Hollywood packs its share of excitement, but video games can deliver just as many mind-blowing thrills as the biggest summer blockbuster. For proof, look no further than this week’s powerhouse additions to the Wii? Shop Channel. With a mesmerizing new WiiWare? title and two action-packed classics for the Virtual Console?, you’ll find captivating visuals, memorable characters and richly interactive tales that impress on screens of all sizes. With or without popcorn, the fun is yours to savor.

Nintendo adds new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii? owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points? to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are:

WiiWare

Helix? (Ghostfire Games, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 1,000 Wii Points): Helix is one of the most innovative music-rhythm games ever designed for the Wii console. Use the Wii Remote? controller to do dozens of exciting moves, including punches, circles, back fists, hooks and more. Be mesmerized by the eye-popping background visuals, which pulse to the beat of the music. Enjoy incredible replay value with 26 songs to play and three difficulty levels. Try to unlock all of the songs. This game is great for getting exercise plus having fun. No buttons are required, so it’s easy for anyone to pick up but difficult for even the best players to master.

Virtual Console

Ys Book I & II (TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone-Mild Fantasy Violence, 800 Wii Points): Ys Book I & II chronicles the first adventures of Adol Christin, a young, red-haired swordsman on a quest to unlock the secrets of an ancient kingdom. As Adol, you search the island of Esteria, gathering clues to unravel the mystery of Ys. Fight monsters that lurk in caves and towers with physical or magical attacks, and use your brain to make your way through dangerous areas filled with traps. In Ys Book I & II, the first titles in the Ys series were put together as a single TurboGrafx CD-ROM. They awed players with their gripping story lines accompanied by fully orchestrated soundtracks, wonderful voice acting and amazing special effects. Don’t miss out on your chance to experience this wonderful piece of gaming history.

SAMURAI SHODOWN 2 (NEOGEO, 1-2 players, Rated T for Teen-Blood, Language, Tobacco Reference, Violence, 900 Wii Points): First released in 1994, this fighting game follows 15 samurai in their individual quests. The rage system, which was popular in the first game, has been further enhanced. Not only does attack power rise when the gauge is full, but the player can also use a special technique that can break the opponent’s weapon and force the opponent to fight unarmed. The game also allows for more movement techniques such as back-stepping, rushing forward and ducking, allowing for even more strategies. A fun and important detail of this game: One of the new characters, Cham Cham, was voiced by voice actress Reiko Chiba, an idol in the gaming community.

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Helix, a rhythm game for Nintendo’s WiiWare developed by the Texas based Ghostfire Games, will be coming out soon and that’s why they released this interesting developer interview. In Helix, players follow the movements of a robot avatar in a selection of 26 songs gathered from independent musicians accros the US and Europe. A release date for Helix hasn’t been determined yet.

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WiiWare World: In a nutshell what is Potpourrii all about?

Ralph Egas: Potpourrii is about a forest, some leprechauns, a warlock with a desire for chaos and friendly spirits that are aligned specifically to the four seasons. In an old tree stump the leprechauns gather spirits and ‘retire’ them towards the tree every year to keep the magic tree in shape. The tree basically represents the life of the forest. This is just how things have been handled for ever since everyone can remember. Now every once in a while an evil warlock comes along and starts conjuring some evil magic effectively changing the order of time in a random fashion. As a result the spirits arrive in irregular order and the leprechauns have a hard time collecting and reordering. That’s basically where you come in. You use a cannon to pickup spirits and order them in the pool set in the tree stump before retiring the spirits properly. Your main goal is offering proper spirits in order to cure the tree.

Make sure to check out the full interview here, which features more screens as well.

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What IGN said is true - we have submitted the game to Nintendo, and as soon as we get approval from them, it will be released quickly after that. We really are in the home stretch. We’ve been waiting to announce a release date until we have that approval, though, because until that happens, well, anything can happen! Getting games into WiiWare is a new process for us and we’re learning as we go, so I’m sorry if any of you are disappointed that tomorrow is the last Monday in July and you won’t have a Strong Bad game to play. On the plus side, we’re closer now than we’ve ever been, and very soon we should be able to tell you exactly when it’s coming out!

Also, I’d like to preemptively say that contrary to some comments I’ve seen people making here and there, Nintendo has NOT been sitting on the game for months. We were still working on getting some bugs fixed until fairly recently. So please don’t assume that they’re some evil empire that’s been hoarding the game since June because they don’t want you to have it. Everyone we’re working with at Nintendo wants the game to come out just as badly as we (and you!) do.

So there you go, the game is not coming out tomorrow, but it will hit WiiWare soon. Also, Nintendo isn’t quite as evil as we thought! ]

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Well, hopefully we’ll get away from the Castlevania fighters, and get back into the 2D castlevania games. Personally, I don’t care if they come out on WiiWare as long as they’re good games.

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