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Nintendo is really putting its money where its mouth is. After promising regular updates for the WiiWare service, which aims to bring small, interesting games to Nintendo Wii users through a download service, Nintendo is announcing new additions to the service in the form of one new game and one new update for the No... |
1 July 2008
03:17 GMT |
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Nintendo is really working on a solution to the storage issues that Nintendo Wii users are reporting, but apparently it is not preparing to deliver an external hard drive for the Wii. The same Laurent Fischer of Nintendo Europe that ignited a small controversy by calling all those wishing for more storage space "geek... |
19 June 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Namco Bandai has announced that its old and clunky horror action title Splatterhouse is due for a remake. Apparently, after the old TurboGrafx-16 version of the game came out on Nintendo's Virtual Console, a lot of gamers have been asking the company to take and make it play worthy again on next generation conso... |
30 May 2008
03:18 GMT |
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Japan is being the first country to benefit from the launch of Nintendo's WiiWare service. As of today, all Japanese Wii users will be able to buy and download games designed specifically for the Nintendo Wii gaming consoles using the new application.WiiWare is part of the WiiShop Nintendo initiative, created to... |
26 March 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Surely these three additions to the Wii Shop Channel wouldn't have made a difference at the time they went live, but now that New Year's Eve is gone your life is back to normal, you can check with the Wii Shop Channel to see what's there for you. But why don't you read on and see what to expect fr... |
2 January 2008
08:03 GMT |
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Now that you've opened all the presents underneath your Christmas tree, it's time to see one more place for treats. The Wii Shop Channel of course. In the regular Nintendo wii-kly fashion, the company behind the Wii has rolled out three more classics for you to grab, at prices ranging from 500 to 800 Wii Po... |
26 December 2007
05:43 GMT |
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This is a good week to own a Wii as the first Pokémon game for the Virtual Console, Pokémon Snap, is making its debut. The game is an N64 original, that now allows players to post pictures they take in the game to their Wii Message Board and send them to friends with whom they've traded Friends Codes. And this i... |
10 December 2007
10:28 GMT |
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With the arrival of these latest additions to the Wii Shop Channel, Nintendo's Wii is celebrating its first anniversary. Nothing is different though - just like every week, Nintendo rolls out one NES game, a SEGA Genesis original and a TurboGrafx16 classic, this time a CD-ROM version. Take a look below for more ... |
20 November 2007
03:03 GMT |
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This week's Wii Shop Channel update has a bunch of eerie games listed, as the service is also celebrating Halloween. Titles this week are the NES original Castlevania II Simon's Quest, Samurai-Ghost released on the TurboGrafx16 and a real arcade classic, Magician Lord from (NEO-GEO). The three games' d... |
30 October 2007
04:00 GMT |
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Just last month, news of Turbo CD and Super CD titles heading Wii's way popped up on the Internet. Hudson Soft has confirmed that, starting October, the games would be available for download via Virtual Console, going for even less Wii Points than Nintendo 64 games - 800 Pts. for each title. The time has come fo... |
16 October 2007
02:53 GMT |
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Nintendo fans and Wii owners are simply going to jump for joy at the sound of this piece of news. The Virtual Console Wii-kly update has just revealed that Nintendo is starting to launch Import titles on its service, for Wii owners to download and play for the necessary Wii Points. The introduction of this new genre ... |
2 October 2007
03:02 GMT |
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Last week's Virtual Console update saw Ninja Gaiden and Ninja JaJaMaru-Kun, available for download at just 600 Wii Points each, along with the Turbografx sports title World Class Baseball, as part of Nintendo's Hanabi Festival, which is now approaching an end. As such, Nintendo has announced the last title... |
28 September 2007
06:09 GMT |
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During Nintendo's three-week long Hanabi Festival, Europe's Virtual Console fans are introduced to games not originally released outside America and Japan. Last week was Mario-week and this week here is ninja week, with games such as Ninja Gaiden and Ninja JaJaMaru-Kun, available now for download at just 60... |
