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Nintendo Download Update Brings Wrestling and Arcade Games

Nintendo has once again updated its WiiWare and DSiWare online services with a wide array of different games, including wrestling, arcade or tank ones. Retro game fans will be thrilled to hear that Natsume Championship Wrestling is now available on the Virtual Console section of the WiiWare. The game brings 12 out...

23 March 2011
03:35 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Racing, Puzzles and Fireplace Simulators

This week's Nintendo WiiWare and DSiWare updates are a bit on the weird side, including regular puzzle and racing titles but also an NES classic, Faxanadu, and a rather peculiar fireplace simulator. The WiiWare service has received two full games and two demos. The first is Jewel Keepers: Easter Island, a ...

23 February 2011
02:40 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Pucca's Kisses, Pandas and Treasures

This week's Nintendo download has a bit of a Valentine's Day theme, with titles like Pucca's Kisses Game, but also a childish one, with plenty of entry-level puzzle games. First up, on the WiiWare, we have Pucca's Kisses Game, starring the popular Pucca anime character, who tries to kiss the sw...

16 February 2011
02:30 GMT

Nintendo Download: Spot the Differences, S.C.A.T. and More Puzzles

This week, the Nintendo download update really mixes things up, with a variety of releases, from spot the difference ones to puzzle titles or old school arcade games. First up, on the WiiWare, we have Spot the Difference! which, as its name clearly suggests, is a spot the difference title, with over 160 different ...

8 February 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Air Hockey, Mahjong and Zombies

Like clockwork, Nintendo has updated its North American WiiWare and DSiWare online services with brand new downloadable games and demos, for all the Wii and DSi owners out there. First off, for the WiiWare, Nintendo released one new game and two demos. The first is Magic Destiny, which helps you predict the fut...

1 February 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Rollergirls, 1942 and Black Tiger

Nintendo once more updated the WiiWare and DSiWare online services, this week with a couple of demos and some interesting additions to the classic Virtual Console section, courtesy of Capcom. First off, WiiWare users will be able to get the very interesting Jam City Rollergirls, a new type of title that aims at si...

25 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Doc Clock, Bit.Trip Beat and Animal Boxing

Nintendo has updated its online services, the WiiWare and DSiWare ones, with all new downloadable games, each trying to present new gameplay experiences. First off, on the WiiWare, we have the interestingly-named Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time. The title sees you control Doc Clock, that must travel thr...

18 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Ghosts'N Goblins and Petz

The second Nintendo download update of the year brings some classic Capcom titles to the Nintendo Wii, as well as a downloadable version of Ubisoft's extremely popular Petz series. First off, let's start with the WiiWare online service, which brings three new titles for the Nintendo Wii. The first is ...

11 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Swords and Soldiers

Seeing as how the winter holidays have prompted a slowdown of new game releases, we decided to look at a lightweight downloadable title, Swords and Soldiers, coming from development studio Ronimo Games, the company that brought us De Blob. The title is a quirky "real time strategy" game, but don't expect to b...

10 January 2011
07:40 GMT

Mattel and THQ Bring Barbie and Hot Wheels Games to Kids

Video game publisher THQ and well known toy creator Mattel Inc. have announced that they have entered a multi year alliance which will see the companies collaborate to make sure that their intellectual properties can be shared and can reach as many customers as possible. THQ has announced plans to introduce video ...

7 January 2011
02:05 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Sneezies, Ghost Mania and More

The first Nintendo download update of the year brings quite a few interesting titles, both for the Nintendo Wii, through WiiWare, and for the Nintendo DSi, through the DSiWare service. First off, Nintendo Wii owners can enjoy three new titles, Sneezies, Ghost Mania and Robox. The first is published by Chilingo ...

4 January 2011
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Puzzle Games and Class NeoGeo Titles

Even if this is the last update of the year for Nintendo's WiiWare and DSiWare services, it isn't the weakest, as the Japanese company added a few new titles across the board, as well as classic NeoGeo ones to the Virtual Console section.First off, the WiiWare service has received three new games, Chick Chi...

28 December 2010
14:21 GMT

Super Meat Boy WiiWare Version Canceled, Retail Version Unlikely

Super Meat Boy, the challenging two-dimensional indie platformer from the appropriately named Team Meat development studio, won't be making its way onto the Nintendo Wii, according to a company update on Twitter. Team Meat officially revealed on Twitter that plans to release a downloadable version of Super Me...

