When Nintendo demoed the premiere gameplay of New Super Mario Bros. Wii at E3, there were four different characters used. Mario, Luigi, and two toads were available. However, some will be disappointed in knowing that there will not be any additional characters when the game ships this holiday. Shigeru Miyamoto provided Nintendo Power with a simple “that’s it” response when asked if more characters were present. Although that is unfortunate, perhaps the Koopa Kids will make up for the news. According to Miyamoto, “they’re supposed to all be in there.”

– Tomenasanna is a bunch of cell-phone games made by Konami
– Character runs left to right, need to protect him by pressing the “A” button at the right time
– One button action game
– Odd graphics/music/gameplay
– 4 players
– Releasing in Japan this summer, 500 points

Source

– Similar to the DS games but not in full 3D
– Pokemon can climb on each other to create a tower, then can attack in groups (one move)
– Uses WiiConnect24 to send missions, information for where some Pokemon are
– Flame, Storm, Light versions
– Flame -> start in Pokemon village, choose from flame-based Pokemon
– Storm -> start in Pokemon Beach, choose from water-based Pokemon
– Light -> start in Pokemon Garden, choose from electric-based Pokemon
– Releasing August 4, 1,200 points each

Source

Bumping this to the front page for the final time this week. And I’m happy to say that I’m not going to be gone very long at all. If all goes well, I will be back in three hours or so. I’m not entirely sure if Austin will be here to provide you guys with updates until then, but if he doesn’t, hang in there until I return!

Just wanted to bump this to the front page. Austin will have site duties again for most of the day, but now I’m not actually sure when I’ll be back! If I’m lucky, hopefully at around 5:30 PM EST…But we’ll see. Until then, have a fun time with Austin!

I’m going to try to make this as short as possible without sounding too silly, but…Basically, Austin is going to be taking over the site the next few days. Let’s just say that I’ll be taking a break of sorts. I’ll be leaving the site at around 8 AM EST today and there’s a strong chance that I won’t be back until 11 PM. This applies again tomorrow. For Wednesday, I’ll only be gone in the morning for a few hours.

Fortunately, Austin will be taking over the site for me while I’m away. He’s done this all before, as some of you have seen during night hours, so I have faith that everything will be perfectly fine! My last post for will be the weekly VC/DSiWare/WiiWare update, but I’m sure that Austin will be here to continue with updates fairly soon.

Thanks guys!

[flashvideo file=http://www.nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/pk_wiiware.flv /]