Upcoming WiiWare/DSiWare games for Europe includes Cave Story

Today, Nintendo of Europe is showcasing a variety of new and exciting WiiWare & Nintendo DSiWare games from both Nintendo & third party developers, which will be available to download through the Wii Shop Channel & Nintendo DSi Shop in the coming months.

WiiWare launched last year and has enabled many smaller developers to take centre stage, creating Wii games that players can easily access and play. With the launch of the Nintendo DSi having taken place across Europe on 3rd April 2009, users can for the first time download fresh new games directly to their console via the Nintendo DSi Shop and store them on their Nintendo DSi which comes with its own built-in memory. This new range of software is called Nintendo DSiWare and will offer the opportunity for developers to create an ever-expanding and fresh range of fun games and applications to be made available for the Nintendo DSi.

Since its launch, WiiWare has enabled a raft of new, fresh and original games from a wide range of genres to come to Wii. These games utilise Wii’s unique control methods, from the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to the Wii Balance Board and Wii Wheel. Developers now have the freedom to create the game of their dreams in an affordable way, with low entry barriers and flexible criteria in front of them. Nintendo DSiWare becoming available on the Nintendo DSi is to enable developers the same freedom of creativity that WiiWare allows but now for the first time ever on a Nintendo handheld console.

Laurent Fischer, Managing Director of Marketing & PR of Nintendo of Europe comments:
”We are pleased by how far WiiWare has come since its launch last year. Currently there are approximately 58 WiiWare games available in Europe, packed with exciting content available to download through the Wii Shop Channel. This just goes to demonstrate the breadth of creativity that Wii users now have access to. We are particularly pleased that WiiWare has enabled developers to make games on our platform which they may not have had a chance to do otherwise. Now that Nintendo DSiWare has launched across Europe we hope that the same principles of WiiWare will follow suit on the new handheld console, allowing a greater and diverse range of software and applications to be made available for users on the go.”

Easy to access and simple to use, WiiWare & Nintendo DSiWare games are available to download directly onto Wii from the Wii Shop Channel & Nintendo DSi Shop respectively from 200 Nintendo Points. There are plenty of developers with games in the pipeline, ensuring a continuous stream of new games available to Nintendo fans.

The games listed below are coming to WiiWare between April – July 2009, starting from 200 Nintendo Points:

BONSAI BARBER (FROM NINTENDO)
The village residents are hungry for the latest in foliage fashion and it’s up to you – the new barber – to fix them up. Use the tools of your trade: scissors, clippers, spray can and more in this humorous, first-of-its-kind “first-person-groomer” game.

CAVE STORY (FROM NICALIS)
Cave Story is an action-adventure game overflowing with unmatched charm and character. Cave Story takes you into a unique world where a curious race of innocent rabbit-like creatures, called Mimigas, run free. Your task is to learn the origins of this world’s power and stop a delusional villain to save the Mimiga!

COLORZ (FROM EXKEE)
ColorZ is an original action/puzzle game that takes place in an alternate reality full of round and colourful elements. A terrible event disturbs the citizens; a new virus has polluted the universe and created thousands of microbes. You must drive your UFO friends through the microbes – absorbing them and cleaning all the different planets as you go.

CRYSTAL DEFENDERS™ R1 (FROM SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
Crystal Defenders™ R1 is a tower defence simulation game in which players deploy characters from the FINAL FANTASY TACTICS® series onto a variety of different maps to battle wave after wave of encroaching monsters.

ICARIAN: KINDRED SPIRITS™ (FROM OVER THE TOP GAMES)
In ICARIAN: KINDRED SPIRITS™, Nyx, an enigmatic winged girl, descends from heaven in search of her missing friend Icarus. Use your hand movements and the Wii Remote to raise Nyx, flap her wings and fly over awesome ancient Greece scenery.

LIT (FROM WAYFORWARD TECHNOLOGIES)
LIT is a 3D horror action puzzle game that follows Jake, a typical apathetic teenager, who’s trapped in his high school when it’s overrun by dark creatures. Players must guide Jake through 30 unique classrooms, using the available light sources to create paths to each exit. The goal is to reunite Jake with his girlfriend Rachael, who’s also trapped in the school and calls Jake from time to time on the school’s phone system. Stay in the light and Jake’s safe. Step into the darkness and he’s pulled under.