28 December 2010
02:35 GMT

Nintendo Download Update: Mario Party 2 and Dragon Lair II: Time Warp

Nintendo updated its download services today, with the WiiWare and DSiWare services getting fresh downloadable titles, including retro classic Mario Party 2 and others. First off, the Virtual Console section is getting one of the most memorable titles released on the Nintendo64 console, Mario Party 2. You will ...

21 December 2010
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Brings Family Games and Zombie Ones

This week's Nintendo WiiWare and DSiWare updates bring quite a lot of different experiences, ranging from wholesome title Family Games to Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ. First off, we have the WiiWare service, which received three new downloadable games and a virtual console one. The first title is call...

14 December 2010
14:21 GMT

The Nintendo Download Update Brings Sports and New Puzzle Titles

Nintendo has once again updated the WiiWare and DSiWare services, adding new puzzle titles, sports ones, as well as a demo, albeit a late one, for Cave Story.First off, on the WiiWare service, we have Airport Mania: First Flight, which tasks you with running and operating your own airport, as well as help with landin...

1 December 2010
02:30 GMT

Nintendo Download Update Brings Tetris And Other New Games

Nintendo has updated its WiiWare and DSiWare services this week with some fresh new titles, ranging from what some might call sports games, Snowpack Park, and other various titles including music ones or a remake of the original Tetris.First off, Nintendo Wii owners can enjoy two new games this week on the WiiWare se...

23 November 2010
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update Brings Need For Speed to the DSi

After last week's lackluster update to its online services, Nintendo brings a few more interesting games this time around for the WiiWare and DSiWare, including a revamped version of last year's Nintendo-only racing title, Need For Speed: Nitro-X.Starting with the DSiWare, as mentioned above, Need For Speed...

16 November 2010
14:21 GMT

Weekly Nintendo Download Update Brings Music and Pinball Titles

As usual, Nintendo has updated its WiiWare and DSiWare online services with brand new downloadable games, bringing not only regular titles with pinball or music in mind, but also peculiar ones like Discolight, which wants to turn your DSi into a portable disco accessory.First off, the WiiWare has received two new tit...

9 November 2010
14:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update Brings Robox, Street Slam and Gene Labs

Nintendo has just updated the WiiWare and DSiWare online services, as well as the Virtual Console with fresh new games including Robox, Gene Labs and the arcade classic Street Slam, which appeared originally on the NeoGeo in 1994.First off, Nintendo Wii owners will be able to buy two new games from the WiiWare servic...

2 November 2010
15:21 GMT

Nintendo Download Update Brings Bit.Trip Fate and More New Games

Nintendo has once again updated the WiiWare and DSiWare online services with new downloadable games, each delivering a different experience on the Wii home console or the DSi handheld platform.This time, the Wii receives a new title in the Bit.Trip series, as well as a new kids game called My Planetarium.Bit.Trip Fat...

27 October 2010
02:24 GMT

This Week's Nintendo Download Update Brings Final Fantasy

Nintendo has once again updated its WiiWare and DSiWare online digital download services, as well as the Virtual Console section with new titles, including Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest and many other titles.First off, the Virtual Console gets Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest, Square Enix' attempt at bringing a simpler...

19 October 2010
14:21 GMT

Sonic 4 Episode 1 Leads This Week's Nintendo Download Update

Nintendo has once again update the WiiWare and DSiWare online services with new downloadable games, but this time we're treated with the highly anticipated Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1, a classic side scrolling title featuring the Sega mascot.Sonic The Hedgehod 4 Episode 1 will act as a sequel to Sonic and Knu...

12 October 2010
14:21 GMT

Pilot a Ship or Dodge Viruses This Week in Nintendo's Downloadable Titles

Nintendo announced this week's downloadable-game releases for the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS. Owners of the Nintendo DS will have the opportunity to pilot a ship, bet huge sums of virtual money at poker tables or solve transportation problems in the titles available through the DSiWare service. The WiiWare...

25 May 2010
02:49 GMT

Meerkat Real Time Strategy Coming to the WiiWare

Lapland Studio Ltd. has announced that it plans to launch a WiiWare title called Lead the Meerkats, which is based around the life of the Suricata suricatta, one of the smaller members of the mongoose family, well known to those who watch shows on the Animal Channel.The game aims to simulate the tough life that these...

