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It's the end of an era, ladies and gentlemen, as Super Punch-Out!! and Bonsai Barber mark the death of the Weekly Wii Update and the beginning of the Weekly Nintendo Download. More »
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Two old favorites from the TurboGrafx16 join a brand new Hudson puzzler in this week's Wii downloadables update, with Bomberman '94, Detana!! TwinBee, and Pop'Em Drop'Em SAMEGAME available now. More »
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A new game made to look old and a newly re-released old game join the Nintendo Wii line up this week, with BIT.TRIP BEAT and Summer Games II available for purchase today. More »
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Two old favorites return in this week's Wii Update, with the rebirth of Konami's classic shooter, Gradius, and the re-release of Sega's Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars. More »
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Two new downloadable games grace the Nintendo Wii this Monday morning, as ogres battle and families party, demonstrating the fundamental differences between the two groups. More »
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This week's Nintendo Wii update not only includes Evasive Space for WiiWare and NES shooter Life Force on the virtual console, but also a secret surprise clue that we need your help to decipher. More »
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It's Monday morning, and the Nintendo Wii downloadables delivery van is making its weekly rounds with a mix of alpine sports adventure, space-filling puzzles, and yet another installment of brazen blue hedgehog. More »
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It's something old and something new this week in Wii downloadables, as Nintendo releases one rockin' classic virtual console title and one rollin' WiiWare game to their line-up. More »
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This week's Nintendo Wii update brings with it a couple of WiiWare titles from Aksys and High Voltage Software, and MUSHA - one of the most expensive Genesis games you're likely to find. More »
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It's Monday number 2 of 2009, and Nintendo is delivering the second weekly batch of downloadable content to the Wii console, with two new WiiWare titles and one good old-fashioned vampire whip-fest. More »
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It's a brand new year for Nintendo Wii downloadables, and while this week sees only a game a piece released for the Virtual Console and WiiWare, there's enough Kirby and crab battles for 20 titles. More »
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It's the last Wii Update of the year! Will Nintendo make it count, or end the year with a whimper? Let's see what two new WiiWare and one new VC titles have to say. More »
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It's the Virtual Console for the win this week in Wii downloadables, as Sega's classic RPG Phantasy Star IV easily tops anything WiiWare can dish out, even if one of them does contain tower monkeys. More »
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Everything comes to a head in this week's Wii downloadables update, with the final episode of this season of Strong Bad serving up a heaping helping of burnination, unleashing the glory of Trogdor upon us. More »
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This week's Nintendo Wii downloadables update balances two new and untested WiiWare games with the lesser of two Sonic the Hedgehog sequels. More »
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Girls repairing strange things in pits, classic side-scrolling combat action, and old foes coming back to kick some serious Earthling ass - all in this week's Weekly Wii update. More »
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Puzzles and phlegm, puzzles and phlegm, I'm gonna get me some puzzles and phlegm! That's the theme for this week's Nintendo WiiWare and Virtual Console combo update, with two from menu A and one from menu B showing up on your Wii console for purchase at any moment. Kicking things off on the WiiWare side, Sodoku Challenge (500 points) teams up with RealArcade's Boingz (1,000) points, which features stretchy aliens (or condoms, if you prefer) you can flick through 30 levels of puzzle platforming goodness. More »
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It's time for your Monday Wii update, and this week we get an excellent example of the range of Nintendo's WiiWare program. On one hand, we have Strong Bad Episode 4: Dangeresque 3 (1,000 points), the latest in Telltale's excellent series of adventure games based on the characters from Homestarrunner.com, and on the other, bean bag tossing. Target Toss Pro: Bags (700 points) is a game from Incredible Technologies that promises all the fun of tossing bean bags at stuff. Judging by the colon in the title, I am assuming that there will be a wide range of Target Toss Pro games that allow you to throw different things. Think I'll hold off until Target Toss Pro: Kittens comes out. More »
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It's Monday morning, and we all know what that means! More joy and goodness delivered straight to your Nintendo Wii entertainment system, courtesy of the young sprightly elves who handle WiiWare and their older, more jaded Virtual Console counterparts. Despite the Virtual Console's strong showing this week with Mega Man 3 for the NES (500 points), the game that introduced us to Proto Man, Rush, and the electric slide, WiiWare comes out on top this Monday for the simple fact that it has a game that allows you to serve pizza to ninjas. More »
