Zelda isn't the only big game coming to the Wii this holiday season. Nintendo of America has announced that Kirby's Return to Dream Land (formerly known as "Kirby Wii") will be releasing on October 24th--just a little over one month after the September 19th launch of Kirby Mass Attack for Nintendo DS.

To celebrate, the company is holding a variety of Kirby-themed activities at Penny Arcade Expo this week. "Visitors can inhale Kirby pink cotton candy, relax on Kirby beanbag chairs or pick up some fun Kirby items to wear on the show floor while supplies last."

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QUICKTAKE: Kirby Wii is a new side-scrolling platformer on display at E3 this year starring the incorrigible pink puffball, but is more structurally akin to games like New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Donkey Kong Country Returns than it is to the recent Kirby's Epic Yarn. It includes cooperative play for up to four players, but (as one would expect) the star of the show is Kirby, himself.

Kirby returns to the Wii for some colorful, cooperative platforming.

Back in January, Nintendo quietly revealed a new Kirby game for Wii was in the works, but had little to say about it at the time. With E3 in full swing, Nintendo has revealed a little more.

The new Kirby will launch in North America this fall, but Nintendo still hasn't decided upon a name, referring to it by the working title Kirby Wii. It'll support drop-in, drop-out co-op for up to four players, with the other three getting to be Meta Knight, King Dedede and Waddle Dee. Read more »

Brace your faces, Kirby fans. Nintendo has quietly announced a new title in the franchise for the Nintendo Wii and there are no strings attached.

The unnamed new installment in the Kirby series for the Wii was spotted [via Destructoid] as a talking point during Nintendo's third-quarter results briefing. The site, while providing very little in the way of details, shows off a quick clip of gameplay from what is presumably the upcoming title. Read more »