OVERTURN: MECHA WARS (FROM STUDIOZAN AND GAMEBRIDGE)
OVERTURN: Mecha Wars is a tournament-based game where two challengers go head to head within closed battle fields. Contestants control futurist machines that are equipped with a host of 19 high tech weapons. The aim of the game is to blast your opponent using your available weapons, while trying to avoid their incoming attacks and be the last one standing.

ROBOCALYPSE™ – BEAVER DEFENSE (FROM VOGSTER ENTERTAINMENT)
Robocalypse™ – Beaver Defense offers madcap weaponry and uproarious destruction in a tower defense style game. Set in a world of wise-cracking, battling robots, players must create and strategically position static and mobile defences to stop the waves of enemies that are intent on destroying their HQ.

SPACEBALL: REVOLUTION (FROM VIRTUAL TOYS)
Fight your way through fifteen challenging levels in which you’ll have to reconstruct impossible shapes by shooting energy balls. Race against the clock and avoid enemy defences to complete the pattern. Spaceball: Revolution will push your ability and concentration to the limit. Are you brave enough to take up the challenge?

SQUIBS ARCADE (FROM ALTEN8 LIMITED)
SQUIBS ARCADE is a collection of games, which initially were based on the old style of LCD games. Alten8 Limited distilled the gameplay to its most fundamental form, and re-imagined them with the style and passion of the classic LCD games. The titles within SQUIBS ARCADE are – Clown, Gun Cogs, Crowd Wader, Button Basher, Fantasy Turn Base, Call of Honour, Jack-a-motor, Lots of Levelling, Cardboard Axel Mush, We’re Fat, and Regret the Fist.

SWORDS & SOLDIERS (FROM RONIMO GAMES)
Swords & Soldiers is the first side-scrolling strategy game on Wii, allowing for a clear overview of the battlefield, coupled with accessible and deep gameplay. Players can choose from three powerful and unique factions as they let loose their armies and cast awesome spells to destroy the enemies’ castle.

WATER WARFARE (FROM HUDSON SOFT CO. LTD.)
Water Warfare is a fast-paced non-violent game, where players can run around playgrounds and beaches soaking each other with squirt guns. With different types of weapons, bonus items, and offline and online multiplayer, there’s tons of squirt gun fun to be had!

The following games and applications are available to download from the Nintendo DSi Shop as of today and in the coming months from 200 Nintendo Points.

NINTENDO DSi BROWSER (ALREADY AVAILABLE FROM NINTENDO)
Download the Nintendo DSi Browser for free and surf the web using your Nintendo DSi! You can check your e-mails, get the latest news updates and more – wherever a wireless Internet connection is available. Use both screens to view websites and browse web-based content, and the Touch Screen and stylus to navigate web pages and enter text, either using the on-screen keyboard or the built-in handwriting recognition.

A LITTLE BIT OF…. DR KAWASHIMA’S BRAIN TRAINING: MATHS EDITION (COMING SOON ON NINTENDO DSiWARE FROM NINTENDO)
Train your brain with Dr Kawashima’s new Nintendo DSiWare game, enhanced with Nintendo DSi features in the new Themes section. Use the inner camera to capture your impersonations, try your hand at illustrating and share them with friends later. Alternatively try out some new maths exercises and flex your brain.

ART STYLE: AQUITE (ALREADY AVAILABLE FROM NINTENDO)
A fun and challenging mini-game that is perfect to play on the go, The Art Style series brings you unique, simple-to-play games with striking visuals and immersive sound.

In Art Style: AQUITE, feel the pressure in a race against time to clear panels from an undersea pipe – the more you clear, the deeper your diver goes. Fail to clear panels and the Pressure Line will descend, clouding your vision and increasing the difficulty!

ART STYLE: CODE (ALREADY AVAILABLE FROM NINTENDO)
Holding the Nintendo DSi sideways, like an open book – Art Style: CODE is a fast-paced puzzle game that will test your quick arithmetic skills.

