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Review Mr. Driller W (WiiWare)
Drill, baby, drill!
That Mr. Driller W would be among the better puzzle games on the WiiWare service was somewhat of a given. It's a close relation to Dig Dug - a classic arcade series if there ever was one - and its own line of releases spans more consoles than you might have known existed. Mr. Driller has a long, rich and well-established history,...
Review PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit (WiiWare)
Feeling board? You will be!
If there's one thing WiiWare spotlights so well, it's the beauty of simplicity. Many of its best releases (World of Goo, Toki Tori, Art Style: Orbient) are deceptively deep showcases for simple - yet addictive - concepts. PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit, however, reminds us all that simplicity without a strong...
Review The Three Musketeers: One For All! (WiiWare)
This week, Alexandre Dumas makes his WiiWare debut. Next week: Crime and Punishment Party!
When it was first announced, The Three Musketeers: One For All! was the subject of much anticipation on the part of the WiiWare community, simply because it belonged a mysteriously under-represented genre: the action platformer. This earned it a lot of...
Battle Poker? I hardly battle know her!
There are a few things about Battle Poker that you will notice as soon as you start playing the game, and one of them is that at no point do you actually play any poker. Is this a bad thing? Absolutely not, but it does lead to a slightly schizophrenic experience. Basically, Battle Poker is a collection of...
Beware of incoming duds.
Welcome to Incoming!, a game of projectile combat. You command a tank (or a small group of tanks), and you will be expected to demolish the other tank (or small group of tanks) by adjusting the angle and velocity of each shot. You've played games like this before, and you've probably enjoyed them. In fact, the first time...
Talking Point Bit Boy!! Took 50 Times More Work Than Bit.Trip?
It did according to Bernd Geiblinger of BPlus!
Over on the official BPlus forums, Bernd Geiblinger, Art Director at Bplus (AKA WiiBoy) posted the following: Now - we fought for the 'PADING'-GameBoy sound on the game start. For the PukiPuki-Sound like you know it from original tetris and Super Mario Land including the hearts in 'PAUSE'. Complete...
News NoA President Talks DSiWare
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime distances the DSi from the iPhone, and lets a few tidbits drop as well.
In a recent Q&A with Wired, Reggie Fils-Aime made a point of distinguishing the DSi's downloadable titles from the iPhone's. Specifically: "We are taking a film-festival approach — high-class content done by...
Interviews WayForward talk Mighty Flip Champs!
From the moment we first heard of Mighty Flip Champs! we were intrigued. There wasn't much information on the game, but what we knew was exciting indeed.
With WayForward's impressive pedigree, and some tantalizing gameplay mechanics, we knew we could expect their DSiWare debut to be something special, and we couldn't resist tracking them down for...
News US DSiWare Launch Titles Revealed!
In a press release today, Nintendo has finally confirmed the complete list of North American launch titles. And there are a few surprises.
The North American market will unwrap their brand new DSi units on Sunday, and if they decide to log on to the DSiShop, they will have the following five titles to choose from. There's WarioWare: Snapped!,...
News DSiWare Launch Titles in Australia (and elsewhere...?)
The Australian DSi Shop is open for business. Could its contents hint at identical launch titles for EU and NA?
Just a quick run-through of the launch titles that Australia is now able to access and download on their brand-spankin'-new DSi units! Not really a very surprising launch as very similar rumors have been circulating for the past week or...
News DSiWare Launch Titles Clarification?
IGN is reporting slightly different launch titles than were previously revealed.
In this article, IGN lists WarioWare Snapped! and Art Style: Azurio as DSiWare launch titles. That should come as no surprise, as we've already reported this. However they make no mention of Moving Memo, the utility that allows users to create and share simple...
News 1000 Free Nintendo Points to EU Customers
Just a quick news item to share welcome news
According to Eurogamer, European gamers will also receive 1000 Nintendo Points free upon their first connection to the DSiShop. This offer will be valid for a limited time, but we do not have information on just how limited that time might be. The choice is yours: use the 1000 points to download a nice...
News US DSiWare "Launch" Titles Confirmed
"Launch" deserves those quotation marks as we can only hope they will be available at launch.