24 September 2007
04:03 GMT |
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Official reports posted everywhere say that Turbo CD and Super CD titles are to be distributed on the Wii, starting October. The games will be available for download through the Wii's Virtual Console, as you can imagine, going for even less Wii Points than Nintendo 64 games currently available through the servic... |
18 September 2007
07:47 GMT |
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Nintendo's weekly Virtual Console update generally brings original classics from old systems such as the NES, SNES, SEGA Genesis and the TurboGrafx16, but sometimes, Wii owners are treated to la crčme de la crčme from Nintendo's portfolio - Nintendo 64 titles! Although they set gamers back some 1000 Wii Poi... |
18 September 2007
04:01 GMT |
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To get straight to the point, this week's Virtual Console update brings Wii gamers one title originally released for the Famicom Disk System, one SNES puzzler and one action-adventure title first released o the Turbografx. Read on to see what each and every one of them is all about in order to make up your mind ... |
14 September 2007
07:02 GMT |
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Isn't it true that no matter how great graphics and character movement on screen get, classics are unbeatable? Well, ask someone in their mid 20s and you'll get the real answer. In case that's you, what do you think of this week's Virtual Console update? Nintendo says the following three games are... |
11 September 2007
06:03 GMT |
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Couldn't wait for those three new classics to arrive on the Wii Shop Channel, right? Well, as it turns out, this week sees four classics hitting the service and they're good ones too: "Adventure Island," "Donkey Kong Jr. Math," "Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole" and "Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure... |
4 September 2007
05:30 GMT |
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Just as I finished writing about the treat Xbox 360 gamers are in for next week (meaning that they're getting Fatal Fury Special on Xbox Live Arcade), I came across this week's Virtual Console update, which concerns Nintendo's Wii users and loggers onto the Virtual Console. According to the official po... |
31 August 2007
10:41 GMT |
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Nintendo has seemingly failed in rolling out an official report containing the names of this week's Virtual Console additions but luckily for us, thoughtful blokes over at Vc-Reviews.com have revealed them. Adding to the already existing 130 classic/arcade titles (or so) up on the service are SEGA Genesis origin... |
28 August 2007
09:44 GMT |
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With this week's Virtual Console update Wii gamers see Mario returning to the service with Wrecking Crew, a truly wacky adventure, or if you're a more chillout kind of gamer maybe you'd like to try out the NES original Lunar Pool and if these two don't do it for you, then the 1990 Turbografx class... |
24 August 2007
11:07 GMT |
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Wii owners had the chance to play many classic games, brought back to life by Nintendo thanks to its game download service. Many famous titles that rocked the NES, Genesis and TurboGrafX back in the days have made their way to the Virtual Console.Nintendo plans to offer the Wii gamers brand new titles, available for ... |
20 August 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Generally, Nintendo rolls out three titles every week for its Wii users to download via the Virtual Console. This week, owners of motion-sensitive controllers are in for a treat, as the company has released not three, but four new classics available for download, for the necessary Wii Points of course. So, without fu... |
3 August 2007
09:48 GMT |
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Not a very exciting Virtual Console week, I can tell you that right now, but at least one title (out of the three newly added) is worth looking in. Yes, the SEGA Genesis original, Dynamite Headdy. Although it is the most expensive of the lot (800 Wii Pts), it is by far the best from this week's update. So withou... |
31 July 2007
02:56 GMT |
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If you don't have Wii Points you'd better collect around 800 somehow, because at least one of this week's Virtual Console downloadables is a must have classic title. Every week, Nintendo throws in classic arcade titles or older titles from older systems such as the NES, SNES, SEGA Genesis, Turbografx16... |
27 July 2007
12:04 GMT |
