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Dance Tour Way into Fitness with Helix

Not content with losing pounds using Wii Fit? Does the constant exercising on the balance board scare you? Are you afraid that you could fall and damage your home? Are you afraid that you might kill the cat? Are you one of the people fearing the fact that more Balance Board powered titles are coming to threaten your ...

25 August 2008
05:33 GMT

Spogs Racing and King of the Monsters Go Wii

It's all about excess these days and, thanks to Nintendo, we are now able to do all the crazy stuff we can think of by entering the virtual worlds of the Wii. This week, we are given the choice between a super exciting racing game that will keep our adrenaline levels to the maximum and a classic title which allo...

8 July 2008
02:53 GMT

Pokemon Ranch Comes to Europe

Nintendo is bringing one of its most important WiiWare releases, Pokemon Ranch, to the European market, after it was launched in Japan and in North America. The game, developed by Ambrella, is designed to offer you a chance to play around with your favorite Pokemon characters.The main idea is that you can import Poke...

7 July 2008
16:11 GMT

Magnetica Twist, Fatal Fury 2 and Crystal Chronicles Update Available from Nintendo

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

Get Gyrostarr from Wiiware

High Voltage Software, Inc. has announced that its sci-fi shooter, called Gyrostarr, should be available for download via the Nintendo Wiiware service starting today, June 23, 2008. The game can be played on the Nintendo Wii and stored on the internal storage space of the console.The game is set to be a very easy to ...

23 June 2008
03:24 GMT

LostWinds Is a Best Seller on Wiiware

With the launch of the ratings and statistics elements of the Nintendo Channel, which enable any user to have a glance at how a game is classified and rated by fellow gamers playing it on the Nintendo Wii, the company has also released some tidbits of data regarding the overall success of the games that were featured...

20 June 2008
14:06 GMT

Nintendo Promises Solution to Limited Storage Space

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

Pokemon Ranch Comes to Nintendo Wii

Happiness for all the Pokemon fans who were hoping that there would come a time when they're able to really interact with their favorite characters - now their dreams come true! Well… at least sort of, since the latest WiiWare release is called My Pokemon Ranch and it allows your Miis to interact with Pokemons -...

12 June 2008
15:06 GMT

Two New WiiWare Games, One VC Released

Nintendo has promised that the number of WiiWare titles available for users would keep growing and they were right. This week, we get two new titles available to play on WiiWare, together with a new release on the Virtual console. Single player game Protothea, developed by Ubisoft, Toki Tori puzzler developed by Two ...

3 June 2008
15:06 GMT

Dr. Mario and Table Tennis Available Now

With the release of the WiiWare service, it is only a matter of time until we get to see tons of great games available for download, but for now, we have no other option than to accept some mediocre updates. Some might still say that it is much better than nothing and they might have a point. Even more, one of the ne...

27 May 2008
13:06 GMT

More Sam & Max Coming in 2009

When Telltale revived the aging franchise of Sam & Max, that pairs a detective dog with a violence-prone "bunny" (and I use the term loosely), many gamers were pretty skeptic of its chances of creating a working series of games, especially because of the fact that it aimed at episodic content, with different parts of...

26 May 2008
03:20 GMT

Beer and Wii, Soon a Reality

There are probably a few people that are already using a mix of beer and Wiis, even though we don't understand how could anybody put these two together. Anyway, one thing is sure: developer JV Games is planning to bring a bunch of Frat Party Games to Nintendo's console thanks to the WiiWare service and the ...

22 May 2008
05:40 GMT

Wiiware European Lineup Set

The Wiiware service from Nintendo has launched in America with an interesting array of games, ranging from Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (another contender for the title of longest video game name), which is essentially a kingdom building spin-off of the franchise, to Lost Winds, which is alrea...

14 May 2008
18:16 GMT

WiiWare Is Live in North America

Right on time, Nintendo's promised WiiWare service has been launched in North America, with a bunch of games available for download and promising an exciting, fun future for all the Nintendo Wii fans in the world. Already released in Japan (with a different lineup of games, though), the WiiWare service has prove...

13 May 2008
12:06 GMT

Protothea Lands on the Nintendo Wii

As the countdown towards the launch of the WiiWare service in North America goes slowly down to 0, Nintendo is announcing more and more games that will be available at launch to the American Wii owners. After the likes of Square Enix, Namco Bandai or Hudson announced games that would be available on WiiWare on day on...

8 May 2008
18:16 GMT

New Nintendo Channel for the Wii

Nintendo has announced that it is launching a new Wii channel in the United States. It's called simply the Nintendo Channel and it will offer gamers a variety of news and information about the upcoming Wii and DS titles, alongside video content. The big news is that it will also feature downloadable demos for mo...

8 May 2008
14:06 GMT

WiiWare Gets Home Sweet Home

With Nintendo's WiiWare ready to give every company the chance to promote, publish and fill the small hard disk drives with all sorts of Wii games, it seems natural that most of them will just come and pass by unnoticed. Probably it's not the case for Home Sweet Home, the Nintendo Wii port of the game that&...

15 April 2008
17:06 GMT

WiiWare Hits Japan with Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Leading the Charge

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

Nintendo Courts Developers for WiiWare

The consoles are not only competing when it comes to numbers of units sold and numbers of console specific games that appear. The three-way battle that is today's console market is now focusing on the community aspect and on the on-line market for games.Sony already has the PlayStation Store and is poised to lau...

19 March 2008
11:33 GMT

The Wii Gets Games Download Service

The old model of buying a game in a case is slowly dying out. One more nail in the coffin is the WiiWare initiative from Nintendo. It aims to be a digital distribution channel for games that is easily accessible, largely customizable and offers all developers the possibility to get games out to players.Think of it in...

20 February 2008
10:46 GMT

WiiWare Big Bang Approaching!

As if the Wii wasn't casual enough already, Engine Software (Netherlands-based developer) has recently confirmed their debut title for download via Nintendo's WiiWare service. Project Bang!, as the developers have dubbed it will be a casual game with "addictive gameplay using the unique Wii Remote controlle...

10 January 2008
05:06 GMT

Great Downloadable Games Coming from Nintendo Next Year

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

WiiWare Games Download Channel, Now Available for US Gamers

Oh, you lucky gamers from the States! Seems that Nintendo has just launched WiiWare, the games download channel we were waiting for, but at the moment it's only available in the US. This early launch surely surprises us, since WiiWare was scheduled for a 2008 release, so there might be some good news coming for...

13 August 2007
08:33 GMT

Nintendo's Trying to Catch up with Online Play

Nintendo has at least one big issue with their Wii, regardless of good sales figures and that is, online play. Sure, there are a couple of titles out there making good use of that Wi-Fi connection it sports, but that's not enough. Gamers always want more. They want to play the gritty games online, not the friend...

16 July 2007
17:26 GMT

Nintendo UK: No Hard Drive for the Wii!

Just as soon as I finished writing the news on WiiWare and how Wii gamers are going to be able to download original Wii titles via the Virtual Console, I stumbled upon this interview from Computer and Video Games with Nintendo UK. Apparently, they're still not on top of the Wii's space issues and more than ...

28 June 2007
05:17 GMT




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