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This week in Nintendo Wii downloadables, two classic franchises make their triumphant return, and if neither tickles your fancy you can always take a crash course in interior design. That's right, in addition to good old Space Harrier for the Sega Master System (500 points) and Hudson's classic pinball title reborn in Alien Crush Returns for WiiWare (800 points), Big Blue Bubble releases Home Sweet Home (1,000 points), a WiiWare title that promises all the fun of designing a home interior that you'd get in The Sims without all those pesky Sims running about. Sure to make an excellent stocking stuffer. The most interesting of the three to me is of course Alien Crush Returns. I am a certified video game pinball junkie, and the option to play online against three completely anonymous players only sweetens the deal. More »
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It's a banner week in Nintendo downloadables, with two releases that are so exciting they could only be accompanied by one of Nintendo's little Art Style WiiWare Titles. Poor little Art Style: Rotohex (600 points) is fixing to be completely overshadowed by the third episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Baddest of the Bands (1,000 points), in which our titular hero attempts to completely dominate the “Battle Royale of the Bands” with his signature style and dashing good looks. More »
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We've had some pretty major Weekly Wii updates over the past few months, so it's about time we take it down a notch and give our Wii points a little rest, isn't it? Today sees the release of two WiiWare titles and two Virtual Console classics that we could really give or take. I suppose the multiplayer online of Tetris Party for WiiWare (1200 points) is somewhat exciting, as is the prospect of somehow controlling Tetris with your Wii Balance Board, but nothing we're in a hurry to check out. Digital Leisure brings us The Incredible Maze (500 points), another Balance Board compatible title that has you navigating...incredible mazes. Okay! More »
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Nothing makes me wish I were at home with my Wii and not in a hotel on a borrowed laptop more than a really good weekly Wii update, and this one certainly qualifies. Both WiiWare and the Virtual Console alike are getting two excellent selections each this week, and it all starts with Goo. Yes, World of Goo, the indie game that we've drooled over muchly in the past has just hit Nintendo's WiiWare service for a relatively modest 1,500 Wii Points, joined by the second in Nintendo's Art Style series, Cubello at an extremely modest 600 points. More »
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Great news! Shining Force II for the Genesis (800 points) has made the leap from last week's Euro Virtual Console releases to this week's North American ones, but where's Earthworm Jim? They left together...what happened? Knocked out of the air over the Atlantic by an errant golf ball, no doubt. Stealing EWJ's spot this week is Mario Golf, one of those rare Nintendo 64 releases for the VC (1,000 points), which is nice and all, but I'd still prefer Earthworm platforming. Oh well, maybe next week? More »
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I'm not usually one for posting about the European Wii Shop Channel releases, but this week's offerings have me completely jealous and it's just not fair at all. Today sees the release of two of the best games the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive, if you prefer) had to offer, and I am going to hold my breath until the come to North America. Not only do you Europeans get the Shiny classic platformer Earthworm Jim, they're also getting Shining Force II, Sega's tactical role-playing gem, possibly the sweet spot in the entire series. Dammit. Both are going for 800 Wii points, and they're both eventually coming here, but still. More »
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Things are heating up in the WiiWare section of your local Nintendo Wii, which today gets it's first real taste of online multiplayer action with Hudson's Bomberman Blast (1,000 Wii points). The game features classic Bomberman gameplay for up to 8 players online at a time online, and even lets you import your Mii avatars so you can create tiny, big-headed versions of people you don't particularly like and watch them explode, and if that isn't entertainment then I don't know what is. More »
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The Mega Man 9 invasion begins, and on the Nintendo Wii he's bringing backup! This week's Nintendo Wii update not only brings us the WiiWare version of Capcom's retro redux on the blue bomber (1,000 points), we also get the Sega Genesis classic Vectorman (800 points), which is also the story of a robot going up against evil robots, but this one can turn into a mechanical fish. More »
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Strong Bad returns to WiiWare in the second installment of his excellent new Telltale Games adventure series, Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People this week, and what better Virtual Console title to go along with said release than Mega Man 2? It's the two great tastes that taste great together - just ask Stinkoman. The latest SBCG4AP, titled Strong Badia the Free (1,000 points), deals with the King of Town finally succumbing to the power of office, instituting an email tax that sends Strong Bad on a quest for revolution. Also on WiiWare this week, Potpourrii (800 points), which is a puzzle game I've not heard of featuring helping leprechauns defeat an evil wizard. It looks kind of like a circular, multiplayer Bubble Bobble. Check out the official website for more info. More »
