer VC titles. Now someone has figured out how to do the same thing with WiiWare titles.
17 years ago
Do not get to excited. There have been ton of game show up on the ESRB ratings site, and still have not come out. I …
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HANABI FESTIVAL RETURNS TO VIRTUAL CONSOLE!– Second season of classic U.S. and Japanese games set for launch in Europe
Retro gamers everywhere rejoice! The celebrated ‘Hanabi Festival’ is back on Virtual Console, bringing with it another timeless selection of retro titles – previously released only in Japan or the United States – to Wii gamers across Europe. Available via the Wii Shop Channel, discovery is the name of the game as players can experience for the first time many highly entertaining and cult classics, all courtesy of SEGA and Hudson Soft.
Named after the Japanese holiday season renowned for its firework displays, the Hanabi Festival offers Wii owners across Europe the opportunity to experience first-hand a series of gaming greats never released in PAL regions. To kick-start this, the second Hanabi Festival, three high-energy action and puzzle titles are unleashed…
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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