I hope Witch & Hero is good.

Just checked...RE: Revelations is $19.99 like The Mercenaries was. Also, there's a demo available for it, too.

He's absolutely right.

Anyone else notice that the four most prominent children in that picture share the same colors as the Links from the Four Swords?

Nintendo must hang around TIGSource a lot. Cave Story, And Yet it Moves, Meat Boy, ToriBash...and now La-Mulana? Hot damn.

I had no idea this game ever eventually came out. I remember reading about it WWAAAYY back when it was a GBA title and heard they were transferring it to the DS, but I never knew it eventually came out. Guess it never hit the U.S. Hopefully that will change this time, assuming it's any good.

The song in the video was nothing short of dreadful.

@TwilightV

If you have G4 it's going to be televised live.

I was hoping for Cave Story.

I have a feeling that XSEED didn't "drop" it and that another publisher picked it up. This screams an Atlus release to me.

@Ian: I think this is significantly better than having to read 3 different posts announcing these games. I have no idea why anyone would want this info split up into a bunch of smaller posts.

This isn't that bad. There's something of a risk factor, but it looks like it'll pay off. I have no idea what the numbers are, but those don't seem entirely unattainable.

Is the only difference between Dr. Mario Express and Dr. Mario RX the lack of online play? Is it any good without other people?

I really hope this is 500 points, since I still have that many left from when I got my DSi yesterday. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out for 800(+) points, but it just means I wouldn't be getting it for a little while.

The main reason why I bought this game was because the developers (Rockstar Leeds) did such a great job with Max Payne for the GBA. The game had voice overs and 3D and so much stuff that pushed the boundaries for the system. Stuff you'd never think of being possible for a handheld. They pulled it off again with this game, and I really hope they stick around and keep making DS games.

Is it required to pre-order the system in order to do this, or will it just come with the system regularly?

I wonder if this is more MP focused, or if it'd be worth it for the single player alone.

I wish he'd say Gish was coming, because I'd buy that immediately.

I don't have World of Goo, either. I'm waiting for Cave Story right now before I buy any other WiiWare games right now. Since I have an odd number of points (1900, to be exact) I don't want to make any more purchases until I can even things out, y'know? But once Cave Story comes out, World of Goo will be purchased sometime soon after.

Between Cave Story, Super Meat Boy, Defend Your Castle and this...it seems like WiiWare becoming the destination for the free indie games getting onto the consoles. I wonder how long until Desktop Tower Defense, the Knytt series, La-Mulana, or anything from devs like Cactus or Annie make it to the WiiWare.

I wish Ed had put Gish on WiiWare instead of this game, but this is good, too.

If it means more money for pixel, than I'm sold. As long as it's actual content (levels, items, or whatever) and not something like a different skin or something. If it's free, I'm sure I won't mind whatever it is regardless. The main game is my main concern anyway.

Let's hope for the best, since WiiWare seems to have been in kind of a rut as of late.

Either that or hope for a double header alongside Cave Story.

I think the problem with VC is that Nintendo seems to have no reason or pattern to release these games. Why no Castlevania release when Judgement came out? None of the Sonic titles that haven't been released for Unleashed? Will We see the NES Rygar come out when the Wii version comes out?

That and it seems like Nintendo likes to pick a selection of titles that frankly lack any real value for its price. I don't think anyone ever cared about Urban Champion or China Warrior back when they were originally released. Putting them out again isn't going to make them any better. I understand they can't put SMRPG and Vectorman out every week, but it'd be nice for them for them to put out the games from that time worth remembering.

Another one?

This is unfortunate.

So how much longer until he changes his mind and decides to come back to making games again?

Perhaps my eyes are no good, but they're STILL not mentioning the price yet? I mean what gives?

"Kohler: Are you going to go out and try to court garage game developers in Japan?"

They should get Pixel to ok a WiiWare version of Cave Story. I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

LostWinds is getting beat by TV Show King? I can understand the other three being where they are...but TV Show King? This just bursts my bubble.

Although, for the moment at least, I'm just going to assume that LostWinds sold very well the weeks prior, resulting in some kind of drop-off in sales which would allow it to go that far down.

Unless TV Show King has been beating it all along, which will make me sad.

Much cheaper than the alternatives, so I'll probably jump in.

I'm refusing to buy any Guitar Hero/Rock Band/etc. type game until they all decide to play nice with their controllers. I have no need to spend hundreds of dollars on several fake guitars, drums, and mics.

Fantastic. I hope they win at least one of their awards. They deserve it.

I've been hearing things about Toki Tori for ages now, so I'll probably put down the money for that.

I have nothing particularly against either of these games, but I've only bought LostWinds so far, and these two aren't exactly high up on my must-have list.

But I might give them a shot somewhere down the line.

I was excited for this game back when he announced it way back.

But I follow his blog fairly off and on, and Luc bugs me, to be honest. He flip flops between what kinds of games he wants to do and for what systems he puts them on. He hated XBLA when he went to WiiWare, but now all of a sudden (according to recent posts) he likes it again and wants to do an iPhone game. Or a PC game. Actually it was probably both. And then some.

Or something. He just doesn't seem to work with any of his ideas until they get somewhere (with the exception of the fairly underwhelming first footage of the WW version of Eternity's Child)

Of course, I love the concepts and such of EC and this game sounds great as well. It's just a matter if he stops blogging and thinking about all the different platforms so much and actually does some game making.

/rant

I wonder how big the DS games are, considering they'd have to shrink the game in order to make it fit.

Unless the games are under 43 MB, which I doubt.

@x.SuperMario.x

Where did Nintendo confirm Dr. Mario Online Rx for the US WiiWare launch? Nothing was confirmed officially as a launch title until this press release was posted.

Where's Gyrostarr? Or Toki Tori? How about Star Soldier R? Critter Round-up? Where did V.I.P. Casino come from? TONS of titles that were speculated or otherwise 'announced' for launch on WiiWare aren't on this list.

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/05/06/nintendo-holding-back-wiiware-launch-list/

Even the game makers are pretty much out of the loop, when it comes to game launches.

Besides, Nintendo DID say they were going to stagger WiiWare in the U.S. a little bit more, unlike in Japan. With the exception of the March 25th launch, only two titles have come out (Puzzloop in April and Block Breaker in April).

In Reggie's words a 'Virtual Console' approach

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/04/24/u-s-wiiware-not-on-the-same-monthly-release-schedule-as-japan/

So Dr. Mario could be the following week, for all we know.