Line up the moving digits with the stylus so that they add up to 10 in a horizontal or vertical line to clear them from the screen. Different modes play variations on this simple, yet addictive rule to ensure hours of number-crunching fun!
CONTACT: Local Nintendo PR Representative

ART STYLE: PICOPICT (COMING SOON ON NINTENDO DSiWARE FROM NINTENDO)
An exciting action puzzle game using the Nintendo DSi Stylus and Touch Screen, moving colour pixels in order to build up pictures of classic NES Nintendo characters. With immersive 8-bit music and warm NES style graphics, you can experience a world where the old and the new coexist

MIGHTY FLIP CHAMPS (COMING SOON ON NINTENDO DSiWARE FROM WAYFORWARD TECHNOLOGIES)
In the exciting action/puzzler Mighty Flip Champs players control Alta on her journey to escape a stack of mazes which are displayed two at a time like pages of a book.

By flipping though multiple Maze Pages, players can travel over, under and around obstacles in mind-boggling new ways as they search out their fellow Champs and ultimately the exit! But be warned! As each new maze slams into place, you’ll either come one step closer to victory or be smashed to pieces!

MIXED MESSAGES™ (COMING SOON ON NINTENDO DSiWARE FROM VICARIOUS VISIONS)
Mixed Messages™ is a unique and raucous pass along and play multi-player game for two to twenty-one players. Mixed Messages turns your Nintendo DSi into a canvas for creativity and social gameplay.

Friends take turns writing sentences and drawing pictures with the Nintendo DSi. There are no winners and losers in Mixed Messages: it’s all about having fun seeing what your friends create, and watching the message change with each player. Mixed Messages turns gameplay on its head, delivering a creative, humorous and truly unique multiplayer experience for hours of hilarious fun with your friends and family.

PAPER PLANE (ALREADY AVAILABLE FROM NINTENDO)
Spread your wings with this irresistibly simple action game for one or two players! Simply manoeuvre the paper plane through a winding course – and don’t collide with the obstacles. But that’s easier said than done!

In Endless Mode, the longer you survive through the randomly-generated course, the higher your score. Or try Time Attack Mode to complete special courses as quickly as possible. You can also play together with a friend in Race Mode. Each player takes one side of the Nintendo DSi system to control and race with their own paper plane!

POP SUPERSTAR: ROAD TO CELEBRITY (COMING SOON ON NINTENDO DSiWARE FROM GAME LOFT)
Evolve into the greatest Pop Superstar! The enthralling and interactive success story of a young hopeful in the music milieu evolving into the greatest pop star in the world!

Talk, share activities and be friendly or unfriendly with numerous characters. Customise your character’s name and appearance and develop skills and personality through your actions.

There are 4 musical mini-games: Guitar, Singing, Drums, and Dance. Record your voice, take your own photos, and sign autographs! Two multiplayer modes for 2-4 players

PYORO (ALREADY AVAILABLE FROM NINTENDO)
He’s a small bird with a very long tongue and an insatiable appetite for beans. Luckily for Pyoro, beans drop constantly from the sky. However, if Pyoro lets a bean fall, it breaks a hole in the ground that he can’t cross.

This fast-paced action game requires skill and strategy to snatch all the beans you can, while dodging the ones you can’t and making sure you don’t get trapped! The higher in the sky that you grab a bean, the more points it will be worth.

REAL FOOTBALL 2009 (COMING SOON ON NINTENDO DSiWARE FROM GAME LOFT)
Live the football season to the max with Real Football 2009 on Nintendo DSiWare. It will offer you a never-before-seen football experience with revolutionary yet accessible Touch Screen controls. Take photos of anything you want and turn them into your own custom ball, team flag or make yourself into your favourite player.

With 198 teams using real players’ names, realistic opponent behaviors and advanced 3D graphics, you will feel like a real professional football player. Take your best shot!

WARIOWARE: SNAPPED! (ALREADY AVAILABLE FROM NINTENDO)
Wario returns with more manic minigames made especially for Nintendo DSi! WarioWare: Snapped! uses the internal camera to literally make you the star of the show!

Take part in wacky challenges simply by moving your face and body as you fly along four wild roller coasters, hosted by Wario and his wacky pals. While Wario’s games are all about big movements, Mona’s require more dexterity. Kat & Ana’s challenges are played with a friend for double hilarity!

Stay tuned to the Nintendo site this week for sneak peeks of the titles mentioned above, and use the links on the right for an overview of WiiWare and Nintendo DSiWare titles!