This week's crop of Nintendo downloads brings the usual fare--fishing, Sudoku and board games--plus an intriguing splash of summer fun, Water Warfare--a first-person squirter with split-screen and online family-friendly deathmatch on sunny battlefields.

DSiWare

• Sudoku Master.

Nintendo Wii

• Water Warfare
• Reel Fishing Challenge
• Silver Star Reversi
• Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa (Sega Master System)

As ever, the titles are available from 9am PST today and full details follow... Read more

Nintendo continues to fuel the serious problem of download addiction today with a double dose of Japanese puzzlers, bringing Art Style: BOXLIFE to the DSi and NEVES Plus to Wii addicts, along with vintage god game SimEarth for the Wii Virtual Console.

Nintendo Wii:

• SimEarth: The Living Planet (TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM)
• Family Mini Golf
• NEVES Plus
• Drill Sergeant Mindstrong

Nintendo DSi:

• Art Style: BOXLIFE

For those whose addictions make the 9am PST release time seem an eternity away, further details on today's grab bag of downloads follow... Read more

Co-op side scrolling toaster action and Rainbow Island platforming are the highlight's of this week's downloads for Nintendo platforms, joined by DSi Mario doodads, arcade classic Space Harrier and a game where you catch--and sometimes even throw--stuff.

Nintendo DSi:

• Mario Calculator
• Mario Clock

Wii:

• Eduardo the Samurai Toaster
• Rainbow Islands: Towering Adventure!
• Let's Catch
• Space Harrier

Further details follow on the assortment of downloads which--in accordance with tradition--will be available today from 9am PST... Read more

Downloading their way onto Nintendo's consoles today are the level-editing Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again for the DSi, with the Wii snagging an action fish 'em up and a cartoony historical RTS, plus Genghis Khan (II) arrives on the Virtual Console.

Nintendo DSi:

• Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again

Wii:

• Swords & Soldiers
• Fish'em All!
• Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf

As ever, the titles are available from 9am PST, and further details follow... Read more

Arriving in Nintendo's weekly bucket of downloadable content is a new Wii Final Fantasy game following on from FFIV, as well as Texas Hold'em Tournament and Commodore 64 classic Boulder Dash, with the DSi picking up platform puzzler Mighty Flip Champs!

As ever, the games will be available from 9am PDT today. Further details follow... Read more

Nintendo's weekly batch of downloadable goodies brings Clay Fighter, Adventure Island The Beginning and Bubble Bobble Plus! to the Wii for your playing pleasure, along with a photo-displaying clock and minigame-tastic American Popstar: Road to Celebrity--with music from Avril Lavinge, though not showing off her multilinguality--for the DSi.

Further details and prices on all the titles--available now--follow below... Read more

The Virtual Console section of the North American Wii Shop Channel gets its 300th game today in the form of Nintendo 64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, while original downloadable titles continue to hit both the Wii and Nintendo DSi.

DSiWare
• Art Style: PiCTOBiTS - 500 DSi Points ($5)

Wii Shop Channel
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64) - 1000 Wii Points ($10)
• CRYSTAL DEFENDERS R2 - 800 Wii Points ($8)
• Silver Star Chess - 500 Wii Points ($5)

Per usual, all of the above should be available for purchase and download from the respective console today at 12 PM EST. More deatils on each game follow... Read more

Bright and early Monday morning, Nintendo offers a new batch of downloadable releases fresh as a daisy. On the DSi we have the foot-featuring Real Soccer 2009, then on Wii there's Family Pirate Party and Sega's Galaxy Force II in the Virtual Console.

As ever, the games will be available from 9am PST. Further details follow... Read more

Monday morning can only mean a new batch of downloads for the North American DSi and Wii, including DSi clocks and calculators decked out in full Animal Crossing trappings and a penguin-themed strategy board game for the Virtual Console.

DSiWare

• Animal Crossing Calculator.
• Animal Crossing Clock.

Wii Shop Channel

• Penguins & Friends - Hey! That's My Fish!
• Tower Toppler

All four releases will be available from 9am PST today. More details follow... Read more

In continuation of its weekly tradition, Nintendo today updated the online DSi and Wii Shops with more downloadable games for each platform. This week's update focuses on the strategy of war and cards, along with the science of navigating through the air.

DSiWare
• Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics / Nintendo ($5)
• Paper Airplane Chase / Nintendo ($2)

Wii Shop Channel
• Cocoto Platform Jumper / Neko Entertainment ($7)
• Nobunaga's Ambition (Virtual Console, SNES) / Koei ($8)

All are now available for download, with more details following below... Read more

Celebrating the start of the new week, Nintendo has updated North America's online DSi and Wii Shops with new downloads, including the pill-popping antics of Dr. Mario on DSi and a Final Fantasy-themed tower defense force game for the Wii.

DSiWare
• Dr. Mario Express / 500 DSi Points ($5)
• Master of Illusion Express: Deep Psyche / 200 DSi Points ($2)

Wii Shop Channel
• Crystal Defenders R1 / 800 Wii Points ($8)
• Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair (Genesis) / 900 Wii Points ($9)

All four of this week's released are now available. More details follow... Read more

This Monday's Wii Shop Channel sees a Pop-Up Pirate and some adventurous Mayan Pitfalls, but more excitingly the Nintendo DSiWare Shop receives its first update, including more Illusions to Master and the first third-party DSiWare game.

