Wii News
When Good Games Go Bad: Animal Crossing edition
I’m still playing Animal Crossing: City Folk (or Let’s Go To The City, if you prefer) but boy is it testing my patience. Admittedly, my enthusiasm for the game waned some time ago, but my three-year-old son loves it, and so I keep visiting my village more out of duty to entertain him than because [...]
Japanese charts - week ending 15th February
Mario & Luigi RPG 3, as predicted, topped the charts, but there was a disconcerting lack of Wii games in the Japanese top ten this week, as Sony dominated the upper echelons of the chart.Though some were predicting even higher numbers for Mario & Luigi, just under 200,000 copies is by some distance the best [...]
Little King’s Story hits Europe first in April
In a surprising move for a new Japanese IP, Rising Star Games today announced that strategy role-player Little King’s Story will launch in Europe before any other territory, hitting PAL shores on April 24th.The much-anticipated Wii title is a collaboration between some of Japanese gaming’s biggest names, who’ve individually worked on quality titles such as [...]
Dead Space Wii is a first-person on-rails shooter
In a decision which has immediately split the internet clean in two, EA’s Wii take on hi-def horror-actioner Dead Space - titled Dead Space: Extraction will be a first-person shooter on rails, a la House of the Dead: Overkill.
The sensible people like me think this is a good choice - the Wii’s a great console [...]
Eduardo The Samurai Toaster Trailer
I had to watch this a few times, just to see if it was real. Thankfully, I wasn’t dreaming. This is a trailer for an upcoming WiiWare game, Eduardo The Samurai Toaster. I instantly fell for it.
Apparently the game is based around Eduardo, a name you usually don’t relate to when you’re talking about samurai. [...]
Onslaught: First WiiWare FPS Game
Onslaught, not to be confused with the villain from the awful Marvel storyline is a FPS being released by Hudson Entertainment. Like most FPS’s, Onslaught will take place in a sci-fi setting, with a group of marines sent to investigate the mystery behind a missing space colony.
The story might sound contrived, but there are plenty [...]
Texas Adopts ‘Video Games Day’
Everything is bigger in Texas, atleast if you talk to its citizens that is what they’ll tell you. The video game industry looks to be no exception to the rule, as it is thriving in the land of the cowboys.
Texas set aside February 3rd, as a celebration of what they call, Entertainment Software Day (Video [...]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up Comic Con Trailer
If the idea of the developers behind Super Smash Bros. working on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fighting doesn’t excite you, then feel free to skip over this. If you’re like me, and giggled like a school girl after reading that sentence, then prepare to be excited.
There has been very few details released about the [...]
Top 5 WiiWare Games … So Far
There has been quite a bit of news regarding the world of WiiWare this week. There has been the release of the initial trailer for Eduardo: The Samurai Toaster. We also received confirmation of Hudson working on WiiWare’s first FPS title, Onslaught.
In light of all of this WiiWare news, I thought we would take a [...]
Interview With Eduardo: The Samurai Toaster Developer
The Eduardo: The Samurai Toaster trailer was released just a couple of days ago, and I’ve been enthralled since. I’m not quite sure what it is that has me so intrigued. Perhaps it’s that my favorite foods in the world (Pop-Tarts, and Eggo’s Waffles) are made in a toaster. Or if it’s the idea of [...]