11 May 2010
03:36 GMT

Nintendo Displays an Impressive WiiWare and Virtual Console Download List This Week

Nintendo's download list might have been rather modest in the last few weeks, with very few new titles released, but this week all that changed, as we'll get four new titles for the Wii, five for the DS and even another Virtual Console addition. The first game added to the WiiWare is Blaster Master Overdriv...

10 February 2010
06:21 GMT

Max & the Magic Marker Hits Nintendo's Download List

Nintendo has brought forth an official press release for its weekly download list, and its dedicated fans are in for a disappointing shock. After getting us used to around three WiiWare titles, three or four DSiWare titles and even two new Virtual Console games every week, this time around, Nintendo has barely manage...

25 January 2010
05:37 GMT

SEGA Pushes Cheaper Wii Channel Games

SEGA has quietly offered fans a Christmas present by taking down the price of several of its WiiWare releases. A quick look at the Wii Shop channel shows that titles initially put out for the SEGA Genesis are now priced at just 5 dollars, which is 3 dollars less than their original tag.The promotional offer is set to...

29 December 2009
04:45 GMT

WiiWare Games Will Get Demos

Nintendo has announced that it plans to begin offering demos for a selected few titles distributed via the WiiWare service, which brings downloadable titles to those using the Wii. The idea is that if more people can get a taste of the experience offered by those games, then more of them will pay up and get the full ...

5 November 2009
02:40 GMT

Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth Will Slay Japan in Just a Week

The latest game in the ReBirth series will be Castlevania: The Adventure, the very first installment in the Castlevania franchise on the Game Boy. The facelift it received has brought it closer to the Super Nintendo's standards and, if the gods do well by us, the game will bring many other distinguishing feature...

22 October 2009
06:57 GMT

Nintendo's Weekly Update List Includes Final Fight 2

Nintendo have been slacking off this month, and their online store hasn't delivered a lot of new games. Last week all that they could muster was one title for each of the Virtual Console, WiiWare, and DSiWare. Thorium Wars is the lucky one that managed to steal the spotlight for the DSi while Word Searcher and F...

13 October 2009
06:02 GMT

First WiiWare to Support MotionPlus

Nintendo's MotionPlus add-on hasn't seen much support from game developers. Except for Wii Sports Resort and a few EA sports-themed releases, the Wii feature is pretty much an unused trinket. However, game developer Ghostfire Games plans to change that by releasing Rage of the Gladiator, a title expected to...

24 September 2009
05:51 GMT

WiiWare Update, Puzzles for the Puzzled

Those who couldn't get enough of the “Incredible Machine” and have an addiction towards puzzles and any sort of mind games are in for a new treat. As long as they have a Wii. The latest member of the WiiWare, Nintendo's You, Me, and the Cubes, is a series of puzzle games in the casual market tha...

22 September 2009
05:11 GMT

Nintendo Makes Wii Browser Free, Offers Bonus Videogames

There was a time when consoles were only used to play videogames. But now all the big console manufacturers seem pretty determined to eliminate the PC from the life of players by bringing as much functionality as possible to their devices.The most recent move comes from Nintendo, which has announced that the Wii Inte...

4 September 2009
03:47 GMT

Super Star Wars Coming to the Virtual Console

Nintendo and LucasArts have announced they have entered into a partnership designed to bring Super Star Wars, Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi to the Virtual Console service of the Nintendo Wii. The videogames were initially released on the Super Nintendo and arrived wa...

12 August 2009
16:11 GMT

Nintendo's Miyamoto Is Confident in Physical Media

The gaming industry is always moving forward, meaning that developers are trying to come up with new trends every day, from new ways to interact with the target audience to new and more efficient ways of delivering content to them, straight to their home. The latter, in the form of digital distribution, is picking u...

11 August 2009
02:25 GMT

Tales of Monkey Island Coming to WiiWare Today

Telltale Games, which is in charge of developing new adventures featuring the intrepid pirate Guybrush Threepwood, has announced that the first episode of the re-imagined series, called Launch of the Screaming Narwhal, is set to be offered on the WiiWare service from Nintendo beginning today. All those interested in ...

27 July 2009
03:13 GMT

Final Fantasy Lives the Life of a Darklord

Square Enix is keen on keeping lovers of the Final Fantasy franchise satisfied as it works on the upcoming release of the next big game in the series, Final Fantasy XIII, which will be out in Japan this winter and in the rest of the world early in 2010.So, the Japanese publisher is announcing that on Friday, July 17,...