Vicarious Visions' Mixed Messages is a pictorial version of schoolyard game Telephone (Chinese Whispers if you're English and only now noticing how awkward that name is)--it's Internet sensation Broken Picture Telephone for your DSi, basically.

DSiWare

• Mixed Messages
• Master of Illusion Express: Shuffle Games

Wii Shop Channel

• Party Fun Pirate
• Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

The games will become available at 12am EST. Read on for the full 411... Read more

Today's Wii Shop Channel update brings a double-dose of surprise. First, we've got the long awaited re-release of Nintendo's SNES classic Super Punch-Out!!. And second, Nintendo has pioneered the "first-person-groomer" genre with Bonsai Barber.

WiiWare
• Bonsai Barber (Nintendo) / 1000 Wii Points ($10)
Virtual Console
• Super Punch-Out!! (Nintendo, Super NES) / 800 Wii Points ($8)

Both games will be downloadable from the Wii Shop Channel at 12 PM EDT / 11 AM CDT / 9 AM PDT. Read on for more information on each, including... Read more

The Wii's online Shop Channel will today be expanded to include classic arcade games, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata just announced at the Game Developers Conference.

Initial offerings will include Space Harrier, Mappy, The Tower of Druaga, Gaplus, Star Force, Solvalou, Emeraldia, and The Return of Ishtar.

Pricing varies from title to title. The Tower of Druaga, Starforce and Mappy are $5, while Gaplus is $6. All four are now available for purchase in the Wii Shop Channel.

The Wii will soon see a total of four more Final Fantasy releases from Square Enix, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata just revealed in his Game Developers Conference keynote.

The Final Fantasy IV sequel "The After Year"s and Final Fantasy Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord will arrive as downloadable WiiWare games, while the Virtual Console will stock Final Fantasy I (NES) and Final Fantasy IV (SNES). All are due this year.

In a separate press release, Square Enix further noted that other classic Final Fantasy entries are also bound for the Virtual Console, but no timeline was provided.

At long last addressing cries that the Wii's internal 512MB of storage isn't enough to store all the downloadable Virtual Console and WiiWare games one could acquire, Nintendo today released the SD Card Menu as part of the latest Wii System Update.

The free download enables Wii owners to launch applications, such as WiiWare and VC gamers, from an inserted SD card "by temporarily utilizing the Wii System Memory."

As it's Monday, Nintendo has updated the online Wii Shop to include a selection of new games, including the ingeniously named puzzler Pop'Em Drop'Em SAMEGAME. I don't know if that's a satire of the stagnant block-puzzle market, but it sure sounds like one.

WiiWare
• Pop'Em Drop'Em SAMEGAME (Hudson) / 500 Wii Points ($5)
Virtual Console
• Bomberman '94 (Hudson, TurboGrafx16) / 700 Wii Points ($7)
• DETANA TWIN BEE (Konami, TurboGrafx16) / 700 Wii Points ($7)

Bomberman and Twin Bee round out this week's retro offerings, respectively providing the requisite multiplayer classic and shoot 'em up titles. All three are now available. For more insight, check below for the detail-packed... Read more

This week, the Wii Shop Channel delivers a funky Pong-like rhythm game and an old-school sports games from waaaaaaaaaaay back when. As in, 24 years ago.

WiiWare
• BIT.TRIP BEAT (Gaijin Games) / 600 Wii Points ($6)
Virtual Console
• Summer Games II (Epyx, Commodore 64) / 500 Wii Points ($5)

Both games are now downloadable from the Wii Shop Channel. For more information on each, check out the official details and descriptions that follow... Read more

Konami's sidescrolling shooter Gradius ReBirth headlines this week's Wii Shop Channel update.

The WiiWare title, which offers a remix of five levels from previous titles in the series, is available now for 1000 Wii Points ($10).

Also landing on the store this week is Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars, the 1986 Sega Master System platformer.

"Help Alex Kidd in a race against time to find the 12 missing zodiac signs hidden in six challenging levels--including toyland, the robot factory and an outer-space level--all complete with crazy enemies," reads the Nintendo release. And all that for 500 Wii Points ($5).

The arrival of Monday brings with it a fresh set of downloadable offerings from the Wii Shop Channel. This week, we've got one retro re-release and one new effort:

WiiWare
• Family & Friends Party (Gammick Entertainment) / 1,000 Wii Points ($10)
Virtual Console
• Ogre Battle (Quest, SNES) / 800 Wii Points ($8)

The Super Nintendo release of Ogre Battle, subtitled The March of the Black Queen, was the first entry in the story-centric strategy-RPG series. Its name was culled from two Queen songs, "Ogre Battle" and "March of the Black Queen." No joke!

This week's two Wii Shop Channel releases will be available for purchase and download come 12 PM EST / 11 AM CST. Click on through for more details... Read more