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.

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A portion of a TVGB interview with Alexander Seropian and the head of Wideload Shorts, Scott Corley…

TVGB: What’s the first game you’ll bring out from there?

SC: We actually put one game out that’s been released on one platform, known as Instant Action, which is Garage Games online platform and we did a game called Cyclomites which was about making the simplest game we could possibly make. We did that and-

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We grabbed a snippet from SPOnG’s interview with Microsoft’s Chris Satchell, general manager, game developer group just awhile back, but the full interview wasn’t available. Today, you can now snoop through the entire 5-page interview for any Nintendo tidbits you can find:

SPOnG: What do you think to Nintendo’s strategy with WiiWare? Initially there was talk of independent developers, then you see companies like Square Enix with titles in the launch line-up. What do you think to the strategy?

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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.

Source: Bonus! Level

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.

Source: BeNintendo

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.

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!

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 »