This week no Virtual Console-releases for European gamers, but Nintendo added two new WiiWare-titles to the Wii’s Shop Channel. First game is Pop, the 700 Wii Points title in which you have to pop airbubbles, and the second game is My Pokémon Ranch, a 1000 Wii Points game in which you visit and make pictures of Pokémon.

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Capcom gives us some extra information on the new Mega Man 9 title for Nintendo’s WiiWare Channel. The full Japanese title is Rockman 9: Revival of the Wild Ambition, but usually Mega Man-games don’t get a subtitle in America and Europe. There also appears to be a gray and black Mega Man, but it’s unclear what their role will be.

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In an interview, Mike Pepe from Hudson recently said that we’re probably going to see two out of the three WiiWare-games already out in Japan (Blue Oasis, Karaoke Joysound and Alien Crush). Hudson will know which two titles within two to three months. The reason why we don’t have any specific info yet is that there’s a ton of other games coming from other developers to WiiWare as well. They’re all on a tight schedule…

Takahashi Meijin, Master Higgins himself, has announced that they are working on a new Adventure Island game. The game is probably in development for Nintendo’s WiiWare Channel. He doesn’t want the franchise to be ruined with motion-controls.

N-Europe recently had an interview with developer BPlus on their new WiiWare-game PLÄTTCHEN. The name sure sounds pretty strange, but this title is more than interesting. This was one of the very first WiiWare-titles in development, and it’s been in development for more than a year. PLÄTTCHEN is a charming puzzle-shooter packed with loads of fantastic content.

Interview with BPlus

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In a recent interview, CEO Dave Roberts and co-founder John Vechey from PopCap Games talked about the new WiiWare Channel from Nintendo.

You’ll see, actually, in a couple of announcements that we’ll have later on in the year where we’ve done some pretty cool collaborations with a company that really, really knows the space really well, and we think the collaboration will hopefully make it more interesting.

They’re defintely working on something, but what is that mysterious company and what games would they be developing for WiiWare? They’ve done some nice things for Xbox Live in the past, so we’re extremely excited!

This week we added a new website to our network of Nintendo websites! NintendoDSLite.org gives you all the latest information about the Nintendo DS Lite, the new slim and lite version of the popular Nintendo DS. Check out the site to see the latest games and accessories for your Nintendo DS Lite today!

Two Tribes just shot a mail at us to let us know that the cute little feathered chick from Toki Tori has been spotted on the Euro 2008 Championship! Check out the Toki Tori website to find some cool wallpapers and even the Toki Tori soundtrack is up there.

High Voltage released a fact sheet of Gyrostarr and announced that this brand new WiiWare-title will be hitting American Nintendo Wii systems on Monday! For only 700 Wii Points you get a nice title packed with a lot of science fiction action and a multiplayer mode for up to 4 players. The game takes advantage of the company’s proprietary Quantum 3 Game Engine technology, which provides advanced graphical capabilities. Gyrostarr’s controls were built from the ground up to utilize the motion-sensing capabilities of the Wii. Read the rest of this entry »