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News What's New In The World Of Goo?
It’s been too long since we have had any new World of Goo news. This game is shaping up to be one of the best games coming up for WiiWare from the looks of it so it’s reassuring to see that Kyle and Ron (aka 2D Boy) are now really just putting the final touches to the game before its WiiWare launch, which is hopefully still lined up for September.
Here’s the latest from Kyle in the 2D Boy blog: Translations into 5 languages (english, spanish, french, italian, german) is 91% done. I hope one day we’ll be able to do Japanese too… Cut-scenes: finishing up the very last end-of-game sequence, and th...
News Hockey Allstar Shootout is coming to WiiWare
As hinted the other day in our news on the Home Sweet Home trailer, Canadian developers Big Blue Bubble are soon to be releasing a sports game. We really should have been able to guess which sport this would be given their nationality, but the press release below confirms it! Soon Hockey Allstar Shootout will be coming to WiiWare.
This potentially...
News Top 20 WiiWare Games in America (20th August)
It’s Wednesday again, time to look at what the most popular games are in the Wii Shop. To check for yourself simply log on to your Wii Shop channel, go into the WiiWare section and then view “Popular Games”.
We are checking the list for the American region, so if you live elsewhere your list will probably be a lot different. Feel free to post...
News Mega Man 9 Opening Cinematic - Retrotastic!
Feeling as if you haven’t had enough Mega Man 9 news lately? Of course you haven’t, who can ever tire of the blue bomber? Today a trailer showing the opening ‘cinematics’ for Mega Man 9 has been revealed and it goes a little something like this:
Dr Wily has made a fool out of himself, Mega Man has given him a good kicking yet again and peace...
News Top 20 WiiWare Games in America (13th August)
It’s Wednesday again, time to look at what the most popular games are in the Wii Shop. To check for yourself simply log on to your Wii Shop channel, go into the WiiWare section and then view “Popular Games”.
We are checking the list for the American region, so if you live elsewhere your list will probably be a lot different. Feel free to post...
News Braid Is Too Big For WiiWare
Over on Microsoft’s XBLA, there is an action puzzler called Braid doing the rounds at the moment. It has attracted rave reviews all over the place. I keenly downloaded it and completed it 100% and can verify that this is a top notch game providing hours of entertainment.
Sadly according to Jonathan Blow the game’s creator it has no chance of...
News More Info About Mega Man 9 Bosses
As great as our friend the Blue Bomber is, we all know it is the fiendish bosses which make a good Mega Man game. Mega Man 9 like previous games will not disappoint putting you up against such characters as Magma Man, Galaxy Man, Jewel Man, Concrete Man, Hornet Man, Plug Man, Tornado Man and Splash Woman !
Capcom have revealed more information about...
News Bionic Commando Not Approved For Virtual Console
Way back in April we reported that Capcom’s Ben Judd stated that the NES version of Bionic Commando would not be coming to the Virtual Console.
Not content to leave it there, that old chestnut has been raised again as Bionic Commando Rearmed is due on Xbox LIVE Arcade, PlayStation Network and PC soon. Here’s what he had to say on the subject in...
News Luc Bernard's Pitch For The Star Thief
As we reported earlier today Luc Bernard plans to take a break from the videogame industry for personal reasons. Given the mixed reception around the release of his debut game Eternity’s Child on Steam he feels it is time to hang up his golden joypad for now and move on to other things in life.
Could Luc be being too hasty however? Whatever your...
News Gameshastra To Bring Tumblebugs To WiiWare
Here's a cheeky little press release about a game called Tumblebugs which is said to be coming to WiiWare later this year. As you will see from the screenshots below this is pretty much a Zuma / Actionloop clone. Happy days eh?
Wildfire and Gameshastra announce deal to deliver Tumblebugs on WiiWare Today Hyderabad and Los Angeles based Gameshastra...
News Top 20 WiiWare Games in America (6th August)
It’s Wednesday again, time to look at what the most popular games are in the Wii Shop. To check for yourself simply log on to your Wii Shop channel, go into the WiiWare section and then view “Popular Games”.
We are checking the list for the American region, so if you live elsewhere your list will probably be a lot different. Feel free to post...
News USA WiiWare Update: Wild West Guns
As predicted Wild West Guns is up for grabs today on WiiWare in North America. If you like Zapper games such as Link's Crossbow Training you could do a lot worse than checking out this game. You don't need a Wii Zapper to play it of course! The action is a little short lived, but it’s great fun with two players. For 1000 Wii points it represents a solid buy for anyone who likes the genre.
