In Blue Oasis for WiiWare you control your own virtual aquarium. Change the background, add some decorations and choose the fish that swim around in your fish tank. This WiiWare-title contains fish food simulation and has different levels that follow the weather as reported in the Wii Forecast Channel. A relaxed sim like fishy game for only five bucks. Worth a shot!

Nintendo of America released another top 10 WiiWare-titles this week. On number one is Dr. Mario Online Rx, but Defend Your Castle and My Pokemon Ranch are still doing great as well.

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1 (1) - Dr Mario Online Rx
2 (2) - Defend your Castle
3 (N) - My Pokémon Ranch
4 (3) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
5 (4) - TV Show King
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The guys over at WiiWare-World did an interview with Big Blue Bubble CEO Damir Slogar. They asked some interesting questions about their upcoming WiiWare title Home Sweet Home.

A portion of a WiiWare-World interview with Big Blue Bubble CEO, Damir Slogar

WW: How will the Wii remote be used in the game?

DS: We will use the Wii remote in a quite unique way. In order to simplify the control scheme, we don’t require the nunchuk. Player will move and select the furniture and control the workers with the Wii remote. On the top of that, when the workers need help, player will be able to speed up the building process by helping them hammering the nails or painting the walls.

WW: Roughly how many hours of gameplay will Home Sweet Home provide?

DS: It is really hard to say. I saw people spending hours just designing their own room. Theoretically, you can finish the game in a few hours, but keep in mind that you can also finish the Super Mario Bros in 5 minutes!

Full interview here

Here’s a nice videoreview of Toki Tori from Dutch gamedeveloper Two Tribes for Nintendo’s WiiWare service. He goes through it pretty fast, but his explanation about the game is really good.

Matt Chapman, voice of Strong Bad, said in an interview that Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive people for Nintendo’s WiiWare Channel has been pushed back to July. He says that they just need more time to make it a much better game than it already was. Until then you can play some HomestarRunner Wii-browser games to entertain yourself!

This week European and Australian gamers get another game earlier than we. Actionloop Twist is now available for 1000 Wii Points in the Wii Shop Channel, exclusive for Nintendo’s WiiWare Channel. So far there aren’t much reviews for the game, so keep an eye out for those first hands-on impressions!

“The game is actually now getting pushed back to July, but the game is going to just be much better for it. It’s just development time.” - Matt Chapman, voice of Strong Bad

Not too bad, at least it’s not going to get pushed back as much as Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess…..I hope.

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Today, LostWinds has been nominated for the Develop Industry Excellencce Award. LostWinds has been nominated beside companies such as Rockstar (Grand Theft Auto IV), Ninja Theory/SCEE Cambridge (Heavenly Sword), and many more.

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GamesCathedral recently interviewed Martijn Reuvers, managing director at Two Tribes. They said that they would certainly like to see another Toki Tori game with more new weapon items, level creation, sharing and more. If the first Toki Tori game sells well, they might develop a sequel to the game with the cute yellow feathered chick. Read the rest of this entry »