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It's Monday again? When will we break out of this vicious cycle? As long as we stay shackled to this weekly calendar we are doomed to repeat history every seven days. Luckily for us, Nintendo has gone and spiced things up in this week's WiiWare and Virtual Console update, giving us one of the most...colorful...shooters of all time to play with. Along with the musical puzzle action of Empty Clip's Groovin' Blocks for WiiWare (800 points) and the third game in the classic Star Soldier series, Final Soldier for the TurboGrafx16 (700 points), Nintendo has graced us with Cho Aniki, the first installment of the manliest shooter ever. More »
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How dare you, Nintendo! How dare you release Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars for the Super Nintendo (800 points) on the Wii Virtual Console on a holiday Monday when I wasn't paying attention? I could have been playing that all day long yesterday instead of...playing the other games I was playing all day long. I suppose in the long run it's just a day, but I cannot help but feel betrayed. I know, I'm such a drama king. For those of you sadly unaware, Super Mario RPG was the last Mario game for the SNES, developed by Square, and probably one of the best Mario experiences you're likely to have outside of a platformer. A very worthy purchase indeed. More »
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Did you think a 13 hour layover in Frankfurt followed by a 10 hour flight to Atlanta, 45 minutes in customs, and then an hour train ride home would keep me from posting this week's Wii downloadable update? Maybe if this had been one of those normal, crappy updates, but this week sees the release of Ys! Ys Book I & II for the TurboGrafx 16 CD-ROM to be exact, the redone version of the originals upgraded with excellent voice acting, a stunning orchestral soundtrack, and all-new special effects, all for a paltry 800 Wii points! As if that weren't enough, we also finally get Samurai Showdown 2 for the NEOGEO (900 points), officially making this one of the best weeks on the Virtual Console in ages. More »
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Hooray, Mega Man hits the Nintendo Wii this week! *scans release list excitedly* Oh wait. It's just Mega Man. No Mega Man 9 with Splashwater Falls Woman. Mega Man (NES, 500 points) is nice and all, but I've played it a couple thousand times now and am ready to move on. Oh well, at least we've still got Neo Turf Masters, the classic NEOGEO golf title (900 points), perfect for those of you who love golf but hate technological advancements. More »
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Well this is certainly a pleasant change of pace after several weeks of relative crap with a side order of Beer Pong. Not only does the Wii get the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People on WiiWare (1,000 Points) this week, we also get the formerly Japan-only Star Parodier for the TurboGrafx 16 CD-ROM (900 Points). Star Parodier is a Hudson game that pokes fun at traditional shooter conventions, giving players a choice between playing as the Paro Ceaser from Star Soldier, a giant flying Bomberman, or a living PC Engine Console that fires HuCards and CDs at the enemy. More »
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Finally, Sonic The Hedgehog for the Wii Virtual Console! Wait, didn't they already release this game back in the early days of the Wii VC? Oh, it's the 8-bit version for the Sega Master System (500 Points) that featured the chaos emeralds scattered throughout the six levels, rather than in bonus stages. Why would you want this version if you've already downloaded the Genesis version? Why indeed. Well there's always Splatterhouse 2 for the Genesis (800 Points) if you're looking for something meatier. And bloodier. More »
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Another Monday is upon us, and Nintendo is here to brighten our morning with the latest releases for WiiWare and the Virtual Console. Take a seat and place your napkin in your lap as Nintendo lifts the lid on their silver serving tray, revealing... More »
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Today's weekly Wii update brings us one from column A, one from column B, and a side of downloadable content for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King. What downloadable content? Well the press release doesn't say, and my Wii is erroring out connecting to the network, so find out for yourselves! It'll be a grand adventure! More »
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This week in Wii downloadables we have the Sega Master System classic Alex Kidd In Miracle World (500 points) and a couple of other things that don't matter nearly as much, Burning Fight for the NEOGEO (900 points), which is a side-scrolling beat-em up which oddly enough does not feature anyone's girlfriend being kidnapped, and the WiiWare title Gyrostarr from High Voltage (700 points), a sort of tunnel-shooter that reminds me a bit of N20 for the PlayStation, only cut in half. Hit the jump for the full details on the games accompanying our friend Alex Kidd on his magical journey of hope and wonder. More »
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It's Wii Downloadables Day, and this week sees a set of two WiiWare titles and one big Virtual Console release that will have us geeks and otaku complaining about our lack of Wii storage space all day long! More »
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This week in Wii downloadables we are given a choice between new collectible goodness and old inflatable badness as Nintendo releases one new game for WiiWare and two classic titles on the virtual console. More »
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