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Here’s What Phoenix Wright Looks Like On The Wii

6:30PM Luke Plunkett | How much you enjoy the upcoming WiiWare port of Phoenix Wright may depend on how big your television is. This is a port of a GBA/DS game, kids, not a HD remake. More »
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Phoenix Wright Pleads WiiWare

4:30PM Luke Plunkett | Not that the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle are ever wrong when it comes to leaking game news early, but still, it’s nice to get confirmation (via the latest issue of Famitsu) that Phoenix Wright is on its way to the Wii. More »
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The Nintendo Download: Let’s Get Ready To Pokémon Rumble

2:20AM Mike Fahey | This week brings WiiWare demos for four popular titles, a new Art Style title for the DSi and Pokémon’s answer to Gears of War Horde Mode, Pokémon Rumble. More »
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Phalanx Making A Triumphant Return

10:00PM Luke Plunkett | Phalanx is a strange game. Few of you will remember the game, even fewer probably ever played it. But most of you will remember, or at least recognise, the game’s famous box art. More »
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Nintendo Brings 40-Year-Old Ultrahand Toy To WiiWare

9:40AM Michael McWhertor | Club Nintendo of Japan is offering a new present to its Nintendo-loving fan base, announcing Wii de Ultrahand for WiiWare. The two-player Wii game is based on the Ultrahand toy released by Nintendo in 1966. More »
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The Nintendo Download: It’s Old Home Week

2:40AM Mike Fahey | Familiar names and face populate this week’s downloadable Nintendo games, with appearances by Frogger, Excitebike, Bomberman and more Electroplankton than you can shake a stylus at. More »
Regulars

Saturday Timewaster: Bloktonik

8:00AM Owen Good | Tipster BulletProof found this Tetrisesque block puzzle with an entrancing soundtrack and passes it along. But more curiously, “Bloktonik” seems to be in development for WiiWare (and for mobile), with a release date TBA. More »
Rumours

Any Objections To Phoenix Wright On The Wii?

2:20PM Luke Plunkett | Germany’s Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK), the country’s ratings board, have let slip a listing for an upcoming Phoenix Wright title. For the Wii. More »
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Nintendo Thinks WiiWare Demos Might Be A Good Idea

10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says that Nintendo is planning to test downloadable demos of some WiiWare games, a program that should kick off — in Japan at least — later this month. More »
Rumours

Is Konami Going To “ReBirth” Jackal On WiiWare?

7:40AM Michael McWhertor | Konami may be reaching ever deeper into the intellectual property well, revitalising one of its more obscure franchises, Jackal, as a Wii game. Do images of a “working prototype” of what appears to Jackal mean a remake is incoming? More »