Check out our Wild West Guns review for more info on this game. Here's the press release: Wild West Guns (Gameloft, 1-2 players, Rated T for...
News Gravitronix - Still Alive And Kicking!
Since our interview with Jesse Lowther, lead designer and CEO of Medaverse Studios way back in February this year, you would be forgiven for thinking that Gravitronix is never going to come out. After all, normally by now we’d expect to see some screenshots or PR hype.
Worry not readers, Medaverse just had their Alpha Night and it seems all is...
News Mega Man Finally Out On Monday In USA
This Monday August 4th could be one of the best Virtual Console days since the very early days. Not only have we confirmed that the outstanding Neo Geo brawler Samurai Shodown II and the renowned TurboGrafx RPG Ys Book I & II are coming out on Monday, it seems there will also be an appearance from the blue bomber!
Yes that’s right, Mega Man...
News Eternity's Child Now Available for Steam
For those who are interested in the upcoming WiiWare game Eternity’s Child it may come as good news to hear that it is now available on the PC download service, Steam for a measly $4.49 (until 7th August when it goes up to a backbreaking $4.99!).
A few weeks we did a preview of Eternity’s Child based on a non-complete version of the game which...
News Major League Eating: Kodiak Bear Unleashed
A bit of a random press release which we received from Mastiff today, but we're guessing some of our readers might be interested to know about the unlockables in Major League Eating.
Mastiff Unleashes Kodiak Bear on Unsuspecting U.S. Wii Population Major League Eating: The Game Features Famous Ursine Opponent from Kobayashi vs. Kodiak Bear Match of...
News The Mascott speaks about the Virtual Console!
What would you get if you took every VC Reviews reader and combined them into one? Perhaps the closest thing we could ever get to such a grotesque amalgamation as this might be summed up in the unlikely guise of the trilby wearing Youtube buffoon known affectionately to his friends as The Mascott!
Despite his wayward appearance, the Mascott has...
News Top 20 WiiWare Games in America (30th July)
It’s Wednesday again, time to look at what the most popular games are in the Wii Shop. To check for yourself simply log on to your Wii Shop channel, go into the WiiWare section and then view “Popular Games”.
We are checking the list for the American region, so if you live elsewhere your list will probably be a lot different. Feel free to post...
News Wild West Guns - Fact Sheet, New Images And Video!
For anyone in Europe who is looking forward to checking out Wild West Guns on Friday you can go to the saloon, order a whiskey and relax, with this media blowout we can be 100% sure now that you will not be disappointed!
We also assured that this is out in North America on the following Monday (4th August). Below the fold we have 14 exclusive new...
News Wild West Guns Coming To Europe This Friday
European gamers will have something to look forward to this coming Friday as GameLoft’s lightgun-like shooter Wild West Guns is up on WiiWare. This isn’t just an idle internet rumour. We have it on good authority that this will indeed be out on Friday for 1000 Wii points.
We still don’t know a whole lot about the game other than it has a wild...
News Penny Arcade Adventures Too Big For WiiWare
Kotaku recently interviewed Hothead Games, who are the developers of Penny Arcade Adventures. The interview was mostly about why this game still wasn’t available on the Playstation Network when XBLA has had it for a while, but the question of the possibility of this series coming to WiiWare also came up:
While they would love to bring the episodic...
News Keiji Inafune Reveals More About Mega Man 9
In a recent interview with MTV Multiplayer, the creator of the Mega Man series, Keiji Inafune and his partner in crime, Hironobu Takeshita, producer of Mega Man 9 reveal a few more nuggets of information about this upcoming retro styled game.
Here are some of the choice bits of the interview: Multiplayer: When you guys decided to make “Mega Man...
News Where In The World Is Strong Bad?
Bad news for Strong Bad fans today. It seems that SBCGFAP will NOT be coming out in July after all! Emily Morganti, the marketing coordinator over at Telltale Games explains the dealio on their game forum:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the game is not coming out tomorrow. What IGN said is true - we have submitted the game to Nintendo, and...
News Abstraction Games Interview - Potpourrii
We love a good puzzler here at WiiWare World, and Abstraction Games upcoming game, Potpourrii is looking to be one of the more interesting ones coming up. Many people had assumed this was just a simple Bust-A-Move clone with a circular spin, but it seems there is more to it than just that.
As the release date for Potpourrii draws ever closer we...
