This week's batch of WiiWare and DSiWare releases features most of the sorts of the games we've come to expect from the download platforms--scrolling shooters, shooty platformers, gymnastics, puzzlers and Virtual Console re-releases with names to make your inner schoolchild smirk.
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Monday morning is here and that means the seal has been broken on a fresh batch of downloadables for the Nintendo Wii and DSi. This week's offerings include a pair of demos, one for Zombie Panic in Wonderland and the other for Racers' Islands - Crazy Racers.
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Another pair of Capcom arcade classics are due in this week's batch of downloadable Wii and DSi releases, namely 1942 and Black Tiger. If you like your retro fun more hip than the 1980s, though, perhaps you were deeply inspired by the movie Whip It and might fancy becoming a roller derby queen in Jam City Rollergirls.
Regular as clockwork, Monday morning brings a new round of downloadable releases to the Wii and DSi. This week there's the usual assortment of platformers, puzzlers, time-management games and, yes, tower defenses.
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If you close your eyes and squint, it's almost exactly like we've travelled back in time to 1985, as Capcom arcade games Ghosts 'n Goblins and Exed Exes today receive Virtual Console releases in this week's batch of downloadable DSi and Wii titles.
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The first Nintendo download update of the New Year has dropped, bringing with it a handful of new Wii and DSi titles. Included in the release are Music On: Drums for DSi and Ghost Mania for the Wii, among others.
Chillingo, which was recently acquired by EA, also got in on the 2011 release debut, with a title dubbed "Sneezies." Video games and sneezing? Our two favorite pastimes. Read more »
If you held this week's batch of downloadable Wii and DSi releases, shaking it gently like you were trying to guess the contents of a Christmas present, you would be treated to a cacophony of tunes from the four musical games released this week. These include lilt line, BIT.TRIP BEAT developer Gaijin's adaptation of the iPhone game, and Violin Paradise, which will let me finally live my dream of being a cello-playing faery.
Virtual Console releases are a lot like buses--you wait weeks for one, then two come along at once. Some hilarious video game observational comedy for you, there. Also in this week's batch of Wii and DSi downloadable releases is Nintendo's watery puzzler Fluidity and an exciting fireplace simulator we're told you may wish to run "while you eat with your family, celebrate with friends or dine with your partner." And why not?
"Oh man! A fireplace simulator for my Wii! Game of the year."
- CompellingVisuals
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Cave Story is the star of this week's batch of WiiWare and DSiWare downloadable releases, as Studio Pixel's action-adventure launches on DSi and scores a demo for the previously-released Wii edition. Then there are other, non-Cave Story video games.
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The first fruits of Nintendo's new WiiWare demo program have arrived in this week's batch of Wii and DSi downloadable releases, along with multiplayer Tetris, penguin herding, vintage Neo Geo yo-yo fun and a portrait of the joys of consumerism.
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Nintendo's 2009 WiiWare demo test program was evidently successful as the company announced today that demos of select downloadable titles will again begin to be offered from next Monday, some nine months after the trial period ended.
The initial lineup will include BIT.TRIP FATE, And Yet It Moves and Jett Rocket. New titles will be added on Mondays, which is when the WiiWare and DSiWare stores are updated. Read more »
Dog-lovers are in for a treat as those furred, loathsome wastes of flesh star in two of this week's downloadable Wii and DSi releases. If you prefer to run around yourself, though, there's also Triple Running Sports, which is described very specifically as "one of the most advanced recreational running games available for the WiiWare service."
If you were astonished by the recent release of a DSiWare title which turns your handheld into a very expensive flashlight, you'll be astonished by what this week's batch of Wii and DSi downloadable releases brings--the opportunity to power a disco light show with your very own DSi. Whip up some beats in the Wii sequencer Mix Superstar and you'll have all the fun of a throbbing club without the stench of sweat and vomit!
Super Meat Boy's planned WiiWare release has been delayed following Team Meat's struggle to bring the game's size down to 39mb in order to squeeze by Nintendo's limit for the platform.
One possible solution would be to go retail and Team Meat has asked fans on Twitter if this is an avenue worth pursuing, writing: Read more »
This week's batch of Nintendo downloads features two additions to the WiiWare service, Robox and Gene Labs--with the latter receiving a DSi version as well. Nintendo has also added a new game to the Virtual Console catalog, NeoGeo's Street Slam.
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