As 2008 draws to a close, Nintendo has detailed the last Wii Shop Channel update of the year, continuing in the tradition of two new WiiWare games and a retro title.

WiiWare
• Cue Sports - Pool Revolution (Hudson) / 500 Wii Points ($5)
• Maboshi's Arcade (Nintendo) / 800 Wii Points ($8)

Virtual Console
• Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (Nintendo, NES) / 500 Wii Points ($5)

All three games will be available for download through the Wii beginning today at 12 PM EST / 9 AM PST. For more details on each game, check below... Read more

New screenshots from Hudson's Pool Revolution: Cue Sports have been released, providing a glimpse of the soon-to-be downloadable WiiWare title. A release date and pricing details for the game, though fresh screenshots from Hudson's last WiiWare release, Pit Crew Panic!, preceded its release by one week.

Japanese publisher Hudson Soft held a media event today in which a slew of Wii games were announced. Three WiiWare releases will be made available digitally while one disc-based game is in the works.

Help Wanted is a mini-game-filled "life sim" in which "players are sent on a mission to save the world from impending extinction by completing fifty different jobs," according to a Hudson press release. Those jobs include "Pizza Chef, Stunt Car Driver, Sumo Referee, Action Hero and Sushi Master" among others.

Pit Crew Panic hopes to blaze new trails in the possibly lucrative "panic-action" genre. Players send all-female pit crews to repair "a variety of bizarre 'WHATSITS' as fast as they can." The "WHATSITS" vary in size, from backhoes to bridges... Read more