...but, at any rate, they are North America's first confirmed titles, according to today's press release, and we have to admit, they're some pretty good ones to start with! The first is WarioWare Snapped! (500 points), which promises to make good use of the...
News 6 New DSiWare Titles Coming to Japan
The beginning of April will see the release of the DSi in three regions, and a whole load of new releases in a fourth.
The good news: Japan is getting six releases at once, which might (underline might) suggest that DSiWare won't suffer as easily from the one-per-week schedules that sometimes affect WiiWare and the Virtual Console. Perhaps the...
News Rejoice! The DSi Gets a Virtual Console After All
It finally looks like we have unofficial confirmation of the DSi's virtual console.
Check out Kombo for the whole story, but the highlight --as we can all agree, is the revelation that the DSi will allow you to download Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games. Yes, you read that right. But feel free to go back and read it another few times; this news...
News Korogashi Puzzle Katamari Comes to DSiWare!
According to Famitsu, Korogashi Puzzle Katamari will be DSiWare's entry in the tremendously popular (and tremendously fun) Katamari series. But it won't look a lot like its bigger brothers.
Korogashi Puzzle Katamari looks (and appears to play) very similar to Pac-Attack, but you can judge for yourself by watching the trailer below. The game should...
News DSiWare to Become Nintendo's App Store?
Even if you've been living under a rock for the past year or so, you've heard about Apple's iPhone, and the great success they've had with their App Store service.
Providing everything from pocket organizers to virtual beer to the ability to play your iPhone like an ocarina, the App Store has given Apple a great deal of public attention...not to...
News DSiWare Wants You to Mind Your Manners
Another DSiWare game is coming to Japan this spring, and it looks...interesting.
Kuukiyomi is the name of the game, although it seems more like an interactive etiquette course than a proper game. That's not to say it's a bad idea; watch the trailer. It's positively fascinating. And if they can actually make the lessons in good manners fun (it's...
News Master of Illusion and Brain Training Coming to DSiWare
It always pays to keep an eye on the OFLC ratings, especially since four more games have now been rated for release on DSiWare.
First of all there are three (count 'em!) titles that may interest fans of Master of Illusion on the DS. They can look forward to playing Master of Illusion: Shuffle Games, Master of Illusion: Funny Face, and Master of...
News Phantasy Star Zero Mini Coming to DSiWare
Looking for another big franchise to dip a toe in the waters of DSiWare? Well, Sega's got your number.
The Phantasy Star series is set to release a DSiWare installment in the form of Phantasy Star Zero Mini. Japan will receive the game sometime this month, and while there's no assurance that it will see an English-language release, we can...
News GameLoft Enters the DSiWare Market
As the release of the DSi early next month approaches, news of developers hopping aboard the DSiWare wagon continues to pour in.
GameLoft is the newest developer to toss their hat into the ring, as some snooping on the PEGI website will reveal. It looks like Europe will be getting Pop Superstar: Road to Celebrity, which is classed as a "life...
News More DSiWare? Hudson to the Rescue!
Or maybe not. At least, not yet... Sudoku Beginner 50 and Sudoku 150 are upcoming Sudoku downloads for the DSi, courtesy of our good friends at Hudson.
Now we here at WiiWare World can't read Japanese (our lifelong shame!) and there's only so much we're able to glean about this game. But since the "Beginner 50" version is selling for 200...
News More DSiWare: Mighty Flip Champs!
Looks like we might have jumped the gun just a little bit with our DSiWare Pre-release Roundup! Some tantalizing details about another potential launch title are circulating...
Mighty Flip Champs! will mark the DSi debut of WayForward Technologies. Not much is known about the game except that it takes place in a dungeon, which is navigated by...
News DSiWare: Pre-release Roundup
For us here at WiiWare World, April can't get here soon enough. The Nintendo DSi will launch on April 2 in Australia, April 3 in Europe and April 5 in North America. That makes for a pretty exciting few days!
The new DSi (for those intending to buy one) offers several intriguing new features, perhaps the most substantial being DSiWare. And with...