16 July 2009
14:41 GMT

Nintendo: DSiWare Will Grow, No Plans for DSi Virtual Console

The DS is a hugely successful gaming console, largely due to the fact that it has a lot of video games made for it and because of the great support that it has been enjoying from Nintendo.As its latest iteration, the DSi, is breaking records left and right, and is extremely popular, even though the user base for the ...

25 June 2009
02:21 GMT

WiiWare Turns One Year Old, Teases New Games

Consoles these days depend on a lot of features in order to make them stand out and be bought by an average gamer. A big decisive factor is the online service, especially the one through which games can be purchased, downloaded and then played by the user without him leaving his own home.While the Xbox 360 has its Xb...

15 May 2009
02:28 GMT

Amazon Preparing Wii Shop Channel Store

Amazon.com, the biggest online retailer, has begun selling the Nintendo Wii version of World of Goo that until now was only available through the WiiWare service handled directly by Nintendo.The fact that only one game is being sold at the moment suggests that Amazon is testing the waters as it is preparing to l...

24 April 2009
04:36 GMT

No Mario Games Coming to WiiWare

WiiWare is more than one year old and Nintendo is still not getting more than one or two videogames on it each week. The reason for this has never been clearly explained by the company, which initially announced that WiiWare would provide a home for small titles that could be enjoyed quickly and without the need of m...

14 April 2009
02:55 GMT

Nintendo Has Xbox Live as a Benchmark for WiiWare

Online features and services are some of the biggest deciding factors when customers are faced with buying a current generation console. Whether they choose the very popular and solid Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network and the new Home, or Nintendo's WiiWare with all of the classic games, players have some prett...

14 April 2009
02:23 GMT

Amazon Launches Xbox Live Store

Amazon has just made another foray into the videogame market by introducing an Xbox Live Store, which allows all those interested to buy games that Microsoft puts on Xbox Live through the popular online store.It seems that this is only a step and that Amazon is also working on agreements with Sony, which publishes ga...

9 April 2009
02:54 GMT

Nintendo Wii Gamers Can Download Bonsai Barber and Super Punch Out

Nintendo is announcing that those who own a Nintendo Wii home gaming console can get their hands on two titles via digital download, one on theWiiWare and the other on the Virtual Console.The Japanese company is also announcing that beginning with April 6, the releases for the Nintendo Wii will be supplemented by the...

2 April 2009
03:02 GMT

Puzzle Games and Retro Offerings Coming to WiiWare

We may be a bit late in talking about the Wii Shop Channel releases for this week, but with the Game Developers Conference providing quite a bit of news, it's understandable. Still, Nintendo does not rest and offers three new titles, two old hits and a new puzzle game. On the WiiWare, you can get Pop'Em Dr...

27 March 2009
04:22 GMT

The Wii Gets Better Storage, More VC Games

The most awaited talks at the Game Developers Conference came, no surprise, from Nintendo representatives. While Masato Kuwahara, the project leader for hardware development on the Nintendo DSi, talked about what his company was aiming to do with the new version of the handheld, Satoru Iwata, the president and the Ch...

26 March 2009
05:15 GMT

Nintendo Wii Players Get BIT.TRIP BEAT and Summer Games II

On the WiiShop Channel, Nintendo is announcing the release of two new games, which are available to all those playing on a Nintendo Wii and ready to spend a few Wii Points. The most interesting release of the week is the WiiWare title, which is built around the idea of the 8 bit game and shows how they can be adapted...

18 March 2009
03:51 GMT

Alex Kidd and Gradius ReBirth Coming to WiiWare

Nintendo is fond of the idea of new weekly releases for its WiiWare service, which is the Nintendo answer to Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network. This week, all those gaming on the Wii are getting two fresh videogames, one for shooter lovers, the other aimed at platformer players.On WiiWare, Nintendo is offe...

11 March 2009
03:36 GMT

Ogre Battle Arrives on the Wii Shop Channel

Gamers in the United States who enjoy playing on the Nintendo Wii and have hooked it up to the Internet can now download two new releases that are available through the Wii Shop Channel.There's one game coming via WiiWare, a service that aims to deliver small, family friendly games weekly, and one game coming to...

4 March 2009
03:13 GMT


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