wii downloadables
Weekly Wii Update: Revenge Of The Space Invaders
1:20AM Mike Fahey | Girls repairing strange things in pits, classic side-scrolling combat action, and old foes coming back to kick some serious Earthling arse – all in this week’s Weekly Wii update. More »
Weekly Wii Update: Puzzles And Phlegm
12:20AM Mike Fahey | 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 »
Weekly Wii Update: Dangeresque Bean Bag Invaders
12:40AM Mike Fahey | It’s time for your 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 »
Weekly Nintendo Update: Yummy Yummy Mega Man 3
12:40AM Mike Fahey | It’s Monday night, 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 »
Weekly Wii Update – Space Harrier, Alien Crush, And Interior Design?
1:20AM Mike Fahey | 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 »
Weekly Wii Update – Earthworm Jim And Strong Bad, Together At Last
12:20AM Mike Fahey | 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 »
Weekly Wii Update – Finally, Balance Board Tetris
12:20AM Mike Fahey | 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 »
Weekly Wii Update: Goo Art And Secret Mana Street Fighters
4:20AM Mike Fahey | 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 »
Weekly Wii Update – Shining Force and Mario Golf
12:20AM Mike Fahey | 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 »