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Oh, how some of you Wii gamers out there have been waiting for this moment to arrive! Finally, the Wii's Virtual Console makes room for one of the most beloved NES originals of all time: the original Metroid. Funny, isn't it? You'd expect a 2, or a 3, or a Prime or anything nowadays, but not sir, this ... |
20 July 2007
09:17 GMT |
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It finally looks like Nintendo is feeling constraints coming from all sides, given that they are making original Wii titles available for download via the console's Internet service, Virtual Console. That's right, not the NES, SNES, SEGA and Turbografx16 oldies everyone's become quite used to, but Wii ... |
28 June 2007
03:35 GMT |
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This week, on Monday to be more exact, we saw three new classic titles hitting the Wii's Internet service, the Wii Shop Channel. Those are: NES Open Tournament Golf, World Sports Competition and Bloody Wolf. Today, we have found out that two more have been made available as downloadable titles for 500 and 600 Wi... |
22 June 2007
11:01 GMT |
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As every week goes by, Nintendo makes available three new classic titles, up on Wii's Internet service, the Virtual Console (if we can use the adjective "new" when talking about "classic" titles, which are "old"). And here are this week's three, bringing back memories of the good old days when video games ... |
11 June 2007
18:21 GMT |
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Having 96 classic games to choose from to download via VC, Wii owners should be quite satisfied with the service provided by Nintendo. Today, those Wii owners will be even more pleased with the company's offers as 4 additions make an entry on VC, marking a new milestone for the service - 100 titles. We've s... |
5 June 2007
02:43 GMT |
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It's official Wii boys and girls, the upcoming addition of Zelda II - The Adventure of Link on June 4 in the US, marks the 100th classic game available on the Virtual Console. That's right, there are currently 99 classics on Nintendo's service, allowing users to download like crazy, for a few Wii point... |
1 June 2007
17:41 GMT |
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Last week was packed full of Virtual Console downloadable titles for the Wii. This week, as you can imagine, is no different, as Super Mario Bros. 2, Mach Rider and Blazing Lazers hop onto the Virtual Console today, available to download and play, as long as you have the necessary Wii points to spend.In Super Mario B... |
25 May 2007
09:08 GMT |
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With all the next-gen consoles out there with fancy Internet services showing off NEO-GEO/SNK titles from the old arcade days, when we used to steal change from mom's purse to go play them, they sure make a big fuss about it. But, as it turns out, all three major console manufacturers today (Sony, Nintendo and ... |
7 May 2007
09:34 GMT |
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Although today's news brings yet another oldie to the Wii's Virtual Console service, I'm not going to criticize the lack of next-gen titles, over the abundance of old NES, SNES and Sega systems titles, because this is one of the most beloved classics ever. Originally released for Sega's MEGA DRIV... |
4 May 2007
06:29 GMT |
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I can't express my appreciation when games such as these hit the Virtual Console. I become a bit of a tempered guy when I see games like Gyruss and Pac Man launching on console Internet services, having to pay for the download too, but no one can mess with the classics: Castlevania, The Legend of the Mystical N... |
1 May 2007
07:21 GMT |
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Just a few hours ago, I hit the go button for the article on 124 games for the Wii and DS, wondering if any of those 45 titles for the Wii (yes that makes 79 for the DS) would be Virtual Console titles. We may have just found our answer, as Wired's Chris Kohler points out, that Virtual Console game sales are ac... |
30 April 2007
09:58 GMT |
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The part with the Wii titles, I get - Nintendo's next-gen console (so to speak), is in need of some games (people can't play Wii sports and Zelda forever), but the DS? 79 titles? What are we, talking a 10 year time-frame here? And to think that some of the 45 new ones launching on the Wii are likely Virtua... |
30 April 2007
05:08 GMT |
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What did I tell you? NEO-GEO arcade games are making a huge comback. All three next-gen consoles today have at least two old arcade titles available for users to download via their Internet service, but the Wii - just like on every other level - beats its rivals at this category too.IGN post an article entitled "The ... |
18 April 2007
10:39 GMT |
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