Game Site Becomes WiiWare Dev with Gravitronix

We missed the initial announcement back in August, but former game news and criticism site turned game developer Medaverse Studios represents one of the first development houses to publicly embrace Nintendo's WiiWare platform. Meant to provide an avenue for small and independent developers to publish and sell original Wii games online a la Xbox Live Arcade, WiiWare launches in 2008. Titled Gravitronix, Medaverse's WiiWare effort appears rather nondescript at this point. Lead design Jesse Lowther claims the company hopes to introduce its "own style to the gaming world" with its first title and aims for "a fun and accessible gaming experience which is easy to learn but a challenge to master." Though the gameplay remains quite vague, the designer let it slip that Gravitronix will feature "a robust multiplayer mode with enough hidden depth to keep even the most hardcore of players struggling to outdo each other. "The way we see it, if you don't swear when you lose to another player, we haven't done our job," Lowther added. "It's always been our dream," lead artist Mike Lockhardt Jr. commented when the company was formally announced in June 2007. "We grew tired of just criticizing the games of others and decided to start making our own."