Home Sweet Home (WiiWare)
Tetris Party (WiiWare)
The Incredible Maze (WiiWare)
Hardcore gamers, fear not. Even with mass-market titles like Wii Music, Shigeru Miyamoto has no plans of abandoning core titles such as Zelda. Miyamoto explained this week that ” What you can’t forget is that we need to continue to make Zelda games.” Miyamoto went on to say, “The way we operate is that we usually have people moving from one team to another, so giving people the opportunity to move around from a project like a Zelda game to something a little different like WiiMusic has really helped invigorate the staff and helped create a really great internal team. In fact, the lead art designer on WiiMusic is one of the lead art designers of Pikmin. The art design for WiiFit was one of the Zelda designers. But they’ve all gone back to their original teams.”
If all goes to plan, Strong Bad Episode 3 should be releasing this coming Monday on WiiWare. As has been the case with prior Strong Bad titles, the third episode will set you back 1,000 points.
– Can control the game with balance board
– Story mode, vs. (local), Wi-Fi modes available
– Can battle online with 3 other players
– Scheduled to launch in Japan next month (no price yet)
“I’m not in a position to be able to confirm or deny any kinds of sequels, but I will point that there will probably be at least five seasons of the Clone Wars. [You] do the math. I think we were all finding out what the Clone Wars was about when we made the game. It was a journey for all of us. Now that we’ve done that, we understand the show and know where it can go, it would be fantastic to do a second one now, knowing what we do. But that’s always going to be true of every game you make.” – project lead Feargus Carroll
Wii Music (Wii) – 80%
FIFA 09 All Play – (Wii) 92%
Kirby Super Star Ultra – (DS) 80%
Flower Sun and Rain (DS) – 64%
Mushroom Men (Wii) – 86%
Trauma Center: New Blood (Wii) – 67%
Professor Layton (DS) – 92%
Mega Man 9 (WiiWare) – 90%
Bomberman Blast (WiiWare) – 88%
Disaster: Day of Crisis (Wii) – 82%
Korg DS-10 (DS) – 94%
Thanks to Joclo for the news tip!
NEW YORK, NY (October 16, 2008) – Videogame publisher XS Games announced today five new songs for PopStar Guitar™, the all-new music rhythm game for WiiTM and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. Original music from Fall Out Boy, Paramore and All-American Rejects will allow players to release their PopStar within. The new tracks round out a star-studded line-up of original mastered tracks from some of today’s hottest Pop artists.
Over 50 Songs Including Original #1 Hits:
• Thnks Fr Th Mmrs by Fall Out Boy
• Sugar We’re Going Down by Fall Out Boy
• Misery Business by Paramore
• Dirty Little Secret by All-American Rejects
• Move Along by All-American Rejects
• Shut Up and Drive by Rihanna
• S.O.S by Jonas Brothers
• See You Again by Miley Cyrus
• Wake Up Call by Maroon 5
• Makes Me Wonder by Maroon 5
• All The Small Things by Blink 182
• Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan
• When I’m Gone by 3 Doors Down
• It’s Not My Time by 3 Doors Down
“I overheard at TGS that WiiWare is a bust for a lot of third-parties…sales in the hundreds.” – Shane Bettenhausen, 1up editor
Wow, I’m not too sure why, but it’s difficult to imagine a title selling that poorly. On the other hand, I’m sure you guys could agree that there are some low-quality titles on the service. I’m sure that for some games are experiencing more than average sales figures such as Mega Man 9.
